very important speech in american political history. i think that s right. i think it s one of the most powerful political speeches i ve ever heard anyone deliver. it was partisan but it had a bipartisan feeling to it. i talked to folks at the white house. this is a speech she wanted to deliver. she is it was personal to her. she wanted to make it personal. she said she feels it personal. the shameful comments. and this belief you can do anything that you want to to a woman. and she said that it hurts. i thought what was interesting about it is this is about obamaism. obama s legacy. obama s view of the country. this idea we re an imperfect nation, always in the process of perfecting this union. so, you know, this will be i think you re right, remembered for years to come in terms of what it meant to this campaign what it means to women in politics what it meant to hillary clinton. she turned at some point to hillary clinton, praising her,
talking about her being a good mother, a good wife, she said, a good daughter who took cash of her mother. a loyal one. which was an important thing to add i think in that speech. so, you know, i mean this is why michelle obama has such a good reputation as the closer. someone who can come in and make people change their minds in terms of who to vote for and also a really engaged. she made it also clear she does not believe donald trump is fit to be president of the united states. yes, she made that clear. i ll tell you what, this is a speech to women. i mean this was a speech to the sisterhood. not talking about policy. not talking about paid maternity leave or day care or education. she was talking about what it s like to be a woman in america, experiencing that young women have had on college campuses, elder women have had through their careers. in that way, that made it we ve had so little bipartisanship in this election. this is an appeal to the
probably couldn t have come from hillary clinton herself. right. but came from michelle obama on behalf of hillary clinton. expressing the outrage, as she put it, expressing that this is not normal behavior. this is disgraceful, intolerable, no woman deserves to be treated this way. and in a very sort of personal way saying, i can t stop thinking about this. this has shaken me to my very core. talking to women voters out there. talking to their children. talking to their husbands. and saying this political race comes down to an issue of character. and comparing the character of donald trump obviously to hillary clinton. and i think when we look back on this speech, talking about the power of women to change an election, it s going to be a
majority of the electorate which that is female voters. i would argue this also appealed to men. to dismiss this as every day locker room talk what donald trump said last week is an insult to decent men everywhere. and she made that point. and that was another very powerful point of this speech. because i m talking to men. both democrats and republicans over the weekend, the last couple of days. they re just as repulsed by this as women are. that is resonating across the country. but also just reminds me of the convention. when michelle obama gave one of the most, if not the most, powerful speech of hillary clinton s convention. an unbelievably powerful speech just now as well. very good speech at the convention. as all of us remember. let me play a little expert from the speech for viewers here in the united states and around the world who might just be tuning in. kind of violence and abuse and disrespect.
jobs by other countries. we will end the total disenfranchisement of the american voter and the american worker. our independence day is at hand and it arrives, finally, on november 8. [ cheers and applause ] join me in taking back our country and creating a bright, glorious, and prosperous new future for our people. we will make america great again and it will happen quickly. god bless you, god bless you, thank you. thank you. so there you have donald trump, a very, very defiant speech at a rally in west palm beach, florida. he is responding to the latest accusations from women accusing him of making unwanted sexual