because it keeps our economy of restaurants and stores going. it's time to recognize that hanging by a thread. child care is part of the basic this crisis is bad, and it didn't have to be this way. infrastructure of this nation. it's infrastructure for families. this crisis is on donald trump and the republicans who enable joe and kamala will make high him. quality child care affordable on november 3rd, we will hold for every family, make preschool universal, and raise the wages them all accountable. so whether you're planning to of every child care worker. now, that's just one plan, but it gives you an idea of how we vote wearing a mask or vote by mail, please take out your phone get this country working for everyone. >> announcer: from nbc news, the democratic national convention. donald trump's ignorance and here are lester holt and right now and text "vote" to incompetence have always been a 30330. savannah guthrie. we all need to be in the fight >> good evening, everyone. welcome once again. danger to our country. to get joe and kamala elected. and after november, we all need it's night three of the 2020 democratic national convention, covid-19 was trump's biggest test. as the democrats continue to he failed miserably. make their case for electing joe to stay in the fight to get big biden to replace donald trump in things done. the white house. today america has the most covid we stay in this fight so that >> and this is a really big deaths in the world and an night for kamala harris, who economic collapse. when our children and our will be officially nominated and both crises are falling grandchildren ask what we did just a short time from now before delivering a speech. hardest on black and brown families during this dark chapter in our nation's history, we will be her national debut as the vice presidential nominee. able to look them squarely in >> and just before that, we will hear from former president

barack obama. he'll be speaking tonight from the eye and say we organized, we the museum of the american revolution in philadelphia, not persisted and we changed america. far from independence hall in >> senator elizabeth warren speaking tonight from what we're told will be an intense, impassioned speech on springfield, massachusetts. let's bring in senior business behalf of joe biden and against correspondent stephanie ruhle in donald trump. to talk about what we've heard peter alexander is in from senator warren. philadelphia right now with some she leads an important constituency, stephanie. new reporting just in on what we will be hearing from obama tonight. >> without a doubt, lester. peter, what do you know? >> reporter: lester, good evening to you. every year we know that people vote with their wallets in any we are outside the museum of the american revolution here in election, but right now senator philadelphia. warren just laid it out for you. the enormous changes we have in many ways, the cradle of our democracy. seen to our economy since covid this is a significant location hit have only deepened the as president obama tonight will economic divide. she laid it out. use it to reinforce the point we have 30 million americans that it is our very democracy that are currently unemployed. that's at stake. in his impassioned plea tonight 30,000 and counting small businesses that have shut for he will describe donald trump as good, while at the very same time the s&p 500, the stock self-absorbed, as self-serving. market, is hitting record highs. but watch what he does more just think about this. broadly when he talks about what president trump regularly argues he's uniquely positioned to say, that the stock market is a e ov about his understanding about the weight and the economy. responsibility of the post that he served in for eight years. we know that's not the case. however, whether or not joe

he'll deliver a firsthand biden can convince the american account about why joe biden is people that his plan to build uniquely positioned and prepared back better, stronger, smarter, to serve in that job now. more inclusive, can you convince and you'll remember four years america that he can build it ago where donald trump said i back better, that remains to be alone can fix it. seen. watch tonight as president obama even with everything senator says that we together are now warren laid out, president trump responsible for fixing our continues to poll better on economic issues. democracy, for keeping it >> stephanie, thanks. functioning going forward. >> joe biden of course watching and finally, one more item about tonight's events play out from his home base in wilmington, the order of events tonight. delaware. initially barack obama it had that's where nbc's correspondent been proposed would speak after kamala harris, that he would go kristen welker is for us last. tonight. i'm told that he asked to go we've really seen a difference, kristen. the first couple of nights we before her so that he could help saw from republican voices. symbolically pass the torch. there seemed to be more of an lester and savannah. effort to reach out to perhaps >> all right, peter, thanks. independent voters. we've been watching as we of but tonight's programming seems far more geared to the base of been all week this virtual convention. the top right of the screen is the party, the left of the the live feed from the party, whether it's elizabeth democratic national convention. warren or hillary clinton or that's kerry washington, speaker pelosi and of course tonight's moderator. in a few minutes we'll take live senator elizabeth warren who barack obama coming up. will address the convention from >> reporter: it's a really springfield, massachusetts. important point, savannah. and then as mentioned president we are hearing from so many obama and then kamala harris. people in this party who have made history. that's the order, the lineup for tonight. of course barack obama as you

i want to bring in nbc's political director and moderator mentioned, the nation's first african-american president, of "meet the press," chuck todd. who's going to be speaking from chuck, as we talk about philadelphia, the birth place of president obama, here's someone who said he really wanted to go the nation's democracy and of course the symbolism lost on no into the afterlife, go past one. he is going to argue that it is politics and not really be in it. he has spoken up from time to our very democracy that is at stake with this election as he time, but not like this. >> no, not like this. makes a very personal case for we got a taste of this about joe biden and kamala harris and three weeks ago at the john lewis funeral, where he went further in criticism of donald as he delivers his most searing indictment yet of president trump. trump than we'd ever seen, using then we are going to hear from senator kamala harris. analogies, talking about bull she will deliver what is connor and george wallace in arguably the most important speech of her career as she has ways that were hard to see -- they weren't very subtle but he didn't name them. a history-making night, as she what is different tonight is becomes the first woman of color he's going to name them. it's very interesting to see this moment for former president obama. and i am told she is going to you know, for his re-election, embrace that history and how she he had to rely on a former president to help him out, the the fact that her parents are explainer in chief at the time, immigrants who came to this bill clinton. country and fought with the civil rights movement and then he had an economic argument that she's of course someone who barack obama was struggling with served as the attorney general of california. and bill clinton in some ways she's going to prosecute the said, hey, i've been there. case against president trump. let me tell you why this is working. she will say in one excerpt,

let me tell you why you should donald trump's failure of trust this guy. now here's barack obama doing leadership has cost lives and this for joe biden. barack obama more popular than livelihood, and she will call ever. this an inflection point, at the time in 2012 bill clinton savannah and lester. >> all right, kristen, thank was the more popular one. you. he loaned his political capital let's turn now to nbc news to obama. white house correspondent peter alexander. now obama is having to loan his he's in philadelphia tonight political capital to joe biden. where barack obama will be i think the fact that he's willing to use it in such a speaking just moments from now. peter, we'you've got a little m strong way, i think shows you how motivating it is for the for us about the biden campaign strategy for taking on donald obamas to see trump out of office. trump. >> all right, chuck, thank you. what are you hearing. as we continue to watch that >> reporter: that's exactly right. feed, most of the speakers we'll hear from joe biden tonight have been women. tomorrow and again we'll hear right now they're talking about from president obama as he casts violence against women, domestic the two things that a president violence. is responsible for doing. we've heard also from house one, protecting americans, speaker nancy pelosi, former making the point that more than congresswoman gabby giffords who 170,000 have died in this was shot in arizona and as pandemic, describifa mentioned senator elizabeth as a failure in his remarks warren we'll hear from in just a few minutes. >> a short time ago the the president's duty to be a democrats 2016 nominee for president, hillary clinton, made custodian of the democracy. hopefully to hand it over in her case for joe biden. better shape than you received here's some of what she had to it. say. there will be some stinging, >> for four years people have some blistering statements from told me, i didn't realize how president obama tonight among dangerous he was. other things saying that president trump has shown no interest in treating this presidency as anything other

i wish i could do it all over. than a reality show to get the or worst, i could have voted. attention that he so badly craves, lester and savannah. look, this can't be another >> all right, peter. woulda, coulda, shoulda barack obama, who first came to election. if you vote by mail, request fame at a convention speech in your ballot now and send it back right away. 2004, a lifetime ago in politics, now a retired two-term if you vote in person, do it early. president, making the case for become a poll worker. his vice president. and we'll listen to that speech most of all, no matter what, vote. as it gets underway from the as michelle obama and bernie museum at philadelphia. >> good evening, everybody. as you've seen by now, this sanders warned us, if trump is isn't a normal convention. re-elected, things will get even worse. it's not a normal time. that's why we need unity now so tonight i want to talk as more than ever. plainly as i can about the remember back in 2016 when trump stakes in this election. asked what do you have to lose? well, now we know. because what we do these next 76 days will echo through our health care, our jobs, our loved ones. generations to come. our leadership in the world and even our post office. but let's set our sights higher constitution was drafted and signed. than getting one man out of the it wasn't a perfect document. white house. joe biden and kamala harris are it allowed for the inhumanity of slavery and failed to guarantee going to give us so much to vote for. women and even men who didn't let's vote for the jobs that own property the right to

joe's plan will create, clean participate in the political process. energy jobs to fight climate change, care-giving jobs with but embedded in this document living wages. was a north star that would vote for emergency relief that guide future generations. lifts small businesses and saves hard-working people from a system of representative foreclosures and evictions. government, a democracy, to which we could better realize it's wrong that billionaires got $400 billion richer during the our highest ideals. pandemic while millions lost through civil war and bitter struggles, we improved this their $600 a week in extra unemployment. constitution to include the vote for the parents and teachers struggling to balance children's education and safety and gradually we made this and for health care workers country more just and more equal fighting covid-19 with little help from the white house. and more free. the one constitutional office vote for paid family leave and elected by all of the people is health care for everyone, for the presidency. social security, medicare and so at a minimum, we should planned parenthood. vote for dreamers and their expect a president to feel a sense of responsibility for the families. vote for law enforcement, purge safety and welfare of all 330 the racial bias that keeps all million of us, regardless of our streets safe. what we look like, how we vote for justice, for george worship, who we love, how much

money we have, or who we voted floyd, breonna taylor, and for. but we should also expect a ahmaud arbery because plaqblack president to be the custodian of lives matter. this democracy. vote for honest elections so we, we should expect that regardless not a foreign adversary, choose our president. of ego, ambition or political vote for the diverse, hopeful beliefs, the president will america we saw in last night's preserve, protect and defend the roll call. freedoms and ideals that so many and don't forget, joe and kamala americans marched for, went to can win by 3 million votes and still lose. take it from me. jail for, fought for and died for. so we need numbers overwhelming, i have sat in the oval office with both of the men who are so trump can't sneak or steal running for president. his way to victory. text vote to 30330 to get i never expected that my successor would embrace my started. >> hillary clinton, the party's 2016 nominee. vision or continue my policies. let me bring in andrea mitchell. i did hope for the sake of our andrea, 2016 nominee and yet country that donald trump might show some interest in taking the that was from the last hour. job seriously. typically the 10:00 hour is a bit more visible. that he might come to feel the what's the thinking in having weight of the office and her in that earlier part of this

evening? discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed >> well, this is a bittersweet moment because four years ago she was center stage accepting in his care. the party's nomination. now as you point out relegated but he never did. to a less prominent position for close to four years now he than frankly elizabeth warren. but the biden campaign sees her has shown no interest in putting in the work, no interest in as less relevant to exciting younger voters. finding common ground, no elizabeth warren has a big younger following. interest in using the awesome this is really the passing of a power of his office to help torch to the next generation. the next generation is kamala harris. and while hillary clinton very anyone but himself and his friends. no interest in treating the much supports her as the presidency as anything but one historic role that she is taking more reality show that he can tonight being nominated for vice president, the first black use to get the attention he woman, there is pain in this as well. craves. now, the democratic party is donald trump hasn't grown into also and the biden people feel the job because he can't. this still divided over hillary clinton. many people think that she was really denied, that this and the consequences of that election was stolen from her. failure are severe. she had 3 million more popular votes, but a lot of people blame 170,000 americans dead. her for not going to wisconsin, millions of jobs gone. for not campaigning the way they would have liked to have seen while those at the top take in her campaign. >> i was going to ask you about more than ever. the lessons learned from 2016,

but she talked about it right our worst impulses unleashed, there, the need to get out the our proud reputation around the vote. >> to get out the vote and to go to the right places, wisconsin world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions most prominently. >> this hour will be dominated by speeches from barack obama and kamala harris. the previous hour of tonight's threatened like never before. convention focused on key issues, economy, climate change, now, i know that in times as polarized as these most of you gun violence, women's rights and immigration. >> and that is an issue of course that matters to the have already made up your mind. biggest minority voting bloc in but maybe you're still not sure the country, latinos. which candidate you'll vote for or whether you'll vote at all. we want to turn to jose maybe you're tired of the diaz-balart. direction you're headed, but you jose, you were pointing us to some poll numbers that were can't see a better path yet or quite interesting. >> yeah. you just don't know enough about >> if you look at joe biden, his numbers with latinos are softer the person who wants to lead us than hillary clinton's numbers there. so let me tell you about my were with latinos. how do you explain that, and friend, joe biden. 12 years ago when i began my will that matter? >> good evening. yeah, immigration a big issue search for a vice president, i for former didn't know i'd end up finding a brother. joe and i come from different we heard spanish being spoken at the convention. places, different generations, but what i quickly came to

spoke about reinstating daca among other things. admire about joe biden is his when we look at the numbers, a resilience, born of too much struggle. new immigration nbc news/"wall his empathy, born of too much grief. street journal" poll when asked who will better handle joe is a man who learned early on to treat every person he immigration, biden 49%, trump 38%. meets with respect and dignity, as far as latino voters, there's living by the words his parents taught him. 32 million eligible latino voters this year. biden today is running behind no one is better than you, joe, hillary clinton's support in 2016. biden leads trump 57-31 in our poll compared to the nbc news that empathy, that decency, the belief that everybody counts, exit poll on election day in 2016. hillary clinton with 66%. that's who joe is. she beat trump among latinos to 28%. when he talks with someone who's lost their job, joe remembers it's a difficult issue that biden will still have to the night his father sat him continue dealing with. down to say that he'd lost his. >> jose, thanks. when joe listens to a parent as we mentioned, one of the speakers earlier tonight was who's trying to hold it all former arizona representative gabby giffords who was shot and together right now, he does it nearly killed nine years ago. as a single dad who took the her recovery has been nothing short of remarkable. train back to wilmington each and every night so he could tuck she has been a tireless advocate

against gun violence. here's some of what she had to his kids into bed. when he meets with military say tonight. families who have lost their >> words once came easily, today i struggle to speak. hero, he does it as a kindred spirit. but i have not lost my voice. the parent of an american soldier. somebody whose faith has endured we are at a crossroads. we can let this continue or we the hardest loss there is. can act. for eight years joe was the last one in the room whenever i faced we can protect our families, our future. a big decision. we can vote. he made me a better president, and he's got the character and we can be on the right side of history. the experience to make us a we must elect joe biden. better country. he was there for me. and in my friend kamala harris, he'll be there for you too. he's chosen an ideal partner who >> this speech tonight was nothing short of remarkable is more than prepared for the job. someone who knows what it's like inasmuch as if you followed her progress, she talks about the fact she's still learning to to overcome barriers and who's speak again and she's come a long way. >> it's been nine years. made a career fighting to help others live out their own she actually is from my hometown, and the shooting happened about ten minutes from american dream. the house i grew up in. along with the experience needed watching her and how far she's to get things done, joe and come and the ability to address kamala have concrete policies ha the convention in this manner is remarkable. her message, of course, is one

that democrats are focused on better, fairer, stronger country greatly. into reality. let's go hallie jackson on that issue. they will get this pandemic under control, like joe did when gun control, we heard from advocates. hallie, what do you know? he helped me manage h1n1 and >> savannah, you're talking prevent an ebola outbreak from about congresswoman giffords. reaching our shores. that is the longest speech she has delivered publicly since they'll expand health care to more americans like joe and i that shooting in 2011. her spokesperson tells me tonight that she worked for did ten years ago when he helped craft the affordable care act months with her speech therapist on this because she wanted to and nailed down the votes to get it right. she wanted to get it right for joe biden, she wanted to get it make it the law. right for this moment and it was an extraordinary moment to watch they'll rescue the economy like her. the fact that gun control was joe helped me do after the great the first issue really out of recession. the gate in the programming this i asked him to manage the evening really highlights how recovery act, which jumpstarted democrats are hoping this is a the longest stretch of job get out the vote issue, growth in history, and he sees particularly for younger people. this moment now not as a chance when you look at polling over the last several years, it to get back to where we were, consistently shows that a but to make long overdue changes majority of americans do support gun reform to a degree. so that our economy actually but then you look at the political landscape on this. makes life a little easier for everybody. and since newtown, and you saw whether it's the waitress trying joe biden, a clip of him talking about it there, you've had el to raise a kid on her own or the paso, parkland, las vegas and shift worker always on the edge very little has changed when it of getting laid off or the comes to comprehensive gun student figuring out how to pay

legislation, for example. joe biden, democrats want to change that. for next semester's classes. they want to run on that. but you have to remember, a win joe and kamala will restore our standing in the world. alone for joe biden is almost as we've learned from this certainly not going to get democrats where they want to be. they would have to flip the pandemic, that matters. senatewell. joe knows the world, and the right now of course the senate has republican control. world knows him. democrats are hoping to get it back. he knows that our true strength but until that happens, the chances for comprehensive gun comes from setting an example reform are frankly pretty slim when you look at the way that that the world wants to follow. washington is at the moment. a nation that stands with to bring this full circle, of course, gabby giffords husband, democracy, not dictators. mark kelly, is a senate candidate in arizona for the democrats. a nation that can inspire and that is a key pickup, a key state that the party is looking at. mobilize others to overcome >> hallie, thanks. threats like climate change and few people know barack obama better than valerie jarrett, who was a senior advisor to him as president and remains a close terrorism, poverty and disease. friend. but more than anything, what i she joins us now. valer valerie, i look going into this know about joe, what i know and will the headline be how he went after donald trump or how about kamala, is that they he supported in a strong way the actually care about every candidacy of joe biden? american. >> well, that's up to you. and that they care deeply about i think he will do both. in the first instance, of this democracy.

course, he wants to speak about vice president biden, someone he they believe that in a democracy knows better than anyone in the context of what kind of an the right to vote is sacred and we should be making it easier amazing president he would be for people to cast their having worked together side by side every day for eight years. ballots, not harder. he knows his intellect, his they believe that no one, competency, his character, his empathy. including the president, is he knows the man and so he will above the law. certainly give a full robust and that no public official, advocacy for him and also for including the president, should senator harris, who he had the use their office to enrich pleasure of working with as well. but it is also important, i themselves or their supporters. think, that he contrast what he they understand that in this thinks that the biden/harris democracy the commander in chief leadership will do compared to does not use the men and women what we've seen over the last nearly four years. of our military, who are willing and he will be very candid, to risk everything to protect forthright and direct about the our nation, as political props stakes in this election to motivate people. to deploy against peaceful just as you heard hillary clinton talk as only she could protesters on our own soil. about winning the 3 million they understand that political popular votes by 3 million more opponents aren't unamerican just but yet still losing the because they disagree with you. election, so every vote counts. a free press isn't the enemy, i know he will call upon us to not just be inspired, but motivated to get out and vote. but the way we hold officials

accountable. that our ability to work >> valerie, we just have a few moments. it's savannah. together to solve big problems you said he'll be very candid. that's diplomatic speak. like a pandemic depend on a fidelity to facts and science the gloves come off in this and logic, and not just making speech, it's a scorcher. we've seen the excerpts. what's his mindset, you know him so well. stuff up. has he been chomping at the bit? is this a speech that he's been none of this should be controversial. dying to give? these shouldn't be republican >> let's say he's probably principles or democratic rehearsed it in his mind many principles, they are american principles. times during the last four years. he cares and he loves this country, you know that, and so but at this moment, this to see the treacherous, president and those who enable horrendous way in which president trump has treated it him have shown they don't where it's really all about him and not about us. i can say having served for all eight years in his believe in these things. administration, there wasn't a tonight i'm asking you to single day where he didn't get up with vice president biden and believe in joe and kamala's focus on you, the american ability to lead this country out people. it's time to get back to that. of these dark times and build it that's why tonight is about a back better. more perfect union and to have but here's the thing, no single so many women speaking and a couple good men really sends the american can fix this country alone. message about the leadership that vice president biden and senator harris will exhibit once not even a president. democracy was never meant to be they are sworn into office.

transactional, you give me your >> and he has never really shown vote, i make everything better. a propensity to want to defend it requires an active and himself from president trump informed citizenry. when he talks about things that weren't done in the last so i'm also asking you to administration. will he start that now? believe in your own ability, to >> i don't think it's defending embrace your own responsibility himself, i think it's his record and the work that both he and as citizens, to make sure that vice president biden did coming at a time that was the basic tenets of our extraordinarily challenging and democracy endure, because that's the role that vice president biden played in his administration. what's at stake right now. that's, i think, his focus and contrasting that, again, with the last four years. >> valerie, great to see you. our democracy. thank you for coming on with us. look, i understand why a lot of in just a moment massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, who americans are down on government. was among joe biden's rivals the way the rules have been set during the primary and recently on the short list of women he up and abused in congress make considered as a running mate. >> that's right. it easier for special interests elizabeth warren is a proud member of the party's to stop progress than to make progressive wing and she was progress. known for saying i've got a plan for that during her campaign. believe me, i know it. well, she's going to talk about plans tonight, but tonight i understand why a white factory they'll be talking about joe biden's plans. worker who's seen his wages cut she is going to be at a live or his job shipped overseas feed coming from a schoolhouse in springfield, mass. might feel like the government no longer looks out for him, and why a black mom might feel like

it never looked out for her at all. let's take a listen. i understand why a new immigrant >> tonight we heard from the might look around this country people who make america work. and wonder whether there's still people who put their lives on the line to keep our country a place for him here, why a going and since covid-19 hit, young person might look at politics right now, the circus they have taken one gut punch after another. of it all, the meanness and the and what has the covid fallout done to our babies? lies and conspiracy theories and well, i'm here at the early childhood education center in springfield, massachusetts, think what is the point? which has been closed for months. well, here's the point. child care was already hard to this president and those in find before the pandemic, and power, those who benefit from now parents are stuck. keeping things the way they are, no idea when schools can safely reopen and even fewer child care they are counting on your options. cynicism. they know they can't win you the devastation is enormous. over with their policies, so and the way i see it, big they're hoping to make it as problems demand big solutions. hard as possible for you to vote now, i love a good plan, and joe and to convince you that your vote does not matter. biden has some really good plans. that is how they win. plans to bring back union jobs in manufacturing and create new that is how they get to keep making decisions that affect union jobs in clean energy. your life and the lives of the

plans to increase social people you love. security benefits, cancel that's how the economy will keep billions in student loan debt and make our bankruptcy laws getting skewed to the wealthy and well connected, how our work for families instead of the health systems will let more creditors who cheat them. these plans reflect a central people fall through the cracks. truth. our economic system has been that's how a democracy withers rigged to give bailouts to billionaires and kick dirt in until it's no democracy at all. the face of everyone else. but we can build a thriving and we cannot let that happen. economy by investing in families do not let them take away your and fixing what's broken. power. joe's plan to build back better do not let them take away your democracy. includes making the wealthy pay make a plan right now for how their fair share, holding you are going to get involved corporations accountable, and vote. do it as early as you can and repairing racial inequities and tell your family and friends how fighting corruption in washington. they can vote too. let me tell you about one of do what americans have done for joe's plans that's especially over two centuries when faced close to my heart, child care. as a little girl growing up in with even tougher times than this. oklahoma, what i wanted most in the world was to be a teacher. all those quiet heroes who found i loved teaching. the courage to keep marching, and when i had babies and was keep pushing in the face of juggling my first big teaching

job down in texas, it was hard. hardship and injustice. but i could do hard. the thing that almost sank me, last month we lost a giant of child care. american democracy in john lewis. one night my aunt bea called and some years ago i sat down with john, and a few remaining was fine, but then i just broke down and started to cry. leaders of the early civil rights movement. i had tried holding it all together, but without reliable one of them told me he had never imagined he'd walk into the child care, working was nearly white house and see a president impossible. and when i told aunt bea i was who looked like his grandson. going to quit my job, i thought and then he told me that he had my heart would break. looked it up and it turned out and then she said the words that changed my life. that on the very day that i was i can't get there tomorrow, but i'll come on thursday. born, he was marching into a and she arrived with seven jail cell trying to end jim crow suitcases and a pekinese named buddy and stayed for 16 years. segregation in the south. i get to be here tonight because of my aunt bea. what we do echos through i learned a fundamental truth, generations. whatever our backgrounds, we are nobody makes it on their own. all the children of americans yet here we are, two generations of working parents later, and if who fought the good fight.

you have a baby and don't have great grandparents working in an aunt bea, you're on your own. fire traps and sweatshops without rights or representation. and here's why that is wrong. we build infrastructure like farmers, losing their dreams to dust. irish and italians, and asians and latinos told go back where you come from. jews and catholics, muslims and sikhs made to feel suspect for the way they worshipped. black americans chained and whipped and hanged, spit on for trying to sit at lunch counters. beaten for trying to vote. if anyone had a right to believe that this democracy did not work and could not work, it was those americans, our ancestors. they were on the receiving end of a democracy that had fallen

short all their lives. they knew how far the daily reality of america strayed from the middle. and yet instead of giving up, they joined together and they said somehow, some way we are words in our founding documents to life. i have seen that same spirit rising these past few years. folks of every age and background who packed city centers and airports and rural roads so that families wouldn't be separated, so that another classroom wouldn't get shot up, so that our kids won't grow up on an uninhabitable planet. americans of all races joining

together to declare in the face of injustice and brutality at the hands of the state that black lives matter. no more, but no less. so that no child in this country feels the continuing sting of racism. to the young people who led us this summer, telling us we need to be better, in so many ways you are this country's dreams fulfilled. earlier generationis had to be persuaded that everyone has equal worth. for you it's a given, a conviction. and what i want you to know is that for all its messiness and frustrations, your system of

self-government can be harnessed to help you realize those convictions. for all of us. you can give our democracy new meaning. you can take it to a better place. you're the missing ingredient. the ones who will decide whether or not america becomes the country that fully lives up to its creed. that work will continue long after this election, but any chance of success depends entirely on the outcome of this election. this administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes for them to win. so we have to get busy building it up, by pouring all our

efforts into these 76 days and by voting like never before for joe and kamala and candidates up and down the ticket so that we leave no doubt about what this country that we love stands for. today and for all our days to come. stay safe. god bless. >> barack obama setting the stage for kamala harris' nomination. she will take the stage. savannah, i just note he talked certainly about joe biden. he may be a better president. he took his shots at donald trump, but mostly this was a speech about democracy. >> and what a setting, in philadelphia, the city of our founding, the 1776 declaration of independence, the museum that holds those documents. there he was saying in the starkest terms, do not let them take away your democracy. so president obama giving about 15 minutes of a speech and now the night turns over to kamala

harris, the vp nominee and the official business is about to get under way. we are going to watch it. >> this will start with the nomination process. >> yeah, we'll hear from the chair of the convention and then we'll see some relatives of kamala harris, her sister, her niece and her stepdaughter. >> the majority of all pledged and automatic delegates will nominate the democratic candidate for vice president. in accordance with our rules, vice president biden has nominated senator kamala harris as his vice presidential candidate. our rules further provide that if only one candidate is nominated for vice president, the chair is authorized to declare the nominee the democratic candidate for vice president. as such, with only one nomination received and pursuant to our rules, i hereby declare that kamala harris is elected as the democratic candidate for

vice president. i'm pleased to report that vice presidential candidate kamala harris has been invited to deliver an acceptance speech. >> kamala harris is my auntie. >> my step mom. >> my big sister, which means she'll always be my older sister. >> and there's some things we'd like to share with you. to my brother and me, you'll always be momala, the world's greatest step mom. >> you're my role model who taught me i could do and be anything i wanted. >> my very first friend, my confidant, my partner in mischief and in justice. >> you're a rock, not just for our dad, but for three generations of our big blended family. >> you showed me the importance of public service and made sure i grew up surrounded by smart, strong, ambitious women every day. >> growing up, heaven help the poor kid who picked on me

because my big sister would be there in a flash, ready to have my back. well, now we've got your back as you and joe fight to protect our democracy. >> and there's no union more perfect than the one that brings us all to your kitchen table every sunday night for stir fry, feta chechen or spaghetti and meatball family dinners. >> now that i'm a mom, you're showing my daughters and so many girls around the world who look like them what's possible, and what it's like to move through the world as fierce, formidable, phenomenal women in their own unique way. >> i love you, i admire you, i am so proud of you. and even though mommy is not here to see her first daughter step into history, the entire nation will see in your strength, your integrity, your intelligence and your optimism the values that she raised us with. >> we love you, momala. >> we're so proud of you, auntie.

>> you mean the world to us, kamala. >> and we could not be more excited -- >> to share you with the world. >> as the next -- >> as the next. >> vice president. >> vice president of the united states. >> joe biden has selected kamala harris as his running mate. >> she is the first black woman, first south asian woman to be named on the democratic ticket. >> an historic pick. >> someone who looks like us on a presidential ticket. that's crazy! >> kamala harris is us. she was born in oakland. >> a daughter of immigrants. >> the daughter of shomla. >> big sister and protector. >> she is an hbcu grad. >> she is a woman of many firsts. [ speaking foreign language ] >> she's a hard worker, a really

hard worker. >> she's brilliant, she's smart, she's tough. she's got a big future. >> kamala harris is like a dream to me. >> kamala harris cares about people. >> when she says for the people, it is obvious. she's for us. she's for us. >> she fights for women's rights. she fights to end mass incarceration. >> she is a fearless advocate for the voices. >> the litmus test for america is how we are treating black women. >> now, i'm talking about someone who can fight for black people, brown people, undocumented people, lgbt people, disabled people, young people, old people, all of america. >> it's about all of us knowing our power for each of us to lift people up, right, and to remind them that we see them and that we hear them and that they

matter. >> are you going to be vice president of the united states? greetings, america. it is truly an honor to be speaking with you tonight. that i am here tonight is a testament to the dedication of generations before me. women and men who believed so fiercely in the promise of equality, liberty and justice for all.

this week marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, and we celebrate the women who fought for that right. yet so many of the black women who helped secure that victory were still prohibited from voting long after its ratification. but they were undeterred. without fan fare or recognition, they organized and testified and rallied and marched and fought, not just for their vote but for a seat at the table. these women and the generations that followed worked to make democracy and opportunity real in the lives of all of us who followed. they paved the way for the trail-ing leadership of barack obama and hillary clinton. and these women inspired us to

pick up the torch and fight on. women like mary church terrell, mary bethune, fanny lou haymer, constance mockly and the great shirley chisholm. we're not often taught their stories, but as americans we all stand on their shoulders. and there's another woman whose name isn't known, whose story isn't shared, another woman whose shoulders i stand on, and that's my mother, shomala harris. she came here from india at age 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. at the university of california berkeley, she met my father, donald harris, who had come from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most

american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. in the streets of oakland and berkeley, i got a stroller's eye view of people getting into what the great john lewis called good trouble. when i was 5, my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around the clock to make it work, packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice. she made it look easy, though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister, maya, and me the values that would chart the course of our lives. she raised us to be proud, strong black women and she raised us to know and be proud

of our indian heritage. she taught us to put family first. the family you're born into and the family you choose. family is my husband doug, who i met on a blind date set up by my best friend. family is our beautiful children, cole and ella, who call me momala. family is my sister. family is my best friend, my nieces, and my godchildren. family is my uncles, my aunts. family is mrs. shelton, my second mother who lived two doors down and helped raise me. family is my beloved alpha kappa alpha, our divine nine and my hbcu brothers and sisters. family is the friends i turn to

when my mother, the most important person in my life, passed away from cancer. and even as she taught us to keep our family at the center of our world, she also pushed us to see a world beyond ourselves. she taught us to be conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people. to believe public service is a noble cause and the fight for justice is a shared responsibility. that led me to become a lawyer, a district attorney, attorney general and a united states senator. and at every step of the way, i've been guided by the words i spoke from the first time i stood in a courtroom. kamala harris, for the people. i have fought for children and

survivors of sexual assault. i fought against transnational criminal organizations. i took on the biggest banks and helped take down one of the biggest for-profit colleges. i know a predator when i see one. my mother taught me that service to others gives life purpose and meaning. and oh, how i wish she were here tonight, but i know she's looking down on me from above. i keep thinking about that 25-year-old indian woman, all of 5 feet tall, who gave birth to me at kaiser hospital in oakland, california. on that day she probably could have never imagined that i would be standing before you now and i accept your nomination for vice president of the united

states of america. i do so committed to the values she taught me, to the word that teaches me to walk by faith and not by sight. and to a vision passed on through generations of americans, one that joe biden shares. a vision of our nation as a beloved community where all are welcome, no matter what we look like, no matter where we come from or who we love. a country where we may not agree on every detail, but we are united by the fundamental belief that every human being is of infinite worth, deserving of compassion, dignity, and respect.

one another, where we rise and fall as one, where we face our challenges and celebrate our triumphs together. today that country feels distant. donald trump's failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods. if you're a parent struggling with your child's remote learning or you're a teacher struggling on the other side of that screen, you know what we're doing right now is not working. and we are a nation that is grieving. grieving the loss of life, the loss of jobs, the loss of opportunities, the loss of

normalcy, and, yes, the loss of certainty. and while this virus touches us all, we've got to be honest. it is not an equal opportunity offender. black, latino and indigenous people are suffering and dying this is not a coincidence. it's health care, housing, job security and transportation. the injustice in reproductive and maternal health care, in the excessive use of force by police