Jaime Harrison: DNC Will Be About ‘Team Hope and Joy’; Harris and Walz Are People You Just Want to Hang out With

MATTHEWS: “This is a premiere for so many people, as people have been saying, for her, for Kamala Harris. She will be seen by people who have never really heard her before. They won’t be thinking about her laugh or anything like that, they will want to know what she has to say. How does she approach all of the people who call themselves Democrats, all of the people who are thinking about voting Democrat this time? How do she appeal to them?”
HARRISON: “Chris and Joe, it’s so good to see all of you this morning. Listen, you know, conventions are — yes, there’s the formal process of the nomination and all that, but it is really about storytelling. It is about sharing your story, who you are, what you believe, what your passions are, who you will fight for with the American people, and it is the grandest stage in order to do that. So what we will see, Chris, is throughout these four days we’re going to be telling the story of who Kamala Harris is and who she is going to fight for when she is president of the United States. This is about team hope and joy, and we got our MVP in Kamala Harris and our coach in Tim Walz. I am so excited for folks to get to know who the two of them are and why they are such a great — why they have such great chemistry. I mean, these are the people that you want to just hang out with because you are going to have a good time, and you know that they’re tough as nails and they will always fight for you and have your back.”
LEMIRE: “Chairman Harrison, good morning. Before, of course, we hear from Vice President Harris later in the week, tonight belongs, in many ways, to President Biden. As Claire just mentioned, it was a pretty agonizing three weeks for the party between the first — that debate in Atlanta and the president’s eventual decision to step aside from the top of the ticket. Speak to us about the poignancy of this moment tonight and what sort of reception the president will receive.”
HARRISON: “We are going to blow the roof off the United Center in terms of the praise for Joe Biden, his 50 years of service to this nation and to our party. I really, and you all know this, I love Joe Biden. I believe that Joe Biden is the most transformational president of my lifetime. When you think about all of the things that we have been able to do and achieve over the course of 3 1/2 years, from the American Rescue Plan to the bipartisan infrastructure law, to the PACT Act, working for our veterans, to the CHIPS and Science Act, to the Inflation Reduction Act, to the largest commitment to fighting climate change and bringing down the cost of prescription drugs, these are all fundamental things and that one president in one term would say, ‘This is my hallmark.’ I could go on and on. Marriage equality. Joe Biden has transformed this nation. This man — think about this, folks. This man, particularly as a black man, and I will tell you from that perspective, Joe Biden has been there for the black community. He has appointed more black women to the appellate court than all presidents combined. He appointed the first black woman to the United States Supreme Court. He appointed the first black woman to be vice president of the United States. This guy has really, really done it, and we’re gonna give him his praise and his flowers tonight at the United Center.”