Sen. Harris whatsapp, atlanta whats up, atlanta . Im so happy to be back. Hey, everybody. Can we hear it for rick hart . Where is he . Where did he go . He was so good. Hes so good. There you are. You just pour it up. The cochair, and one of the things i love about joe biden, and he says it often. Long life ofs his service and dedication to public service, but he is always uplifting those who are the emerging leaders, and rick hart is one of them, so can we give it up for rick, because that is what it is all about. Thats what it is all about. It is about everybody taking on their role in leadership knowing that we have so much at stake in this election. There is so much at stake, so i came back to atlanta. I love atlanta. It wast time i was here, before the pandemic. I spoke on the stage here at morehouse in march of last year, especially if you are black and hold elected office in america, coming to atlanta is like coming back to the womb. It really is. It is, because atlanta represents so much about who we are as america. Represents the hopes and the dreams and the fight to make real the promise of america. Atlanta is a place that has produced leaders who have been National Leaders and interNational Leaders, who have always understood that hope will fuel the fight. Fate will be with grounds us in knowing what is possible, but will be what grounds us in knowing what is possible, but then you have to bring people together and recognize that nothing we have ever achieved as a nation by way of progress came without a fight. So thats what we have in front of us. Next 11 days,he georgia, a fight for the soul of our nation. Fight that we are engaged in because we believe in the ideals of our country. We believe in our democracy. Democracyat americas will always be as strong as we in our willingness to fight for those ideals. So thats where we are today, in a fight for the ideals and a fight for the dignity. In a fight for justice and equal justice under law. And lets look at what is at stake. Pandemic,ling with a and we are dealing with partly because of that, four crises that are occurring at one time in our nation. We are looking at, because of the pandemic, a Public Health overs where we have seen 220,000 americans lose their lives in just the last several tragicallyy of whom in their last days on earth couldnt even be with their families, with people they love because of the nature of this pandemic. We are looking at over 8. 5 million folks who have contracted the virus. Thankfully have lived, but are looking at untold longterm consequences. Doctors are talking about things like lung scarring. Of this Public Health pandemic, we have a donald trump who, thanks to bob woodward we know knew back on january 28. He knew the deal about covid. He had been informed that it can kill people, that it is five times as likely to kill as the flu. He knew it was airborne. He knew it could harm children, and he sat on that information and he did not tell the American People. Can you imagine what you might you known what he knew on january 28 . How folks might have prepared . How folks might have said, you know, ive got to buy some extra at the very least, the fact is that even in Donald Trumps america before the pandemic, folks were working two and three jobs to try and pay the bills and pay the rent. Joe biden and i believe, in our america, nobody should ever have to work more than one job to pay their bills and pay their rent, and put food on the table. [car horns] and he sat on this information, aul, the have the g nerve to say it was a hoax. To muzzle the Public Health experts, to suggest he keeps a ledger and you are on one side of his ledger if you dont wear a mask. You are on the other side of his ledger if you wear a mask and now look where we are. Now look where we are. And he is in the United StatesSupreme Court where his boy, bill barr, trying to sue to get act. F the Affordable Care and lets step back for a moment to think about this. This man, even before he was when hefor office, questioned the legitimacy of the first black president of the United States, has been so weirdly obsessed with trying to get rid of whatever barack obama created. Think about that. We dont need president s who have weird of sessions. What is that about . Nowes in court right trying to get rid of the Affordable Care act, which brought Health Coverage to over 20 million americans, cover people with preexisting conditions. Do you know anybody who has diabetes, high blood pressure, breast cancer, lupus . Of thewants to get rid thing that brought care and dignity to tens of millions of americans. This is one of the reasons donald trump has got todignity f americans. This is one of the reasons donald trump has got to go. Got to go. We are in the middle of all these crises. The economic crisis. Over 30 Million People in just the last several months had to file for unemployment. We are looking at families that are getting up at the crack of dawn to drive to sit in their car in the food lines for hours. Praying that they can get to the end of the line before food runs out. One in five mothers in america is describing her children under the age of 12 as being hungry. We are in the midst of a hunger crisis in america. And, you see, again, on the one hand, you have joe biden, who says, let me tell you how i measure the economy and how well it is doing. I measure the greatness of this economy based on how working people are doing. How are working people doing . When working people and working families are doing well, then the economy is doing well. Which is why joe biden i are saying, one, taxes will not be raised on people making less than 400,000 a year. We know one of the greatest ways that we achieve access to Economic Health and intergenerational prosperity is homeownership. So we will have a 15,000 tax credit for firsttime homebuyers , to help you with down payments and Closing Costs to buy a home. We understand working families need childcare, but nobody should have to pay more than 7 of their income in childcare. That is our commitment. Because we know the economy is doing well when working people are doing well. On the other hand, you have donald trump, who measures how well the economy is doing based on the stock market. Who measures how well the economy is doing based on how rich people are doing. Who, one of his first orders of business was passing a tax bill benefiting the top 1 and corporations of america. I will tell you, joe biden and i will make it one of our highest priorities to get rid of that knowill and do what we needs to be done to invest that money in working families. [applause] Public Health crisis and economic crisis being compared to the great depression. A longoverdue reckoning on Racial Injustice in america. So on the one hand, you have joe biden, who has the knowledge and the courage enough to use the term and speak those words black lives matter. On the other hand, have donald trump, who refuses and will never say black lives matter. And then has the gall to sit on that debate stage at that last debate, in front of 70 million americans, and would not condemn white supremacy. People have asked me, they say well, senator harris either the way, senator is not on my birth certificate, it is kamala. They say, are you saying do you think he is a racist . Yeah. Yes. It is not likee, some random oneoff. We have seen that pattern going back to him questioning the legitimacy of barack obama, going back to charlottesville, when people were peacefully protesting Racial Injustice in america, a woman was killed. And on the other side, you had a bunch of neonazis wearing swastikas, carrying tiki torches, slurring, throwing out antisemitic and racist slurs, and donald trump said, well, there are fine people on both sides. A president of the United States to mexicans as rapists and criminals. A president of the United States who made one of his first policy initiatives a ban on muslims entering our country. And then, stood on that stage and would not condemn known White Supremacists and then doubled down and said, well, they should stand back and stand by. This is not reflective of who we believe we are as a nation. We need a president who acknowledges systemic racism, who acknowledges history of america, and uses that pulpit and that microphone in a way that speaks truth with an intention to address the inequities and bring our country together. And that is joe biden. [applause] [car horns honking] public Public Health, economics, racial a grappling in a need to deal with Racial Injustice, and the climate crisis. Know, i come from california, i was born in oakland. We have some californians. You know. [laughs] the west coast has been burning from those wildfires. California, oregon, washington. The gulf states have been battered by storms. People in the midwest, farmers have lost full seasons of crops because of the floods. So joe biden says, we need to embrace science and deal with. We need to deal with it. This is something that is hurting people. It is something that we can address in a way we also create jobs, by investing in infrastructure, investing in renewable energy. That is going to be about jobs. Joe biden knows the seriousness of Environmental Justice issues,. He knows that of all the areas where people live in america with poor air quality, 70 of the people in those areas are people of color. Joe biden knows what is going on in flint. Joe biden says we need to address this, and we need to Pay Attention to science. On the other hand, you have donald trump, who, recently, when he was asked about the wildfires in california, and the report said Something Like you , well, know, scientists are saying these fires, what is happening, the scientists are saying that there is a connection between the drastic changes in the climate and these wildfires. You know what the president of the United States said in response . Science doesnt know. What . Science doesnt know. The president of the United States. What we see is a through line, right . On that first issue and this issue, an inability to embrace fact. An inability to embrace experts, an inability to embrace intelligence, an inability to be competent, an inability to do the job of commander in chief in the United States, whose first responsibility is to concern themselves with the health and safety of the American People [car horns honking] and that is why we are going to elect joe biden. [applause] there is so much at stake. In atlanta,now, help me, when i ran for senate, and i am now the only black woman in the United States senate. Only the second in americas history to be elected to the United States senate. I have been there now for almost four years. The senate is so important on all these issues. We need to take back the white house. There is no question about that. We also need to take back the senate. We need to take back the senate. You know, it is senators that will make decisions about advise and consent on who sits in the Supreme Court. One of the reasons i became a lawyer is because it was inspired by Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton houston and Constance Baker motley, right . They were the ones who fought for brown v. Board of education. They are the ones who fought for civil rights. Who sits on the Supreme Court has everything to do with our fight for equality. Well, it is our president who nominates somebody, but it is senate who will advise and consent, who will make the decision about whether it goes through. Right now, we are seeing that battle in full relief, with this illegitimate process they have engaged in to try to get the seat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg while people are voting in an election. The majority of American People say, let us decide who will be our president , and let that president decide who fills that seat. The United States senate. The United States senate is where there will be a decision on whether we put on the floor a bill that my brother cory booker from new jersey and i wrote called the George Floyd Justice and policing act. [car horns honking] a bill that says, like joe biden and i say, we should ban chokeholds and carotid holds, because george floyd would be alive today if that were the case. A bill that says, lets have a National Registry of Police Officers who break the law, because that is the right thing to do, and we cannot have folks just get fired one place, and then they will get hired somewhere else. It says that we need to get a National Standard for excessive use of force, because it is not right that in some places, when there is excessive use of force, the question asked is, was it reasonable . When we all know that you can reason away just about anything, and the more fair and just question to ask is, was it necessary . We need to change the standard. Those kind of decisions, yes, they get made from the white house, and we will make them. It also gets made in the senate. Warthat brings me to rafael nock and jon ossoff. You have to send them to the United States senate. Send them to the United States senate. Let them represent georgia. On all these issues. It is critically important. Those senate seats, those are sixyear terms. Think about your life, your childrens lives over the course of the next six years. There is a lot that can get done, either for good or for not. The senate seats are so important. I am here in atlanta, georgia to ask you to do what i know you already know how to do so well. Which is to organize. Which is to talk to folks about what is at stake, which is to remind people on the issue of voting that we have so many reasons. One has to do with atlanta. It has to do with john lewis. It has to do with those men and women who shed blood on that Edmund Pettus bridge and so many other places for our right to vote. So voting is about honoring those ancestors, honoring what they fought for and what they sacrificed for our right to vote. Voting is because theres so much at stake, everything that we discussed. Everything that affects our lives. And voting also is because we are not going to let anyone mess with our right to vote. [applause] [car horns honking] because here is how i think about that. Step back and think about as you know, i have been spending a lot of time all over. I have been in florida this week. I was in North Carolina this week. I will be in ohio tomorrow. But think about it from this perspective. Ever since and even before they gutted the Voting Rights act in 2014, a whole lot of really powerful people, including in this state, because otherwise we would be talking about governor stacey. A whole lot of powerful people for quite some time have been trying to suppress our vote. Have been trying to purge the voter rolls. Have been trying to confuse us about the process, to make it difficult. Oh, you can fill out your ballot and put it in one envelope, but then you need to put it in another envelope and make sure that is signed. Trying to confuse us. Trying to make it difficult. Messing with the post office. Can you imagine . The post office. Like the post man, the post woman. They are messing with the post office. To at some point the think, why are they trying to make it so difficult and confusing for us to vote . And i think the answer is because they know our power. [applause] [car horns honking] they know our power. They know when we vote, things change. They know when we vote, we win. And so i am here to say, atlanta, lets not let anybody take our power from us. We know the power of our voice. We know, at election time, the power of our voice is expressed through our vote. We are not going to let anybody take us out this game. We are present, we are powerful, we are active, and we know whats at stake, and we honor our ancestors every day and so my last point is this, this moment will pass, and years from now, our children, our grandchildren, and others, they will look in our eyes, each one of us, and they will ask us, where were you at that time . And that thing we are going to be able to tell them is so much more than just how we felt. What we will tell them is what we did. We will tell them, there was this one particular afternoon we , we were hanging out at morehouse in the parking lot. We will tell them, we organized, that we talked to our neighbors and our friends and our relatives. We will tell them, we helped people get to the polls. We will tell them on mandatory saturday, which is tomorrow, that we made sure everyone we know got to their county office to vote. We will tell them we stood up and fought for our country. And we file for the ideals, because we love our country, and we know our power thank you, atlanta. [applause] [car horns honking] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [car horns honking] cspans washington journal. Every d