'Most Experienced Candidate For President... In A Quarter Century': Joe Neguse Praises Kamala Harris

5 months ago

During a Congressional Black Caucus press briefing, Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) thanked President Biden for his service and leadership, and expressed pride and excitement for Kamala Harris' candidacy.

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00:00Bring a gentleman up here, my colleague, the congressman from Colorado.

00:06He is the future. He is our assistant Democratic leader that will become our assistant to the Speaker in the United States House of Representatives.

00:18Congressman Joe Madu.

00:21It is difficult if not impossible to follow our Chairwoman Emeritus who spoke with such clarity of conviction about the next President of the United States, Kamala Harris.

00:39It's impossible to follow Chairman Horsford and Chairman Meeks, but I will try.

00:44I am filled today with a sense of gratitude and pride.

00:49Maya Angelou once said that people may forget what you did, they may forget what you said, they'll never forget how you made them feel.

00:59President Biden did a lot during his consequential term in office, the most significant policy achievements since the Great Society of the 1960s.

01:08He said a lot, powerful articulations of the work we must do to protect our democracy.

01:15But what I think about today is how he made us feel.

01:19Every single American that we mattered, that we mattered to him, that we mattered to each other.

01:25I'm filled with a sense of pride and gratitude for the President's decision-making, for his leadership,

01:32and the wisdom that he displayed in selecting an incredibly exceptional woman to be his Vice President

01:40and now, ultimately, to be our next President of the United States.

01:45It is fitting, at a time of great euphoria here for the Black Caucus, that we also find ourselves in mourning.

01:52Yesterday we honored our dearly departed colleague, our beloved friend, Judge Sheila Jackson Lee from the great state of Texas.

01:59And as we gathered on the floor, Representative Mufume was reminding us that we stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before

02:07and that Sheila Jackson Lee had taken that baton from Barbara Jordan and carried it forward.

02:13And I imagine she's looking down today with great pride, great pride in the President and in the next President of the United States.

02:23I will say just one word about Kamala Harris.

02:27You've heard this from Chairwoman Emeritus Beatty, from Chair Horsford, from Chairman Meeks.

02:31It bears repeating.

02:33She is the most experienced candidate for President of the United States in a quarter century.

02:40She served as Attorney General, she served as a county prosecutor, she served as a United States Senator,

02:46and she has served for the better part of the last four years as Vice President of the United States.

02:50Her achievements will stand the test of time.

02:54And I cannot wait, I cannot wait, to Chairwoman Emeritus Beatty's point,

02:59to hold my daughter's hand, who's five years old, on January 20th

03:04and see this incredibly talented black woman become President of the United States of America.

03:10It is a moment that we will work towards and secure over the course of these next 105 days because we know everything is on the line.

03:18If we do our job, we will make that dream come true.

03:24And a key component of that dream, because when Vice President Harris becomes President Harris,

03:31she's going to need governing partners.

03:33We know she's going to have a Democratic majority led by Speaker Hakeem Jeffries in the U.S. House of Representatives,

03:38but the Senate matters too.

03:40And she will have a new governing partner in the United States Senate,

03:45someone whom she knows well, someone she trusts, someone who is a trailblazer in her own right.

03:52The first black woman to be the next U.S. Senator from the great state of Delaware, Lisa Von Rochester.

'Most Experienced Candidate For President... In A Quarter Century': Joe Neguse Praises Kamala Harris

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