Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech was one for the ages
If there was a risk for Kamala Harris going into her acceptance speech, it was this: after so many consecutive nights of stellar, star studded, emotionally packed programming at the Democratic National Convention, how was anyone supposed to take the stage and top it? We sure got our answer.
Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage tonight and delivered a speech that was at once relaxed and fierce, at once friendly and dominant. You watch a speech like that and you simply end up thinking “Thank God she’s on our side.”
Come to think of it, dictators and troublemakers around the world must have been watching Kamala Harris’ speech tonight in horror. They have to answer to her now? She’s going to chew them up and spit them out with a smile on her face.
But really, tonight wasn’t about the world’s villains, foreign or domestic. I’ve been saying for weeks that this election is now the Kamala Harris show, and if anything her speech tonight helped cement as much. For all the momentum and hope and joy and expectations that the past month has engendered, her speech tonight managed to top it all. This is a whole new level of excitement and energy. She’s just getting started.
President Kamala Harris is going to inspire little girls everywhere. Little boys too. Harris is exactly the leader we need at this moment. She’s the leader America needs. She’s the leader the world needs. This is just exciting.
But let’s remember that this election isn’t over. Kamala Harris hasn’t won. And if only because of the bizarrely tortured nature of how our presidential elections are structured, the presidency is still up for grabs. If you want the forty minutes of joy you experienced tonight to become four years of joy, you have to spend these final several weeks working yourselves into a tizzy. It’s go time. We will sleep after the election is called for Kamala Harris. In the meantime we have to roll up our sleeves and finish the job and put this woman in the Oval Office. We’ll spend the rest of our lives being glad we did.
