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Just listen to that. Listen to that war.

It is the sound of the Democratic National Convention, welcoming their nominee

for president for the election of 2024, Kamala Harris. It wasn't supposed to be her week.

It wasn't supposed to be her nomination. And yet here she is, the girl from California,

who became the state's

attorney general, its prosecutor, its senator, this country's vice president, standing now

on the precipice of becoming the 47th president of the United States, its second black president,

its first woman president. History is calling for Kamala Harris.

What did she say? Will she answer it? Will this party finally achieve its dream? Welcome to the newsagels.

The news. Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents The Newsagents On behalf of my mother

and everyone who has ever set out

on their own unlikely journey

on behalf of Americans like the people I grew up with, people who work hard,

chase their dreams and look out for one another, on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth.

I accept your nomination to be president of the United States of America.

How often must she have dreamt about, thought about those words?

How often did she really think either as a little girl growing up in California,

steeped in the civil rights movement, or even in recent years struggling as vice president,

that she'd ever say them.

We must be worthy of this moment.

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