Historic: Kamala Harris Accepts Vice Presidential Nomination

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🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Kamala Harris, in her speech on the third night of the Democratic National Convention, accepted the vice presidential nomination with a nod to her mother and tied the death toll of the pandemic to structural racism.

Barack Obama attacked Trump directly, fretting about the impact another term could have on democracy in the United States. Hillary Clinton called for a landslide win for Biden.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.3	I'm Tamer Keath, I cover the White House.
0:08.3	I'm Scott Detro, I cover the presidential campaign.
0:10.7	And I'm Wanda Summers, I cover demographics and culture.
0:13.6	It is 11.45 pm on Wednesday, August 20.
0:18.8	The third night of the Democratic National Convention was Kamala Harris' night.
0:24.5	The senator talked about her mother and this historic moment now.
0:30.5	She raised us to be proud, strong, black women.
0:35.4	And she raised us to know and be proud of our Indian heritage.
0:40.8	She taught us to put family first, the family you're born into, and the family you choose.
0:49.9	Wanda, you and I spent a lot of time covering Kamala Harris and we were both at that huge
0:56.1	rollout to her presidential campaign.
0:58.1	And she's often talked so much about just how much her mother means to her and the lessons
1:03.6	that she learned from her and how her view of politics in the world came from her mother
1:07.6	in particular.
1:09.3	Her talking about that, even though she's told the story before accepting the nomination
1:12.9	to me felt like a really emotional moment.
1:14.7	Yeah, it really did.
1:16.0	And Scott, you're right.
1:17.0	I have heard that story dozens of times we could probably repeat it ourselves, but most
1:21.1	of the country and the types of people that were tuning in tonight probably have never
1:25.8	heard it before.
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