Atlanta . Up hey everybody. Go . E did you ck . T is up, ri he is so good. There you are. You just tore it up. Of i willead tell you one of the things i love about joe biden, and he says it often, he understands his long life of service and education to Public Service. Uplifting those who are the emerging leaders and rick is one of them. Can we give it up for him because that is what it is all about. It is about everybody taking on their role of leadership, knowing that we have so much at stake in the selection. Theres so much at stake. I came back to atlanta. , it wase i was here before the pandemic. I was up on the stage here at morehouse in march of last year. Black and if you are hold elected office, coming to atlanta is like coming back to the womb. It really is. Represents soa much about who we are as america. The hope inesents the dreams and the fight to make real the promise of america. Atlanta is the place that has have beeneaders who National Leaders and interNational Leaders, who have always understood that hope will fuel this fight. Faith will be what grounds us in knowing what is possible, but then you have to just organize the votes and bring people together and recognize that nothing we have ever achieved as a nation by way of progress came without a fight. [applause] and so that is what we have in front of us. Next below the fight for 11 days the the soul of our nation. This is a fight that we are inaged in because we believe the ideals of our country. We believe in our democracy. We know that americas democracy will always be as strong as we the people are in our willingness to fight for those ideals. And so that is where we are today. In a fight for the ideals and the fight for the dignity and a fight for justice and equal justice under law. Lets look at what is at stake. We are dealing with the pandemic. We are dealing with partly because of that, four crises that are occurring at one time in our nation. Of e of that pandemic we are looking at a health sis where we have seen 220 two a and 20,000 americans lose their lives just the last several months. Many of whom tragically in their last days on earth could not even be with their families, with people they loved because of the nature of this pandemic. Millionooking over 8. 5 folks who have contracted the virus, think fully have live, but are looking at longterm consequences. Doctors are talking about things like lung scarring. This publicidst of health pandemic, we have a who knew back on january 28. He knew the deal about covid. He has been informed that it can kill people, that it is five times as likely to kill as the flu. He knew it was airborne. He knew it could harm children. And he sat on that information and did not tell the American People. Can you imagine . What you mightve done . Had you known what he knew on january 28 . Prepared . Mightve how folks mightve said, you know, i have to buy some extra exit Charlie Hebdo extra toilet paper . Even in Donald Trumps america before the pandemic, folks were working two or three jobs to pay the bills and pay the rent. America, youour should only have to work one job to pay your rent and put food on the table. Honking] their to have the nerve to say it was a hopes hoax. On one side of his ledger, if you do not wear a mask, you while the other side of his ledger. And now look where we are. When he questioned the first black president of the united has been so weirdly obsessed with trying to get rid of whatever barack obama created. Think about that. We do not need president s who weirdaited sessions obsessions. Tryingn court right now to get rid of the Affordable Care act, which brought health withage, covered people preexisting conditions. You know anybody who has diabetes . High Blood Pressure . Best cancer . Lupus . Of thewants to get rid thing that rock care and dignity to attend of millions of americans. This is one of the reasons donald trump has got to go. Got to go. Are in the middle of all these crises. In justmillion people the last several months at the file for unemployment. We are looking at families that are getting up at the crack of dawn to drive to sit in their car in the food lines for hours. Praying that they can get to the end of the line before food runs out. One in five mothers in america is describing her children under the age of 12 as being hungry. We are in the midst of a hundred a hunger crisis in america. Again, on the one hand, you have joe biden who says, let me tell you how i measure the economy and how well it is doing. I measure the greatness of this economy based on how working people are doing. How are working people doing . When working people and working families are doing well, the b economy is doing well. Which is why joe biden i are saying taxes were will not be raised on people making less than 100,000 a year. We know one of the greatest ways that we achieve access to Economic Health and intergenerational prosperity is homeownership. We will have a 15,000 tax credit for firsttime homebuyers to help you with down payments and Closing Costs to buy a home. We understand that working families need childcare, but nobody should have to pay more than 7 of their income in childcare. That is our commitment. The economy is doing well when working people are doing well. On the other hand, you have donald trump. Who measures how well the economy is doing based on the stock market. Who measures how well the economy is doing based on how reach rich people are doing. One of his first orders of business was a tax bill benefiting the top 1 and corporations of america. Joe biden and i will make it one of our highest priorities to get rid of that tax bill and invest that money in working families. [applause] Public Health crisis and economic crisis being compared to the great depression. A longoverdue reckoning on Racial Injustice in america. On the one hand, you have joe biden, who has the knowledge and the courage enough to use the term and speak those words black lives matter. Hand, have donald trump, who refuses and will never say black lives matter. Thatas the gall to sit on debate stage at that last debate in front of 70 million americans and would not condemn white supremacy. People have asked me, they say well, senator harris either way, senator is not on my birth certificate, it is kamala. Saying do you you think he is a racist . Yes. Yeah. Because it is not like some random oneoff. We have seen that pattern going back to him questioning the legitimacy of barack obama, going back to charlottesville when people were peacefully protesting Racial Injustice in. Merica, a woman was killed on the other side, you had a bunch of neonazis wearing swastikas, carrying tiki torches, slurring, throwing out antisemitic and racist slurs and donald trump says, there are fine people on both sides. A president of the United States who refers to mexicans as rapists and criminals. A president of the United States who made one of his first policy initiatives a ban on muslims entering our country. And then, stood on that stage and would not condemn known White Supremacists and double down and said, they should stand back and stand by. Reflective of hooey of who we believe we are as a nation. We need a president who acknowledges systemic racism, history of america and uses that pulpit and microphone in a way that speaks truth with an intention to address the inequities and bring our country together. And that is joe biden. [applause] Public Health, economics, Racial Injustice, and the climate crisis. I come from california, i was born in oakland. We have some californians. You know. The west coast has been burning from those wildfires. California, oregon, washington. The gulf states have been battered by storms. People in the midwest, farmers have lost full seasons of crops because of the floods. Joe bidens emma says, we need to embrace science and deal with it. This is something that is hurting people. It is something that we can address in a way where we can create jobs by investing in inrastructure, investing renewable energy, that will be about jobs. Seriousnessows the of Environmental Justice issues, areasws that of all the where people live in america with poor air quality, 70 of the people in those areas are people of color. Joe biden knows what is going on in flint. He says we need to address this and we need to Pay Attention to science. On the other hand, you have whend trump, who recently he was asked about the wildfires in california, the report said Something Like you know, scientists are saying these fires, what is happening, the scientists are saying that there is a connection between the drastic changes in the climate and these wildfires. You know what the president of the United States . Science doesnt know. What . Science doesnt know. The president of the United States. What we see is a through line, right . On the first issue and this issue, and inability to embrace fact. And inability to embrace experts, to embrace intelligence. Competent. Y to be ofinability to do the job commander in chief in the United States, whose first responsibility is to content to concern themselves with the health and safety of the American People. And that is why we are going to elect joe biden. [applause] there is so much at stake. , when iknow in atlanta ran for senate and i am now the only black woman in the United States senate. Only the second in americas history to be in the United States senate. I have been there now for almost four years. The senate is so important on all these issues. Take back the white house. There is no question about that. We also need to take back the senate. We need to take back the senate. It is senators that will make the statements about consent on who will sit in the supreme court. One of the reasons i became a lawyer is because it was inspired by Thurgood Marshall and motley. Ones who fought for brown v. Board of education. For civil rights. It has everything to do with our fight for equality. President who nominates somebody, but it is senate who will make the decision about whether it goes through. Right now, we are seeing that with thisfull relief illegitimate process that they get engaged in to try to the seat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg while people are voting in an election, the majority of American People say, let us decide who will be our president and let that president decide who will fill that seat. The United States senate. The United States senate is where there will be a decision on whether we put on the floor a bill that my brother cory booker from new jersey and i wrote called the George Floyd Justice and policing act. Says, like joe biden and i say, should ban chokeholds because george floyd would be alive today if that were the case. A bill that says, lets have a National Registry of Police Officers who break the law because that is the right thing to do and we cannot have folks just get fired and then get hired someone out somewhere else. It says that we need to get a National Standard for excessive use of force because it is not right that in some places, the question asked is, was it reasonable . When we all know that you can reason away just about anything and the more fair and just question is, was it necessary . We need to change the standard. Yes, kind of decisions, they get made from the white house, and we will make them. It also gets made in the senate. You have toto send them to the United States senate. Send them to the United States senate. Let them represent georgia. On all these issues. It is critically important. Those senate seats, those are sixyear terms. Your life, your childrens lives over the course of the next six years. There is a lot that can get done , either for good or for not. He senate seats are so important. M here in Atlanta Georgia atlanta, georgia to ask you to do what i know you already know how to do so well. Which is to organize. Witches to talk to folks about what is at stake, which is to remind people on the issue of voting that we have so many reasons. One has to do with atlanta. Lewis. To do with john it has to do with those men and on thato shed blood Edmund Pettus bridge and so many other places for our right to vote. Voting is about honoring those hands hustlers those ancestors, honoring what they fought for and what they sacrificed for our right to vote. Is because theres so much at stake, everything that we discussed. Everything that affects our lives. Because we are not going to let anyone mess with our right to vote. [applause] here is i think about that. I have been spending a lot of time all over. I was in north carolina, florida, i will be in ohio tomorrow. Think about it from this perspective. Ever since and even before they gutted the Voting Rights act in 2013, a whole lot of really powerful people including in this state, because we would be talking about governor stacy. A whole lot of powerful people for quite some time have been trying to suppress our vote. To purge theing voter rolls. Trying to confuse us about the process to make it difficult. You can fill out your ballot and put it in one envelope, but then you need to put it in another envelope and make sure that is signed. Trying to confuse us. Messing with the post office. Can you imagine . They are messing with the post office. Why are they trying to make it so difficult and confusing for us to vote . And i think the answer is power. They know our they know our power. They know when we vote, things change. They know when we vote, we win. So i am here to say, atlanta, lets not let anybody take our power from us. We know the power of our voice. We know at election time, the power of our voice is expressed through our vote. We are not going to let anybody take us out this game. We are present. , we are powerful, we are ative, and we know whats stake and we honor our ancestors every day this, my last point is , and years will pass from now, our children, our grandchildren, and others, they will look in our eyes, each one of us, and they will ask us, where were you at that time . Going tothing we are be able to tell them is so much more than just how we felt. What we will tell them is what we did. Them there was this one particular afternoon we were hanging out at morehouse in the parking lot. We will tell them we organized, that we talked to our neighbors and our friends and our relatives, we will tell them we helped people get to the polls. We will tell them on mandatory saturday, which is tomorrow, that we made sure everyone we know got to their county office to vote. We will tell them we stood up and fought for our country. We love our country and we know our power thank you, atlanta. [car horns honking] cspans washington journal. 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