Whats up atlanta . Im so happy to be back. Hey everybody. Can we hear it for rick hart . Where is he . Where did he go . He was so good. He is so good. He is the head of there you are. Rick is the head of the georgia students for biden cochair and i will tell you one of the things that i love about joe biden and he says that often, he understands his long life of service and dedication to Public Service but he is always uplifting those who are the emerging leaders and rick hart is one of them so can we give it up for rick vick is thats what its all about. Thats what its all about. Its about everybody taking on their role in leadership knowing that we have so much juice at stake in this election. I came back to atlanta. I love atlanta. The last time i was here it was before the pandemic. I was on the stage of morehouse in march of last year and you know coming to atlanta especially if you are black and hold elected office and america coming to atlanta is like coming back to the womb. It really is. It is because atlanta represents so much about who we are as americans. Atlanta represents the hopes and dreams and the fight to make real the promise of america. Atlanta is a place that has. Leaders who have been National Leaders and interNational Leaders who have always understood that hope will fuel the fight. It will be what grounds us in knowing what is possible but then you have got to just organize the folks and bring people together and recognize that nothing we have ever achieved as a nation by way of progress came without a fight. And so thats what we have in front of us. We have for the next 11 days, george, a fight for the soul of our nation. This is a fight that we are engaged in because we believe in 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. So thats where we are today. In a fight for the ideals and in the fight for the dignity, and a fight for justice and equal justice under the law. Lets look at what is at stake. We are dealing with the pandemic and we are dealing with it partly because of that and crises that are occurring at one time in our nation. We are looking at because of the pandemic a Public Health crisis where we have seen 200, over 220,000 americans lose their lives in just the last several months. Many of whom tragically in their last days on earth couldnt even be with their family, with people they love because of the nature of this pandemic. We are looking at over 8. 5 million folks who have contracted the virus and thankfully have lived that are looking at untold longterm consequences. Doctors are talking about things like lung scarring and in the midst of this Public Health pandemic we have a donald trump who thanks to bob woodward we know new back on january 28, he knew the deal about covid. He had 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 he did not tell the American People. Can you imagine what you might have done had you known what he knew on january 28 . How folks might have prepared, how folks might have said you know ive got to buy some extra toilet paper at the very least but also the fact is that even in Donald Trumps america during the pandemic folks were working two and three jobs to try to pay the bills and pay the rent so in our america no one should have to work more than one job to pay their bills and pay the rent and put food on the table. And he said on this information and then have the gall, had the nerve to say it was a hoax to muzzle the Public Health experts to suggest that heat keeps the ledger and you are on one side of his ledger if you dont wore a mask and you are on the other side of his ledger if you wear a mask and now look where we are. Now look where we are. And he is in the United StatesSupreme Court with his toy bill barr trying to sue getting rid of the Affordable Care act. Lets step back for a moment and think about this. This man before he was running for office when he questioned the legitimacy of the first black president of the United States has been so weirdly obsessed with trying to get rid of whatever barack obama created. Think about that. We dont need president s who have sessions. What is that about . So he is in court right now trying to get rid of the Affordable Care act which brought Health Coverage to over 20 million americans, covered people with preexisting conditions. Do you know anybody who has diabetes, high blood pressure, breast cancer, lupus . And he wants to get rid of the thing that brought karen dignity to tens of millions of americans. This is one of the reasons donald trump has got to go. Got to go. We are in the middle of all these crises, the economic crisis. Over 30 Million People in just the last several months had to file for unemployment. We are looking at families that are getting up at the of dawn to drive and sit in their car in a food line for hours praying that they can get to the end of the line before the food runs out. One in five mothers in america are describing children under the age of 12 is hungry. We are in a hunger crisis in america and 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 the economy based on how working people are doing. How were working people doing when working people and working families are doing well in the economy is doing well which is why joe biden and i are saying taxes will not be raised on anyone making less than 40,000 year. We are saying that we know one of the greatest ways that we achieve access to Economic Health and intergenerational prosperity is homeownership so we will have a 15,000dollar tax credit for firsttime homebuyers to help you with down payment and closing cost to buy a home. We understand working families need childcare but nobody should have to pay more than 7 of their income in childcare. That is our message because we know 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 rich people are doing, who is one of his first orders of business is to pass a tax bill benefiting the top 1 of the biggest corporations in america. I will tell you joe biden and i will make it one of our highest priorities to get rid of that tax bill and do what we know needs to be done, to invest that money in working families. A Public Health crisis and an economic Health Crisis being compared to the great depression. A long overdue reckoning on Racial Injustice in america. On one hand you have joe biden who has the knowledge and the courage to use the term and speak those words black lives matter. On the other hand you have donald trump who refuses and will never say black lives matter and then has the gall to stand on the debate stage in the last debate in front of 70 million americans and would not condemn white supremacist. And you know people have asked me, they say well senator harris and by the way center senator is not all might birth certificates, love. They say are you saying you think hes a racist . Yes. Yes. Because you see its not like its some random oneoff. We have seen that pattern going back and questioning the legitimacy of rocco palma and going back to charlottesville when people were peacefully protesting Racial Injustice in america where a woman was killed and on the other side you have a bunch of knee on wearing swastikas carrying tiki torches and throwing out antisemitic and racist slurs and donald trump says they are fine people on both sides. The president of the United States who refers to mexicans as rapist and criminals, the president of the United States who made it one of his first policy initiatives at bam on muslims entering our country. And then stood on that stage and would not condemn none White Supremacists and then doubled down and said well they should stand back and stand by. This is not reflective of who we believe we are as a nation. We need a president who acknowledged as systemic racism, whose knowledge is the history of america and uses that holy pulpit and that microphone in a way that speaks with an intention to address the inequities and bring our country together and that is joe biden. Public health, economics, a grappling in the need to deal with Racial Injustice and the climate crisis. You know i come from california but i was worn in Oakland California and you know. The west coast has been burning because of those wildfires. California, oregon and washington the gulf states have been battered. People in the Midwest Farmers losing crops because of the floods. Joe biden says we need to embrace science. We need to deal with it. This is something that is hurting people and it is something that we can address in a way we. Jobs by investing in infrastructure and investing in building renewable energy. Thats about jobs. Joe biden knows the seriousness of them for mental justice issues. He knows that of all of the areas where people live in america with poor air quality, 70 of the people in those areas are people of color. Joe biden knows whats going on in flint. Joe biden says we need to address this and we need to Pay Attention to science. On the other hand we have donald trump who recently when he was asked about the wildfires in california and the report was sometimes we say in these fires was happening and the Scientists Say theres a connection between the drastic changes in the climate in these wildfires. Do you know what the president of the United States in response . He doesnt know. What . Science doesnt know. The president of the United States and what we see is the line on that issue in the first issue, an inability to embrace the fact, an inability to embrace experts in inability to embrace intelligence, an inability to be competent, an inability to do the job of commanderinchief of the United States whose first responsibility is to concern themselves with the health and safety of the American People. And thats why we are going to elect joe biden. There is so much at stake. You all know in atlanta helps me when i ran for senate and i am now the only black woman in the United States senate, only the second in American History to be elected to the United States senate and im going to tell you ive been there now for almost four years. The senate is so important on all these issues. We need to take back the white house theres no question about that. We also need to take back the senate. We need to take back the senate. That senators that will make decisions about advise and consent on who sits on the United StatesSupreme Court. One of the reasons i became a lawyer is because i was inspired by Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker motley, right . They are the ones who fought for brown ecoboard of education and they are the ones who fought for silva writes and who sits on the United StatesSupreme Court has everything to do with their fight for equality. The president nominates someone in the senate with advise and consent to make a decision about whether he goes through. Right now we are seeing that battle in full with this illegitimate process they have engaged in to try to fill the seat of the great Ruth Bader Ginsburg while people are in an election and the majority of the American People say let us decide who will be our president and let that person decide who fills that seat. The United States senate. The United States senate is where there will be a decision on whether we put on the floor at dell that my brother cory booker from new jersey and i wrote called the justice and policing act. A bill that says like joe biden and i say we should ban chokehold and carotid holds because george floyd would be alive today if i were the case in the bill that says lets have a National Registry for people who break the law because that is the right thing to do and we cant have folks get fired one place and not get hired someplace else. We need to have a National Standard for excessive use of force because its not right that in some places when their successive use of force the question asked is was a reasonable when we all know you can reason away just about anything. The more fair and just question to ask is what is necessary . We need to change the standard. Those kinds of decisions if they get made from the white house and we will make them it also gets made in the senate. That rings me to grow wool warnock and john octet. Youve got to send them to the United States senate. Send them to the United States senate and let them represent georgia on all these issues. It is critically important and you know those senate seats, those are sixyear terms. Think about your plans for your life and for your childrens lives over the course of the next six years. Theres a lot that can get done either for good or for knots. The senate is so important so im here atlanta, georgia to ask you to do what i know you are ready know how to do so well which is to organize, which is to talk to folks about what is at stake and to remind people on the issue of voting that we have got so many reasons. One has to do with again atlanta. It has to do with john lewis. It has to do with those men and women who shed blood on that Edmund Pettis bridge and so many other places for our right to vote. So voting is about honoring those ancestors, honoring what they fought for and what they sacrificed for our right to vote. Voting, because theres so much at stake. Everything that we discussed, everything that affects our lives and voting also is because we are not going to let anyone mess with our right to vote. Because here is how i think about that. Ive been spending a lot of a lot of time all over ive been in florida this weekend i was in North Carolina this weekend i will be in ohio tomorrow but think about it from this perspective. Ever since and even before the Voting Rights act in 2013 at whole lot of really powerful people including in this state because otherwise we would be talking about governor stacy. A whole lot of powerful people for quite some time have been trying to suppress our vote, have been trying to purge the voter rolls, have been trying to confuse us about the process, to make it difficult. You can fill out your ballot in put it in one envelope and then you need to put it in another envelope and make sure that it signed, trying to confuse us and make it difficult. Can you imagine the post office . Like the post man in the postwoman . They are messing with the post office. We have to do some points it back and think why are they trying to make it so difficult and confusing for us to vote . I think the answer is because they know our power. They know our power. They know when we vote, things change. They know when we vote we win. So im here to say atlanta lets not let anybody take our power from us. We know the power of our boys. We know at election time the power of our boys is expressing our vote and we are going to let anybody take us out. We are present, we are powerful, we are active and we know whats at stake and we honor our ancestors every day. So my last point is this. This moment will pass. And years 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 and the thing we are owing to be able to tell them is so much more than just how we felt. What we will tell them is what we did. We will tell them there was this one particular afternoon we were hanging out at morehouse in the parking lot. We will tell them we organized and we talked to her neighbors and their friends and her relatives. We will tell them we helped people get to the polls. We will tell them we made sure everyone we know got to their county office to vote. Well tell than we stood up and we fought for our country and we fought for the idea because we love our country and we know our power. Thank you atlanta. [background sounds]. Eleven days left until election day. On november 30, when voters decided it will go to congress and occupy the white house next year. 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