She only started her presidential campaign two weeks ago, Harris said as she greeted the crowd. Now she stands before the audience as the official Democratic candidate. “We are the underdogs in this race,” Harris said of the campaign against Republican opponent Donald Trump and his vice president JD Vance. “But we have the momentum and I know exactly what we are dealing with.”
Just a few hours earlier, Harris had announced that she would be running for the White House with Walz as her “running mate”. The 60-year-old has been governor of the state of Minnesota since 2019 and previously served for a long time as a member of the House of Representatives. Before his political career, he was a teacher.
With Walz, she has a leader at her side, Harris said in Philadelphia. He is “the kind of vice president America deserves.” Harris highlighted Walz's political profile, emphasizing, among other things, his support for military veterans, labor unions, liberal abortion rights and stricter gun laws.
In her speech, the Democrat also used the image of the American dream, which is often used in the US election campaign: “Only in America” is it possible for “two middle-class children – a daughter from Oakland, California, who was raised by a working mother and a son from Nebraska who grew up on a farm – to make it to the White House together.”
