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The Brian Lehrer Show

DNC Week Ends With Kamala Harris's Big Speech

The Brian Lehrer Show

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Christina Greer offers political analysis of Kamala Harris's speech to wrap up the Democratic National Convention.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. I know the main event of the DNC

0:16.1

last night was Kamala Harris' acceptance speech and will play several key moments from that speech throughout the show

0:22.8

and discuss how she was pitching herself to undecided or uncommitted voters. But let's start with this from last night.

0:31.0

Perhaps the cutest one-minute take-down of Donald Trump's racism that you'll ever hear.

0:37.0

Cutest because it came from two little

0:39.3

kids, two little kids who happened to be grand nieces of Kamala Harris. As you will hear, they were

0:45.8

introduced by Kerry Washington, who made the point about why they were doing this without

0:51.0

ever mentioning Donald Trump's name. It's come to my attention that there are some folks who struggle or pretend to struggle

1:01.0

with the proper pronunciation of our future president's name.

1:06.0

So hear me out, confusion is understandable.

1:11.6

Disrespect is not.

1:13.6

So tonight, we are going to help everyone get it right.

1:19.6

Here to help me are some very special guests.

1:30.3

Thank you ladies. Can you tell us your names? Hello everybody. My name's Amara.

1:33.3

And my name is Alila, her little sister.

1:36.3

And what are you here to do?

1:39.3

To teach you how to say your auntie's name.

1:42.3

Okay. So how do you pronounce it first you say comma like a

1:47.9

common sentence then you say la like la la la la la put it together and it's one two three

1:56.8

Kamala all right so let's practice, let's practice.

2:01.6

Everybody over here say Kama.

2:06.6

Everybody over here say La.

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