“Kamala Harris is up for the job. She is a person who has spent her whole life fighting for people who need to be heard,” Obama said, pointing out that Harris has long been fighting for Americans’ access to equal opportunity, affordable health care, women’s abortion rights, and equality before the lawreferencing her tenure as vice president and previously California attorney general.
Obama harshly criticized Trump
Trump, on the other hand, according to Obama, is only concerned with his own interests, he wants to tax the middle class and help himself and his rich friends. At the same time, he called the Republican ex-president a “78-year-old billionaire who only complains about his problems”, uses childish labels and spreads conspiracy theories. “We’re Ready for a President Kamala Harris, Not Four Years of Chaos,” Obama said, according to CNN.
“It’s a constant stream of complaints, which has been getting worse since he is afraid of losing to Kamala. Trump is like the neighbor who leaves his leaf blower running 24 hours a day – just annoying. As president – dangerous,” Obama said and the crowd started laughing loudly. “There’s the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, the weird obsession with crowd sizes.”
A particularly apt remark followed: Trump was “obsessed with size – crowds”. At the word “size,” Obama put his hands together as if measuring to inches, leaving the gap smaller and smaller. A gesture as an allusion to a somewhat too small genitalia. Politico magazine interpreted Obama’s opinion: Trump’s obsession with size must be related to sexual insecurity. The German newspaper Bild wrote about it.
Obama also joined
The former first lady performed in front of the former president from 2009-2017 Michelle Obama. She called Harris one of the “most qualified and decent” presidential candidates in US history and added that the vice president dedicated her life to public service.
She also commented on Trump, alluding to his racist attacks, writes CNN. “His limited worldview made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working, highly educated, successful people who happened to be black,” she let herself be heard.
And she continued her criticism of the ex-president: “Wait, I want to know who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently applying for might be one of those ‘black’ jobs?”
She also stated that while the ex-president could only benefit from his parents’ wealth, his political opponent Harris rose to the top on her own.
Harris’ husband, attorney Doug Emhoff, spoke of Harris’ ability in his speech to lead, her love of family, public service and tenacity. He also noted that on Thursday, the 10th anniversary of their wedding, Harris will officially accept the party’s presidential nomination at the end of the convention.
Democrats before keynote speeches on the second night of the convention again confirmed Harris as their presidential candidate for the November presidential election. Delegates from every state and US territory cast their votes for the 59-year-old candidate in a voting ceremony accompanied by music, lighting effects and short speeches from party representatives. In early August, Vice President Harris received 99 percent of the approximately 4,500 Democratic Party delegates in online voting.
As the voting closed, Harris told voters at a rally in Wisconsin, the same stadium where former President Trump accepted the Republican nomination last month, that will “pave a new way forward” that will mean “freedom, opportunity, optimism and hope”.
President Joe Biden endorsed Harris in a speech on the first night of the Democratic convention in Chicago on Monday. The eighty-one-year-old president ended his campaign a month ago under pressure from fellow party members and immediately proposed Harris as a replacement candidate. According to Nielsen, 20.3 million TV viewers watched the first night of the Democratic convention, while 18.3 million viewers watched the first night of the Republican nominating convention last month.