Angela Alsobrooks DNC

[Music] good evening America and hello Maryland people like me thank you people like me stories like mine don't usually make it to the United States Senate but they should I'm the proud granddaughter of a housekeeper Sarah Daisy who raised her three children in a one-bedroom apartment it was her dream to work in government to help people that meant taking a typing test but she didn't know how to type and she couldn't afford a typewriter so she put a white piece of paper on the refrigerator and Drew a keyboard on it and every night she stood in front of that refrigerator and taught herself to type she took the test passed it and got the job she dreamed of I am her Legacy and tonight I am a candidate for United States Senate from the great state of Maryland I've always been inspired by women like my grandmother women who imagine a better future and have the grit to make it a reality one of those women is a friend a mentor and a role model that woman is kamla Harris let me tell you about the comma I've known for 14 years I first heard about her in 2009 when I was running for State's Attorney in Prince George's County Maryland I read a story in Essence magazine about a district attorney in San Francisco using new ideas to keep her community safe few had a better record Prosecuting violent crime she put rapists child molesters and murderers behind bars but what she knew was that violent crime accounts for about 30% of all crimes for the 70% % that are nonviolent she created a first iFit kind program called back on track after serving time and pleading guilty these low-level offenders will get the job training GED help and apprenticeships they needed to find a job the result the recidivism rate plummeted now after reading about this super bad district attorney I talked nonstop about her on the campaign Trail two days after I won the election my phone rings it's kamla Harris calling to congratulate me and ask how she could help she helped me bring back on track to Maryland and wouldn't you know it crime went down an economic growth went up back on track is now a national model now now Donald Trump says if kamla Harris is elected tough guys will treat her like a play toy do you know who else thought that the drug cartel she busted the Big Oil Company she made pay for polluting the big banks that she made pay t $ 20 billion to homeowners they ripped off getting Justice for others isn't a power trip for her it's a sacred calling and hear me kamla Harris knows how to keep criminals off the streets and come November with your help she'll keep one out of the Oval Office ever since Donald Trump rode down that ridiculous escalator we as a nation have felt trapped every National decision has been made in reaction to this one man and his extremist Maga Movement we are still frozen by the fear that Donald Trump might once again come to power and it's not just our politics that have been trapped it's our imagination and then Kamala came along kamla has reminded us that we don't need to fear anything not the future and certainly not that man this is our moment to leave Donald Donald Trump where he belongs in America's past we stand with kamla Harris because we as a country are not going back for the ancestors who sat at lunch counters and made sure that we all had the right to vote we are not going back for The Mamas and grandmas who marched to make sure that women could control our own bodies we are not going back for the parents who work from can't see in the morning until can't see at night not so that they will have a better future but so that their children will have a better life we are not going back when facing an obstacle my father has often said to me your faith is stronger than your fears tonight our faith is stronger than our fears faith in the promise of America faith in the American idea in the American values that we share faith that we the people can choose a new leader a better future for the people faith that as dark as our days and challenges have sometimes felt It's always darkest before the dawn we know that we can endure for a night because joy cometh in the morning morning is coming morning is coming and that Joy will be led by kamla Harris thank you so much [Applause] [Music] h