Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you my fellow Americans.

Thank you so much.

No. Thank you all.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, so much.

Wow.

There's a lot of energy in this room just like there is across the country.

Something something is happening in America. You can feel it. Something we've worked for and dreamed of

for a long time.

First though, let's salute President Biden. He has been democracy's champion at home and abroad.

He brought dignity, decency, and confidence back to the White House.

And he showed what it means to be a true patriot.

Thank you, Joe Biden, for your lifetime of service and leadership. And now we are. And you go and you go and you go and you go and

and you know and now we are writing a new chapter in America's story.

You know, my mother Dorothy was born right here in Chicago before women had the right to vote.

That changed 104 years ago yesterday. Think about it. Tennessee became the final state. to ratify the 19th amendment to the Constitution.

The state legislature was deadlocked until one lawmakers mother, a widow who read three newspapers a day, sent a letter, a letter to her son. No more

delays, she wrote, give us the vote.

And since that day, every generation has carried the torch forward.

In 1972, a fearless black Congresswoman named Charlie Chisholm. She ran for president and her determination.

She ran for president.

And her determination let me and millions of others dream bigger not just

because of who she was but because of who she fought for. Working parents, poor children, the last, the least, and the

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