Vice-president’s speech contains clear and persuasive storytelling and a warning that Trump is ‘an unserious man’
US election: Vice-president Kamala Harris arrives to speak at the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago. Photograph: Erin Schaff/The New York TimesShe was talking about two uncharted journeys. The first involved a journey undertaken by her mother, Shyamala Gopolan, who as a 19-year-old woman set out from India for California to obtain a medical degree.
The storytelling was clear and persuasive and powerful, and the energy around the arena was, on the last night, close to antic. But an extraordinary thing happened when the Reverend Al Sharpton took the stage. As soon as his name was announced, the chatter and laughter in the corridors miraculously fell away and people began to listen. It was the only time all week that this had happened.
Part of her brief last night was to cast herself as the figure she had been in the first guise of her public life: an uncompromising California public prosecutor with a reputation for fairness. She promised to pass what she termed “the strongest border Bill in decades” if she returned to the White House and delivered a heavy-hitting passage on the abortion ban issue. “This is what is happening in this country. And understand he is not done,” she warned of Donald Trump.
All week, a small vocal minority of pro-Palestinian allies have engaged in public demonstrations of vivid unhappiness. The lunchtime DNC crowd strolling down Michigan Avenue were met with stark signs reading ‘F**k the DNC’ and accusing the Biden-Harris regime of genocide. It was the ultimate show of disrespect to the Trump campaign, who had all but announced a coronation at the same venue in downtown Milwaukee one eternal month ago. The tough questions and moments will come but in Chicago, Democratic spirits surged as she presented her vision.
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