Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock enthusiastically endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris throughout his speech on the opening night time of the 2024 Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago on Monday.
“Kamala Harris and Tim Walz signify the way in which ahead. We’re not going again,” he mentioned. “We’re not going again as a result of we’re the US of America. We at all times dream concerning the future.”
He elaborated on this by bearing on a few of Harris’s previous work with President Joe Biden, just like the insulin cap, and on a few of her main platform factors for the long run like restoring reproductive rights nationwide. He additionally had some severe phrases concerning former president Donald Trump.
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“Individuals who don’t have any imaginative and prescient site visitors in division. He doesn’t know methods to lead us and so he needs to divide us,” Warnock mentioned. “America, make no mistake, Donald Trump is a plague on the American conscience.”
The senator additionally drew on his expertise as a reverend whereas additionally calling out a picture many Democrats have criticized: Trump holding up a bible outdoors a church as protests broke out within the wake of George Floyd’s homicide in 2020.
“He ought to strive studying it. It says ‘Do justice, love kindness, and stroll humbly together with your God,'” Warnock mentioned. “It says ‘Love your neighbor as your self.’ It says ‘In as a lot as you’ve got finished unto the least of those, you have got finished it additionally unto me.'”
Warnock ended his speech with a unification message impressed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I want my neighbor’s kids to be O.Okay. in order that my kids shall be O.Okay. I want all of my neighbors’ kids to be O.Okay. Poor interior metropolis kids in Atlanta and poor kids of Appalachia. I want the poor kids of Israel and the poor kids of Gaza. I want Israelis and Palestinians. I want these within the Congo, these in Haiti, these in Ukraine. I want American kids on each side of the observe to be O.Okay. as a result of we’re all God’s kids.”