Another addition to the cofa Blog Transcript Project
( A few months ago I searched all over for Hillary Clinton’s stump speech from 2016, and it may be out there, but I never found it. So for future writers, current readers, here is Kamala Harris’s stump speech as of September 3 and just for curiosity, around November 4, I’ll post her stump speech then, just to see how it's changed. Here was KH in Savannah Georgia last week: )
Good afternoon, Savannah, good afternoon oh
good afternoon, oh it's good to be back in Savannah good afternoon [thanks
locals]…
So we're here to speak truth. And one of the
things that we know- this is going to be a tight race until the very end, okay.
So let's not pay too much attention to the polls because we are running as the
underdog. Okay. And we have some hard work ahead of us but we like hard work. Hard
work is good work. Hard work is good work. And with your help we are going to
win this November we are going to win this November yes we will [Applause] so
look Georgia let me say-
I'm no stranger to tough fights. Before I was
elected vice president, before I was elected a United States Senator, I was an
elected attorney general, and before that an elected district attorney, and
before that I was a courtroom [Applause] prosecutor.
So every day in the courtroom I stood proudly
before a judge and I spoke five words Kamala Harris for the [Applause] people.
My entire career I’ve only had one client, the
people.
I stood for women and children against
predators who abused them. I took on the big Banks and delivered 20 billion due
middle class families who face foreclosure, I fought against cartels who
traffic in guns, drugs, and human beings. And I stood up for veterans and
students being scammed by big for-profit colleges, for workers who were being
cheated out of the wages they were due, and for seniors facing Elder abuse.
And I will tell you, those fights were not easy,
and neither were the elections that put me in those offices. But we never gave
up because the future is always worth fighting for, always. And that is the
fight we are in right now, a fight for America's future.
We fight for a future with affordable child
care, paid leave, and affordable health care, and on that last subject let's
finally expand Medicaid in Georgia so people can take their child to a doctor
or go to an emergency room without going into medical debt.
Opportunity Economy
We fight for a future where we build what I
call an opportunity economy, so that every American has the opportunity to own
a home to start a business and to build wealth, and intergenerational wealth,
and a future, where we lower the cost of living for America's families.
So when I was attorney general I went after
price fixing schemes and- love you back love you [Applause] back- and I will
tell you-
When we get this done together my friend and
when I'm President, I will take on the Bad actors who exploit a crisis to rip
off consumers on every day items, who rip off consumers on everyday items like
groceries. I will take on big Pharma and cap the cost of prescription drugs and
insulin for all Americans. I will take on the high cost of housing and work
with developers to cut the red tape and build millions of new homes. And I will
give million Americans a tax cut including $6,000, to
families during the first year of their child's life.
Understanding folks just need a little help
from time to time and it's not about just getting by it's about getting ahead $6,000, in the first year of a child's life to help
pay for that car seat or the crib or the baby clothes.
And unlike Donald Trump, I will always put the
middle class and working class families first, always. I come from the middle
class. I know what I'm talking [Laughter] about.
We know Donald Trump has a very different plan.
He has a very different plan. Just look at his Project 25 agenda, right.
If he is elected, Donald Trump intends to give
tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations, he intends to cut Social
Security and Medicare, and he wants to impose what in effect is a national
sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities.
It will cost The Economist will tell you, it
will cost a typical American Family nearly $4,000 a year [Trump’s tariff plan] so
Georgia on top of all of this-
If Donald Trump wins in November, he intends to
end the Affordable Care Act, to take us back to a time when insurance companies-
CROWD: not going back we're not going back
we're not
KH: We are not. We're going forward. And the
reason we know we can't go back on the issue of the Affordable Care Act-
remember what that was like before we had the affordable care? Remember when
insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions? Remember
what that was like? Children with asthma, breast cancer survivors, grandparents
with diabetes, so yeah we're not going back we're not going back we're not
going back and we will move forward.
Ours is a fight for the future and it is a
fight for Freedom, like the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own
body and not have her government tell her what to do. And understand how we got
here.
When he was president, Donald Trump handpicked
three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they
would undo the protections of Roe v Wade. And they did just as he intended.
Why don't they trust women? Will we trust women?
And when Congress passes a bill to restore
reproductive Freedom, as President of the United States, I will proudly sign it
into law proudly. And across our nation in addition to that we are witnessing a
full-on assault on one other hard fought hard-won fundamental freedoms and
rights- hey let me let me just let me just say something let hold on hold up
hold up for a second hold up for a second let me let me just say something let
me just say something-
We are fighting for a democracy.
Everyone has a right and should have their
voices heard.
I am speaking now but on the subject I will say
this, the president and I are working around the clock, we've got to get a
hostage deal done and get a ceasefire done now.
!!!
We've got to get a hostage deal done and get a ceasefire done now
!!!
So back to this election and Donald Trump.
So in addition to the fight on the fundamental
freedom to make decisions about one's own body, I have been traveling our
country, and the people of Georgia know what I know.
There is a full-on assault on hard-fought hard won
freedoms and rights, including the freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from
gun violence, [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] and an
attack on the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride.
And we will fight against all of that including
the freedom to live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis. Here's
the thing.
Generations of Americans before us led the
fight for Freedom. Now Savannah the Baton is in our [Applause] hands.
So we who believe in the sacred freedom to vote
will finally pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom
To Vote Act. We who believe in the freedom to live safe from gun violence will
finally pass Universal background check and a red flag [Applause] law.
So much is on the line in this election so much
is on the line and understand- when we
think about the issues and then there is significant differences, the stakes
are even higher.
Because consider that the United States Supreme
Court recently just basically told the former president that going forward he
will be effectively immune no matter what he does in the White House now. Just imagine.
Well the the courts are going to take care of that. We going to get them out of
we going to elect ourselves and everybody here in November.
But I mentioned the Supreme Court ruling
because understand what this means just imagine-
Before there was at least the threat of
consequence understand what it now means. And imagine Donald Trump with no
guard rails. Imagine what that means. When you consider he has openly vowed-
that if reelected, on day one he will be a dictator, that he would end independence
of the Department of Justice. So he could have unchecked power and seek
Vengeance against people who disagree with [Applause] him.
He even called for termination of the United
States Supreme- the the the Supreme land of our nation- the United States
Constitution. Think about what that means.
And let us be very clear. Someone who suggests
we should terminate the Constitution of the United States should never again
stand behind the Seal of the President of the United States of America never
again.
So it all comes down to this we are all here
together spending this time together because we love our country, we love our
country, we love our country, and we know the privilege and pride the privilege
and pride that comes with being American.
And I do believe it is the highest form of
patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country. That is how we realize the
promise of America, Georgia.
For the past two election Cycles, voters in
this very State, you who are here have delivered. You sent two extraordinary
Senators to Washington DC you sent President Biden and me to the White House. You
showed up. You knocked on doors, you registered folks to vote, and you made it
happen you did that you did that.
And so now we are asking you to do it again
let's do it again let's do it again. So Savannah, are you ready to make your
voices heard?
Do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight God bless you and God bless the United States of America I [Applause] English (auto-generated transcript, edited for readability)
-ke
More to come
You can watch the speech on CNN here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox3J3hJnq-E
BUT it's in lots of places.
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