Michelle Obama directly criticized Donald Trump in the DNC Speech.
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Michelle Obama directly criticized Donald Trump in the DNC Speech, praised Kamala Harris's presidential candidacy, and compared it to her husband Barack Obama's in 2008.
She remarked, "America, hope is making a comeback," referencing his well-known hope campaign from 2008.
"Something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn't it? She exclaimed, to thunderous cheers on the second evening of the conference.
Michelle Obama said, "We're feeling it here in this arena, but it's spreading all across this country we love. A familiar feeling that's been buried too deep for too long. You know what I'm talking about? It's the contagious power of hope!"
She delivered her memorable line after eight years, "When they go low, we go high." In her 2020 speech, she said then-President Trump "is clearly in over his head" and "cannot meet this moment."
Obama mentioned that she attended a memorial service for her mother Marian Robinson in May when she was last in Chicago. Months later, she added, "I still feel her loss so profoundly — I wasn't even sure I'd be steady enough to stand before you tonight." Her mother, she continued, "set my moral compass high and showed me the power of my voice."
Obama remarked, "Kamala Harris and I built our lives on those same foundational values."
She praised Harris "as more than ready for this moment," calling her "one of the most qualified people ever to seek the office of the presidency."
"For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us. His limited, narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working and highly educated, successful people who happen to be Black."
Hillary Clinton asserts that Kamala Harris needs to shatter the "glass ceiling."
Speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton expressed her hope that Kamala Harris would eventually become the first female president of the United States and shatter the "highest, hardest glass ceiling."
Ms. Clinton said that by becoming the first female presidential nominee from a major party, she had shattered her own glass ceiling.
"When a barrier falls for one of us, it clears the way for all of us," she repeated, quoting her eight years prior convention speech.
Although Hillary made history with her 2016 presidential campaign, she ultimately lost to Donald Trump in the election.
She told a throng of thousands in Chicago that it was time to transmit the torch as the Democratic Party attempted to elect a woman to the presidency for the first time.
“Together, we’ve put a lot of cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling,” Mrs. Clinton said. “On the other side of that glass ceiling is Kamala Harris raising her hand and taking the oath of office as our 47th President of the United States.”
After Mrs. Clinton's presidential attempt, a number of female delegates and lawmakers attending the Chicago DNC in 2024 claim that things have changed.
She made her gender a major campaign theme back then; Ms. Harris seems to have avoided doing the same. It is unclear if the political landscape has changed sufficiently for the vice president to be elected to the presidency.