University of nevada. I am a senior at the university studying journalism with hopes of attending law school next fall. With a week until election day, i want to emphasize how important it is to allow your voices to be heard. Our nation in this year alone is facing a Global Health pandemic, economic downfall, systemic racism, and a climate crisis. It is imperative we elect a leaders with strong, steady leadership to unite our country and deliver positive and meaningful results. As a low income, black young woman from the bay area, being a firsttime voter in the 2020 election is important to me. [applause] electing representatives dedicated to fostering a Prosperous Society to ensure students and the younger generations feel represented and supported is essential for our country. It is truly special hopefully see a woman of color be elected in the number two spot in the entire country next tuesday. For the past three and a half years, citizens who make up marginalized communities in the United States have been unprioritized under our current leadership. It is time we have issues we care about prioritized. Making progress cannot happen until you all vote. Vice President Joe Biden and senator Kamala Harris already addressed the issues we faced as a nation throughout their campaign trail. With that said, in a few short moments, we will be honored to be introduced to senator harris. Before senator harris democratic president ial nomination in 2020, she was elected to the u. S. Senate in and represented california. 2016her advocacy focuses on immigration and criminal justice reform, minimum wage increases womensecting reproductive rights. Since her nomination, senator harris is the first women of color to appear on a major partys nomination ticket. Which is so special to marginalized communities, especially women of color across the United States. I am so excited to be here today and i cannot wait to see what happens in seven days. Thank you, everyone. I love you, baby wishing that i could stay just told you, baby just told you, baby you get her toai, can call me know that she is my only desire all right, nevada. Please welcome to the stage the next Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris. Sen. Harris hey, reno. Hi, everybody. It is so good. Wasnt dominique amazing . Can we hear it for dominique . It is so good to be back in reno. I am so happy to see you guys. What a Beautiful Day. Look, i never knew there were blue pumpkins. [laughter] first, i just want to thank Patricia Ackerman who, of course, is running for congress in nevada. Lets make sure we take care of that. And of course, wendy, the candidate for state senator in nevada. Dr. Andrew taylor, Washita County school district. And then dominique. I am just going to come over here. So it is so good to see you guys. It is so good to be back in reno. Thank you all for coming out this afternoon. Everybody has got a busy life. These are tough days. Thank you all for the time and for the energy and for your commitment to fighting for our democracy. [applause] i have been doing a lot of interviews as you can imagine and people say, what do you think is going to happen the day after the election . Right . Youve heard all that talk. I said, look, here is what i truly believe. We have taken a battering. There is no question about it, over these last three and a half years. If you think of our democracy as a house, the shingles have fallen off a bit. But the house is still standing. The house is still standing. I do believe our democracy will always be as strong as our willingness and preparedness to fight for it. [applause] and fight we will because look at what i am looking at. There are a bunch of folks over there because we had to socially distance, we have friends over there too. People are turning out. I have been going all over the country. These last 10 days or so, in particular visiting with early voting and here in nevada, until friday, october 30. Lets make sure everyone votes and vote early. Get it done and get it in. Im telling you guys, people are standing in line and the enthusiasm and energy. It is because they know what you know. This is our country and we love our country and we are prepared to fight for it. [applause] so that is where we are. And look, there is so much at stake in this election. I dont have to tell you guys that. We are in the midst of at least four crises that are happening all at the same time. We are in a crisis that is caused by this pandemic, which has created a mass casualty event like we have not seen since world war ii. Where we are looking at over 225,000 americans who just in the last several months have died. Many of whom were without a loved one next to them because of the nature of this. Many of whom the family was hoping at least they could face time or see each other virtually for their last days on earth. People are mourning. Over 8. 5 Million People have contracted this virus with unknown longterm consequences. Including lung scarring, things of that nature, and the thing is is that donald trump and mike pence, thanks to bob woodward, we know knew back on january 28 that it is lethal, five times as deadly as the flu, that it can harm young people, that it is airborne and they sat on the information and had the gall, the president of the United States sat on that information and called it a hoax. Can you guys imagine if you had known if parents had known, if Small Business owners had known, if teachers had known what the president knew on january 28, what you might have done to prepare . Because lets not forget before this pandemic, folks were hurting. Even before this pandemic. Folks were hurting two and three jobs to try and get through the month and pay the bills, and in the America Joe Biden and i believe in, people should only have to work one job to pay the rent and put food on the table. [applause] people were hurting already. The average American Family was struggling to have maybe a thousand dollars in savings. Can you imagine what folks might have done to prepare . Not to mention buy toilet paper . Right . And they sat on this information. And now, in the midst of a Public Health pandemic, donald trump and his boy, bill barr, or are in the United StatesSupreme Court i voted no on that confirmation, by the way. [applause] they are in court right now suing to get rid of the Affordable Care act that brought health care to over 20 million americans, that said people with preexisting conditions should not be denied access to coverage. People who have diabetes, high blood pressure, breast cancer, lupus. Do you know over one million nevadans have preexisting conditions . They are in court right now trying to get rid of the Affordable Care act. And they just it is a statement about who this person is. This president who, in the midst of the kind of suffering we are seeing, has is continuing with this very weird obsession he has had since he ran for president to undo whatever barack obama created. It is a weird obsession, by the way. We do not need a president with weird obsessions. Right . Lets move beyond that thing too, right . We are in the midst of a Public Health crisis. We are in the midst of an economic crisis being compared to the great depression, where over 30 million americans in just the last several months had to file for unemployment. Here in nevada, one in seven families is describing their household as being hungry. We are in the midst of a hunger crisis in america. People are not talking enough about that. In fact, i some numbers that one in five mothers is describing their children under the age of 12 as being hungry. In nevada, we are looking at one in seven households who are finding it difficult they do not have the ability to pay rent. In nevada, one in four Small Businesses has gone out of businesses and it is important to know that of the American Workforce, almost half of the American Workforce either runs or works for a Small Business. The economic devastation is profound. And then when you listen to donald trump even in the last debate, he is talking about, we are rounding the corner. What is he saying . Rounding the corner when people are struggling to keep a roof over their head. Heres the difference again and a clear difference on all these issues. So on Public Health, joe biden is saying lets expand the Affordable Care act that barack obama and i brought into being. Lets bring down medicare eligibility to age 60. Lets recognize that we need to bring down the cost of premiums and drug prices. Lets recognize that when we are talking about health care, the body doesnt just start from the neck down. It also requires health care on the other hand you have donald trump trying to get rid of the Affordable Care act. Joe biden says, if you want to ask me how the economy is doing, tell me how working people are doing, how working families are doing. Joe biden says, we will not increase taxes on anyone making less than 400,000 a year. And we will make sure working families do not pay more than 7 of income in childcare. Yes, we will raise the minimum wage, but we know that is the minimum, and we need to invest with what we can do with innovation and building infrastructure, and investing a good union paying jobs to build up the middle class in america. Trump other hand, donald who when asked, how is the economy doing, he asked how the stock market is doing. How are rich people doing . He passes as one of his first orders of business a tax bill benefiting the top 1 and the biggest operations. Joe biden and i are about to get rid of that. [applause] and invest that money in working people in america, put that money into building up skills, put that money into supporting Small Businesses so they can reopen and rehire. Midst of a long overdue reckoning on the issue of Racial Injustice in america. On the one hand you have joe learnedho knows and has and studied americas history, and has therefore the courage to say lack lives matter. Black lives matter. [applause] a term that donald trump will never use, will never use. Joe biden says, lets deal with Racial Disparities, lets recognize the africanamericans and latinos are three times as likely to contract covid and twice as likely to die from it. Let us deal with the racial wealth gap, where we know black families own 1 10 of the wealth of other families. Lets do with Racial Disparities in our health care system, understanding black women are three or four times more likely to die in connection with childcare than other women. Joe biden says we are going to reform these systems, including criminal justice, and in so doing we will decriminalize marijuana and expunge records of people convicted of marijuana offenses. We will shut down private prisons because the Business Model has human beings making money off the incarceration of other human beings. [applause] joe biden says we need to reform policing to require accountability when a Police Officer breaks the law. For that reason, we will ban carotid holds and chokeholds, because george floyd would be alive today, and we will require accountability around creating a National System around tracking those who have broken the law so they wont get fired in one place, and hired in another. [applause] on the other hand, you have donald trump, who, remember, at the last debate, for this most recent one, refused to condemn a white supremacist group, and then doubled down and said, stand back and stand by. That on the heels of way back when, because there is a pattern, on the issue of charlottesville, where americans were peacefully protesting Racial Injustice. A young woman was killed at that. And on the others, there were neonazis wearing swastikas, carrying tiki torches, and he had called say find people on both sides. He has called mexicans rapists and criminals, had one of his first orders of business a muslim ban. And you see this on this list is very clear contrast, another of those issues before the American People. And on this issue before the American People, it is our ability to fight for a joe biden that understands that regardless of where you live, your race, gender, age, or the language your grandmother speaks, that we have so much more in common than what separates us, and it is time to end a supposedly to who is spending full time trying to sew hate and division among us. Sow hate and division among us. We want a unifier. That is why we want joe biden. [applause] and on the list of crises, i dont have to tell reno, the climate crisis. You guys know it, you guys are living it. We are seeing wildfires throughout the west coast. I have visited many of them. I have visited with families who have had to be evacuated. I have visited with firefighters who have been fighting fires while their own homes are burning. We see it in the gulf coast states, storms that are battering whole communities, in the midwest, floods that have caused the farmers to lose a whole season of crops. And joe biden says, we have got to Pay Attention to science, and do it with a sense of urgency, and put timelines in place. [applause] because the clock is ticking on this. [cheering and applause] and joe says, i also see the opportunity in the moment to save our planet, which also will allow us, if we are serious, to invest in infrastructure, renewable energy, research and development that will allow us to save our planet, save water, save clean air and clean water. Joe sees this is about letting building up the economy and jobs as much as anything. On the other hand, you have donald trump. He gets asked by some journalist about the wildfires, and the journalist asks something like, the scientists are telling us these extreme weather conditions are causing this to happen, what do you have to say about that . The president of the United States of america, who is also the commander in chief of the United States of america, responds to the question by saying science doesnt know. Mr. President , science knows. [laughter] science knows. [applause] and we know. And we know it is time to deal with these issues and stop playing into the special interests you have been courting since you came into office. So these are some issues that are before us right now, and there are clear choices. There are clear choices, and we have in our power the ability to determine the future course of our country. We have it within our power. This brings me to nevada, and why i will keep coming back. You guys know. It is why you are here. Nevada is going to help determine the outcome of this election. [applause] you are. You are. And in that way, your vote is going to impact people around the country, people you may never meet, people who may never know your name. But because you guys are so powerful in your leadership and engagement, you are going to make the difference. I have been traveling around the country, and one thing that has become clear is that sometimes people say, is my vote going to matter, why should i vote . There are three reasons. One is to honor the ancestors. [applause] this year we lost the great john lewis, who shed his blood on the Edmund Pettus bridge for the right of black americans to vote. He shed his blood. The other thing i love about , he was one of the first to show up and say, Marriage Equality is a core civil rights issue. He was one of the first say we need to deal with immigration and create a pathway and stop demonizing immigrants in america. John lewis, he and so many others shed that blood. We should honor that sacrifice. This year, we celebrate it, the we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. [applause] all those badass suffragettes. There are children here. [laughter] its ok, the mom said it was ok. All those suffragettes who marched, who couldnt hear no, who fought for our right to vote. And we must be true to history and the facts, that black women were not able to vote until 1965. So lets remember that, but honoring the ancestors is an important reason to vote. Two, everything that is at stake. We went through the list, and there is so much more. That vote last night, i voted beenst her because it has an illegitimate process from the beginning. To push through a nomination of someone while the American People are voting, literally we are not even talking about election season or election year. Tens of millions of people, i think the last number i saw was 50 Million People had voted when the confirmation went down last night. And the majority of the American People are saying, let us choose who will be the next president and let that person choose who will fill a lifetime seat on the highest court in our land, that was previously occupied by the great ruth bader ginsburg. [applause] and there is so much at stake. Ruth bader ginsburg, we always should speak her name. What she did, i think there was an inverse relationship between her size and her force. What she did for equality and women. And now, there is someone on the court who many of us opposed also because we know she has a track record that it makes it clear she was to get rid of the Affordable Care act. Keep in mind, in so doing, if they are successful in getting rid of the Affordable Care act, among the things we talked about, over 20 Million People with access to health care, people with preexisting conditions being protected. You know what else will be at stake . Free birth control. Free mammograms. Free cancer screenings. [applause] all of that is at stake, not to mention a womans right to make a decision about her own body. [cheers and applause] there is so much at stake. So we honor the ancestors. We know what is at stake. At here is the third reason its important for us to remember the importance of voting. And heres the third reason it is important to vote. The Supreme Court took out the teeth of the Voting Rights act and almost immediately after, two dozen states put in laws designed to suppress the africanamerican vote, people of color and students. Indigenous folks. Northh so that in th carolina, when they reviewed what they did, they said the state legislature designed the law with surgical precision to make it more difficult for black voters in the state of North Carolina to vote. My point is this. It is important to ask a question, which is, why are so many powerful people trying to make it difficult for us to vote . Why are they trying to confuse us about voting . Why are they trying to suggest that we cant trust the system . Why are they messing with the post office . They are messing with the post office. The post office. And one must ask, why are they going through such an effort . Here is what i believe the answer is. They know our power. [applause] they know our power. They know when we vote, things change. They know when we vote, we win. [applause] so lets not ever let anyone take our power from us. It is our power to stand in those lines as long as necessary. We will bring our friends with us and have a good old time. But we know our power, and we are prepared to exercise the power of our voice that comes with election time, through our vote. Because we know what is at stake, and we know the shoulders we stand upon, that came generations before us, that would expect nothing less. [applause] my last point is this. Years from now, because this moment will have passed, and years from now, our children, grandchildren and others, they will look at us, they will look in our eyes, each of us, and they will ask us, where were you at that moment . And what we are going to be able to tell them is so much more than just how we felt. We are going to tell them what we did. [cheers and applause] we are going to tell them that we were hanging out this Beautiful Day at the amphitheater in reno with kamala and all our friends, we are going to tell them we texted and called and emailed everyone we knew, repeatedly until they got sick of us, but we knew they would come back to us eventually, but we did whatever was necessary to remind people of what is at stake, to remind them of their power, and to remind them that ours is a country we are fighting for because we love this country. [applause] so that is what we are going to do, reno, and thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] with seven days until election day on november 3, voters will decide who will control congress and occupy the white house next year. 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