Michelle Obama Takes Spotlight at DNC, Backing Kamala Harris – Hollywood Life
Former First Lady Michelle Obama stepped again into the political highlight at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday evening, joined by her husband, former President Barack Obama, to make sure Kamala Harris wins the November election towards Donald Trump.
With Kamala’s slogan, “When we fight, we win,” Michelle, 60, departed from her well-known 2016 DNC assertion, “When they go low, we go high,” as she took extra direct jabs at the Republican nominee.
“For years, Donald Trump did every thing in his energy to attempt to make folks worry us.
“His limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who also happened to be Black,” Michelle stated, referring to Trump’s remedy of her and her husband.
In reference to Trump’s feedback throughout the June debate—through which he claimed that immigrants coming into the U.S. had been “taking Black jobs”—Obama quipped, “Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs’?”
“It’s his same old con: doubling down on ugly, misogynistic, racist lies as a substitute for real ideas and solutions that will actually make people’s lives better,” she added.
As she criticized Trump, she accused him of “going small,” a trait she deemed “unpresidential.”
“Why would we accept this from anyone seeking our highest office?” Obama requested.
In additional assist of Harris, Obama known as the Vice President “one of the most qualified people ever to seek the office of the presidency” and highlighted her background—raised by an immigrant mom from a middle-class household, attending a traditionally Black college, and dealing her manner as much as the vice presidency.
“Kamala Harris is more than ready for this moment,” Obama stated. “Kamala knows, like we do, that regardless of where you come from, what you look like, who you love, how you worship, or what’s in your bank account, we all deserve the opportunity to build a decent life. All of our contributions deserve to be accepted and valued because no one has a monopoly on what it means to be an American.”
Even as Obama energized the group with hope—a rhetoric that harkened again to Barack Obama’s first presidential marketing campaign in 2008—she cautioned that the matchup with Trump would nonetheless be a battle.
“As we embrace this renewed sense of hope, let us not forget the despair we have felt,” she stated, reminding Democrats of the stakes of the election and including that they face an “uphill battle.”
“We cannot get a Goldilocks complex about whether everything is just right,” she stated. “We cannot indulge our anxieties about whether this country will elect someone like Kamala instead of doing everything we can to get someone like Kamala elected.”
“It’s up to us to remember what Kamala’s mother told her: ‘Don’t just sit around and complain. Do something,’” Obama added, because the conference crowd chanted: “Do something! Do something!”
