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A<item><description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/kamala-harris-mom-sister-dnc-speech-family-k5rn8j9rf"><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F4097cc50-9ed6-4e22-84c7-8b4db0075598.jpg?crop=4480%2C2520%2C0%2C48&resize=1200" /></a><div><div><p>Kamala Harris has asked Americans to make her the country’s first female president, contrasting her vision with that of Donald Trump and describing November’s election as perhaps the most consequential in the nation’s history.</p><p>The vice-president, 59, formally accepted the Democratic nomination for president during a 40-minute speech in Chicago that centred on a promise to strengthen America’s working people and warned that the country was imperilled by a return of Trump, 78, to the White House.</p><p>She said the <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/article/nikki-haley-supporters-endorse-kamala-harris-6m8q62tsb">roots of her campaign</a> grew out of her childhood in California, where she was raised in a working-class area of San Francisco by an immigrant single mother. “My mother was tough, courageous and a trailblazer in the fight for women’s health, and she taught Maya<span> [her sister] and me to never complain about injustice but do something about it,” she said. “And she taught us never do anything half-assed.”</span></p><span><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F80f8a129-6e25-4b3b-b149-8ad8dc15f65d.jpg?crop=3000%2C2001%2C0%2C0" /></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>Harris hugs Amara Ajagu, her great-niece, surrounded by family on the last night of the Democratic national convention</div><div>SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fffffaf2c-fee7-43ec-b301-e8729926fd18.jpg?crop=2586%2C3853%2C0%2C0" /></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>The vice-presidential nominee, Tim Walz, dances with Harris’s great-niece, Leela Ajagu, after Harris paid tribute to her immigrant single mother, Shyamala Harris</div><div>MIKE BLAKE/REUTERS</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>Acknowledging that her rise to replace President Biden at the top of the Democratic Party ticket in July was “no doubt unexpected’, but she said she was “no stranger to unlikely journeys”.</p><p>She recalled that her choice to become a public prosecutor was inspired years earlier by wanting to protect a childhood friend who was being sexually abused by her stepfather, saying that her mother, Shyamala Harris, had taught her to “treat people as you would want to be be treated, with kindness, respect and compassion”.</p><div><div><div></div></div></div><p>The speech was well received in the United Centre, the 25,000-capacity home of the Chicago Bulls basketball team. It lacked, however, a detailed plan for governing America over the next four years. </p><p>She repeated an often-used mantra of the convention that under her America would “not go back”, but offered little clue as to what a Harris-led administration would do going forward.</p><div><div><div><div><div><video id="6360861389112-5436121856001-2d0ba15f-7d7a-44e1-80c7-bcb12f52862d" style="height:100%;width:100%" poster="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fbc5caf12-5ccb-4e14-a100-986173237f26.jpg?crop=1280%2C720%2C0%2C0&resize=960" class="video-js" controls data-account="5436121856001" data-application-id="true" data-embed="default" data-player="default" data-video-id="6360861389112"></video></div></div></div></div><figcaption><div><div><div><div>Harris formally accepts the Democratic presidential nomination on the last night of the convention</div></div></div></div></figcaption></div><p>Instead she drew comparisons between her values and those of Trump. Explaining that as a public prosecutor, attorney-general of California, senator, vice-president and now White House hopeful, she had only ever had one client: the American people.</p><p>“Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails and how he would use the immense powers of the presidency of the United States — not to improve your life, not to strengthen our national security — but to serve the only client he has ever had: himself,” she said.</p><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F0e5238de-251a-40ff-8c50-7b2aaeb11a2e.jpg?crop=4313%2C2876%2C0%2C0" /></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>Harris’s sister, Maya Harris, also spoke at the convention. The vice-president said their mother had told them not to complain about injustice but to do something about it</div><div>ANDREW HARNIK/GETTY IMAGES</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>She knows that she can win the White House not with the Democrats in the arena, but by undecided and independent voters in a handful of battleground states, some of whom may not yet be convinced that a vice-president with few policy achievements to show for her three and a half years in office is <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-harris-joy-bubble-will-be-hard-to-burst-xjmphv5zh">ready to lead the country</a>.</p><div><div><div></div></div></div><p>“I know there are people of various political views watching tonight. And I want you to know: I promise to be a president for all Americans,” she said. “I will be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations. A president who leads — and listens. Who is realistic, practical and has common sense, and always fights for the American people. From the courthouse to the White House, that has been my life’s work.”</p><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F2fec549c-513d-489a-ab9e-813c6c767dbe.jpg?crop=5000%2C3333%2C0%2C0" /></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>Walz celebrates at the United Centre, home of the Chicago Bulls</div><div>WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>On the day of <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/article/doug-emhoff-kamala-harris-children-family-zs5qxz6bs">her tenth wedding anniversary</a>, she used her childhood experiences to explain her vision. “Before she could finally afford to buy a home, she rented a small apartment in the East Bay,” Harris said of her late mother. “In the Bay, you either live in the hills or the flatlands. We lived in the flats — a beautiful working-class neighbourhood of firefighters, nurses and construction workers, all who tended their lawns with pride.”</p><p>It is these people that Harris says she intends to build her presidency around. “We know a strong middle class has always been critical to America’s success,” she said.</p><p>One policy announcement from the speech was a tax cut for the middle classes, although she did not give details. Her campaign has said in recent days that she intends to help first-time homebuyers with payments of $25,000, more generous child tax credits and a rise in the corporate tax rate.</p><p>Recently, she said that investment in public services would lead to longer-term economic prosperity. Trump’s campaign says her ideas would worsen inflation and increase national debt, which already stands at $35.2 trillion. Harris, meanwhile, has warned that tax cuts for wealthy Americans promised by Trump would add $5 trillion to the deficit.</p><div><div><div></div></div></div><p>The Democratic nominee also pledged to sign into law bills to protect abortion rights for American women and to secure the border, but knows that she will have the opportunity to do this only if she has strong Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress.</p><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F74457923-2910-4da1-bacf-9884913e86a9.jpg?crop=3872%2C2581%2C0%2C0" /></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>The actress Eva Longoria shows her support for Harris</div><div>MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F55fa6ab3-a026-4b94-a000-93d03aead27b.jpg?crop=4160%2C2936%2C0%2C0" /></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>Applause from the former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flanked by Senator Laphonza Butler and Gavin Newsom, the governor of California</div><div>ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>Trump spent the day at the southern border with Mexico, highlighting what he said was Harris’s failure to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into America during her time in office.</p><p>The surge of enthusiasm since Harris jumped into the race on July 21 has seen her <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/article/could-rfk-jr-save-trump-political-scion-set-to-end-his-campaign-6tr339cqg">wipe out Trump’s lead in the polls</a>. Her approval rating, which was worse even than Biden’s for much of the past three years, has jumped as she stepped out of his shadow and introduced herself to more voters. </p><p>When Harris entered the race, gaining the support of a slew of leading Democrats, she had a 38 per cent approval rating in the FiveThirtyEight average, while 52 per cent of voters disapproved of the vice-president. Before her address on Thursday, she has almost removed that deficit. Her approval rating now stands at 45 per cent, while her disapproval is at 47 per cent. </p><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F59a2aa6b-93e9-44f9-9c3c-909c7351db85.jpg?crop=2904%2C1936%2C0%2C0" /></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>The second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, and Harris’s step-daughter, Ella. Harris and Emhoff celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary on Thursday</div><div>CHARLES REX/AP</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>• <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/article/who-win-election-2024-polls-predictions-odds-president-7d0ff29db"><b>Who will win the 2024 US election? Polls and predictions</b></a></p><div><div><div></div></div></div><p>“Fellow Americans, this election is not only the most important of our lives,” she said. “It is one of the most important in the life of our nation. In many ways, Donald Trump is an un-serious man, but the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.</p><p>“Consider not only the chaos and calamity when he was in office, but also the gravity of what has happened since he lost the last election. <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/article/what-will-happen-donald-trump-president-win-us-election-2024-xvc2qc0bv">Donald Trump</a> tried to throw away your votes.”</p><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F75b01d96-6fce-464f-a382-0df5eef85048.jpg?crop=4913%2C3275%2C0%2C0" /></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>The “kamala IS brat” tweet by the the British pop singer Charli xcx began a merchandising trend</div><div>WILL OLIVER/EPA</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>On foreign policy, she said she would stand by America’s allies abroad who might be fearful that a second Trump term could see the US withdraw from the world stage, accusing the former president of “cosying up to dictators” and threatening to abandon Nato. “They are rooting for Trump,” she said of America’s enemies. “They know he is easy to manipulate with flattery and favours.”</p><p>• <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/article/what-happen-kamala-harris-win-us-election-2024-2gpphxprf"><b>What will happen if Kamala Harris wins the US election in 2024?</b></a></p><p>Protests against the war in Gaza throughout the week have again exposed rifts in the left wing of the Democratic coalition. </p><div><div><div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F944ffefb-048c-48f5-957f-c7edcbc8aa69.jpg?crop=2649%2C1774%2C0%2C0" /></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>Anti-war protesters gathered outside the centre chanting “Killer Kamala”, which resulted in scores of arrests</div><div>JIM VONDRUSKA/GETTY IMAGES</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F6c945b05-321c-43d7-9dd6-fb5ab2d17956.jpg?crop=3281%2C2188%2C0%2C0" /></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>NOAH BERGER/AP</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>Previewing what will be a high-wire act for her over the next ten and a half weeks until polling day, she addressed the war in Gaza, which has loomed over the convention and represents one of the thorniest issues facing her campaign. Anti-war protests have <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/article/gaza-protesters-hope-to-derail-kamala-harriss-coronation-in-chicago-d8dnth3bb">dogged the event all week</a>, with chants of “Genocide Joe” and “Killer Kamala” heard at pro-Palestinian demonstrations outside the convention arena.</p><p>The vice-president insisted that she and Biden were “working around the clock” to secure a ceasefire. “Now is the time to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done,” she said. </p><p>Harris said that she would “always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself”, pledging that America’s closest ally in the Middle East “must never again face the horror” of the October 7 massacre by Hamas. However, in an attempt to allay the protests, she turned to the devastation of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, where the death toll has risen past 40,000, according to the Gaza health ministry, which is controlled by Hamas.</p><p>“The scale of suffering is heartbreaking,” she acknowledged as a solitary shout of “free Gaza” rang out from the back of the arena. Any dissent in the room was swept away by a volley of cheers as Harris vowed to help the “Palestinian people realise their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination”.</p><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F07dd82ad-a93e-401d-a71c-eb3d0d1e8f2a.jpg?crop=4000%2C2667%2C0%2C0" /></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>Democrats cheered their candidate, who said she was “no stranger to unlikely journeys”</div><div>MATT MARTON/UPI/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>Her central message was that by defeating Trump she could protect what she described as traditional American values. “We are the heirs to the greatest democracy in the history of the world,” she said. “And on behalf of our children and grandchildren and all those who sacrificed so dearly for our freedom and liberty, we must be worthy of this moment. It is now our turn to do what generations before us have done.”</p><p>• <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/article/what-will-happen-donald-trump-president-win-us-election-2024-xvc2qc0bv"><b>What will happen if Donald Trump wins the US election in 2024?</b></a></p><p>Trump responded to her speech with a stream of real-time updates on his Truth Social platform. He said his opponent “stands for incompetence and weakness — our country is being laughed at all over the world! She’s done nothing for three and a half years but talk, and that’s what she’s doing tonight, she’s complaining about everything but doing nothing!</p><p>“She should leave the speech right now, go to Washington, DC, close the border, allow fracking in Pennsylvania and other places, and start doing the things she’s complaining about aren’t done!”</p><p>The two will go head to head in a debate on September 10.</p></span></div></div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:55:00 GMT</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/kamala-harris-mom-sister-dnc-speech-family-k5rn8j9rf]]></link><dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Kamala Harris opens up about family and asks America: make me your president]]></title><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/kamala-harris-mom-sister-dnc-speech-family-k5rn8j9rf]]></guid></item>