Oprah Winfrey backs Harris at DNC calling for choosing a 'common sense'
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American television star Oprah Winfrey spoke on the third day of the US Democratic Party convention. She urged support for the current Vice President Kamala Harris, stating that “decency and respect” are at stake, according to The Hill.
Winfrey considers the current US Vice President Harris a clear winner over former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump regarding qualities such as dignity and decency.
“There’s a certain candidate that says if we just go to the polls this one time, we’ll never have to do it again,” said the American television star, hinting at Trump’s statement to his supporters that if he becomes president, they won’t have to vote again.
Winfrey emphasized that preserving decency and respect in this year’s election is a matter of “common sense,” and that Harris and Walz "can give" that.
“Let us choose loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to any individual because that’s the best of America. And let us choose optimism over cynicism and let us include inclusion over retribution,” she said.
At the end of her speech, Winfrey emphasized that Americans “won’t go back, we won’t be sent back, pushed back, bullied back, kicked back. We’re not going back,” implying that Trump’s election could affect the state of civil rights and equality in the US.
“Soon and very soon we’ll be teaching our daughters and sons how this child of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, two idealistic, energetic immigrants … grew up to become the 47th president of the United States,” concluded Oprah Winfrey.
Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention is taking place in Chicago and will run from August 19 to 22. Delegates will officially confirm their party’s candidates for the positions of President and Vice President. They will be the current US Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
On the first day of the convention, the current US President Joe Biden urged Americans to vote for Harris. That same day, Hillary Clinton, also took the stage. She supported Harris and publicly mocked Trump.
On the second day of the convention, the 44th US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama delivered keynote addresses, in which endorsed Harris and urged Americans to participate more actively in the elections.
