Transcripts For CSPAN Campaign 2020 Sen. Kamala Harris D-CA Campaigns In Asheville NC 20240712

[applause] Vice President ial candidate senator Kamala Harris spoke at an early Voter Mobilization event in asheville, North Carolina. Heres a look. [cheers] hello, everyone. It is my honor and privilege to introduce our next Vice President ial candidate, senator, Kamala Harris. Our next Vice President , senator, Kamala Harris. [applause] senator harris grew up believing in the promise of america and fights every day to ensure that promise is fulfilled for all americans. She started fighting for working districtameda countys office and from there, she became the first black woman elected as san franciscos district attorney. In 2010, she made history again by becoming the first black woman to be elected attorney general of california. Overseeing the countrys secondlargest justice department, where she continues her fight for families, the lgbtq community, students, and our environment. Since joining the senate in 2016, senator harris has continued her fight for all americans. As a member of three powerful committees, intelligence commitee, judiciary, and homeland security. Senator harris graduated from howard university, where she was in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and earned her law degree from Uc Hastings College of law. She continues to fight for all of us and make history as the first black woman to be on a president ial ticket. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, give a warm welcome to senator, Kamala Harris. [applause] [laughter] sen. Harris can we hear it for allison . [applause] i love our young leaders. I love our young leaders. Allison is a junior. She is studying interdisciplinary studies, and we were talking about it is a challenging time for everyone. Our daughter is a senior in college. And pardon my expression, it sucks. [laughter] but, allison, you are amazing and i am happy to share the stage with you. Thank you. Lets hear it for our young ones. [applause] yay. Asheville, how is everybody . [applause] it is so good to be with you guys. Mayor, i want to thank you. We were supposed to be here last week. And it was so important we came. So we recreated the schedule to be with you. I want to thank the mayor in front of everybody for the work you have been doing. Not just a leader here in asheville, but North Carolina and in the support you have given to joe biden and myself. [applause] and the chancellor, who is here, and who gave me such a wonderful and warm welcome. Thank you for all that you do in nurturing and growing the minds of our incredible future and current leaders. [applause] thank you. And to the members of the North Carolina general assembly, i want to thank you all for your leadership. We have the chief of the eastern band of cherokee indians, richard sneed. I want to thank him. I want to thank county commissioners and city councils, sheriff, quinton miller, and all of you. Thank you. [applause] so much to talk about. I am going to move this so i can see you guys. 13 days to go. 13 days to go. And we cannot spare a minute, sisters and brothers. We cannot spare a minute, in terms of everything that i know everyone here, and around our country, is prepared to do. As joe biden says, to fight for the soul of our nation. And that is really what is going on. It is about fighting for the soul of our nation. It is about knowing we deserve more and we are better than this. And there is so much that happened, even before covid struck. But in many ways, i thought of this pandemic as being an accelerator. It has highlighted what was we have a situation where over 8 Million People have contracted this virus. Having untold longterm health consequences, including what doctors are telling us his lung scarring and things of that nature. In the midst of this Public Health crisis, youve got donald trump and bill barr it is stranger than fiction. Have you heard that expression . We are living it. We are living it, sister. What are we seeing right now in the midst of a Public Health pandemic . Donald trump and bill barr are in the Supreme Court trying to get rid of the Affordable Care act that president obama and Vice President biden made happen. [applause] that brought health care to over 20 million americans. And if they are successful, it is estimated at least 23 million americans will lose their coverage. There is this weird thing a couple but the thing about donald trump, he has got this weird obsession with wanting to get rid of whatever president obama and Vice President biden created. It is this weird obsession, right . So, if he is successful in getting rid of the Affordable Care act, remember, it laid in place protections for people with preexisting conditions. If you know anybody who has diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, breast cancer, now we are talking about 8 Million People who have a preexisting condition called covid, and they are trying to get rid of it. That alone is reason enough that he is incapable of being a president who will protect the wellbeing and health of the American People. That is why he has got to go. [applause] we are looking at a situation, this pandemic has been an accelerator. Over 30 million americans had to apply for unemployment insurance. Many of whom did not have paid sick leave, did not have paid family leave. And they are trying to push through a Supreme Court nominee in, what i call, an illegitimate process by the way, we are not talking about election season, we are not talking about election year, we are talking about an election that is taking place right now, where over 20 million americans have voted and the election will be over in 13 days, and the majority of the American People are saying let the American People decide who will be their president. And then that is the person who should decide who will fill a lifetime appointment to the highest court in our land. [applause] but yet, they are trying to push through this nomination. I served on the judiciary committee. I will say publicly, i will oppose her confirmation. For a number of reasons. That includes the illegitimacy of the process, the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies and their own health care. And their own Reproductive Health care. That includes the need to maintain the Affordable Care act. They are pushing this thing through. While there is a bill sitting on the desk that has been sitting there for 150 days called the heroes act that would bring relief to all of these people who are suffering. Who are in food lines for hours. The one in five mothers in america describing her children under the age of 12 as being hungry, who need an expansion of what we are fighting for. Snap benefits. We used to call it food stamps. It is what people need when they are hungry. [applause] but they are pushing through this nomination instead of Senate Republicans saying a vote saying vote on that bill. Including one senator from this state. [crowd booing] you know who i am talking about. So, this is what we are seeing, and this is why we need joe biden to be elected president. On the one hand, you have joe biden, who was one of the creators and reasons we have the Affordable Care act, who will make a commitment has made a commitment to you, North Carolina and the public, that he will expand coverage. That he will expand health. Bring down the cost of premiums. Bring down the cost of prescription drugs. Lower medicare eligibility to age 60. He is saying he will expand health care, understanding for too long we are pretending we have been pretending health care is about a body that starts from the neck down, the body starts from the neck up, that is metal health care. [applause] and on the other hand, donald trump is suing to get rid of it. On the one hand, you have joe biden, who says, we measure the success of the economy based on the health and wellbeing of working families in america. On the other hand, you have donald trump, who passed a tax bill benefiting the top 1 in the top 1 and the biggest corporations in america, which will lead to a 2 trillion deficit. Joe biden says i am not going to raise taxes on anyone who makes less than 400,000 a year. [applause] he is saying, im going to make sure first home buyers get a tax credit of 15,000 to help them with down payments and closing costs, knowing homeownership is one of the greatest ways to create wealth and american families. Wealth in american families. [applause] on the one hand, you have joe biden, who says we have got to deal with supporting the Public Schools of america, and we will triple title i funding for those schools that are in the highest need communities, with the lowest tax base, because the children of those communities have a godgiven capacity to be nurtured and thrive, but we need to give them the resources. On the other hand, donald trump, who put betsy devos in office. On the one hand, you have donald trump, who has been rejecting science from day one. Rejecting science on this issue of this climate crisis, which is threatening our existence. Rejecting science on this virus. And on the other hand, you have joe biden, who embraces science, who will be a leader who says that the Public Health experts must guide the policy decisions we make on all of these issues that literally threaten the health and wellbeing of the American People. [applause] so there are very clear choices here. And the bottom line is, i do believe the outcome of this race will, in many ways, be decided by you. North carolina. It will be. [applause] and in that way, the choices and the decisions you are making will impact people around the country. In that way, what you are doing to vote, and vote early, is going to impact people you may never meet and people who may never know your name, but whose lives will forever be changed because of what you are doing. So i am here in North Carolina 13 days before this election to thank you for what you all have already done and what you are committed to do. And this issue before us of who will be the next president of the United States has everything to do with fixing the problems, but it also has to do with restoring, in our country, what we know to be our highest ideals. Around unity, bringing folks together, rejecting these notions of fear, hate, and division. Of doing what we know we have had the capacity and have the capacity to do, to regain our standing in a way we can feel good about the future of our children and our nation. All of this is at stake right now. And joe and i are particularly proud of the fact that ours is a campaign that has probably built one of the broadest coalitions of any campaign in recent history. We have got the support of democrats, republicans, independents, people from all walks of life and all races. [applause] why . Because we know that to strengthen our nation, to take back the soul of our country, it is about all of us, and all of us being a part of where we go and where we need to go. And where we can go. So i want to thank you, asheville, for all that you are doing. 13 days to go. We dont want to look back and have any regrets. My last point is this, this moment will pass. And years from now, our children, grandchildren and others are going to look at us, they are going to look in our eyes and ask us, where were you at that moment . And here is the thing, what we will be able to tell them is more than just how we felt. We will tell them what we did. [applause] we will tell them we were hanging out in this parking lot in asheville with the mayor and all of these incredible friends and neighbors and we will tell them how we organized, we made sure that people know what is what is at stake, how we reminded people we are all in this together, and we will tell them about what we did to fight for the soul of our nation. Thank you all. [applause] thank you. I had a choice to make, do i let my people run it really well or badly . If i run it badly . , they will blame them but they will blame me. More importantly, i want to help. People he in fact has a ridiculous 10 Million People health care that they lost recession. 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The Senate Judiciary Committee Votes thursday on the confirmation of judge Amy Coney Barrett to be the u. S. Justice on the Supreme Court. The Committee Gavels in at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Watch live on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen with the. Ree cspan radio app director of National Intelligence John Radcliffe and fbi director Christopher Wray held a News Conference wednesday evening on election security. Director radcliffe said voter hasstration information been obtained by iran and russia in an attempt to push misinformation. Here is the briefing. Good evening. The president has instructed the intelligence and lawenforcement communities to ensure that the 2020 elections are the safest and most secure in our nations history. We take that mandate and responsibility seriously