Well, there are three people who deserve the credit
for tonight's successful launch of the new Democratic ticket.
Kamala Harris, Tim Walz,
and the man who made it possible,
Joe Biden.
If tonight's debut of the Democratic running mates for president
and vice president had,
say, an executive producer,
it would be the person who made this night possible.
Joe Biden, who four years ago
chose Kamala Harris as his running mate and two weeks
ago,
just over two weeks ago
announced he would stop running for president
and designed in the timing of his endorsement
a quick and chaos free transition
of the Biden Harris campaign into
the Harris campaign. Which then triggered a rapid series of
endorsements by other prominent Democrats,
leaving not a single Democrat
willing to launch a campaign to try to take the
nomination away
from Kamala Harris.
Vice President Harris assembled enough delegate support
to win the nomination the day after Joe Biden
dropped out and endorsed her
candidate for president. Kamala Harris
has had a flawless first two weeks of campaigning,
wisely adding winning veterans of Democratic presidential campaigns to the
staff of the campaign that today became
the Harris Walls campaign.
President Biden, no doubt watching,
proudly said this today. The first major decision a party
nominee makes is their choice
for vice president, and Kamala Harris has made a great
decision in choosing Governor Tim Waltz to be her running
mate.
It's time for all Democrats,
and indeed all Americans committed to freedom,
democracy and American leadership in the world,
to rally behind the Harris Waltz ticket.
Every generation of Americans faces a moment where they are
asked to defend American democracy.
That moment is now.
When prosecutors walk into court
on the big cases, they are not alone.
They always have at least one Co counsel with them
at the prosecution table
tonight, Donald Trump's chief political prosecutor,
Vice President Harris, continued her prosecution of Donald Trump with
her new
Co counsel, Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz.
I was a courtroom prosecutor,
so in those roles
I took on perpetrators of all kinds.
Predators who abused women.
Fraudsters who scammed consumers.
Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.
So hear me when I say
I
know Donald Trump's type.
Make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump.
That's not even counting the crimes he committed.
When Donald Trump watched that tonight,
he knew he was up against another new candidate who
he could not handle.
Donald Trump has already been lost trying to figure out
how to campaign against Kamala Harris,
and now he's even more lost
trying to figure out how to campaign against Tim Walz.
Who in that one line
told the truth about the violent crime rate under Donald
Trump's presidency more clearly and more memorably than any Democrat
ever has?
In a similar burst of clarity,
Tim Walz blasted through decades and decades of political rhetoric
about abortion
when he said this.
Some of us are old enough to remember
when it was Republicans who were talking about freedom.
It turns out now what they meant was the government
should be free to invade your doctor's office
in Minnesota. We respect our neighbors and their personal choices
that they make,
even if we wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves.
There's a golden rule. Mind your own damn business.
These guys are after my heart chanting Mind your own
damn business.
That feels good, so thank you.
Mind your own damn business.
That is nothing less than the single best political message
the Democrats have ever delivered about abortion and reproductive freedom.
This is the first presidential election since Donald Trump's Supreme
Court justices revoked a constitutional right for the first time,
the right of women to control their own bodies,
including the right to control their own bodies after they
are raped.
Donald Trump's Supreme Court justices said that 10 year old
girls raped by family members cannot be protected in any
way
by federal law. The Constitution does not care about them,
according to Donald Trump's Supreme Court.
And in the very first presidential campaign since Donald Trump's
Supreme Court justices did that,
Tim Waltz is saying to Donald Trump and his Republican
judges,
mind your own damn business.
And polling shows that the Mind your own damn business
position commands
a large majority of American voters.
Next year, if Democrats control the House,
the Senate and the White House,
they will be legislating a bill with all of the
protections for women
of Roe versus Wade. And in the debates on the
House floor and the Senate floor,
you will hear repeatedly the Democratic position described
more simply than ever in the words
mind your own damn business.
We now have a president presidential and vice presidential team
of running mates
who are the best possible spokespeople
in the history of the Democratic Party
for the mind your own damn business position.
And we have, we have had
two vice presidents from Minnesota,
both Democrats, Walter Mondale serving with President Jimmy Carter,
and Hubert Humphrey, the 1st vice president from Minnesota,
serving with President Lyndon Johnson.
It was Hubert Humphrey who won the campaign trail,
took on the nickname the Happy Warrior.
Tonight there is a new Happy Warrior from Minnesota running
for Vice President
Donald Trump's not fighting for you or your family.
He never, he never sat at that kitchen table like
the one I grew up at,
wondering how we were going to pay the bills.
He set his Country Club up
in Mar a Lago wondering how he can cut taxes
for his rich friends.
And I got to tell you,
his running mate shares his dangerous and backward agenda for
this country.
JD Vance literally, literally wrote the foreword for the Architect
of the Project
2025 Agenda.
Like all regular people I grew up with in the
heartland,
JD studied at Yale,
had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires,
and then wrote a best seller trashing that community.
Come on,
That's not what middle America is.
And I got to tell you,
I can't wait to debate the guy.
That is, if you if he's willing to get off
the couch and show up.
So
you see what I did there?
Look,
I got to tell you,
pointing out just an observation of mine that I,
that I made. I just have to say it.
You know it, you feel it.
These guys are creepy and yes,
just weird as hell. That's what you see.
That's what you see.
So you know what's out there.
So say it with me.
We aren't going back.
We're going back.
We are not going back.
So we got 91 days.
My God, that's easy.
We'll sleep when we're dead
over those next 91 days.
And every day in the White House,
all have Vice President Harris's back.
Every single day.
And we'll have yours.
You know how this works.
We can't do it alone.
We need you. Each and everyone of you.
Go over to
kamalaharris.com. Get on board, because we need you.
Freedom, Make our own choices.
This leader, this
compassionate, careful, joyous leader believes in each and everyone of
you.
My God, you came here tonight just set at the
very top because you love this country and you're not
going back.
She believes in the opportunity for every single person to
join the middle class.
She believes in the promise of America.
We just got to fight.
We just got to fight
because as soon to be president,
Harris says when we fight,
we win.
Thank you, Philadelphia. Thank you,
vice president. God Bless America.