Here are 5 things we Learned from Kamala Harris’s speech.
This was a big moment for Kamala Harris personally,
but also a historic moment for this country.
She becomes the first woman of colour
from either party to accept their party’s nomination to be president.
Many of the people in this room, uh,
were wearing the white of the suffragette movement
in recognition of the fact that Kamala Harris
could become America’s first female president.
She clearly, though,
doesn’t want that to become the key part of her story,
choosing instead to wear a black suit.
Kamala Harris for the people
was her campaign slogan for her unsuccessful presidential bid in 2020.
Well, tonight she repeated it again,
framing herself as the candidate of unity,
saying she will fight for the working and middle classes,
whereas Donald Trump is focused on looking after his billionaire mates.
The beginning parts of the Harry speech
was focused on her personal story
and that of her parents. She described how her mother, Shamala,
came over from India as a 19 year old
before meeting her Jamaican father.
This was about introducing Kamala Harris to a nation
that may not be aware of that backstory.
Yes, she’s been in the White House
as the vice president for the past four years,
but there are many people who don’t know her that deeply.
Kamala Harris continued the theme of this convention
of belittling Donald Trump.
She described him as an unserious man.
It follows on from her Running mate Tim Walsh
describing Trump and his running mate
JD Vance as weird
Donald Trump will really struggle to fight back against this narrative.
There’s nothing he hates more than being mocked.
The Harris campaign has been criticised for being heavy on the vibes
and light on the policy detail. Well,
she didn’t drill down into any policy detail,
but we did get a fairly clear idea
of what a Harris presidency would look like.
She was clear on housing, on reproductive rights,
and crucially, on Israel, Gaza.
She didn’t indicate any change in policy on the situation, uh,
in Gaza, but perhaps it was the most, uh,
passionate defense, uh,
of the Palestinian people and their rights
that we’ve heard from her so far.