Lisa Blunt Rochester Gives Emotional Speech Commending Biden, Showing Support For VP Harris

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During a press conference on Thursday, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) praised President Biden and spoke about Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

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00:00Wow. Thank you, Joe, for that introduction. I am Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester. I'm

00:12a little emotional. The CBC is family. I'm looking at everyone's faces. I wasn't scheduled

00:24to speak, and I kept standing there asking, God, what do you want me to say in this moment?

00:36First I want to say that I am Joe Biden's Congresswoman, and I am so proud of the man

00:47that he is, the human being that he is, the partnership and the accomplishments that we

00:55have made together. Historic. Our vice president said yesterday in a speech to all of us in

01:03Delaware that Joe Biden has done more in three years than some presidents do in two terms.

01:11So first I stand here also with the word gratitude. Gratitude for this great man, this great American.

01:23And then my second word is determination. Determination. Because we may have a honeymoon

01:33period right now. We may be celebrating right now. We may even see the vision of our children

01:39holding hands and looking up. But we have to make it a reality. And so I think the word

01:46determination, we are determined to make sure that Kamala Harris is the next president of

01:52the United States. I served on the VP selection committee. Four of us. So I know all of the

02:00people who are in the running for this position. And Joe Biden said to us, his instructions

02:06were I want somebody who's ready on day one. She was ready on day one three years ago.

02:12And so we are determined to elect this qualified, compassionate, brilliant person who represents

02:24the United States in all its beauty and splendor and glory. We are also determined and united

02:32to defeat Donald Trump. And I want to say this one more time. We are determined. Catch

02:44me cameras. We are determined to beat Donald Trump because this is about two different

02:52visions and versions of this country. We choose hope over fear, love over hate, justice for all of

03:03us. And so in addition to that, we also want to make sure that project 2025, a 900 page book

03:14becomes a history book. It's going to be history. And so as as Joe Biden's Congresswoman,

03:24somebody now running for the Senate, I just left Angela also Brooks. We know that in the history

03:30of this country, there have only been three black women in the United States Senate. Right, Barbara?

03:35Right. Three. 1789. We have had Carol Mosley Braun. We have had Kamala Harris. We have LaFonza

03:46Butler. And number four and five are coming.

03:57So my last word to all of us is that we have spent a couple of weeks worrying. Right. So now

04:05it's time for moving from worry to work to win. That's what we're about to do.

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