From the moment Vice President Kamala Harris swept onto stage in a cavernous hall at the George R. Brown Convention Center on Thursday morning, the audience was hers. Comprised of hundreds of members of the American Federation of Teachers, the crowd was on its feet, presenting the presumptive Democratic presidential...
From the moment Vice President Kamala Harris swept onto stage in a cavernous hall at the George R. Brown Convention Center on Thursday morning, the audience was hers. Comprised of hundreds of members of the American Federation of Teachers, the crowd was on its feet, presenting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee with thunderous applause, and a sea of freshly printed Harris for President signs as they chanted her name.
“It all happened so fast,” Nandi Riley, a college freshmen English teacher from Tallahasee, Florida, said. Harris – who managed to corral enough Democratic delegate support to, barring any more surprises, win the Democratic nomination next month by Monday, and has raised more than $126 million in donations since Sunday – arrived in Houston on Wednesday afternoon, and didn’t waste a minute.
“I stood in line for two hours and 15 minutes to make sure I’d get in and see her,” Terra Colgrove, an operating room nurse from Anchorage, Alaska, said. She noted that the media pen, which has been mostly empty all week, was packed on Thursday. “I feel like there’s a buzz, a different energy, because Kamala Harris was going to be here in the hall today.”
Harris hit some of the same points she has been making since she went out to Harris campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware on Sunday. But she has already managed to sharpen that message since then. “We want to ban assault weapons and they want to ban books,” she said. “Can you imagine?”She then deftly turned to the future, calling the presidential race a choice between two different visions of the United States.
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