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Ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome the mother Bethel AME
church choir from Philadelphia.
[Music]
[Applause]
[Applause]
I am mayor Blake, mayor of the
great City of Baltimore and
secretary of the Democratic
National Committee, and
temporary secretary of the
Democratic national Convention.
It is an honor and a pleasure to
welcome you, delegates,
Alternates, standing committee
members and all of our honored
Democrats and other guests here
in Philadelphia, and all of you
who have joined us by
television, by radio, and on
line here in the United States
and around the world.
I hereby call the 47th
Democratic national Convention
to order.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
We are honored to be the
location for such an inflew Anne
shall gathering of engaged
citizens dedicated to
t ransforming communities
throughout America.
As the first world heritage city
in the U.S., Philadelphia is a
diverse and inclusive city that
has played a major role in
shaping our  country's political
history.
Standing here in front of
independence hall, I'm reminded
that since 1776 our city has
been witness to some of this
country's most defining
m oments.
On behalf of our city, I would
like to share how excited we are
to welcome you to the 2016
Democratic national Convention
and to Philadelphia.
Clearly there is so much to see
and do in Philadelphia.
While you are here, we hope you
get a chance to experience our
rich cultural and historical
attractions from museum mile,
which is located along Benjamin
Franklin highway, to the oldest
residential street in America.
Definitely make sure you spend
time in our incredible outdoor
spaces like right here at
disability worth park, and don't
forget to eat.
Our amazing culinary scene
includes everything from classic
roast pork sandwiches to meals
hand crafted by our award
winning chefs.
We are thrilled to be hosting
you in Philadelphia, the
hospitality industry and our
entire  crilt city is proud to
roll out the blue carpet just
for you.
Welcome to Philadelphia.
Ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome boys to men. 
Cap 
.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia,
what's happening?
Let's have a good time,
everybody!
Everybody up on your feet.
Let's go.
Come on.
[Music]
 welcome to P hiladelphia!
[Applause]
Ladies and gentlemen, please
stands and welcome reverend
Dr. Cynthia Hail, senior
p astor, ray of hope Christian
church to lead the invocation.
Welcome to Philadelphia. 
Confer.
[Applause]
Pray with me.
Awesome and wonderful God of the
universe.
You are the one who created the
world and all who live in it.
You are the God of the nations,
each one owes it's existence to
you.
You made America the great
nation that it is filled with a
diverse, gifted and
e nterprising people.
We are a people who have the
ability to delegate leadership
to the world and all other
nations while at the same time
operating as one nation under
your name with liberty and
justice for all.
Through our own human error, we
have fallen short of your
expectations instead of
operating as United States and a
United people, we have become 
divided.
We have allowed our diversity to
allow us to devalue and distrust
each either.
We have permitted our privilege
to make us think that we are
superior to others, particularly
the least of these among us.
There is tension and dissention
in the land.
This is not your will for us and
we know it.
As we gather in Philadelphia
this week at the Democratic
national Convention, we
understand all that you have
entrusted to us, and expect of
us.
We have a responsibility to you
to be a party that celebrates
diversity, values all people and
treats everyone with dignity and
respect.
We have a platform that seeks to
address the ills of our nation,
right the wrongs and help us be
a just and equitable society.
We have an opportunity, oh,
G od, to give undeniable
evidence of our commitment to
justice and equality, by 
nominating  Hillary Rodham
Clinton as our 
candidate.
As our candidate for the highest
office in the land!
God you have given us wisdom.
Now, give us courage!
For the facing of 
this hour
unite us, owe God,  -- oh, God
in one party.
It is in your mighty name that
we pray.
Amen.
Ladies and gentlemen, please
remain standing for the
presentation of colors by the
members of Delaware County
American legions and Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Ladies and gentlemen, please
remain standing for the
presentation of colors.
Ladies and gentlemen please
welcome delegates ruby Gillam
from Ohio and Clarissa Rodriguez
from Texas to lead us in the
Pledge of Allegiance.
[Pledge of Allegiance]
 ladies
and gentlemen, please welcome
bobby Hill from the keystone
state boy choir to sing our
National Anthem.
[Applause]
[Applause]
Ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome the cochairs of the
credentials committee, Loraine
Miller and James Roosevelt,
junior.
Hello to all of the 
participants in the 2016 .
202,016 Democratic national
convention.
It is an honor to have served as
a cochair of the credentials
committee along with my friend,
lore  Loraine Miller.
On Sunday, the credentials
committee adopted the report
that is now contained in the
standing committee report.
Consideration of this report is
the first order of business for
this 47th Democratic national
Convention so that delegated and
Alternates here today can be
officially seated.
I am proud to say that there are
no unresolved credentials issues
to be decided by the credentials
committee.
[Cheers and Applause]
This 
This nominating process was an
extraordinary marathon of
contests.
There was historic voter
t urnout and enthusiasm about
the election that engaged and
encouraged people to participate
for the first time.
This enthusiasm has carried on
even after the last contest
which was in Washington, DC, and
I'm excited that we all stand
united here today to get on with
nominating the next President of
the United States.
[Cheers and Applause]
I am pleased that as part of
this committee's report to the
Convention, the Democratic Party
recognizes that we are stronger
together and we make a priority
of insuring the diversity of our
party as highlighted.
It is now my pleasure to turn
this over to my cochair, lore an
Miller -- Loraine Miller.
[Applause]
Thank you, Jim.
Just let me just add my thanks
for the opportunity to serve as
a cochair of the credentials 
committee.
All 57 of our state and
territorial parties work
diligently to insure that their
delegations to the Convention
look like America and as a
result of their hard work, we
have the most diverse Convention
ever!
[Cheers and Applause]
We are proud that the diversity 
represented in the participants
of this Convention highlight a
core value of our party.
That is insuring that all
Americans regardless of sex, 
race, age, color, creed,
national origin, religion,
economic status, sexual 
orientation, gender identity,
ethnic identity, or physical
disability should be able to
achieve the American dream.
[Applause]
Madame chair, on behalf of the
other credentialed committee 
officers and committee members,
I move the adoption of the
credentials committee 
s
committee 
report.
You have heard the business
before the credentials committee
and a motion has been made to
adopt the committee's report.
Pursuant to our Convention rules
we will conduct a vote on
approving the report of the
credentials committee by a voice
vote.
Those delegates in favor of
approving the credentials 
report, say aye.
Will those delegates who oppose
the credentials report say no.
The ayes have it.
Thank you very much.
James Roosevelt and Loraine
Miller the cochairs of the cred
again shalls committee and thank
you to all of the committee
members, the vice chairs.
Thank you all for your great 
work!
Delegates it my pleasure to
welcome to the stage Barney
Frank 
from.
Thank you.
Thank you or not as the case may
be.
Madame Chair, the rules
committee met on Saturday in a
full and open session in which a
large number of resolutions were
offered and debated and roll
call votes taken.
The final issue was voted as you
will hear overwhelmingly by a
vote of 170 to 5.
It is my great pleasure to
report the officers, the
permanent officers adopted by
the, recommended by the rules
committee.
As the honorary chair, one of
the great leaders in American
history, Nancy Pelosi, the
minority lead esh of the House
of Representatives and the first
woman to be speaker.
[Cheers and Applause]
As permanent chair the very able
member of Congress, in fact, the
best thing to come out of
Cleveland recently.
Marcia Fudge, the congresswoman
from Cleveland.
[Applause]
As permanent cochairs
representing the range of talent
and diversity of our party, the
Honorable Norman M anetta,
Senator Gary Peters, 
representative Maxine waters and
the Honorable Wilmington Rev.
And as secretary, mayor
Stephanie recall lings Blake.
That is the rules committee on
the permanent officers.
Delegates you have heard the
rules committee delegation of
individuals to serve as
permanent officers of the 2016
national Convention. 
The chair will entertain a
motion on this outstanding list
of Democratic liters do I hear a
second.
We will have a voice vote on
approving officers of the
Convention, all those in favor
say aye.
Aye.
All opposed say no.
>> no.
The ayes have it.
Thank you so very much.
To 
To the cochairs of the rules
committee and thank you to the
committee vice chairs and
members.
Please 
join me please join me in
welcoming the permanent chair of
the Convention, Ohio
Congresswoman, Marcia Fudge,
congresswoman Fudge was first
elected in 2008.
She is represents the people of
the eleventh congressional
district of Ohio.
Congresswoman Fudge serves on
the house committee on
agriculture and the house
committee on education and work
force.
She is the ranking member on the
sub committee on early childhood
and elementary and secondary
education, and she is also a
member of several congressional
caucuses and the immediate past
chair of the congressional black
caucus.
Is you now my pleasure to turn
over the gavel to my friend and
the permanent chair of the 47th
Democratic national Convention,
Congresswoman Marcia Fudge.
Thank you very much, Madame
Chair.
I am ownerred to accept this
gavel as permanent chair of the
Democratic national Convention
and I am excited to put Hillary
Clinton and tame  Tim Kaine in
the  Whitehouse.
[Cheers and Applause]
We have assembled an
extraordinary collection of
Americans here in this arena.
We are here from across the
country.
We have traveled thousands of
miles.
And we are representing the
millions of Democrats who come
this November are going to make
their voices heard louder and
stronger than ever before,
because we have a choice, a
profound choice this November.
And we have to make this choice
in a time when this nation
f inds itself at the cross roads
of history and hope, a time of
great promise, progress and
potential, but also a time of
social unrest, hate speech and
more.
Hillary Clinton was born for
such a time as this.
[Applause]
And that is why, and that is why
we are going to have a different
kind of Convention than the one
we saw in Cleveland last week.
[Cheers and Applause]
Because Hillary Clinton and Tim
Kaine want to build an economy
that works for everyone, not
just the people at the top!
An economy where everyone pays
their fair share, an economy
where if you work hard, you can
get ahead and stay ahead.
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine
want to bring steady and stable
leadership to the 
world.
They will work with our allies
to keep America and the rest of
the world safe and secure.
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine
want an America where there are
no barriers to opportunity,
equality or justice.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Where we lift each other up and
where every voice from every
race, religion and sexual
orientation is heard and
respected.
Over the next four days, over
the next four days, we are going
to hear from the leaders of our
country, and the future of our
party.
We are going to be united and we
are going to make history.
And we are going to do
everything we can to elect
Hillary Clinton and Tim 
Kaine.
Hillary Clinton, this is your
time!
[Cheers and Applause]
This is our 
time. 
Delegates, Democrats, let the
Convention begin!
And may I just make a point?
May I just make a point?
There are many of you that do
not know me in this room.
But let me say to you, I intend
to be fair, I want to hear the
varying opinions here.
I am going to be respectful of
you, and I want you to be
respectful of me.
[Cheers and Applause]
We are all Democrats and we need
to act like it!
Let's do it!
[Cheers and Applause]
The rules of the Convention
allow me as chair to appoint
other officers to assist in the
orderly conduct of the
Convention's proceedings.
It is now my great honor to
announce the following
additional Convention officers.
Convention vice chairs Lilly 
Ledbetter, state representative
Alicia 
Reese.
Each of these Convention
officials is dedicated to
strengthening their communities
and our country.
They share Hillary Clinton and
Tim Kaine's positive vision for
change and will be important 
messengers for the campaign
moving forward.
We would now bring back for the
completion of the rules report
for procedural rules and agenda
the chairs Barney Inc.  chairs
barn -- Barney Frank.
The rules committee fairly
reflecting the delegates
selected to the Convention
according to their preferences
spent seven hours in a fully
open debate of every aspect of
the rules that anyone wished to
bring up and voted
o verwhelmingly for a final
report which you will hear
later.
I now report the agenda and
procedural rules for the
Convention.
To be clear, there is a report
about what will happen after
this Convention that you will
hear about very shortly.
My report is of the agenda of
the Convention and of the rules
that will govern the conduct of
business in this Convention.
And I report again they were
fully debated with no question
about anyone's right to offer
any amendment or make any debate
being repressed, and we now
present these rules which will
result in a fully open and small
D. Democratic as well as big D
Democratic conduct of the
Convention.
Madame Chair, I present those
parts of the committee's report
from Saturday.
Thank you very much, Barney
Frank for presenting the agenda
and the procedural rules of the
Convention as amended by the
rules committee.
The chair willent ire taken a
motion to approval the agenda
and procedural rules of the 2016
Democratic national Convention.
Do I hear a second?
Second pursuant to our rules we
will now have a voice vote on
approving our agenda and
procedural rules of the 2016
Democratic National Convention.
All those in favor say aye. 
Aye!
All those opposed say no.
No.
The chair determines that the
ayes have it.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
We will now hear the unity 
report.
Good afternoon, I'm Laticia 
V anderput a seventh generation
textian,  text -- Texan, and my
grandmothers were  born in 
Mexico and they would have been
so proud to see me standing here
today.
Cochair of 
the 2016 Democratic
national Convention rules
committee.
She would have been, my
grandmothers would have been so
proud.
And I also get to work with
Barney Frank.
More than two centuries ago, a
group of courageous individuals
gathered at independence hall a
few blocks from here to give
birth to our great country, and
a government of the people, by
the people, and for the people.
And for my -- they knew that in
this United States of America,
the most meaningful title that
anyone could ever hold is the
title citizen!
And my  Mamo became a citizen at
age 68 and her proudest day was
the day she cast her first
v ote.
And as Democrats, we must do
everything we can to insure that
our party carries on this
tradition that makes us stronger
as a country.
So we are proposing the creation
of the unity reform commission.
This commission has won
overwhelming support from all
members of the rules committee
and together we are going to see
what's working, we will see
what's not working and we will
work together to build a
stronger Democratic Party.
For our children.
And the commission will make
recommendations regarding
unpledged delegates to be sure
that our process reflects our
true Democratic values and our
unwaiverrerring belief and our
representative democracy.
And we are going to open up our
Democratic process so that the
grass roots always has a seat at
the table!
We are going to insure that our
party hears every voice and
empowers every person with the
chance to contribute.
And so to all of the activists,
to the organizers, to the
officials and the volunteers and
community leaders out t here, we
hear you!
We respect you!
And this unity commission will
work for you to build a
thriving, growing, Democratic
Party today, tomorrow, and for
generations to come.
Thank you.
>> There will be two speakers on
the unity report, one 
representing the Clinton 
campaign and one remitting the 
Sanders -- and one representing 
the Sanders campaign. 
>> Ladies and gentlemen, please 
welcome Wellington Webb from 
Colorado. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
>> Hi. 
I'm Wellington Webb, the former 
mayor of Colorado and the at 
large member of the rules 
committee and a long-time 
supporter of Hillary Clinton. 
[Cheers and applause] 
Yesterday I was proud to take 
part in the establishment of the
was formed in collaboration 
between the Clinton campaign and
campaign and the 
DNC. 
The commission is made up of 
representatives from both 
campaigns and the democratic 
National Committee and it is 
charged with assessing and 
improving our party's 
presidential nominating process.
Now, specifically focusing in on
super-delegates, caucuses and 
strategies for opening up our 
system even more, the commission
will set up a set of 
recommendations for the DNC 
rules and the bylaws committee 
no later than January 1, 2018. 
And if adequate action isn't 
taken within six months, the 
commission will present those 
recommendations before the 
full 
democratic National Committee. 
Let me share with you that the 
primary season brought to light 
some issues we need to address 
as a democratic family, and that
going to 
do. 
As a party, I believe our 
diversity has made us strong and
always move forward together. 
[Cheers and applause] 
To continually perfect our 
processes and begin a more 
inclusive, fair and open party 
within each cycle. 
Now, I know I speak for a lot of
Democrats and Progressives, and 
I said this on Saturday, when I 
said I respect and admire 
Senator Sanders and his 
campaign. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
The 
voters and contributors, you 
were able to mobilize and bring 
into the process the issues 
raised and he will vague of our 
national debate, there is no 
question the country is better 
now for your efforts, and as we 
go through the process of 
improving our nominating 
process, we will continue to 
move our party and 
our country 
forward. 
Just as we watch LeBron James 
and Steph Curry shake hands 
after a well-fought finals, we 
know the country is eager to 
watch these two giants move 
forward together, to champion 
progressive causes, and most 
importantly, to ensure we swear 
in a President come January 
which will uphold the ideals we 
hold most dear. 
Hillary Clinton and Bernie 
Sanders are our champions. 
They both deserve our cheers. 
[Cheers and applause] 
They both deserve our cheers! 
[Cheers and applause] 
They both deserve our cheers! 
[
Cheers and applause] 
So I ask you, I 
ask you, I ask 
you if you would do this for me,
for you, and let's show Donald 
Trump we can work together, 
cheer for Bernie when he takes 
the stage, let's all cheer for 
Bernie tonight when he takes the
stage, and let's also cheer for 
Hillary when she takes the stage
[
Cheers and applause] 
When we leave this convention, 
we should do so with a united 
sense of purpose, to advance our
our next President is sworn in 
on January 20, we will hear for 
the first time a chief Supreme 
Court justice say 
those words 
"Congratulations, Madam 
President." 
[
Cheers and applause] 
>> Please welcome state 
representative 
Diane Russell 
from Maine. 
[
Cheers 
and applause] 
>> Hello, Democrats! 
[Cheers and applause] 
My name is Diane Russell. 
I'm a state representative from 
the beautiful city of Portland, 
Maine, a proud delegate for 
Bernie Sanders. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
And I am the one who introduced 
the First Amendment to reform 
the superdelegate system. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
You know, Dumbeldor from Harry 
Potter once said "it takes great
courage to stand 
up to your 
enemies. 
It takes even greater courage to
stand up to your friends.  ". 
[
Cheers and applause] 
Obviously we've had a real 
family disagreement over the 
role of superdelegates in our 
party's nominating process. 
Working to get a President 
elected is supposed to be hard 
work, but we can definitely do 
more as a party to ensure a 
fairer, more open process that 
places everyday 
voters at the 
center. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
That's why, that's why I am so 
pleased to report that a process
is underway, thanks to you, in 
several states and within our 
newly formed unity reform 
commission to open up our 
nominating procedures and build 
a fairer process going forward! 
[
Cheers and applause] 
It is what our voters expect, 
and it is what our party 
deserves. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
It's why I am so deeply honored 
and beyond grateful to stand 
here before you, it's a bit of a
Senator Sanders. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
On behalf of Senator Sanders and
 -- 
[
Cheers and applause] 
 in strong, unequivocal support 
for 
the unity compromise. 
[applause] 
This plan, and it is a plan, 
gives us the opportunity to 
champion a variety 
of great 
election reforms, including 
reducing the number of 
superdelegates by a full 
two-thirds. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
That is written right into 
the 
Commission's charter. 
I want to be clear, we did not 
win this by selling 
out. 
[Cheers and applause] 
We won this 
by standing up! 
[Cheers and applause] 
We did this, we won this by 
standing together. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
You are so 
beautiful right now. 
Since we led the way in Maine, 
right over there, Democrats in 
nearly 20 states, most through 
their local conventions, have 
voted to reform the 
superdelegate system, 20 states!
[
Cheers and applause] 
On top of that, more than 
750,000 progressives have signed
petitions calling for serious 
structural reform. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
And we're doing it! 
[Cheers and applause] 
We're doing it because we are 
the party of democracy. 
We are the party of the 99%, the
working class! 
[
Cheers and applause] 
[crowd chanting] 
>> Exactly. 
Not for sale! 
We are fighting to make reforms.
very small but very 
mighty 
state, Maine, threaded a title 
needle to stand for real change 
against all odds. 
We won because Democrats across 
the country organized in our 
home states, and we won because 
our rules committee members 
stayed at the table to negotiate
a real solution because they 
heard you asking for it and 
demanding it, and they 
got it 
done. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
I never thought we would get it 
through the Maine convention, 
and here we're getting it 
through the National Convention.
[
Cheers and applause] 
Now, you have to understand 
something, the fight to reform 
the superdelegate system was 
never about this election. 
It was always about 
democratizing our party 
for 
generations to come. 
And it may be hard, and believe 
me, 
it may be necessary, but 
ladies and gentlemen, this is 
what 
democracy looks like. 
[Cheers and applause] 
This is what 
democracy looks 
like. 
[Cheers and applause]
hate. 
And in the end, I stand with my 
Democratic family in making sure
we win this fall. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
As my Governor, I do not need to
President of 
this United States. 
Whether you support Bernie 
Sanders or Hillary Clinton, we 
are all in this together, and we
will all have a voice in the 
Clinton administration. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
We can work together on so much,
may hold, we all know in our 
heart of hearts a Donald Trump 
presidency will not just hurt 
our party, it will hurt our 
people, and I am not 
okay with 
that. 
I will always stand strong with 
Bernie Sanders. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
And I will also do everything I 
can do this fall to elect 
Hillary so that we have a 
Democrat in the White House. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
It is time to get to work on 
building a higher minimum wage, 
on expanding Social Security, on
and making sure that the rest of
the generation is not saddled 
with the same level of student 
debt that my generation is. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
We are the road ahead, we are 
united, and fixing the 
superdelegate system is the path
this fall, but for the 
generations to come. 
Thank you. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
>> Delegates, you have heard 
speakers from the Clinton and 
Sanders campaign speak in favor 
of the unity report, recommended
for approval by the rules 
committee. 
The Chair will entertain a 
motion to approve these other 
proposalless as recommended for 
your approval by the 
committee -- by 
the convention 
rules committee. 
Die hear a second? 
>> yes. 
>> Pursuant to our convention 
rules, we'll now have a voice 
vote on approving the unity 
report and other proposals as 
recommended by the rules 
committee. 
All those in 
favor, say aye. 
>> Aye. 
>> All opposed, no. 
>> No. 
>> The Chair determines that the
ayes have it. 
[Cheers and applause] 
As the permanent Chair of the 
2016 convention, it gives me 
great pleasure to introduce a 
fellow member of Congress from 
Maryland and my dear friend, 
convention parliamentarian 
Stennie Hoyer. 
Please welcome Congressman 
Steny 
Hoyer. 
>> Thank you, Maryland. 
Good 
evening, fellow Democrats, 
and fellow Americans. 
I'm so proud to be addressing 
you here in America's first 
capital, the home of 
Independence Hall, the Liberty 
Bell, and the birth place of our
Constitution. 
I'm proud to serve appears the 
parliamentarian -- as the 
parliamentarian of this 
convention and I'm proud to be 
here with the delegation that I 
just referenced. 
My friends, from Maryland, all 
of 
my friends from 
Maryland. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
[crowd chanting] 
>> I love you, too. 
We are here to nominate Hillary 
Clinton because of her -- 
[
Cheers and applause] 
Because of her ability, her 
experience, and her vision for 
our country. 
We're also here to show America,
to show America why Democrats up
and down the ticket are ready to
lead. 
[applause] 
Over the past 8 years, President
Obama and Vice President Biden 
worked hard to help Americans 
emerge from the economic 
collapse ushered in 
by 
Republican policies. 
For the first two years of the 
President's administration, he 
had a Democratic Congress that 
was committed to doing the job 
and rescuing our economy. 
Thank you. 
Millions of Americans worked 
hard, tightened their belts, 
they persevered, and never, 
never, never gave up. 
And with the help from the 
recovery programs, we enacted 
America Has Come Back. 
We 
know, we know, however, until 
opportunities come back for 
every American, there is a lot 
more work to be done. 
Now, ladies and gentlemen, let 
me tell you, since the 
republicans took control of the 
House of Representatives in 
2011, they've had a message for 
the American people:  
 people:  You're on 
your own. 
To hard-working immigrants and 
dreamers, to LGBTQ citizens, to 
women demanding equal pay, to 
parents asking for affordable 
child care 
and paid family 
leave, to millions who have 
health insurance today for the 
first time through 
the 
Affordable Care Act. 
[Cheers and applause] 
And the Republican Party has 
said to all of them, "You're on 
your own." 
But we say you're not on your 
own, we're in this together. 
Hillary Clinton and Tim Caine 
and Democrats in Congress will 
always be on your side. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
On your side because we believe 
that 
we are stronger together. 
And we are running together. 
As the previous speaker pointed 
out, to renew faith in 
government and help all our 
people 
make it in America. 
Ladies and gentlemen, in his 
speech to the Republican 
Convention last week, Speaker 
Ryan said that this election 
comes down to 
a contest of 
ideas. 
He's right. 
But we've seen the disastrous 
results 
of Republican ideas. 
And we've seen what they can do 
to our economy and to our 
security, and that is why, 
ladies and gentlemen, all of us,
those who supported Sanders, 
those who supported Clinton, 
those who supported my Governor 
O'Malley, all of us must bind 
together for our country and 
elect Hillary Clinton, President
Cheers and applause] 
>> Ladies and gentlemen, please 
welcome platform drafting 
committee Chair representative 
Elijah Cummings from Maryland. 
[
Cheers 
and applause] 
>> Madam Chair, honored 
delegates, and my fellow 
Democrats, I stand before you 
today not as a Congressman from 
the inner city of Baltimore, but
croppers whose parents started 
in a farm in the lowlands of 
South Carolina with no running 
water, no toilet, but who 
believed in education and taught
their children the value of 
helping others. 
My father, the late Robert 
Cummings, a man who left school 
after the fourth grade to plow 
the fields and to pick the 
cotton, he's one of the smartest
people I've ever known. 
He would say, son, the test of a
much he helps 
himself, the truth test is 
whether he helps those less 
fortunate. 
[Cheers and applause] 
He would say, son, you go to 
school to get blessed 
so you can 
bless. 
And that is the standard by 
which he measured me growing up 
and is the standard by which I 
still measure myself, and it's 
the standard 
we Democrats use 
today. 
I stand before you because my 
parents saw promise in their 
seven children, but my parents 
did 
not do it alone. 
No one does it alone. 
It was our Democratic Party that
pushed open the doors of 
opportunity for me, and for 
millions of children all across 
this great country. 
It was our party that fought for
head 
start and good schools and 
made college affordable and 
championed affirmative 
action 
and school desegregation, that 
passed Social Security and 
Medicare, that defended our 
nation abroad, fought for our 
veterans back home, that 
protected the rights and the 
pensions of our workers and that
American families. 
Yes, it still 
is our Democratic 
Party that championed civil 
rights and voting rights. 
[Cheers and applause]
It's we Democrats who fully 
understand that when you take 
away a person's right to vote, 
you take away their ability to 
shape and determine their own 
destiny. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
And it was and it is our 
Democratic Party that fights for
women's rights, gay rights, the 
LGBTQ rights. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
Our party does not just believe 
but understands that Black Lives
Matter. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
But we also, we also recognize 
that our communities and our law
enforcement work best when they 
work together. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
[chanting] 
>> Our party, our party knows 
that diversity is not our 
problem but 
is our promise. 
And that's why, ladies and 
gentlemen, that's why ours, ours
is a party of unity and not 
division. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
I'm proud that our party's 
platform will help not the 
wealthy, not the 1%, but still 
it will help our struggling 
middle class, our working 
families, the disadvantaged, and
the disabled. 
It will help the less fortunate.
father's test, and it has done 
so not by seeking common ground,
It envisions a nation where we 
do not merely increase the 
minimum wage, but we enact a 
living wage. 
It envisions a nation in which 
we eliminate the death penalty 
because we as Democrats, we 
value every life:  Black, white,
It envisions a nation where we 
do not have to choose between 
protecting the environment and 
creating jobs, but where we can 
defend our planet against global
warming while at the same time 
enacting policies that foster 
job creation, incentivize 
new 
start-ups, and bring 
ex-expatrioted jobs back home. 
It envisions a nation where 
every child can get a first rate
equipped to compete in a global 
economy. 
It envisions an America in which
we protect a woman's 
right to 
choose, where everyone can get 
healthcare they need when they 
need it, regardless of their 
zip 
code or circumstance, because 
healthcare in our country is not
a privilege, it is now, thanks 
to President Barack Obama, our 
right as Americans. 
So, Madam Chair, when I say my 
prayers at night and I look up 
to the heavens, I see the stars,
proud, proud of our platform 
economy, our truly progressive 
platform, and our great nominee,
Hillary Clinton, and our party's
bright future. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
And if my father, and if my 
father, that brilliant man with 
a fourth grade education but a 
mind full of wisdom and common 
sense, was standing here with us
proud of all of you, and he 
would say these words, that this
Clinton, bigger than Bernie 
Sanders, is bigger than all of 
us. 
[Cheers and applause] 
It's about 
generations yet 
unborn. 
And he would say, and he would 
say these simple words, "You are
people. 
May God bless, may God bless 
America. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
>> Just seven short weeks ago, 
the process for drafting the 
party platform began. 
>> You may be seated. 
>> Meeting in Washington, D.C. 
and Phoenix, Arizona, the 15 
member platform drafting 
committee, led by Congressman 
Elijah Cummings held 30 hours of
>> I was so proud to stand 
behind President Obama when he 
announced new executive actions 
aimed at narrowing the loopholes
for dangerous people to get 
their hands on guns. 
>> Nabisco built the largest 
cookie and cracker production 
facility in the world in Mexico.
My employer never expressed to 
me or any of my co-workers that 
they were concerned about our 
future or the future of our 
families. 
>> The voices of those who have 
experienced poverty firsthand 
must be heard and included in 
our country's, government and in
our policies. 
>> We work, struggle, save, but 
it's never enough. 
>> The committee, including 
representatives from the Clinton
and Sanders campaigns, heard 114
witnesses advocate for important
positions for inclusion in the 
Democratic Party platform. 
>> If we're looking at 118 years
for women to be able be to be 
paid fairly, we need to make 
radical change. 
>> This will be the first 
presidential election since Miss
Hamus spoke out more than 50 
years ago without the full 
protections of the voting rietsz
act. 
>> As a person of color and a 
person of immigrant, I know we 
are especially resilient, that's
But we need to present our 
children with more than 
survival. 
This is why I ask today that as 
you develop your plans for the 
future, make climate change 
mitigation and adaptation a top 
priority. 
>> Fighting for the middle 
class, innovation, job reation, 
economic fairness, removing 
barriers to full opportunity in 
our society, combating climate 
change, making our government 
more accountable to the people, 
and so much more. 
>> Asian Americans and Pacific 
Islanders are quite plog sieve, 
en -- progressive, engaging and 
organizing our community is 
critical to securing equity and 
justice for all Americans. 
[music] 
>> Next stop, saint Louis, the 
drafting committee meeting, with
instruction from chairman 
Cummings to seek higher ground, 
the committee deliberated over 
the issues and positions for 
this year's party platform. 
>> In the words of Byonce, we 
got a lot of folks working 9 to 
5 just to stay alive. 
>> After a long day of 
discussion and some spirited 
debate, the drafting committee 
voted to advance its work to the
>> We got some great stuff in 
the platform that's never been 
there before. 
I will, therefore, vote to pass 
it on in hopes that the 
conversation continues in 
Orlando. 
>> I've enjoyed being part of 
this process. 
We've made some substantial 
moves forward. 
If we're going to try to make 
this world a better place, then 
we've got to be able to say 
we're in favor of something. 
>> My gosh, I hope we really 
recognize the wonderful work 
that has been done here and 
moving forward and embrace this 
and let's move on and win this 
election. 
[music] 
>> Finally, Orlando, more than 
180 members of the platform 
committee came together from 
across our diverse party to 
affirm our vision of how to help
make America even better. 
>> I stand here tonight, I am so
I am proud of the Hillary 
Clinton campaign. 
I am proud of the Sanders 
campaign, for ending in a unity 
amendment like this, this is 
about what America is going to 
be. 
This is a pivotal moment in our 
history. 
>> The platform committee made 
hundreds of changes and 
amendments to the draft they 
received. 
>> This is a moment that shows 
who the Democratic Party is, a 
party of people, a party of 
passion. 
>> In the end, the platform 
committee came together in 
spirit of unity and progress for
>> Ladies and gentlemen, I am so
proud to 
be a Democrat tonight. 
[Cheers and applause] 
[music] 
>> I want to thank both of our 
campaigns, I want to thank 
Bernie Sanders, I want 
to thank 
Hillary Clinton and I look 
forward to elect egg the first 
woman President of the United 
States of America. 
>> The document they created, as
future-oriented, is our 2016 
Democratic 
National Committee 
platform. 
>> Ladies and gentlemen, please 
welcome to the podium, platform 
committee co-chairs Shirley 
Franklin from Georgia and 
Governor Dana Malloy from 
Connecticut. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
>> As co-chair of the platform 
committee, I am proud to present
the platform committee report. 
As a Democrat, I am privileged 
to be here at this momentous and
historic occasion, honoring our 
party's legacy and standing on 
the shoulders of giants. 
I can't help but be reminded of 
Congressswoman Barbara Jordan, 
the first black woman to give a 
keynote address at the 
Democratic Convention. 
In 1996, she asked, are we to be
one people bound together by 
common spirit, sharing in common
become a 
divided nation? 
I believe we are faced with the 
same question today, and I 
believe we and Hillary Clinton 
have the answer. 
[
Cheers and applause]
heard testimony from 144 
witnesses. 
We deliberated for hours. 
We took comments from experts, 
advocates, elected officials, 
and neighbors, co-workers and 
friends, and in the most open 
and transparent process in our 
party's history, we drafted the 
most 
progressive platform ever. 
[applause] 
It's a bold vision for working 
families, social justice, and 
the continued prosperity and 
security of our country. 
And it is reflective of our 
values as Democrats, the party 
of inclusion. 
We know that the common endeavor
40 years ago is just as powerful
and proceed  profound today, and
 we know 
that our party, our country, is 
stronger together. 
Thank you. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
>> Madam Chair, I move for the 
adoption of 
the platform report. 
>> Ladies and gentlemen, please 
welcome Paul Booth from the 
District of Columbia. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
>> Sisters and brothers, 
colleagues on the drafting 
committee, my friends on the 
Sanders campaign with whom I was
proud to work, work through and 
adopt these hard fought 
agreements, I am proud to help 
present the most ambitious 
platform the Democratic Party 
has ever offered. 
[applause] 
Democrats of every stripe came 
together to create this bold 
plan for progress, and make no 
mistake, it is a win for middle 
class families and all those 
trying to get there. 
It has historic investments in 
infrastructure that will put 
people to work, strengthen our 
communities and make our nation 
more competitive in the 21st 
century, it has a declaration to
Americans need to earn $15 an 
hour at least. 
[
Cheers and applause] 
It has support for the public 
services, the public schools and
the public workers who are the 
backbone of our country and keep
and thriving, and it has 
progressive and high standards 
on trade to protect American 
workers, and it commits us to 
take on directly and forcefully 
the challenges of systemic 
racism in America. 
This platform fights for social 
justice, for equal pay and 
higher pay, for safe and 
security retirement, and for the
right to organize labor 
unions. 
[Cheers and applause] 
To Americans who are having it 
rough trying to make ends meet, 
to those who have seen 
heart-breaking violence, to 
those who think that the 
American dream is slipping out 
of reach or that climate change 
is hopelessly irreversible, we 
have done our best to pave a 
hopeful path forward. 
Our platform isn't a 
bunch of 
slogans. 
To achieve our high hopes, we 
offer plans, not empty promises,
delivering those plans, and 
that's exactly who we are 
nominating, Hillary 
Clinton and 
Tim Kaine. 
[Cheers and applause] 
Who agree and will 
carry out our 
vision.
Republican platform would not 
make America great. 
The Republican platform would 
pull the rug out from under us, 
legalizing discrimination, 
cutting holes in the social 
safety net, prosperity for you 
and me, while the corporate 
elite and billionaires get 
special privileges and more 
deregularrization, more 
privatization, and union busting
families, that would not make 
America great, and neither will 
the gridlock that Americans need
a better option, and that's 
exactly what this bold agenda 
represents. 
The words alone are not enough. 
This platform needs a Band-Aid 
from the voters of America, and 
that demands that we come 
together and work together and 
organize together and mobilize 
together anywhere and everywhere
this November 
and beyond. 
Brothers and sisters, none of 
the visionary proposals that 
we've committed to, the policies
that brought millions of us into
activist engagement in the 
primaries, none can be achieved 
without that 
Band-Aid from the 
voters. 
Let's face it, Americans are 
skeptical, they've seen 
Republican partisanship blocking
millions of people from med 
cairksd even seen them shut down
working men and 
women? 
Our answer, yes we 
can. 
[Cheers and applause] 
We can be proud of what we've 
written together. 
We should be. 
The solutions Americans want and
are in this platform so 
let's ratify it together, let's 
take it out on the road 
together, and with these 
progressive principles guiding 
us, let's elect Democrats from 
the white house to the 50 
statehouses together. 
Thank you. 
[
Cheers and 
applause] 
[Cheers and 
applause] 
>> Please welcome Ben Jealous, 
from Maryland. 
>> Well, good evening. 
My name is Benjamin Todd 
jealous, I'm a civil rights 
organizer and a son of two 
teachers whose marriage was 
against the law 50 years ago. 
You can say I've spent my entire
prove that love trumps hate. 
[Cheers and applause] 
And I'm proud to be one of the 
1900 Delegates here tonight from
campaign. 
[Cheers and applause] 
Bernie will be here tonight and 
as he said to us today, today is
can defeat Donald Trump. 
And I'm looking forward to 
joining him along with all of us
to take back the Senate, elect 
local and state change makers, 
defeat Trump and make Hillary 
Clinton President of these 
United 
States. 
[Cheers and applause] 
And I am proud to support this 
platform, the most progressive 
platform in the history of our 
party. 
It empowers us all to pull 
together and win big victories 
at the ballot box and beyond. 
You see, I hail from the 
 great 
state of Maryland where 
Democrats have shown that where 
we all come together as one, we 
win more, bigger and better 
victories faster. 
Four years ago, when it seems 
like reactionary Republicans 
were sailing everybody's rights 
everywhere, all at once, we in 
Maryland adopted the motto of 
the three musketeers and said 
all for one and one for all. 
In the year that followed, we 
abolished the death penalty, 
passed marriage equality, 
decriminalized low-level 
possession of marijuana, passed 
the Dream Act, expanded voting 
rights and passed sensible gun 
safety reform. 
[Cheers and applause] 
And it is in that same spirit 
that we present this platform 
tonight and say, to the college 
students and graduates who are 
drowning in debt, join us at the
together we will make college 
radically more affordable. 
[Cheers and applause] 
To comungts devastated by both 
mass incarceration and murder, 
join us at the ballot box, and 
together we will shift our 
nation's priorities away from 
the failed war on drugs and 
towards rehabilitation and the 
reincorporation of men and women
returning from prison into our 
economy. 
[Cheers and applause] 
And public safety strategies, 
not law and order foolishness, 
but public safety strategies 
that actually make us safer. 
To the hard-working parents who 
bear that special pain that 
comes when you realize that your
7.25, we say join us at the 
ballot box and we will win the 
fight for 15 and raise the 
minimum wage from coast to coast
hour. 
[Cheers and applause] 
And to residents of rural 
communities and urban areas, 
ravaged by the poisoning of 
their wells and the water 
supply, we say join us at the 
ballot box and we will ensure 
that your voice is heard, your 
water is made 
clean and our 
nation shifts away from gas and 
coal and towards win and solar. 
[Cheers and applause] 
And to people of good conscience
everywhere who are tired, tired 
of seeing our neighbors abused, 
scapegoated and killed because 
of racism, transphobia, 
homophobia, we say join us at 
the ballot box and together we 
will move America forward to 
become the most perfect example 
of the unity and dignity of the 
human family that the 
world has 
ever seen.  And to all Americans
of FDR, 
JFK, MLK, Shirley Chisolm, Barb 
are McCulsky, Barack Obama and 
Hillary Clinton. 
(cheers and applause). 
We broke the gender barrier at 
the Senate and the color barrier
at the White House.  Join us at 
the ballot box and we will elect
these united states to beat 
Donald Trump and build a better 
America for all our daughters 
and sons.  Let's come together, 
ya'll, and let's go 
win this.  
God 
bless. 
(cheers and applause). 
Voice:  A motion has been made 
to adopt the 2016 Democratic 
national platform as recommended
by the platform committee.  Is 
there a second?  Crowd:  Yes 
voice:  Pursuant to our rules, 
we'll now have a voice vote on 
approving the platform report.  
All those in 
favor, 
say 
aye. 
>> Aye (Cheering). 
All opposed? 
Is there any opposition? 
(Crowd noise). 
In the opinion of the Chair, the
(
cheers and applause). 
Thank you very much to our 
platform comel co-chairs, 
Shirley Franklin and Governor 
Daniel Malloy and the members of
the platform committee, as well 
as our platform drafting 
committee Chair, representative 
Elijah Cummings and the members 
of the 
drafting 
committee.  
Thank 
you. 
(
music). 
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music). 
(music). 
(music). 
(music). 
Ladies and gentlemen, please 
welcome representative 
Robert 
Brady from Pennsylvania. 
(music). 
Robert Brady:  Welcome to my 
district, and welcome to 
Philadelphia, the city that's 
made America free.  Today makes 
history again.  This is the 
birtd place of our great 
democracy, the home of 
independence hall and the 
liberty bell, but independence 
and liberty have never been 
given, we have to fight for it 
and defend these principles, 
each generation.  That has 
always been the work of the 
brave men and women of the armed
services, to all who served or 
have loved ones serving, thank 
you. 
(cheers and applause). 
To all who have defenlded our 
freedom but never came home, 
prisoners of war and those 
missing in action, we remember 
you.  You are not forgotten.  As
Americans living in freedom, 
each of us has a responsibility 
to always remember the 
sacrifices of those that did not
return we are still waiting for.
We hold them in our hearts every
single day.  Across this great 
land and throughout greater 
Philadelphia, in venues from 
city halls to sports arenas, an 
empty Chair honors our missing 
heroes.  I was proud to pass 
along and place one such Chair 
in the United States capitol 
forever, and at this Democratic 
Convention, we also save them a 
seat, an Elm till Chair that 
will serve as -- an Elm till 
Chair that will serve as a 
reminder that those members and 
POW's and what they did for our 
crurn, a reminder that we all 
have a responsibility to 
remember.  Please turn to the 
Pennsylvania delegation where we
keep this meaningful memorial, 
the POW MIA national Chair of 
honor, right here in 
Pennsylvania delegation. 
(cheers and applause). 
Now I ask, all of you, to stand 
and observe a moment of silence 
for our 
POW-MIA Americans.  
Please stand.  Thank you and 
thank you for honoring their 
courage and commitment to our 
great community.  Let's give 
them one more round of applause,
veterans.  Let's go, New York, I
can't hear you, Virginia, how 
about Pennsylvania, how about 
Pennsylvania?  Let's lift it up 
for our veterans, thank you for 
all you do, and to keep Donald 
Trump out of the White House, 
someone who disrespects our 
POW's like John McCain, and 
thank you all for all you do to 
elect our next President, 
Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Thank 
you.  God bless you and God 
bless America.  Thank 
you. 
(cheers and applause). 
>> Ladies and gentlemen, please 
welcome representative 
Brendan 
Boyle from Pennsylvania. 
Brendan boil:  Welcome to the 
nation's birth place, my 
hometown, fesm.  Right here, in 
the sweltering summer of 1776, a
single race or religion, but out
of a shared commitment to 
powerful ideals that would 
inspire the world over.  My 
father came to America when he 
was 1-9D 19, he came here to 
enjoy 
the same rights and pursue the 
same opportunities that our 
founders dreamed of two 
centuries ago, he knew that in 
this country, his children would
be considered just as American 
as the descendants of the 
Mayflower.  My father was a 
janitor accident cleaning the 
same train stations many of us 
rode past to get here tonight.  
Mill mother was a school 
crossing guard, my brother and I
row home where we were raised to
believe that in this country, if
you work hard, where you come 
from doesn't 
determine where 
you're going.  Thanks to many 
sacrifices, a loft student 
loandz and a little luck, I 
became the first in my family to
go to college.  As Democrats, 
our mission is to make more 
stories like mine more common, 
not less so, but all Donald 
Trump wants to do is tell you 
who is to blame, to fan the 
flames of anxiety and to exploit
them in the most negative, 
divisive, dangerous ways.  This 
is why Hillary Clinton's vision 
is so important.  It's the 
opportunity for wages that help 
Americans join the middle class 
and stay there, a 
 plan to ensure 
that women receive equal pay for
(cheers and applause). 
A pathway to college, and a 
ladder 
into the working world.  
Now, Donald Trump says the 
American dream is dead.  Why 
does he want to lead America 
when he doesn't 
even believe in 
America?  Donald Trump is wrong.
By geography and by destiny, we 
are a land set apart.  We 
Democrats come to Philadelphia 
this week to reaffirm our 
commitment to our founding 
ideals.  We come here to renewal
dream a reality for all.  We 
come here to elect Hillary 
Clinton the next President of 
the United 
States. 
(cheers and applause). 
Ladies and gentlemen, please 
welcome representative Raul 
Grijalva from Arizona. 
(
music). 
Raul Grijalva:  Good evening.  I
(cheers and applause). 
In behalf of our future and in 
recognition of our proud past, I
am reminded today of all the 
important fights of the past 50 
years, fought and won by 
progressive leaders of our 
party, I came to age, I came of 
age admiring Democrats who 
fought for civil rietsz, for 
women's rights, for clean air, 
clean water, and for peace and 
the many other great 
advancements made in this 
country that made it a better 
etter place.  I 
came of age with a party that 
believed the public good, not 
the size of a donor's check, was
(cheers and applause). 
And my friends, a new generation
ethnicities, all backgrounds, 
all income levels are looking 
for us to stay true to the 
party's great ideals.  They look
needs above those of the already
rich and the already powerful.  
Their idealism, their optimism, 
their belief in America, they 
are no different than the 
idealism that built this nation 
or the idealism that won 
progressive fights of a 
generation ago.  Their idealism 
is just as powerful and, yes, 
just as fragile.  In this 
election and in everything we 
do, we must remember that and be
here today supporting our 
nominee if the Democrats of 50 
years ago hadn't had their 
courage.  I wouldn't be here if 
our party was built on the likes
of Donald Trump, who is trying 
to make our country meaner, 
hateful, more divided, and more 
fearful.  I'm proud to be, very 
proud to be part of a movement 
that's going 
to beat Donald 
Trump. 
(cheers and applause). 
That's going to help elect 
Hillary Clinton and that's going
to turn that idealism into a 
governing philosophy we can all 
be proud of, so now it's time, 
let's go win this, let's win it 
for our people, and let's win it
for our 
nation.  Thank you. 
(applause). 
Voice:  Ladies and 
gentlemen, 
please welcome representative 
Nida yowy from New York. 
(music). 
Nida:  Good evening.  It is my 
pleasure to join you in the city
our first sister 
President. 
(cheers and applause). 
In the United States Congress, I
had the privilege to represent 
teachers and first responders, 
veterans and college students, 
small 
business owners and 
seniors and my good friend and 
colleague, the next President of
the United States of America, 
Hillary 
Clinton. 
(cheers and applause). 
We New 
Yorkers really know 
Hillary.  Not only has she been 
our first lady and secretary of 
state, Hillary has been our 
neighbor, our friend and for 
eight years our fierce ally in 
the United States Senate. 
(
cheers and applause). 
Here is what I learned from 
working closely with her for 
many years.  Hillary doesn't 
just fight the tough battles, 
Hillary wins them! 
(
cheers and applause). 
and in the dark days after 
September 11, Hillary's 
leadership on behalf of New York
those who lost loved ones, she 
brought home the assistance to 
get New York back on its feet, 
and long after the 
cameras were 
gone, Hillary helped secure 
healthcare for the police, the 
firefighters 
and EMT's who ran 
toward ground zero, as everyone 
else ran away.  Hillary 
represented the diverse needs of
fighting to keep VA hospitals 
and military bases open, helping
market and giving small 
businesses the tools to grow and
for New York state of the art 
hospitals, our colleges and 
universities.  Of course, 
Hillary's achievements reach 
beyond the Empire State, from 
her work to support family 
caregivers, to make family 
planning accessible for every 
American 
woman! 
(cheers and applause). 
And to help provide 8 million 
American 
children with health 
insurance.  And she is respected
skilled 
diplomacy, impeccable 
leadership, and advancement of 
rights for women and 
girls. 
(cheers and applause). 
Hillary has devoted her life and
career to public service and 
strengthening America's middle 
class.  Now, Donald Trump has 
devoted his life 
and career 
to, 
well, Donald Trump.  Hillary 
will always put our families 
first, and that's why on our 
ballots we put Hillary 
first. 
(cheers and applause). 
And now I am happy to be joined 
by New York leaders who know 
Hillary Clinton, who respect 
Hillary Clinton and will 
continue to work to elect 
Hillary Clinton, the next 
President of the United 
States. 
(cheers and applause). 
And now 
I am so pleased to 
introduce another great leader 
from New York, Adriana Fiaz. 
Adriana:  Hello, Democrats.  Any
(cheers and applause).
Adriana Esbiat and when I take 
the office as your new 
Congressman in January, I will 
become the first Dominican 
American to ever serve in the 
U.S. 
Congress. 
(cheers and applause). 
  Perhaps even just as 
important, I will be the first 
member of Congress who was once 
undocumented as an immigrant. 
(cheers and applause). 
You take that, Donald 
Trump. 
(cheers and applause). 
  For us immigrants, our 
commitment to this country isn't
our documents, even on our worst
day, that tall, elegant lady 
sits in New York Harbor and she 
says to Donald Trump every day, 
"Give me your tired, give me 
your poor, your masses waiting 
to be free, with every callus in
plant are elements of our work, 
the skyscrapers that we built 
and the adopted soil that we 
choose to defend, with every 
callus on our hand, we build the
bridges between our dreams and 
our destiny."  for Donald Trump,
Clinton and Tim Kaine, it is 
inspiring. 
(
cheers and applause). 
So let's keep building, let's 
keep dreaming, and let's elect 
Hillary Clinton as our next 
President so we can be stronger 
together. 
(
cheers and applause). 
(
Speaking in non-English 
language) thank 
you. 
(cheers and applause). 
Announcer:  Ladies and 
gentlemen, we are about to take 
the 2016 Democratic Convention 
official photo.  We would like 
to ask all of Delegates and 
guests to get to your seats 
quickly and make sure there is 
no movement in the hall.  The 
photo is being 
taken by 
Abas Shermahabati, fourth 
generation photographer using a 
100-year-old camera that's 
captured all the past DNC 
Convention and the past 6 
presidential inaugural 
ceremonies.  Please look towards
listen to the instructions from 
the photographer.
Photographer:  Good afternoon.  
I would like to ask everyone to 
please turn toward the center 
stand, toward the camera.  This 
whole process will take just 
about two minutes.  I do need 
your cooperation, please.  This 
should not be -- there should 
not be any move 
am in the hall.  
If you are moving, it will be a 
blur.
  I need your cooperation, 
please.  Do not move, just move 
toward the center of the hall.  
I greatly appreciate your 
cooperation for the camera for 
20 seconds.  Everyone, please 
stay 
right there.  Don't 
move.  
Stay there, everyone.  Please do
Hold your mouth, 
please.  I do appreciate your 
cooperation.  Good luck to all 
of 
you. 
(
cheers and applause). 
(music). 
Announcer:  Ladies and 
gentlemen, please welcome Oregon
speaker, Tina Cotec, Cal, 
and Stacy Abrams. 
(music). 
Tina:  Good evening, I am Tina 
Kotek, vice-chair of the 
Democratic Legislative Campaign 
Committee and speaker of the 
house from the great state of 
Oregon! 
(cheers and applause). 
Can we move 
the prompter a 
second?  
Thank you very much.  
Appears the first lesbian 
speaker of any statehouse in our
nation. 
(cheers and applause). 
-- as the first lesbian speaker 
of any statehouse in our nation.
Thank you, I have personally 
witness ppedz the tremendous 
progress towards equality and 
justice for the LGBTQ community.
have come so far and we 
cannot, 
we cannot go back.  I am 
known for being someone who 
tells it like it is, and the 
fact is I'm with Hillary because
she is with me. 
(cheers and applause). 
Hillary Clinton understands that
the work to improve the lives of
everyday Americans doesn't just 
need to happen in Washington, 
D.C., it needs to happen in 
state capitals all across our 
country.  Just like Hillary, 
Oregon Democrats and Democratic 
state legislators across the 
country are proud to stand up 
for the hard-working people we 
represent.  We have been leading
progressive policies that level 
the playing field and create an 
economy that works for all 
Americans.  From raising the 
minimum wage, to guaranteeing 
paid family and medical leave, 
to ending racial profiling, 
Democratic leaders in the states
Clinton to ensure the progress 
we are making isn't compromised 
by risky, reckless leadership 
in 
the Oval Office.  From the 
statehouse to the White House, 
we need leaders like Hillary 
Clinton who will stand up to the
bullies who threaten fairness 
and equality, who offer real 
solutions that put working 
families first and build an 
economy, that gives everyone a 
fair shot at success.  Hillary 
Clinton is our answer to 
intolerance and fear, and I have
stands he stands with all of 
us.  Thank you very much. 
(
cheers and applause). 
Thank you, Tina, and thank you 
for what you do for the great 
state of Oregon. 
(cheers and applause). 
Friends, I'm Kevin Delione, 
Senate President from the great 
state of 
California! 
(cheers and applause). 
And I'm with Hillary because she
has spent a lifetime fighting 
for families just like mine.  As
mother with a third-grade 
education, I know how important 
the work of our state capitals 
can be.  We open doors of 
opportunity to hard-working 
Americans who don't have the 
luxury of a family inheritance 
or a pedigreed name.  Democrats 
in California have led the way 
by raising the minimum wage, 
expanding affordable child 
care, 
establishing our own state's 
Dream Act to keep families 
together keeping college 
affordable and creating more 
than 500,000 clean energy jobs 
through our landmark climate 
laws. 
(cheers and applause). 
We've made unprecedented 
progress in every area, and when
next President, I know that our 
progress will be America's 
progress. 
(cheers and applause). 
These are the progressive 
policies that have made 
California the 6th largest 
economy on planet earth.
  And my 
friends, this is how Democrats 
govern, and when Democrats lead,
everyone has 
a shot to succeed.  
Not by shouting 
zeonphobic bombastic rhetoric 
into the microphones, but by 
taking bold powerful policies 
and igniting innovation that 
leaves no one behind and that's 
how you 
improve the human 
condition.  Democrats, don't 
alienate, isolate, exclude or 
demonize, and we don't 
manufacture fear.  That's a sign
of 
weakness. 
(cheers and applause). 
We look to solve inequality, 
empower the forgotten and the 
overlooked and expand the 
winners circle for everyone, 
irrespective of who you are, 
where you come from, the 
language you speak or the hue of
your skin and we fight for fair 
and equal pay for all women 
because we know that our economy
works better when 
we all work 
together.  
Friends, we're all 
Democrats, and more 
importantly, 
we are Americans.  And I've got 
a message for 
Donald J. Trump 
(Speaking non-English) we don't 
build walls here, we tear them 
down.  Thank 
you. 
(
cheers and applause). 
Stacey:  I am Stacey Abrams and 
I join you today from the great 
state of Georgia. 
(cheers and applause). 
Where I am honored to lead the 
Democrats in the Georgia House 
of Representatives and to serve 
on the board of the DLCC.  
Growing up  as the daughter of a
in southern Mississippi, my 
family was hit time and again by
too often driven by racism, 
sexism and the ills that come 
with being born in the wrong zip
code.  Still, every day, my 
parents taught us all six of 
their children to celebrate 
through service the grace that 
is America, to understand that 
no matter how little we may have
with less, and it was our job to
serve that person, to know that 
even the most powerful among us,
rise up alone.  No matter where 
we start, we all need help, we 
all need opportunity.  And when 
we succeed, we prosper together.
talked about changes the lives 
of our families, our 
communities, our countries, and 
the fortunes of generations who 
will follow.  Hillary Clinton 
understands that government at 
all levels is a profound 
expression of our common 
humanity and our shared values, 
of our aspirations, not our 
fears, and that is why I am so 
very proud to stand with this 
remarkable woman with the 
thousands of fellow state 
legislators and with each of you
as we elect Hillary to be the 
45th President of these United 
States. 
(cheers and applause). 
I am here today as part of a new
American majority, one that has 
the courage to work together 
rather than tear our nation 
apart.  We are the architects of
living wage, rather than 
crippling our economic future 
and pushing dangerous policies 
that deny Medicaid expansion and
for more because that is who we 
are.  The Democratic Party is 
the party of civil rights and 
human rights, of spaceflight and
the party of progress and 
inclusion, and we will not allow
will elect Hillary Clinton, a 
clear. 
Eyed leader who sees the future 
and races toward t fearless and 
bold, because she knows and we 
know that America is and must 
always be stronger together.  
Thank 
y
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(
cheers and applause). 
Announcer:  Ladies and 
gentlemen, please welcome the 
mayor of 
Philadelphia, Jim 
Kenny. 
(music). 
Kenney. 
Jim Kenney:  Yo, Pennsylvania.  
Philadelphia is a city that 
makes history and we're ready to
President of the United States. 
(cheers and applause). 
  Today, however, I want to 
share a Philadelphia story you 
probably don't know.  In 1844, 
an early version of the no 
nothing political party held a 
rally here to protest the threat
posed to the American way of 
life.  They claim these 
immigrants, people like my 
family, were more likely to 
commit crimes than native-born 
citizens.  Does that sound 
familiar?  This rhetoric led to 
riots.  Saint Michael and saint 
Augustine churches were burned 
to the ground, some 20 people 
died.  I'm telling you this 
story for one reason, it's 
happening again.  The no 
nothings have returned and last 
week in Cleveland they vowed to 
take their country back this 
November.  But they got it all 
wrong.  It was never their 
country in the first 
place. 
(cheers and applause). 
Whether our families came to 
this country in 1776 or 1976 or 
2016, this country belongs to 
all of us. 
(applause). 
Now, many of us thought we 
defeated the know nothings eight
years ago when we elected our 
first black President Barack 
Obama. 
(cheers and applause). 
But the fact is that meaningful 
change never happens all at 
once.  You have to fight for it.
A few weeks ago, after two 
previous attempts, Philadelphia 
became the first major city to 
pass a soda tax, that will fund 
pre-K, community schools, and 
Parks & recreation centers and 
library innovations all 
throughout the city.  Recently, 
I was speaking to an immigrant 
restaurant owner who told me 
that he supported the tax even 
though he sells soda because it 
was going to help the 
neighborhood children.  He said 
we didn't come here just to get 
rich, we came here to make a 
better life for 
ourselves and 
everyone else.  I can't tell you
of our immigrant brothers and 
sisters had to hear the ugly 
things said in Cleveland, but we
can't let that anger overwhelm 
us.  That's what know nothings 
do.  Instead we have to come 
together.  When this country 
comes together, families who 
used to have to choose between 
groceries or healthcare are no 
longer hungry or sick.  When we 
come together, children whose 
destiny was once determined by 
their zip code get a start in 
pre-K that they deserve, and 
when we come together, the know 
nothings who overran 
Philadelphia in 1844 will 
finally be defeated with the 
election of Hillary Clinton as 
President of the United States 
in 
2016. 
(cheers and applause). 
Let's get to work.  Thank you, 
and 
enjoy Philadelphia. 
(applause). 
(music). 
Consulting with consistently so 
that you're ready on day one? 
Voice:  I'm speak with myself on
good brain and I've said a 
lot 
of good things. 
Announcer:  Ladies and 
gentlemen, please welcome 
Governor Dan Malloy from 
Connecticut. 
Dan Malloy:  Thank you very 
much, I'm here today to tell you
we are stronger together.  It's 
a stroar of a young boy with 
physical and severe learning 
disabilities, a child for whom 
reading and writing were almost 
impossible, a child thought to 
be, as the term was used in the 
early 1960s, mentally retarded 
as late as the fourth grade, a 
boy who could not tie his shoe 
or button his shirt until the 
fifth grade, someone who knew 
the harsh words of bullies on 
the ploy ground and 
discrimination in the classroom,
but that boy had great teachers 
and he had a mother who believed
opportunities for success.  He 
had a support sim that believed 
that we are stronger together 
when we lift up those who fall 
behind.  And that boy was lifted
up.  He learned his strengths.  
He overcame his difficulties.  
He went on to be successful in 
college and law school, then 
earning the right to be the 
first learning-impaired person 
to take the essay portion of a 
bar exam orally in three 
different states.  And today 
that boy has now grown up and is
Governor of the state of 
Connecticut. 
(cheers and applause). 
And proud to be addressing the 
Democratic National Convention. 
of why we are stronger together.
It's an American story.  After 
all, our communities are bound 
by the shared understanding that
we are stronger together, that 
we need to lift up our brothers 
and sisters and ignore the 
shouts and taunts of bullies 
amongst us.  That is one reason 
why I'm a Democrat, and that is 
why I am proud to support 
Hillary Clinton for President of
States. 
(cheers and applause). 
Like Hillary Clinton, and Tim 
Kaine, I believe that we must 
instill hope in every American. 
It doesn't matter their race or 
their gender or who they love or
learning abilities are.  Every 
child, every American deserves 
to have an opportunity to be 
successful in this life.  That's
governors.  We stand for solving
problems and bringing hope to 
more Americans, hope for fairer 
wages, hope for better schools, 
and hope for more time to spend 
with the families they love.  
We're proud to count amongst our
Clinton, and we're proud to 
count amongst our alumni 
former 
Governor Tim Kaine. 
(cheers and applause). 
Tim Kaine, who as Governor of 
Virginia, led his state through 
the worst economic crisis since 
the Great Depression, while 
creating jobs in the process.  
And today I am here to tell you 
that the middle class in America
the work of Democratic 
Governors.  In Washington, D.C.,
innovative idea that has a 
starlet letter D for Democrat 
next to it, but by the states 
run by Democratic governors, 
we're about solving problems.  
Every day we work to create jobs
education and expand 
opportunities for Americans.  
That's exactly what we've done 
in Connecticut.  We've added 
over 100,000 jobs while raising 
the minimum wage.  We passed 
criminal justice reform that 
gives nonviolent offenders a 
second chance.  We've lowered 
our prison population by 
thousands and thousands of 
individuals, while we cut our 
crime rate to the lowest it has 
been in 48 years.
  And after the 
Sandy Hook School tragedy, we 
passed common sense gun safety 
laws, including universal 
background checks in our state 
of Connecticut. 
(cheers and applause). 
We have moved towards equal pay 
by making compensation more 
transparent, and we were the 
first state in the nation, five 
years ago, to pass paid sick 
leave.  And guess what?  Not 
only are our workers protecting 
their health, but they're also 
protecting the health of the 
people they serve, and 
overwhelmingly the businesses 
they work for approve of 
paid 
sick leave today.  Democratic 
governors across this country 
are leading the way.  In New 
York and Delaware, we've raised 
the minimum wage.  In Rhode 
Island and Montana we've taken 
action for equal pay.  In Oregon
across the map, we have passed 
Medicaid expansion, and of 
course we've made historic 
investments in education, 
including right here in 
Pennsylvania under Governor Tom 
Wolf.  Democratic governors and 
the Democratic Party are focused
working families, and that's 
exactly what Hillary Clinton 
will focus on as our next 
President.  Now, meanwhile, 
meanwhile, Donald Trump, who has
insulted anyone who doesn't 
agree with him or doesn't look 
like him, women, Mexican 
Americans, veterans, Muslim 
Americans, the LGBTQ community, 
and people with disabilities, 
you name them, you name them, 
and Donald Trump has bullied 
them.  Now, I know something 
about bullies and I know why we 
must stand up to them.  If 
Donald Trump's words are bad -- 
and they are -- his actions are 
worse.  Just look at his vice 
presidential 
choice, Governor 
Mike Pence.  With the 
Trump/Pence ticket, it's like a 
contest to see who can 
discriminate more.  Pence 
rejected $80 million in federal 
money that would have funded 
pre-K for 4,000 low-income 
children.  He signed a law, he 
signed a law that would have 
forced women to hold funerals 
for fetuses even in some cases 
after a miscarriage.  He signed 
another law that would 
discriminate against people 
based on who they love and how 
they express that.  That law 
cost Indiana's economy an 
estimated $60 million in lost 
business, and in another state, 
North Carolina, a very similar 
law has caused the NBA to move 
the All Star game out 
of that 
state. 
(applause). 
Governor Pence turned his back 
on refugee children and their 
parents.  I know this firsthand.
rejected by him are now welcome 
residents in the state of 
Connecticut. 
(applause). 
The Trump/Pence ticket brings 
the worst of the Republican 
gubernatorial record to the 
national stage, and it shows why
local level.  Governors work 
where the rubber meets the road,
policies that can move across 
the nation.  Democratic 
governors are critical to 
winning this battle at the state
exists.  We're the only 
organization focused on electing
supporting their policies.  
We're fighting for these 
policies today, and we're 
fighting for the future by 
focusing on winning back 
Governor seats before 
redistricting occurs in 2020.  
You all know this, you know that
in 2010.  That's why we need 
strong Democratic governors to 
fight for fair maps and the 
policies that we all believe in,
the United 
States. 
(applause). 
Together we can and will help 
lift up every American so that 
they can live the American dream
that we are stronger together.  
God bless you, and thank 
you 
very much. 
(applause). 
(music). 
Voice:  Republicans hold the 
house, even though Americans 
voted for more Democrats. 
When Republicans won the 
majority of state houses in 
2010, it ensured they would be 
redrawing the maps in those 
states.  On the whole, it paid 
off in 2012. 
Voice:  Republicans Drew 
congressional maps that looked 
like ink blots. 
>> Video toe power over 
legislators. 
It's helped the GOP help keep 
control.  House, regardless of 
what voters may prefer.  They 
were able to do that in large 
part because of a Republican 
plan set in motion years 
earlier.  But in states with 
Democratic governors, we stopped
it.  Now Democratic governors 
are restoring voting rights and 
plecting our right to vote.  
Oregon is first to push to get 
more people to vote, not fewer. 
Governor John Higenvu terks er 
signed elections akd.  
Connecticut approved election 
day registration.  So with 
congressional redistricting 
coming up again after 2020RBGS 
it's simple.  If you want more 
Democrats in Congress and a 
stronger Democratic Party, then 
elect more Democratic governors,
(applause). 
Announcer:  Ladies and 
gentlemen, please welcome the 
chief executive officer of the 
2016 Democratic National 
Convention 
committee refer end 
LeahDautry. 
Leah:  My sister and brother 
Democrats, welcome to 
Philadelphia want our 
extraordinary team has worked 
tirelessly to make this week 
worthy of the history happening 
here at this, the 2016 
Democratic National Convention. 
birth place of American 
democracy, to celebrate the most
that of we the people.  When we 
as Democrats say we the people, 
it has perhaps a different 
meaning than it does for our 
friends on the other side of the
aisle.  When Democrats say we, 
the people, we 
mean all the 
people. 
(cheers and applause). 
All the people regardless of 
race, color, creed or ethnicity,
all the people regardless of 
sexual orientation or gender 
identity.  All the people, those
with plenty and those with 
little, the boats at the bottom 
and the boats coasting on the 
top, all the people, the least, 
the last, the lost, the locked 
in, and the left behind, because
not our problem, it is our 
promise.  And we understand that
me to be just like me.  We 
believe that we have a mission, 
a mandate, and a responsibility 
to work, fight and act on behalf
and act for themselves.  We have
a mission to ensure that our 
public leaders reflect the 
values of all the people that 
they serve.  We have a mandate 
to leave no one behind because 
none of us succeeds unless all 
of us succeed.  And we have a 
moral obligation, grounded in 
our common values, to live not 
as islands unto ourselves, but 
in a beloved community with each
other, and this idea requires 
that we recognize the intrinsic 
worth of every person and 
starting right now to make an 
investment in their futures.  
When our founding fathers and 
mothers created this document 
and wrote "We the People" not 
even five miles from where we 
stand today, they set our 
country off on an ongoing 
journey toward a more perfect 
union, and this week we will 
take one huge step toward 
breaking the hardest, highest 
glass ceiling and nominating, by
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who not 
only believes that we the people
regardless of what you look like
or where you come from, what you
believe or who you love, we are 
always stronger together.  Thank
bless the United States of 
America. 
(
cheers 
and 
applause). 
(
music). 
(music). 
(music). 
(music). 
Announcer:  Ladies and 
gentlemen, please welcome John 
Pedesta, 
Clinton campaign Chair. 
(music). 
John:  Hello, Democrats.  I want
to begin by saying thank you to 
all of you across the country 
who have volunteered your time, 
donated what you could, signed 
up at Hillary Clinton.com, you 
have voted to make Hillary 
Clinton the nominee of the 
Democratic Party.  This 
is your 
victory! 
(cheers and applause). 
And to everyone who supported 
Senator Sanders, this is your 
victory too!  I've known Bernie 
since I was a young staffer for 
Senator pat Lahey when he was 
mayor of Burlington, he stood up
to the special interest and 
thought to give working people 
ale fairer economy and a bigger 
say and those are the same 
values he brought to this 
campaign and our party and our 
country are better for it.  
Donald Trump has different 
values, he built his career by 
ripping people off, snipg 
contractors and skipping out on 
his bills through bankruptcy.  
He is too erratic, dangerous and
divisive to trust to the White 
House.  You know, I'm a 
fortunate grandson of itlezzian 
and Greek immigrants with a blue
I've had the honor to serve two 
great Presidents who fought for 
working people and met the 
challenges of their time.  Now, 
like all of you, I'm working to 
elect a President who has the 
experience, vision, values and 
grit to make progress in these 
turbulent times, that 
person 
is Hillary Clinton. 
(cheers and applause). 
Hig ri will be a President who 
gets results, takes on politics 
in a rigged system to make it 
work for everyone, not just 
those at the top, and she'll be 
a champion for our children and 
our families.  With your hard 
work, we can build a better 
future for everyone, steel 
workers and school teachers, 
farm families and military 
families, the forgotten middle 
class, and those who have been 
left out and left behind, and 
immigrants, people like my 
family and yours who struggle to
get here, who built this 
country, and who love America.  
That's who we're fighting for, 
that's who this election is 
about, that's why she picked Tim
Kaine as her running mate, a man
with a deep core and a passion 
for service. 
(cheers and applause). 
And if we work overtime, work 
overtime for the next 105 days, 
we will succeed in making 
history and elect the first 
woman President of the United 
States! 
(cheers and 
applause).
(music). 
Voice:  I don't want to sound 
too much like a chauvinist, but 
when I come home and dinner is 
not ready, gi through the 
roof, 
okay? 
(music). 
Announcer:  Ladies and 
gentlemen, please welcome 
representative Linda 
Sanchez 
from California. 
(music). 
Linda Sanchez:  Buenos noches, 
good evening, it's great to be 
with all of you.  My name is 
Linda Sanchez and I have the 
honor of representing 
California's 38th congressional 
district, and serving as the 
Chairwoman of 
the congressional 
Hispanic caucus. 
(cheers and applause). 
We are a diverse caucus, and we 
bring an important perspective 
to the decisions that shape the 
future of our country.  We 
embody the promise of the 
American dream, that you can 
achieve success in our great 
country if you are willing to 
work hard enough for it.  The 
Hispanic caucus is made up of 26
talented members who are 
veterans, attorneys, business 
owners, doctors and engineers, 
just to name a few.  Our caucus 
is growing, and this November we
have the opportunity to elect 
outstanding Hispanic candidates 
from across the country.  And 
with Loretta Sanchez and 
Katherine Cortez Masto, we will 
elect a Latina to the U.S. 
Senate. 
(cheers and applause). 
I'm proud of the Hispanic caucus
and the work that we do every 
day to make our country 
stronger.  
Take 
a look. 
(music). 
(music). 
Voice:  What inspired me really 
to run for Congress is the 
situation along the border in 
California.  We have a lot of 
very good people, but there's a 
lot of needs, so I wanted to run
and make a difference. 
Voice:  When I work as a 911 
dispatcher for LAPD, it pushed 
me into a life of politics that 
I never thought that I would 
ever be a 
part of. 
Voice:  Approximate would meet 
with me on an education issue, 
so I went home and said to my 
family, I'm going on run for 
Congress, and I ran, and we won.
all the time to try to bring 
unity, as much as I can in the 
committees that I serve on and 
in the Congress of the United 
States, which these days means 
bringing unity to the whole 
country. 
Voice:  I ran for Congress 
because I think it's important 
that Congress look like America,
Latinos in the United States and
proud to be a member of 
Congress. 
Voice:  It's important because 
we bring the flavor of Latinos 
to Congress, and that makes a 
difference in having them 
recognize that we, too, need a 
seat at the table. 
Voice:  I have a responsibility 
to everybody, but certainly also
Latinos, to make sure that we 
are not invisible, that people 
take us into account too.  It's 
very important that we come 
together, but at the same time, 
it's very important not to 
forget anybody, including 
Latinos and Latinas. 
(music). 
Voice:  Being a Latina member 
really is about representing 
your community, making sure that
your comawnt has a voice, 
it's -- that your community has 
a voice, it's about exhibiting 
leadership and showing young 
Latina women that anything they 
dream of is possible. 
Voice:  Millions and millions of
people still live in the 
shadows.  What's at stake in 
November is that we have to 
solve our immigration system, we
fairly for everyone, we have to 
ensure that there's a path to 
utilization. 
(music). 
Voice:  This November's election
is very important for our 
community, we have a lot at 
stake, and by being active and 
getting others to be active, we 
can make sure that our voice is 
heard. 
Voice:  Make sure that you get 
out to vote.  Take your family 
out to vote, take your friends 
out to vote, be the voice, like 
I am, for those who do not have 
one. 
Voice:  Our worst nightmare in 
this election cycle is to see 
low voter turnout and as Latinos
we should be proud of the fact 
that manufacture our people have
lives for the right to vote.  
That many of our people have 
fault hard and given their lives
for the right to vote.  We 
should take it seriously, and 
let's get out to vote. 
(music). 
I know how much she cares, I 
know she understands that in 
America, when we're together, 
we're stronger.  Hillary Clinton
because she's the one that's 
going to move our country 
forward.  I know Hillary to be a
fighter, someone who gets things
done.  I support Hillary because
she has a life-long relationship
with the Latino community and 
she's always been in our corner.
daughters are so excited to 
finally have a woman President 
and as a woman they look up to 
her but also as Latinas, they're
mold is changing, that has to 
happen.  I encourage you to vote
will say viva Democratic Party. 
She's bad ass and ready to 
lead. 
(cheers and applause). 
Voice:  We are here at this 
historic Democratic National 
Convention to dominate Hillary 
Clinton as the next President --
the next President and Tim Kaine
as the next Vice President of 
the United States. 
(cheers and applause). 
I want to share a little bit of 
my story because it's an 
American story, it's the story 
of millions of Latinos and 
Latinas across this country.  
I'm the daughter of immigrant 
parents from Mexico.  They came 
to this country and worked hard 
every day to provide for me and 
my brothers and sisters.  My 
father Ignacio was an industrial
became an elementary school 
teacher after raising a family. 
sent all seven of their children
to college. 
(applause). 
My mother and father saved and 
sacrificed to achieve the 
American dream for our family.  
They weren't given their 
success.  They earned it.  
Donald Trump believes that 
Mexican immigrants 
are murderers 
and rapists. 
(Crowd noise) but what about my 
parents, Donald?  Let me tell 
you what my parents are.  They 
are the only parents in our 
nation's 265-year history to 
send not one but two daughters 
to the United States 
Congress! 
(cheers and applause). 
Like my parents, Hillary Clinton
believes the United States is a 
country where people of all 
backgrounds can make a home and 
a better life, but that America 
isn't possible if we allow 
Donald Trump and his Republican 
Party to build a wall that 
divides us.  I stand here 
tonight appears the Chair of the
congressional Hispanic caucus 
and a proud Congressswoman from 
California, but most 
importantly, I'm here as a mom. 
kids.  We want our children to 
grow up to be healthy, 
successful and kind-hearted.  
Our job is to nurture them and 
be good role models for them to 
follow as they grow.  Now, I'll 
be the first to tell you that 
being a parent is hard, but 
Donald Trump is making it a 
whole lot harder.  He has taken 
the low road time and time 
again.  He's been vulgar, and 
he's been intolerant, or as we 
say in 
Spanish (Speaking 
non-English) he pedals fear and 
insecurity to divide the people 
of this great country.  Tell me,
set for our children by allowing
a bully to sit in the Oval 
Office?  We know that our 
children aren't born with hate 
or racism in their hearts.  They
example of the adults in their 
life.  Too many of our children 
are watching and learning the 
wrong lessons from Donald Trump.
basketball game where a group of
white students started chanting:
Build that wall, to taunt 
players from a predominantly 
Hispanic high school.  This, 
this is the behavior that Donald
Trump presidency would be a 
signal to our children that we 
condone this kind of behavior.  
Well, that is a message I refuse
are few moments in history that 
have an impact on the trajectory
moments.  Our children are 
watching us.  Their future 
depends on the outcome of this 
race.  Do we want a responsible 
leader or a loud mouth bully?  
Do we want a President who 
respects women, or who calls 
them names and devalues them?  
Do we want a President who 
appreciates the contributions 
immigrants make to our country, 
or someone who vilifies them?  
Hillary Clinton is the only 
choice for President. 
(cheers and applause). 
She is a President we 
can be 
proud of. 
(cheers and applause). 
And Donald, let me just say 
this, America is great.  It is 
the country that gave my family 
the opportunity for a better 
life, just like all immigrants 
who came before them.  It is 
because of our diversity that we
envy of the world.  
Hillary (
Speaking in non-English 
language). 
Like I said in the video, 
Hillary Clinton is bad ass and 
ready to lead.  Let's win in 
November! 
(cheers and applause). 
Announcer:  Ladies and 
gentlemen, please welcome Boston
mayor Marty Walsh. 
(music). 
Marty Walsh:  Good evening.  
Good 
evening.  Thank you, 
Massachusetts.  Thank you.  Good
Marty Walsh, and I'm an 
alcoholic.  On April 23, 1995, I
little memory of the night 
before and even less hope for 
the days to come.  Everybody was
losing faith in me, everybody 
except my family 
and the labor 
movement. 
(cheers and applause). 
I followed my father into the 
building trades when I was 18 
years old.  Labor gave my 
immigrant family a chance in the
labor community got me the help 
I needed and gave me a second 
chance. 
(cheers and applause). 
18 years later, I became the 
mayor of Boston, a city of big 
dreams 
and a big heart.  As 
mayor, I work to give everyone a
whether it's apprenticeships, 
free community college, or help 
starting a business.  There's no
doubt in my mind that Hillary 
Clinton is the champion American
(cheers and applause). 
She will help workers get the 
skills, the jobs and the child 
care they need to support strong
America that's not just for 
those with advantages, she 
believes in an America for those
who need a helping hand, people 
struggling with addiction, moms 
working two jobs, students in 
debt, seniors struggling to 
retire, workers facing layoffs 
and people like the carpenters 
and electricians Donald Trump 
hired but then refused to pay 
just because he did.  We may not
have our names in gold outside 
any buildings that we've worked 
on, but our sweat, our work, our
pride is on the inside of every 
single one of them.  Hillary 
Clinton knows that.  She 
believes what I learned in my 
labor family:  We are stronger 
together.  This is our choice!  
Are we going to let Donald Trump
the people at the top?  Or are 
we going to stick together and 
build an economy that works for 
everybody in America? 
(Crowd noise). 
I know where I stand, I stand 
with the women and men of every 
race, creed, color who built 
this country, and I stand as a 
living example of Hillary 
Clinton's vision for an America 
where everyone gets a fair shot 
and a second chance to achieve 
their dreams.  That's the 
America I believe in.  That's 
the America I've lived, and 
that's why America's working 
people are going to vote and 
elect Hillary Clinton our next 
President.  I want to thank you,
of 
America. 
(cheers and applause). 
Announcer:  Ladies and 
gentlemen, please welcome the 
following American labor 
leaders.  Lee Saunders, 
President of American state 
county and municipal employees. 
National Education Association. 
Mary Henry, international 
President of the Service 
Employees International Union.  
Richard Tronka, 
President of the 
AFL-CIO. 
Good evening.  I am Lee 
Saunders, I am proud to be here 
representing the 1.6 million 
public servant workers of 
AFSCME.  We keep our communities
safe and strong, feeding school 
kids, healing patients plowing 
roads and answering 911 calls.  
Every day, in every way, we 
never quit putting families 
first.  Hillary Clinton never 
quits either.  She's an 
unstoppable champion for working
collective bargaining rights 
don't just improve the lives of 
union members, they strengthen 
all of us.  We need a President 
who gets that, who understands 
that busting unions and cutting 
public services means families 
suffer.  Just look at Flint, 
Michigan, where poisonous 
policies led directedly to 
poisoned drinking water.  Now, 
Donald Trump wants to tear 
working people down.  He's only 
in business for himself.  I was 
just in Las Vegas with workers 
at the Trump Hotel last week, 
they voted to form a union, but 
Donald Trump won't negotiate a 
contract with them.  You keep 
saying you like to make deals, 
Donald.  How about working out a
deal with the housekeepers and 
the food servers to help your 
business 
succeed? 
(cheers and applause). 
It's no surprise, I guess, how 
can you be pro-worker when 
you're famous for the catch 
phrase "you're fired"?  But this
is reality.  And we need a 
serious-minded leader who puts 
families first, not a 
thin-skinned bully who puts 
himself first. 
(cheers and applause). 
That's the choice.  An 
unstoppable champion, versus an 
unstable Charlottean.  I know 
whose side I'm on, I'm with her.
Hillary Clinton our next 
President of the United 
States! 
(cheers and applause). 
Hello, Democrats, I'm Rich 
Trumka, 
President of the 
afl-CIO. 
(cheers and applause). 
And it's great to be in 
Philadelphia, a proud, proud 
union town.  See, working people
build a new era of shared 
prosperity.  Working people are 
strong, and Donald Trump is 
wrong, wrong, 
wrong. 
(cheers and applause). 
Listen, he thinks he's a tough 
guy.  Well, Donald, I worked in 
the mines with tough guys, I 
know tough guys, they're friends
you're no 
tough 
guy, you're a phony. 
(cheers and applause). 
Donald Trump has repeatedly 
outsourced jobs to line his own 
pockets.  He rooted for the 
housing collapse, he actually 
said that our wages are too 
high, not just once, but 
repeatedly.  Donald Trump isn't 
the solution to America's 
problems; he is the problem. 
(cheers and applause). 
Working people, we have the 
solutions.  We're building a 
national movement for a better 
life, no matter the color of our
the bar high.  And Hillary 
Clinton answered our call.  In 
this election, she's fighting to
rewrite the economic rules for 
all of us.  She has a bold plan 
to invest in manufacturing, 
infrastructure and jobs.  She 
opposes 
the job-killing 
transpacific partnership. 
(cheers and applause). 
She'll protect workplace rights,
fight to finally, finally secure
equal pay for equal work.  So 
Democrats, get on your feet, 
let's change the rules, let's 
take back Congress, let's win a 
proceed-worker Supreme Court, 
and let's elect Hillary Clinton 
the next President of the United
States! 
(cheers and applause). 
Wow, wow. 
(Speaking non-English) my name 
is Lily Eschelson Garcia, and 
I'm here because I have the 
honor to be representing the 
3 million educators that form 
the union of 
the National 
Education Association.  My story
students' stories.  My mom is an
immigrant.  My dad served in the
army.  My parents worked hard so
that their kids could have a 
chance to get ahead, and they 
were so proud of me when I 
became a teacher.  But today, 
too many students in our 
classrooms feel like they won't 
get the same chance that I got, 
especially those from immigrant 
families.  They tell us they're 
afraid that their parents might 
be taken away, that they might 
be deported for not having the 
right piece of paper.  Hillary 
Clinton believes in keeping 
families together.  She believes
in our dreamers.  She believes 
that educators should be focused
on education, not deportation. 
(cheers and applause). 
Now, Donald Trump sees things...
differently.  My mom says that 
if you can't say something nice 
about somebody, you should at 
least make it funny.
  I can't 
make this funny.  Donald Trump 
sees immigrants as criminals, as
drug dealers, as rapists, he 
says he would round up families 
and deport them, he'll build a 
wall.  We're better than that.  
Our kids deserve better than 
that. 
(cheers and applause). 
Hillary Clinton doesn't want to 
divide people with walls of 
hate.  She wants to build 
bridges to a better future for 
all of us.  That's why America's
we're going to do everything in 
our power to build a bridge to a
the President of the United 
States of America. 
(cheers 
and 
applause). 
Gracias. 
(applause). 
Voice:  Hello, sisters and 
brothers, I'm Mary Kay Henry and
I'm proud to stand here on 
behalf 2 million members of 
Service Employees International 
Union and the millions more who 
are fighting for 15 and a union.
Our movement will be an 
unstoppable force in this 
election because the stakes 
could not be higher.  We need a 
President who wants to raise 
wages in this country, not one 
that says wages are too high and
that there shouldn't even be 
a 
federal minimum wage.  That's 
why we're working to elect 
Hillary Clinton and champions up
going to raise wages and help 
workers join together in unions.
workers, who care for children 
and our seniors, like 
Lizbeth Bonia from Las Vegas.  
She's been a home care 
provider 
for 40 years but still Lizbeth 
has to rely on food stamps and 
Medicaid just to make ends meet.
wrong and that's why Hillary 
Clinton is ready to raise wages 
for home care providers and 
child care providers and ensure 
that they have a strong voice 
and quality care.  We know that 
economic justice is inextricably
linked to winning racial 
justice, environmental justice 
and immigrant justice.  We must 
elect Hillary Clinton and the 
champions like her who are going
to put families first and stop 
the candidates of hatred and 
greed.  Brothers and sisters, I 
believe that we 
can win.  Do 
you?  Repeat after me.  I.  I 
believe.  I believe that we.  I 
believe that we can win.  I 
believe that we can win.  I 
believe that we can win.  I 
thank you very much, brothers 
and sisters. 
(
>> Good evening.
I'm proud to be here in my
hometown of Philadelphia.
And I'm even prouder to
represent the 3 million members
of North America's Building
Trades Union.
Members have helped build this
great nation.
The Hoover Dam, the Golden Great
Bridge, the Freedom Tower, the
very arena we are in tonight.
You name it, we build it.
We're proud of our work.
But with collapsed bridges,
crumbling roads, and stressed
energy systems, we know it's
past time to rebuild our
nation's infrastructure.
And Building Trade members are
ready to do their part.
Hillary Clinton has the boldest
infrastructure plan we've seen
in generations.
She will help us prepare roads
and bridges and make broadband
universal, build new airports,
and she'll do it all while
creating good, fair-paying jobs
with standards that support real
apprenticeship programs, which
the building trades pioneered to
ensure that workers get the
skills that they need to
succeed.
And let me be very clear -- we
cannot rebuild America unless we
treat America's workers with
respect.
[ cheering and applause ]
>> As governor, Mike Pence gave
corporations license to pay
construction workers less by
repealing a law that had been in
place for 80 years.
That was a bad deal for
Indiana.
It would be a bad deal for
America.
That's why hard hats all across
America support Hillary Clinton,
and honorary iron worker Tim.
They have our backs and we have
theirs.
Let's get them to work and get
them elected.
God bless you and thank you.
Brothers and sisters, I'm proud
to be here representing the
1.6 million members of the
 AFT!
[ cheering and applause ]
Last
 week, we saw a festival of
fear.
Every day was full of hate and
bigotry.
Why?
To hide that Trump's plans, like
many of his businesses, are
completely bankrupt.
Donald made millions while he
ripped off workers and small
businesses with his unfair
business practices.
Remember, he ended up
bankrupting not one, not two,
not three but four of his
companies.
And, his economic ideas will
make millionaires like him
richer at the expense of the
middle class.
Just look at Trump University to
see how he operates.
Salespeople were told to exploit
people's fears.
And let me be very careful.
I quote -- a single parent that
may need money for food -- into
useless, high-cost seminars.
Instead of an education,
students lost thousands of
dollars and got nothing in
return.
That's Trump in a nutshell.
Manipulating people's fears to
enrich himself.
He is completely unqualified to
be in the Over Office.
So thankfully, we have a
different choice.
And it's a great one.
Hillary Clinton.
Hillary's worked her entire life
to level the playing field for
working families.
That starts with public
education from pre-K to
college.
She has a plan for universal
early childhood education.
She'll reset education policy to
focus on creativity and critical
thinking, not on more
 testing!
[ cheering and applause ]
WEINGARTEN: And she'll make
public universities free for
working families, a stark
contrast from Trump's for-profit
scam.
Hillary is the most qualified
candidate to run for President
in my lifetime!
She'll wake up thinking every
day how to help us.
The choice couldn't be clearer.
We must elect Hillary Clinton
and Tim Cane!
Thank you very much!
[ cheering and applause ]
When I came here the first time
and heard about the heroin
epidemic -- also the growing
drug problem in our area.
We're all losing fathers,
brothers, sons, mothers.
The numbers of people who are
being affected --
If you have been affected by the
use of substances, would you
raise your hand?
I didn't know what was wrong
with me until I found out that I
was an addict.
This problem touches everybody.
My children suffered.
My family suffered.
Meeting grandmothers raising
their grandchildren, all of my
friends are raising their
grandchildren, because of
addiction.
I think you're very brave and
very loving to take on this
responsibility.
It has been plaguing families.
I don't want to go to more
funerals.
I'm going to one this weekend.
I didn't know if I wanted to do
better.
Addiction had full control of my
heart and soul.
I wouldn't have necessarily
known that if I hadn't been
sitting in a little cafe
listening to people tell me
about what was breaking their
hearts, and what they wanted
their president to know.
We need the voice of those who
are using.
That is the way we can make an
impact.
We can't walk away from these
stories.
These are are children, friends,
neighbors, and loved ones.
We need to drag this out of the
shadows.
We need to hold it up to the
light.
Everybody should feel that they
are valued, they are cared
about, and they have a president
who sees them.
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Pam from New
Hampshire.
[ cheering and applause ]
Hi.
For my 50th birthday, I got a
2-year-old.
You see my daughter and her
boyfriend had a beautiful little
boy named Francis, but they got
caught up in drugs.
It started with the pain
medication she was given after
Francis was born, and it just
got worse.
It's hard to explain just how
devastating it is to watch your
child struggle with substance
abuse.
I know my daughter loved
Francis, but love wasn't enough
to take care of him.
I started getting calls from
child services, and one day they
said Francis would be taken away
from my family and put in foster
care unless he had family who
could take care of him.
There was no way we were going
to let our grandson end up in
foster care.
So Francis lived with my husband
John and I until he was 5.
His grandfather -- he lives with
his grandfather now, who is on
disability.
And when you're my age, you
don't expect to start all over
again raising a grandchild.
Today, my daughter's in
treatment, but she has a long
road ahead of her.
My story isn't unique.
This epidemic has devastated
communities all over the
country.
It doesn't discriminate against
age, race, gender, or income.
It affects all of us.
But seems it feels like folks in
Washington don't hear these
stories.
Well, last year Hillary Clinton
came to New Hampshire for a
roundtable at my workplace and
she asked if addiction had
touched any of us.
And as I told my story, Hillary
listened.
She even took notes.
And then she did something else
we don't see a lot of in
Washington -- she took action.
She came up with a plan, one
that includes everything from
reducing overdoses to expanding
access to treatment.
To me, that's the kind of leader
we need.
We need a leader who listens to
the voices of ordinary
Americans, a leader who treats
people with compassion and
respect, a leader who believes
that as Americans, we look out
for each other.
I'm not saying that leader has
to be a grandmother, but it sure
helps.
For me, that leader is Hillary
Clinton.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Senator Gene from
New Hampshire.
THANK
 Thank you for sharing your
story.
I applaud your courage.
Democrats stand with you, your
family, and all families
struggling with addiction.
And President Hillary Clinton
will stand with you, and we will
win this fight together.
[ cheering and applause ]
JEAN: The opioid and heroin
epidemic is ravaging communities
all across this country.
It's a crisis that affects old
and young, rich and poor, men
and women, Democrats and
Republicans.
And it will take all of us
working together to defeat it.
Across my home staid state of
New Hampshire, the awful toll
rose each year -- 192 overdoses
in 2013, 326 fatalities in 2014,
and 433 fatalities in
 2015.
These stories -- these
statistics tell the story of a
staggering epidemic.
But statistics can't fully
capture the profound human toll.
It's not only thousands of
individual lives that have been
destroyed.
Entire communities are being
devastateed.
Hillary Clinton sees the
epidemic and its terrific toll
because she came to New
Hampshire, not to talk, but to
listen.
And she heard stories like
Pam's, like the one I recently
heard about a young man full of
promise on his way to college
when he suffered a sports
injury, got addicted to
painkillers, switched to heroin,
and now instead of living on the
freshman quad, he's living on
the streets
 panhandling for his
next fix.
Hillary heard about how addicts
are being turned away from
treatment facilities due as a
lack of resource, and from law
enforcement stretched to their
limit
 dealing with substance
abuse.
She knows drug counselors,
police officers, and the other
incredible people on the front
lines of the battle are heroes.
They're doing amazing work, but
they need our help.
More than 47,000 Americans died
from drug overdoses in 2014.
Hillary Clinton knows we cannot
continue on this path.
She knows because during this
campaign, she listened in New
Hampshire and across the
country.
She listened, she learned, and
she put together a plan to treat
this like the health emergency
that it is, and to deploy the
necessary resources to fight it.
Her plan would invest in some
very simple goals -- empower
communities to prevent drug use
among teenagers, ensure every
person suffering from addiction
can obtain comprehensive
treatment, ensure that all first
responders carry Narcan, which
can stop overdoses from becoming
fatal, and prioritize treatment
over prison for low-level and
nonviolent drug offenses so we
can end the era of mass
incarceration!
[ cheering and applause ]
JEAN: Early this year I
introduced an emergency funding
bill in the Senate to pay for
policing, prevention, treatment,
and recovery.
But sadly, it was defeated by
Republicans.
Donald Trump certainly doesn't
have a plan to deal with this
health epidemic that's gripped
our country.
In fact, Donald Trump doesn't
seem to know what's happening
outside of Trump Tower.
And he seems completely
uninterested in finding out.
How can Trump represent America
when he doesn't even take the
time to know America?
[ cheering and applause ]
JEAN: We need a President who
listens, who learns, who has
empathy, and who wants the same
opportunities for all children
that she's had -- who wants an
America where we go forward
together.
We need President Hillary
Clinton!
[ cheering and applause ]
[ music ]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Demi L
ovato.
SPEAKER: Like millions of
Americans, I am living with
mental illness.
But I'm lucky.
I have the resources and support
to get treatment at a top
facility.
Unfortunately, too many
Americans from all walks of life
don't get help because they fear
the stigma or cannot afford
treatment.
Untreated mental illness can
lead to devastating cops
consequences including suicide,
substance abuse, and long-term
medical issues.
We can do better.
Every one of us can make a
difference.
By getting educated on this
epidemic and its frightening
statistics, I urge every
politician to support laws that
will provide access to better
healthcare and support for
everyone.
[ cheering and applause ]
DEMI: This is not about
politics.
It's simply the right thing to
do.
I'm doing my very small part by
having the treatment center that
saw me through my recovery on
tour with me so that at least a
small group of people, even for
a brief moment, can have the
same support that I received.
It may not be a lot, but we have
to believe every small action
counts.
I stand here today as proof that
you can live a normal and
empowered life with mental
illness.
I'm proud to support a
presidential candidate who will
fight to ensure all people
living with mental health
conditions get the care they
need to lead fulfilling lives.
That candidate is Hillary
Clinton.
[ cheering and applause ]
DEMI: Let's make her the next
President of the United States
of America.
[ cheering and applause ]
[ music ]
[ cheering and applause ]
>> Climate change impacts are
endangering one of the nation's
most iconic landscapes and
bringing increasing risks to the
state's $82 billion tourism
economy and this natural
treasure, which is a major part
of our ecosystem.
The national park and Florida
Keys are home to the largest
mangrove forest in North
America.
Both the mangroves and sea grass
are some of the most important
sinks for atmospheric carbon on
the planet.
One of our nation's greatest
national treasures, the
Everglades.
 in addition to protecting the
primary source of drinking water
for more than a third of
Florida's population, their
efforts help ensure that the
Florida Everglades, a major
driver of the local economy, are
resilient to effects of climate
change.
The effects of climate change
can no longer be denied or
ignored.
Last year was the planet's
warmest year recorded.
And 14 of the 15 hottest years
on record have happened this
century.
All over the country, Americans
are facing devastating impacts
from severe floods to extreme
heat.
These impacts pose major
economic, public health, and
national security threats.
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Senator Jeff
Merkley from Oregon.
[ music ]
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: Hello, Philadelphia.
And hello, Oregon!
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: Wasn't Demi Lovato
great?
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: I'm the son of a mill
Wright millwright from a small
town in southern Oregon.
I was the first in my family to
go to college.
I live in the same blue collar
community I grew up in.
My children go to the same
public schools I did.
Here is the truth.
Donald Trump got rich by taking
advantage of Americans like the
hard-working Oregonians in my
community back home.
Making his products overseas,
hiring foreign workers instead
of Americans for jobs that are
right here in the United
States.
Cheating small business
contractors.
Never paying them what he owed.
And scamming people out of their
savings through his fraudulent
university.
Where I come from, people like
Donald Trump are not the
problem.
They're not the solution, they
are the problem.
Last week in Cleveland, Donald
Trump claimed he was a champion
for American workers.
But he's never woken up a day in
his life worried about American
workers.
He is no more a champion for
American workers than a lion is
a champion for a gazelle.
When I talk to folks back home,
again and again I hear the
frustrations of people who watch
billionaires get richer while
they struggle to find a job,
struggle to send their kids to
college, struggle to make their
rent or their mortgage.
Our response to these real
challenges should not be to
blame, to bully, to belittle,
but to rise to the moment with
real
 solutions.
We owe an enormous debt to
Bernie Sanders, speaking of
solutions.
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: Bernie Sanders inspired
us to reach for bold solutions
to the challenges we face.
His leadership on progressive
issues, his willingness to
fearlessly stand up to the
powers that be, have galvanized
a grassroots movement that is
here tonight and will continue
long after November.
And we need it to continue long
after November!
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: And now, together,
working
 together, Hillary
Clinton and Bernie Sanders have
forged the most progressive
platform in our party's
history.
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: And working together,
we have to join their fight for
tuition-free college for working
Americans.
[ applause ]
MERKLEY: For 100% renewable
energy to save our planet from
climate change.
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: We need to fight
together to overturn Citizens
United.
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: We need to fight
together for passage of The
Equality Act for full
opportunity for LGBTQ
Americans.
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: We need to fight
together with Bernie and Hillary
to end profiling and mass
incarceration for our
communities of color.
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: And we need to fight
for trade policies that put
American workers first, which
means as Hillary has said, we
must say no to bad trade deals.
And that includes the TPP!
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: Together
 we must fight
for a government of, by, and for
the people, not a government for
the powerful.
Not a government for the
privileged, but a government for
the people.
And that is exactly what we're
going to do when we follow the
vision of Bernie Sanders and
Hillary Clinton and elect her --
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine in
November!
[ cheering and applause ]
MERKLEY: We must be united in
this battle.
Whether you spent this year
feeling the Bern or ready for
Hillary, all of us are ready for
an America that rejects
discrimination and embraces
diversity, that celebrates voter
empowerment, not voter
suppression, that creates
opportunity for all of us, not
just the lucky few.
So let's work together as Bernie
and Hillary have, and make sure
that next January, on the west
steps of the Capitol, it is
Hillary Clinton that we are
celebrating to become the next
President of the United States
of America.
Thank you so much, God less
bless -- bless you, and
goodnight.
Thank you.
[ cheering and applause ]
[ music ]
MAN: Oh, yeah.
Y'all feeling all right out
there?
Can't nobody hear you.
[ music ]
SPEAKER: When my parents, they
had a new -- for them,
deportation.
I'm scared that they're going to
get deported.
WOMAN: Come here.
[ applause ]
WOMAN: I'm going to do
everything I can so you don't
have to be scared, and you don't
have to be worried about what
happens to you, or somebody
else, to your family.
I feel strongly that you're
being very brave.
You have to be brave for them,
too, because they want you to be
happy.
They want you to be successful.
They don't want you to worry too
much.
Let me do the worrying.
I'll do all the worrying.
I'll do everything I can to
help.
[ applause ]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and ladies and
Ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome Carla and Francisco
Ortiz from Las Vegas, Nevada.
[ music ]
SPEAKER: Thank you very much for
coming here today.
I really appreciate it.
And today I'm going to tell you
guys a story about my parents,
about the deportation of
immigration.
And I'm a daughter of immigrant
parents.
Valiente -- brave.
That's what Hillary Clinton
called me when I told her I was
worried my parents would be
deported.
Even when I was little, my
parents were always crying.
But I didn't understand why.
S
oy Americana.
[ cheering and applause ]
SPEAKER: I was born in Las
Vegas, Nevada.
My parents came here looking for
a better life, for the American
dream.
[ speaking Spanish ] But I don't
feel brave every day.
Most days, I'm scared.
I'm scared that at any moment,
my mom and my dad will be forced
to leave.
And I wonder, what if I come
home and find it empty?
I want to see my parents do -- I
want my parents to see me do
science experiments is and help
me find rare rocks in the
desert.
I want to grow up to be a lawyer
so I can help other families
like us.
[ cheering and applause ]
SPEAKER: I have hope.
E
speranza.
Hillary Clinton told me that she
would do everything she could to
help us.
She told me that I didn't have
to and do the worrying, because
she will do the worrying for me
and all of us.
[ cheering and applause ]
SPEAKER: She wants me to have
the worries of an 11-year-old,
not the weight of the world on
my shoulders.
[ cheering and applause ]
SPEAKER: V
aliente.
[ cheering and applause ]
SPEAKER: [ speaking Spanish ]
[ cheering and applause ]
SPEAKER: [ speaking Spanish ]
SPEAKER: Hillary Clinton for
President!
SPEAKER: J
unos se puede!
Thank you.
[ cheering and applause ]
MAN: I will bring people
together.
MAN: Donald Trump is facing some
backlash for a tweet that
included the star of David.
It was re-tweeted from an online
message board for
 anti-Semites.
MAN: I don't know anything about
white supremacists.
When Mexico sends its people,
they're bringing drugs.
They're bringing crime.
They're rapists.
You're going to have a
deportation force.
MAN: If you are saying he can't
do his job because of his race,
is that not the definition of
racism?
MAN: No, I don't think so at
all.
We're building a wall.
He's a Mexican.
Donald J. Trump is calling for a
total and complete shutdown of
Muslims entering the United
States.
They would say, are you Muslim.
MAN: If they said yes, they
would not be allowed in the
country?
TRUMP: That's correct.
MAN: Donald Trump has gone
beyond the line with a lot of
groups.
.
SPEAKER: There is a consistent
pattern.
SPEAKER: He remains the most
divisive person in this race.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome A
strid Silva from
Las Vegas, Nevada.
[ music ]
ASTRID: When I was four years
old, my mother and I climbed
into a raft and we crossed the
river to join my father in
America in search of a better
life.
All I had was a little doll.
My dad worked as a landscaper,
and my mom stayed at home with
my brother and I.
But while my friends did
ordinary things, I couldn't,
because my parents were afraid
that someone might discover I
was undocumented.
My family believed so deeply in
the promise of this country that
we risked everything for the
American Dream.
As an undocumented student, I
felt like college was out of
reach.
But after a journey of ten
years, I finally graduated from
Nevada State College.
[ cheering and applause ]
ASTRID: My family and I are here
because of people like Senator
Harry Reid, my grandfather, who
put themselves in our shoes and
helped us.
And while President Obama's
immigration action protected me,
we live in constant fear that my
parents could be taken away from
their grandson.
So when Donald Trump talks about
deporting 11 million people,
he's talking about ripping
families apart, separating
families like mine and Carla's.
Hillary Clinton understands that
this is not who we are as a
country.
I have seen her comfort children
like Carla who are scared that
they might lose their parents to
deportation.
I know she will fight to keep
our families together.
[ speaking Spanish ]
I know she will.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Representative
Luis Gutierrez from Illinois.
[ music ]
LUIS: Hello, Philadelphia.
You know, my parents grew up in
San Sebastian in rural Puerto
Rico.
[ cheering and applause ]
LOUIS: They weren't educated.
They didn't speak English.
But they didn't even have a
winter coat.
Barely out of their teens, they
came to the U.S. when I -- and I
was born in the great city of
Chicago.
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: My parents were born
American citizens, but when they
moved, along with half a million
other Puerto Ricans in the
1950s, they were greeted with
scorn and discrimination.
Politicians called them
criminals.
They said my parents were
dangerous, diseased, and would
ruin the country.
Sound familiar to you tonight?
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: Nobody spoke up against
the bigotry and hatred my
parents endured.
So you'd better believe I'm
using my voice against the
discrimination we hear today!
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: I will raise my voice
against the bigot who thinks a
judge born in Indiana can't do
his job because his parents were
born in Mexico!
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: I will raise my voice
against a bully who calls
hardworking immigrants criminals
and rapists.
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: Someone who promises to
round up and deport families --
millions of families and then
put up a wall between them and
us.
You have joined me in that
fight, and so has Hillary
Clinton!
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: She stands with us so
Americans remain -- and America
remains -- a welcoming nation.
We don't discriminate because of
what you look like, who you
love, how you pray, what
language your parents speak, or
where you were born.
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: But let's be clear -- my
parents, when they came from
Puerto Rico, weren't the only
ones to confront
discrimination.
Every generation of newcomer,
whoever and whatever they come
from, Latin America, Europe,
Africa, Asia, the Middle East,
they're met with skepticism and
suspicion.
But every generation proves the
skeptics wrong.
Immigrants contribute to our
communities and make America a
great nation.
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: Immigrants die defending
our democracy!
And you know what?
They give our founding
principles meaning in our time.
Every time immigrants are
labeled as "them," but over
time, they become part of us --
we the people.
About 11 million undocumented
immigrants live, work, pay
taxes, and raise their families
in the United States of
America.
A lot of their families include
U.S. citizens just like me.
But listen, no matter what your
family tree looks like, a fair
immigration system is better for
all of America.
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: No matter what others say,
it is simply a fantasy that
we're going to round up and
deport 11 million people!
It's a sick, hateful fantasy.
But let me tell you what gives
me hope!
In her heart, Hillary Clinton's
dream for America is one where
immigrants are allowed to come
out of the shadows, get right
with the law, pay their taxes,
and not feel fear that their
families are going to be ripped
apart.
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: When Hillary Clinton steps
to this podium to accept the
nomination, we'll all take a
giant step forward.
The broad and diverse America
that fights for an inclusive and
fair nation, our union of black
and brown, white and African,
and Asian people who love the
Earth and know that climate
change is real, and value
education.
We will all step up to that
podium with her.
Listen, we continue the work of
our heroes like John Lewis and
Dolores, César Chavez, and Dr.
Martin Luther King.
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: And martyrs who allowed me
to have the ability to speak
from this podium.
We fight for equal rights and
worker's rights.
We believe that women deserve
equal pay for equal work in this
country!
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: And we will not stand idly
by because we believe that
Congress has to keep its hands
off Planned Parenthood!
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: We believe that people
should be able to love who they
love and marry who they want to
marry in the United States of
America!
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: And we believe that when
you send your children to
school, or young people are
having fun at a nightclub, or
you walk the beat as a police
officer, or you walk down the
street in your neighborhood in
Chicago, you shouldn't fear
being shot.
We will take on the NRA
 with
Hillary as President of the
United States.
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: Yes, we believe in a
country where the son of
uneducated parents born in
Puerto Rico can speak to this
nation on this podium in the
city where the United States of
America was born.
[ cheering and applause ]
LUIS: [ speaking Spanish ]
With Hillary, our nation will be
greater, better, and stronger.
[ speaking Spanish ]
[
 chanting
 ] ANNOUNCER: Ladies
and gentlemen, please welcome
Jason and Jaron Collins.
[ music ]
MAN: Thank you.
Alongside my kind and brilliant
wife Elsa, we have three
children that were raised here
in America.
I want my kids to know that
anything is possible here.
I want them to know that any
more than any star athlete, the
President of the United States
is a role model to millions of
children.
So when it comes to Donald
Trump, how do you tell your kids
not to be a bully if their
president is one?
[ cheering and applause ]
MAN: How do you tell your kids
to respect their heritage?
My wife is Mexican-American, if
their president disparages it?
How do you tell your daughters
they are empowered if their
president reduces women to their
physical appearance?
[ cheering and applause ]
SPEAKER: My parents, my family,
and all the great coaches I've
had in my life have taught me
the importance of working hard,
playing fair, and most
importantly, the ability to lead
and bring people together to
accomplish great things.
That sounds like Hillary Clinton
to me.
[ cheering and applause ]
SPEAKER: And now, it is with
great pride I introduce the
first publicly gay athlete to
play in any of the four major
American sports leagues, my less
handsome twin brother, Jason
Collins.
[ cheering and applause ]
JASON: Thank you.
I'll get you back for that one
later.
[ laughing ]
My dream was to play in the NBA,
and live my authentic life as a
proud gay man at the same time.
[ cheering and applause ]
JASON: Was able to accomplish
both of those goals because of
the people who have supported me
throughout my life.
Before I came out to the world
on the cover of Sports
Illustrated, I came out
privately to the Clinton
family.
I have known their family for
almost 20 years.
I knew that they would accept me
for who I was, and that they
would help pave a path for
others to do the same.
I am forever grateful for their
words of wisdom back then, and
their unconditional support.
They knew that my sexual
orientation made no difference
in my ability to play
basketball.
[ cheering and applause ]
JASON: Just as someone's gender
makes no difference in his or
her ability to lead our nation.
[ cheering and applause ]
JASON: Hillary has defended the
LGBTQ community for years, from
cosponsoring the Matthew
shepherd hate crimes prevention
act, to helping pass the
first-ever U.N. resolution on
LGBTQ human rights, to making
sure transgender individual's
passports could reflect their
true gender.
[ cheering and applause ]
JASON: As both an African
American and a member of the
LGBTQ community, the choice for
continued frog -- progress is
clear.
This November, we must elect
Hillary Clinton as our next
President.
Thank you.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Jessie Lipson
from a Raleigh, North Carolina.
[ music ]
SPEAKER: So I don't know about
you, but Donald Trump's
acceptance speech left me with a
lot of questions.
For example, where is this
losing country he keeps talking
about?
The America I live in, the North
Carolina I live in, is a
creative engine where the
innovative spirit is alive and
well, where nearly all net new
jobs are created by startups,
where you can still make
something from nothing like I
did.
I taught myself how to build
software on nights and
weekends.
When I was 26, I started my
company with just $100 in
advertising.
Today we're in more than a
hundred countries and we've
created 800 jobs in Raleigh.
[ cheering and applause ]
LIPSON: Donald, I'm also a
businessman.
You build skyscrapers -- I build
in the cloud.
But it's clear you don't
understand something simple
about business.
Nothing scares away investment
like hate.
[ cheering and applause ]
LIPSON: Disgusting laws like
North Carolina's attack on LGBT
Americans are costing my state
hundreds of millions of
dollars.
It's cost us the NBA All-Star
game, and it's also costing us
talented programmers who are
ready to build the future.
I've seen venture capitalists
who refuse to invest in our
state.
Republicans may think they're
telling people which bathroom to
go into, but they're actually
telling people which market to
stay out of.
[ cheering and applause ]
LIPSON: When I travel abroad, I
hear people talking about
legalized discrimination in
America.
Bigotry doesn't just hurt my
state, it hurts our entire
country.
It's not just North Carolina.
In Indiana, Mike Pence approved
discrimination against LGBT
Americans.
[ booing ]
LIPSON: So I guess you could say
bigotry has created one job --
the position of Donald Trump's
running mate.
[ applause ]
LIPSON: Hillary Clinton knows
what every great CEO knows --
we're stronger together.
That's why she supports a
federal law protecting workers
in the workplace no matter who
they love or who they are.
She'll cut taxes and regulations
for startups and small
businesses so they can hire and
grow.
She'll invest in breakthrough
R&D so the industries and jobs
of the future are created here
in America.
She'll help lift the burden of
college debt so young people can
chase their dreams.
[ cheering and applause ]
LIPSON: I tell my employees all
the time, focus on solutions,
not problems.
All Trump offers are problems.
Hillary offers real solutions.
[ cheering and applause ]
LIPSON: America, there is no
question Hillary Clinton must be
our next President!
[ cheering and applause ]
LIPSON: Thank you, goodnight!
[ cheering and applause ]
WOMAN: LGBT Americans are our
colleagues, our teachers, our
soldiers, our friends, our loved
ones.
And they are full and equal
citizens and deserve the rights
of citizenship.
To deny opportunity to any of
our daughters and sons solely on
the basis of who they are and
who they love is to deny them
the chance to live up to their
own God-given potential.
WOMAN: From Stonewall to
Orlando, we're seen too many
examples of how the struggle to
live freely, openly, and without
fear has been met by violence.
We have to stand together, be
proud together.
There is no better rebuke to the
terrorists and all those who
hate.
The stakes in this election are
high for the country.
I think about all those millions
of worries, large and small,
that same-sex parents and LGBT
Americans think about every
day.
I'm going to keep, as I have
throughout my life, fighting for
you, your rights, your children,
your futures.
And I am proud to be fighting
right alongside you.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome state Senator Pat
Spearman from Nevada.
[ music ]
PAT: Good evening, Democrats!
Good evening, Democrats!
AUDIENCE: Good evening!
PAT: I am a veteran.
I am a minister.
I am an African American.
And I am a proud member of the
LGBTQ community.
[ cheering and applause ]
PAT: When I joined our military
in 1977, I lived in fear of
being discharged.
But today, LGBTQ members of the
military can serve openly and
proudly.
[ cheering and applause ]
PAT: When I was elected to the
Nevada state legislature in
2012, I was one of only two who
were openly gay.
And today I am one of five.
[ cheering and applause ]
PAT: When Nevada started
recognizing same-sex marriage in
2014, we were one of 26 states.
And today marriage equality is
nationwide.
That's progress, my friends.
[ cheering and applause ]
PAT: But we can't stop now.
We've heard Trump say that he
would protect the LGBTQ
community.
But he is against marriage
equality and has said he's all
for overturning it.
[ booing ]
PAT: Donald Trump says that
anyone can use any bathroom in
Trump Tower, but he still
supports heinous bathroom
bills.
And he would strip away the
rights of transgender
Americans.
[ booing ]
PAT: But his worst attack on us
was his vice presidential pick.
Indiana governor Mike Pence.
Governor Pence signed a law that
lets individuals and businesses
deny services to LGBTQ
Americans.
And he used religion as a weapon
to discriminate.
And the state lost millions of
dollars as a result.
As a lesbian, that hurts me.
As a person of faith, that
offends me.
And as a legislator working hard
to create jobs, that baffles
me.
[ cheering and applause ]
PAT: No matter the cost to our
country, Donald Trump and Mike
Pence will strip away the
progress that we have fought so
hard to win.
Why?
Because they fear diversity.
We celebrate it.
They fear progress.
We build on it.
They fear equality.
We'll keep fighting for it.
So Democrats, are we going to
retreat?
AUDIENCE: No!
PAT: Will we keep marching
forward?
AUDIENCE: Yes!
PAT: Hillary Clinton is
battle-tested.
She will fight alongside us for
equality in our schools, in our
communities, in our workplaces,
and in our nation.
She will make
 The Equality Act
legal, and make it illegal to
discriminate on the basis of who
you love, who you are, wherever
you live, or wherever you work
once and for all.
[ cheering and applause ]
PAT: This election make no
mistake about it, won't be
easy.
But I know that we are ready.
And in the words of the old
Negro spiritual, so let's walk
together, Democrats.
Don't get weary.
Let's work together, Democrats.
Don't get weary.
Let's talk together, Democrats,
don't get weary.
There's a great camp meeting in
the promised land of equality.
Thank you, and God bless you
all.
[ cheering and applause ]
MAN: Hi, uh I jumped naked out
of a car in a movie.
MAN: I'm a member of President
Obama's cabinet.
MAN: Are we on the Trump train
now?
MAN: No.
MAN: Shh.
TRUMP: Remember, we used to have
made in the USA.
When was the last time you saw
that?
MAN: You make stuff here.
MAN: What?
MAN: He didn't do that.
MAN: What do you mean?
There's all kinds of Trump
stuff.
Hotels, suits, ties, furniture,
glassware.
Look at this Trump shirt, made
in good old
 Bangladesh.
MAN: Trump tie, probably made in
Pennsylvania.
China?
Mexico?
What about the Trump cuff
links?
MAN: China.
MAN: Barware?
MAN: Slovenia.
MAN: Holy
 Melania.
[ squeaking ]
MAN: I'm sorry.
MAN: Calm down, calm down for
America.
So, Austin, if that is your real
name.
Donald Trump says he will bring
back jobs to America when he
himself made millions
outsourcing his own Donald Trump
stuff to be made everywhere
else?
MAN: That is a pretty astute
observation, Ken.
We got everything we needed.
MAN: When is he going to jump
out of a truck naked?
MAN: We are not having this
conversation again.
We're not doing that.
MAN: You agreed.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and
 Ladies and
gentlemen, please welcome
Senator Bob Casey from
Pennsylvania.
[ music ]
BOB: Welcome to Philadelphia,
the place where American
independence began, and where
our Constitution was born.
Since the time of William Penn,
Pennsylvania has been a
commonwealth of creators, of
makers, of builders who every
day invent the future.
My father, Governor Casey,
believed that we must never
forget that the sweat of blood
and working men and women who
built Pennsylvania forged the
industrial revolution in our
country, and outproduced the
world.
With family roots in Scranton
and our many visits through the
state over the years, Hillary
Clinton understands this.
She'll work every day to build
an economy that works for
everyone, not just those at the
top.
But what about Donald Trump?
Donald Trump says he stands for
workers and that he'll put
America first, but that's not
how he's conducted himself in
business.
Where are his "tremendous Trump
products" made?
Dress shirts, Bangladesh.
Furniture, Turkey.
Picture frames, India.
Wine glasses, Slovenia.
Neck ties, China.
China.
Why would Donald Trump make
products in every corner of the
world but not in Erie or here in
Philadelphia?
[ cheering and applause ]
BOB: Well, this is what he
said.
 "Outsourcing is not always a
terrible thing."
Wages in America are "too
high."
He complained about companies
moving jobs overseas because "we
don't make things anymore."
Really?
Well, tell that to the union
workers at All-Clad who make the
pots and pans found in many of
our kitchens.
[ cheering and applause ]
BOB: Tell that to the employees
of Kinect, who create toys that
teach our children about
engineering and architecture.
Tell that to the robotics
students building 21st century
robots and cars that drive
themselves.
[ cheering and applause ]
BOB: Donald Trump hasn't made
anything in his life, except a
buck on the backs of working
people.
If he is the champion of working
people, I'm the starting center
for the '76ers.
[ cheering and applause ]
BOB: The man who wants to make
America great doesn't make
anything in America.
And it's insulting that he has
no plan to support the men and
women who are manufacturing
products here at home.
All he has are empty promises
like so many he's made and
failed to follow through on
before.
If you believe that outsourcing
has been good for working
people, and has raised incomes
for the middle class, then you
should vote for Donald Trump.
I'm voting for Hillary Clinton.
[ cheering and applause ]
BOB: She believes --
[ cheering and applause ]
BOB: Hillary believes we need an
economy that work for everyone,
not just Donald Trump and those
at the top.
We need to commit ourselves to
making good-paying jobs here at
home so that everyone who works
hard can get ahead and stay
there.
That's why her first hundred
days in office, President
Hillary Clinton will put forward
the largest investment in
good-paying jobs since World War
II.
As President, she'll reward
businesses that share profits
with their employees.
She'll slap a new exit tax on
companies that move overseas
while rewarding companies that
invest here at home.
And she'll strengthen our
economy by investing $10 billion
in new advanced manufacturing
jobs that can't be sent
overseas.
This November, we have a
choice.
You can choose a candidate who's
only out for himself, who wants
to get rid of the federal
minimum wage, and who would cut
taxes for the richest Americans
at the expense of the middle
class.
Or you can choose Hillary
Clinton, a leader with a proven
track record of fighting for an
economy that works for all of
us.
If you're with her like I am,
sign up and volunteer at
hillaryclinton.com.
Thank you.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please give a warm welcome to
Luke Feeney from Chillicothe,
Ohio.
[ music ]
LUKE: Hello, delegates!
Hello, Ohio!
[ cheering and applause ]
LUKE: I am proud to serve the
great people of historic
Chillicothe, Ohio's first
capital.
And I'm proud to be one of the
many Ohioans supporting Hillary
Clinton!
[ cheering and applause ]
LUKE: When I think about what's
at stake this November, I think
about a woman from our hometown
named Courtney Lewis.
Her dad worked at the local
paper mill.
She dreamed of opening her own
business -- not just for her,
but for her city.
She didn't like seeing those
empty buildings downtown.
She wanted to do her part.
So, Courtney moved into a vacant
storefront and with two
partners, started a local gift
shop called to Totem Supply
Company.
Three years later, it's a
small-town success story, and
it's not the only one.
Shill coastShill coast
Chillicothe is on the rise.
Appalachia is on the rise.
And it's thanks to small
business owners like Courtney.
I tell Courtney's story tonight
not because it's unique, but
because it isn't.
All across the country,
thousands of entrepreneurs and
small business owners are
equally ready to drive growth in
their communities.
All they need is a chance.
The last thing Ohioans need is a
president who has crushed small
businesses by not paying them
for the work they did.
The last thing Ohio needs is
Donald Trump.
Hillary's dad was a small
business owner.
She gets it.
Hillary knows America works best
when it works for everyone, and
she has a plan to make sure that
entrepreneurs like Courtney have
all the tools they need to
succeed, less red tape, more
access to capital like bigger
businesses have, a more even
playing field, and a wider path
to prosperity for all of us.
Mayors of small towns across the
country need a president who
will be a friend to small
business, who will be a partner
in our resurgence.
Hillary knows American success
stories start in places like
Chillicothe.
That's why we're with her.
That's why Chillicothe is with
her.
That's why Ohio is with her.
[ cheering and applause ]
LUKE: We're with her because
she's with us.
And that's why we're going to
send Hillary Clinton to the
White House this November!
[ cheering and applause ]
LUKE: Thank you.
[ cheering and applause ]
TRUMP: You know what, the women
get it better than we do,
folks.
They get it better than we do.
WOMAN: What's your position on
equal pay for women, how would
you address the ongoing problem
of women getting access to
capital?
TRUMP: It's too early in the
morning to ask that question.
Putting a wife to work is a very
dangerous thing.
A pregnancy is never -- it's a
wonderful thing for the woman.
It's a wonderful thing for the
husband.
It's certainly an inconvenience
for a business.
WOMAN: All I was requesting was
a break that everybody had
agreed to during lunch hour so
that I can excuse myself and
pump my baby's food in the
privacy of a room.
TRUMP: I may have said that's
disgusting, I may have said
something else.
I thought it was terrible.
She's a horrible person.
Obviously it's great outer
beauty.
We could say politically correct
that the look doesn't matter,
but the look obviously matters.
You wouldn't have your job if
you weren't beautiful.
WOMAN: His policies are
backward, anti-woman.
MAN: Is this someone you would
vote for?
WOMAN: No, he has to be
stopped.
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Senator Kirsten
from New York.
[ music ]
[ cheering and applause ]
KIRSTEN: Some people know me as
a United States Senator from New
York.
[ cheering and applause ]
KIRSTEN: But during school
drop-off and pickup, I'm better
known as Theo and Henry's mom.
Like most working parents, my
husband and I juggle a lot.
We're fortunate to have
flexibility, but some days we
still barely keep it together.
The vast majority of working
parents have it much tougher.
They're struggling with too
little time, too little money,
and too little support.
And Washington hasn't caught up
to their reality.
Families today look almost
nothing like they did a
generation ago.
Eight in ten moms work outside
the home.
Four in ten moms are the primary
or sole breadwinners, and many
are single.
Thanks to marriage equality,
more children grow up with two
moms or two dads.
[ cheering and applause ]
KIRSTEN: Yet today, our policies
are stuck in the Mad Men era.
We are the only industrialized
nation that doesn't guarantee
workers paid family leave.
[ cheering and applause ]
KIRSTEN: Many women can't even
get a paid day off to give
birth.
Most parents work outside the
home, yet childcare can cost as
much as college tuition.
Families rely on women's income,
but we still don't have equal
pay for equal work.
This makes no sense, because we
know that when families are
strong, America is strong.
[ cheering ]
KIRSTEN: Hillary Clinton gets
it.
Not just because she's a working
mom, and Charlotte and Aidan's
grandmother, but because for
her, it's about her core values,
the idea we have that we have a
responsibility to one another.
It's about who we are as a
nation.
It's why after law school, she
could've gone to a fancy law
firm, but she chose to work at
the Children's Defense Fund
where she advocated for children
with disabilities.
[ cheering and applause ]
KIRSTEN: It's why as America's
first lady, she helped create a
health insurance policy for
children so that 8 million kids
could get the care they need.
And it's why as Secretary of
State, she helped women and
children to escape violence and
poverty, to attend schools,
support their families, and
reinvest in their communities.
And it's why as President of the
United States, she will bring
our workplace policies out of
the Dark Ages and always, always
put families first.
[ cheering and applause ]
KIRSTEN: You see, Hillary
Clinton's life's work has been
defined by one question -- how
can we help those who need it
the most?
Donald Trump has been defined by
a very different question -- how
can I help myself the most.
Donald Trump actually stood on a
debate stage and said that wages
are too high.
Hillary knows that in the
richest country in the world, it
is unacceptable that a momle
with mom -- with two kids
working full-time still lives in
poverty.
Donald Trump says that when it
comes to paid family leave, you
have to be careful of it.
Hillary knows that it is long
past time to have guaranteed
paid family leave.
[ cheering and applause ]
KIRSTEN: Donald Trump thinks
that women should just work
harder because -- and I'm
quoting -- "you're going to make
the same if you do as good of a
job."
Every woman in America knows
that is not true.
[ cheering and applause ]
KIRSTEN: Hillary believes women
deserve equal pay for equal
work.
[ cheering and applause ]
KIRSTEN: The choice in this
election could not be clearer.
If you believe in the values
that have always made us great,
if you believe in keeping
America great, then support
Hillary Clinton.
Thank you, and God bless this
great nation.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANNOUNCER: Please welcome United
States Senator Al Franken from
Minnesota.
[ music ]
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: Hi, everybody.
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: Hi.
[ chuckling ]
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: Save it for the end.
I'm Al Franken.
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: I'm Al Franken, Minnesotan,
Senator, and world-renowned
expert on right wing
megalomaniacs.
[ cheering and applause ]
SPEAKER: Rush, Bill O'Riley and
now Donald Trump.
Now, a little about my
qualifications.
I got my doctorate in
megalomania studies from Trump
University.
[ laughing ]
AL: Sure, I had to empty out my
401(k) and take a reverse
mortgage on my house to pay
tuition, but Mr. Trump -- or
rather some people who said they
once met him -- convinced me
that it was worth it.
And frankly, as a proud alum of
Trump U, I think we may be
mis-under estimating Donald
Trump.
Sure, he's scammed a lot of
people.
But did you know that Trump
University's School of Ripping
People Off is ranked second in
the nation?
[ laughing ]
AL: Right behind Bernie MadOff
University.
That is no mean feat.
And Trump University is about
more than just bilking people,
all though trust me, you will
get bilked.
It's also about learning
directly from success experts
like Scott B
aio, Mike Tyson,
and, of course, a life-size
cardboard cutout of Mr. Trump
himself.
Now, of course Trump University
wouldn't be Trump University
without its business school.
Their bankruptcy program in
particular is known throughout
the real estate investment
community for its creativity.
The most popular course,
Bankruptcy 101, How to Leave
Your Partners Holding the Bag,
is taught by the cardboard
cutout itself.
[ laughing ]
AL: The pride of Trump
University, of course, is its
library.
Located on a shelf in a closet
on the third floor of Trump
Tower.
[ laughing ]
AL: All of Mr. Trump's
best-sellers are available for
sale at a special rate for
students, which is 10% higher
than the retail price.
[ laughing ]
AL: Clearly, Donald Trump's
enormous -- dare I say huge
success as a businessman --
qualifies him to be president.
And if you believe that, I've
got some delicious Trump steaks
to sell you.
[ laughing ]
AL: In all seriousness, I think
rather than voting for someone
who's never done anything for
anyone other than himself --
maybe we should go with a
candidate who spent her entire
life working to get important
things done for the American
people.
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: I've known Hillary for
almost a quarter century.
I've never met anyone smarter,
tougher, or more ready to lead
us forward.
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: I am proud to call Hillary
Clinton my friend, and I can't
wait to call her Madam
President.
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: Now, we're going to have a
lot of fun this week.
We're going to have a lot of fun
this week.
But when we wake up Friday
morning, there will be just 102
days left until the election.
And what you -- yes, all of
you -- what you do in those 102
days could determine who wins.
And I mean that literally.
I won my first race for the
Senate by 312 votes.
Where's my Minnesota
delegation?
[ cheering ]
AL: There are people up there
who contacted more than 312
people themselves and literally
I would not be here.
The reason I am -- they are --
each of them individually -- the
reason I am giving this speech
here and not into my bathroom
mirror.
[ laughing ]
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: My friend Paul Wellstone --
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: My friend Paul Wellstone
used to say the future belongs
to those who are passionate and
work hard.
This week is about passion, but
starting Friday morning, it's
all about work -- hard work.
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: Now, now.
Many of you have jobs.
Many of you have families.
Ignore them.
[ laughing ]
AL: Let me tell you something.
Kids love it when their parents
aren't home.
They love it.
[ laughing ]
AL: And let me tell you
something else.
An 8-year-old kid knows how to
use a microwave oven.
[ laughing ]
AL: And let me tell you
something else.
An 8-year-old kid can teach a
4-year-old kid to use a
microwave oven.
It's just scientific fact.
Don't worry about their your
kids, they'll be fine.
You have work to do.
Get on those phones, knock on
those doors, and tell them Al
Franken sent you.
Thank you.
[ cheering and applause ]
[ music ]
MAN: I don't know what I said.
WOMAN: Quote, it is unacceptable
for a child to mock another
child's disability on the
playground, never mind a
presidential candidate mocking
someone's disability.
WOMAN: When people make fun of
the disabled, I become furious.
It is despicable.
There is no excuse for it.
WOMAN: He will not apologize,
and said the journalist should
stop using his disability to
grandstand.
MAN: He stepped over a line.
WOMAN: This is a reprehensible
human being.
If he were a Democrat, I'd say
the same thing.
It's not the first time.
It's disgusting.
He should apologize.
MAN: He shouldn't make fun of
people's disabilities.
It's not worthy of someone
running for President of the
United States.
TRUMP: I don't know what I
said.
I don't remember!
Maybe that's what I said.
ANNOUNCER: Please welcome A
nastasia from New York.
[ music ]
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: I first met Hillary
as First Lady on a visit to the
White House.
I was nine years old, and I
listened to her and my mom
discuss healthcare and early
intervention for children with
disabilities.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: Over the past 23
years, she has continued to
serve as a friend and mentor,
champions championing my
inclusion and access to
classrooms, higher education,
and the workforce.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: She has never lost
touch with people like me.
She has invested in me.
She believes in me.
And in a country where
56 million Americans with
disabilities so often feel
invisible, Hillary Clinton sees
me.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: She sees me as a
strong woman, a young
professional, a hard worker, and
the proud daughter of
immigrants.
My father from Nicaragua, and my
mother from Ireland.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: She has shown me that
all these aspects of my identity
are strengths which will help me
effect change.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: I fear the day we
elect a president who divides
Americans in the narrowest
possible terms, who shouts,
bullies, and -- vulnerable
Americans.
Donald Trump has shown us who he
really is, and I honestly feel
bad for anyone with that much
hate in their heart.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: I know we will show
each other and the world who we
really are in November when we
choose genuine strength and
thoughtful leadership over fear
and division.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: Donald Trump doesn't
see me.
He doesn't hear me.
And he definitely doesn't speak
for me.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: I am confident that
as our President, Hillary will
do everything in her power to
promote the rights, empowerment,
and humanity of all Americans.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: She knows that when
we support access to education
and employment opportunities for
absolutely everyone, more of us
will be able to live happy,
independent lives.
And to promote, build, and
contribute to this great
country.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: As President, Hillary
Clinton will continue fighting
and inspiring us all with her
tireless efforts on our behalf.
[ cheering and applause ]
ANASTASIA: On the eve of the
26th anniversary of the
Americans with Disabilities
 Act,
I'm proud to be with you,
Hillary.
Thank you for showing me how to
live boldly with a courageous
heart.
[ cheering and applause ]
[ music ]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Sarah
 Silverman
and Senator Al Franken.
AL: Remember me?
I'm Senator alFranken,
 Al
Franken, and this past year I've
been #i'mwithher.
WOMAN: And I'm Sarah Silverman,
and this past year I've been
feeling the B
ern.
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: Relax, I put some cream
on it.
AL: What did you say?
SARAH: I said I put some cream
on it.
SPEAKER: She's the comedian, so
she gets the joke.
And I'm the politician now, so I
get to make what's known as an
ask, but trust any, it's me,
it's a good ask.
You see, if you go to
hillaryclinton.com before
midnight tonight and join the
team, you can be not just 
#i'mwithher
in spirit, but #i'mwithher
literally, as in you could win a
trip to Philadelphia to be here
on Thursday night when Hillary
accepts the nomination.
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: You see, Sarah?
That's even more fun than
getting to get the joke.
SARAH:  oh, Al, you've still got
it.
Well while we're on the souct,
subject, can I make my speech
now?
AL: Absolutely, go ahead.
SARAH: Al, get out of my frame.
As some of you may know, I
support Bernie Sanders and the
movement behind him.
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: And Bernie has already
succeeded in so many ways.
He proved that Citizens United
is in fact, not a necessary
evil.
And by the way, Citizens United,
isn't that such a beautiful name
for something that means
"billionaires buying
politicians?
"Good Lord, rails against the
very spirit of our democracy.
And I'm very glad that Hillary
has vowed to overturn it.
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: Not only did Bernie wake
us up, he made us understand
what is possible and what we
deserve.
You know, my shrink says we
don't get what we want, we get
what we think we deserve.
And Bernie showed us that all of
America's citizens deserve
quality healthcare and
education, not just the wealthy
elite.
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: I know, it sounds so
obvious.
Who wouldn't agree with that?
But yet it's not what's been
happening.
You know, I happen to believe
the crazy notion that people who
maybe weren't born with the same
opportunities as you and me
should be given the same
opportunities as you and me.
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: And all it takes to
accomplish this is everyone, is
all of us, or as a pretty
kick-ass woman once said, "it
takes a village."
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: This democratic primary
was exemplary -- no name-calling
or comments about the size of
candidates' hands, ethnicity, or
if they go to the bathroom --
inside secret, they do.
That stuff is for third-graders,
come on.
That's like major arrested
development stuff.
That's I'm still emotionally
four and calling people names
from my gold encrusted sandbox
because I was given money
instead of human touch or coping
tools stuff.
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: But I digress.
I've just been told to stretch.
[ laughing ]
HILLARY HEARD THE PASSION OF
 of
the people and brought that to
the platform, and that is the
process of democracy at its very
best.
And it's very cool to see.
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: Hillary is our Democratic
nominee, and I will proudly vote
for her.
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: It's so inspiring.
It's so inspiring.
Just a few years ago, she was a
secretary, and now she's going
to be President.
I mean, come on.
She's like the only person ever
to be overqualified for a job as
the President.
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: So I tell you this.
I will vote for Hillary with
gusto.
As I --
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: As I continue to be
inspired and moved to action by
the ideals set forth by Bernie,
who will never stop fighting for
us.
I am proud to be a part of
Bernie's movement and a vital
part of that movement is making
absolutely sure that Hillary
Clinton is our next President of
the United States.
B
ooyah.
[ cheering and applause ]
AL: Gee.
I was . . . That was pretty
good, Sarah.
Hillary.
SARAH: Unity.
Unity.
AL: Hillary.
SARAH: Can I just say to the
Bernie or bust people, you're
being ridiculous.
[ cheering and applause ]
SARAH: They told us to stretch,
so I figured I'd add that.
[ laughing ]
SARAH: He made me cut off my
speech, and now we have to
stretch.
Oh, I have so much I want to
say.
AL: Well, okay.
We -- you
 know, listen.
Listen to what you did.
This is a comedian.
This is the power of comedy.
SARAH: Thank God they can fix
this in post.
Oh.
AL: You know, we have been
 -- I
want to thank you, because Sarah
and I have been asked to
stretch, because we are about to
introduce someone that we're
both huge fans of.
How are we doing, guys?
Are we close?
We'll see.
You know,
 Sarah, what I love
about us both being here is
that, you know, you're -- it's
like we're a bridge, a bridge.
SARAH: How do you figure that
we're a bridge, Al?
AL: Well, you were for Bernie.
I'm for Hillary.
So we are like a bridge over
troubled --
SARAH: Oh, good Lord.
Are they ready?
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Paul
Simon.
[ cheering and applause ]
[ music ]
Test [music]
[
Music].
[Applause]
In many  ways we are a shining
City on a hill but the hard
trauma is that not everyone is
sharing in this city's plender
and glory.
There is another part to the
shining City, the part where
some people can't pay mortgages
and most young people can't
afford one, where students can't
afford the education they need
and middle class parents watch
the  dreams they hold for their
children evaporate.
Fundamentally my father was very
concerned with how people were
treated and that was the arena
that eventually drew him in.
He was always the son of an
immigrant.
He was always an outsider, and
that was his edge.
And he said who cares about what
the audience wants to h ear.
It's about what you need to 
s ay.
I remember going to Washington
and begging for dollars for drug
treatment.
I remember making the case to
the Congress over and over, my
God, we do not produce Har row
inin the Bronx.
We do not create cocaine in
queens, I beg you not for Army,
not for Navy, just a little
money for treatment.
Just a little money to save
children who are lost because of
your failure.
These battles are for real
consequences and made a
deference to real people.
Those who endorsed legalized
abortions aren't a Ruthless
callus alliance of
antiChristians determined to
overthrow our moral standards.
In many cases the  proponents
are the very people who have
worked with Catholics to realize
the goals of social justice set
out by popes.
In the first principle of our
Democratic commitment, the
politics of inclusion,
opportunity for all of our
people not just the fit and the
fortunate, all of the people
from wherever or whatever
c olor, of whatever creed, of
whatever sex, of whatever sexual
orientation.
All of them equal members of the
American family.
What is our mission in this
place?
Your nation is to lock arms, all
of you, and repair the universe.
Your job is to make it as good
as you can make it.
That's all there  is.
I believe my father's spirit
lives in a young boy sitting in
a failing public school, his
spirit lives in a young girl
pregnant, alone and in trouble.
It lives in the shadow of
opportunity and still driving
for their chance to join the
family of New York.
We must make the American people
hear our tale of two cities.
We must convince them that we
don't have to set will for two
cities that we can have one city
indivisible, shining for all of
its people.
Please make this nation remember
how futures are built.
Thank you and God bless.
He was a man of principle, of
honor, of duty, of service,
Mario Cuomo, the purpose of life
was clear, to help those in need
and leave the world a better 
place.
Announcer: ladies and
g entlemen, please welcome Eva 
L ongoria. 
EVA:  Hello Philadelphia!
Oh, man, I am so honored to be
here tonight, and I am proud to
say I'm with her!
[Cheers and Applause]
You know, like many of you, this
election is very personal to me.
I'm from a small town in south
Texas.
[Cheers and Applause]
And if you know your history,
Texas used to be part of 
M exico.
Now, I'm ninth generation
American.
My family never crossed a
border.
The border crossed 
us.
So when Donald Trump calls us
criminals and rapists, he is
insulting American families.
My father is not a criminal or
rapist.
In fact, he is a United States
veteran.
[Cheers and Applause]
When Trump cruelly mocked a
disabled reporter, he was also
mocking my special needs
s ister, Lisa, and many like
h er.
When he said that a wife who
works is a very dangerous
t hing, he not only insulted me,
he insulted my mother who
w orked as a special education
teacher for 30 years, raised
four children while being a
wife.
You know, I believe in the
candidate who believes in all of
us, and that candidate is
Hillary Clinton
[Cheers and 
Applause]
Hillary has spent her whole life
fighting for all A mericans,
from healthcare reform to equal
pay for women to gun safety, to
protecting the economy.
She is the most qualified
presidential candidate ever!
[Cheers and Applause]
She has been fighting for us for
decades and now it's time we
fight for her.
Now, I'm very proud to be part
of that fight and I'm very proud
to be here to introduce my dear
friend Cory Booker, but before I
do, I want you to take a look at
your Convention, Philadelphia.
A latina from south Texas is
introducing the first black
Senator from New Jersey on the
week we will nominate our first
woman candidate for President of
the United States.
[Cheers and Applause]
Pretty great.
So guess what, Donald, it turns
out America is pretty great 
already.
Ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome Senator Cory Booker.
[Cheers and Applause]
Thank you.
Thank 
you.
Cory! 
Cory!
Thank you very 
much.
240 years ago our forefathers
gathered in this very city and
they declared before the world
that we would be a free and
independent nation.
Today we gather here again in
this City, in this City of
brotherly love to reaffirm our
values before our nation and the
whole world.
Our purpose is not like theirs
to start a great nation, but to
insure that we continue in the
best of our tradition.
And with humble  homage to
generations before.
We put forth two great
Americans, our nominees for
President and Vice President,
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.
[Cheers and Applause]
history, looking back to our
history of our founding 
f athers, put forth founding
documents that were indeed 
genius.
But our founding documents
weren't genius because they were
perfect.
They were saddled with the
perfections and the
imperfections and bigotry of the
past.
Native Americans were referred
to as savages, black Americans
were fractions of human beings,
and women were not mentioned at
all, but those  facts and ugly
parts of our history don't
distract from our nation's
greatness.
In fact, I believe we are an
even greater nation, not because
we started perfect, but because
every generation has
successfully labored to make us
a more perfect union.
[Cheers and Applause]
Generations of heroic Americans
have made our nation more
inclusive, more expansive, and
more just.
Our nation wasn't founded
because we all look alike or  
prayed alike or descended from
the same family tree, but our
found  founders in their genius,
in this, the oldest
constitutional democracy on the
planet earth, they put forth the
idea that all are created equal,
that we have inalienable rights,
and I'm so proud that was upon
this faithful foundation that we
built a great nation, and today
no matter who you are, rich or 
poor, Asian or white, man or
woman, gay or straight, any
religion or none at all, you are
entitled to the full rights and
responsibilities of citizenship.
[Cheers and Applause]
In this City, our founders put
forth a Declaration of
Independence, but let me tell
you, they also made a historic 
declaration of interdependence.
They knew that if this country
was to survive and thrive, we
had to make an unusual and
extraordinary commitment to each
other.
I respect and value the ideals
of individualism and
s elf-reliance, but rugged
individualism didn't defeat the
British.
It didn't get us to the moon.
It didn't build our nation's
highways, rugged individualism
didn't map the human genome.
We did that together!
[Cheers and Applause]
And so this is the high call of 
patriotism.
Patriotism is love of country,
but you can't love your country
without loving your countrymen
and your country  women.
Now, we don't always have to
agree, but we must be there for
each other.
We must empower each other.
We must find the common ground,
and we must build bridges across
our differences to pursue the
common good.
Let me tell you, we cannot
devolve into our nation, into a
nation where our highest
aspirations are that we just
tolerate each other.
We are not called to be a nation
of tolerance.
We are called to be a nation of 
love.
[Cheers and Applause]
That's why that last line of the
declaration of in Declaration of
Independence it says to make
this nation work we must
mutually pledge to each other
our lives and our  fortunes and
our sacred honor.
Tolerance is the wrong way.
Tolerance says I'm going to
stomach your right to be
difference and if you disappear
from the face of the earth I'm
no better or worse off, but
love, love knows that every
American has worth and value
that no matter what their
background, no matter what their
race or religion or sexual
orientation, love, love
recognizes that we need each
other, that we as a nation are
better together, that when we
are divided, we are weak.
We decline.
Yet when we are united, we are
strong.
When we are indivisible, we are 
invincible.
[Cheers and Applause] 
This is the understanding of
love that's embodied in one of
my favorite sayings.
It's an African saying and it
says if you want to go fast, go
alone, but if you want to go
far, go 
together.
[Cheers and Applause]
This is the reason why I am so
motivated in this election,
because I believe this election
is a referendum on who best
embodies the leadership we need
to go far together.
Donald Trump is not that 
l eader.
We have watched him try to  get
laughs after other people's
expense, try and insight fear at
a time we need to inspire
courage, try to rise in the
polls by dragging our national
conversation into the gutter.
We have watched him mock,
c ruelly mock a journalist's
disability, we have watched him
demean the service of my Senate
colleague saying he is not a war
hear  hero.
Trump said I don't like people
who get captured.
Would he say that to P.O.W.s
from World War II.
Would he say that to POWs from
Vietnam would he say that to the
brave men and women in
Afghanistan risking capture or
worse?
That's not the Commander in
Chief.
We have watched Donald Trump
paint with a broad brush saying
Mexican immigrants who came to
build a better life in America
are in his words bringing
c rime, bringing drugs.
He called many of them rapists.
He said that an Indiana born
federal judge can't be trusted
to do his job because of his
Mexican ancestry, a statement
that his fellow Republicans have
described as racist.
We have watched  Donald Trump,
our children and daughters,
nieces and grand kids have 
watched Donald Trump and heard
him call women degrading and
demeaning names, dog, fat pig,
disgusting animal.
It is a twisted hypocrisy when
he treats other women in a
manner he would never, ever
accept from a man speaking about
his daughter or his 
wife.
In this great nation where our
found ires put a fundamental
principle forward of religious
freedom, he said ban all
M uslims, don't let some people
into our America because of how
they 
pray.
Now, I take particular interest
in the fact that Trump says he
would run our country like he
has run his businesses.
Well, I'm from 
Jersey, I'm from
the great Garden State and he
see how he leads in Atlantic
City.
He got rich while his companies
declared multiple bankruptcies,
yet without remorse even as
people got hurt and lost jobs by
his failures, he bragged and I
quote, the money I took out of
there was incredible.
Yes, he took out a lot of cash
but he stiffed contractors, many
small businesses, refusing to
pay them for the work that they
had done.
We in America have seen enough
of a handful of people  growing
rich at the cost of a nation
descending into crisis.
[
Applause]
America, at our best we stand up
to bullies, and we fight those
who seek to demean and degrade
other Americans.
In times of crisis, we don't
abandon our values, we double
down on 
them.
Even amidst the crisis of the
Civil War, Lincoln stood up and
called out to all of our country
saying with malice towards none
and charity towards all.
This is our history.
This is the history that I was
taught.
My parents never wanted my
brother and I to get too heady.
Gratitude was our gravity.
So they never stopped reminding
my brother and I that our
b lessings sprang from countless
ordinary Americans who showed
extraordinary acts of kindness,
accidentcy and love.
People who struggled and sweat
and bled for our rights, people
who paid the ultimate price for
the freedom we all enjoyed, I
was told that we can't pay those
Americans back for their
colossal acts of service, but we
have an obligation to pay it
forward to others through our
service and our sacrifice.
I support Hillary Clinton
because these are her values,
and she has been paying it
forward her entire life.
Long before she got in
p olitics, she was in
Massachusetts going door to door
collecting the stories of
children with disabilities.
In South Carolina she fought to
reform the juvenile justice
system so that children wouldn't
be grown in adult prisons.
In Alabama she helped expose the
 remnants of segregation in
school.
In Arkansas she started a legal
aid clinic to make sure poor
folks could get their day in
court.
She has fought for the people
and she has delivered.
That's why we trust her to fight
and deliver for us as President.
Let me tell you, we have a
presidential nominee in Clinton
who knows that in a time of
stunningly wide disparities of
wealth in our nation that
America's greatness must not be
measured by how many
millionaires and billionaires we
have, but how few people we have
living in poverty.
[Applause]
Hillary knows that when workers
make a fair wage, it doesn't
just help their families, it
builds a stronger and more
durable economy that expands
opportunity and makes all of us
Americans wealthier.
She knows that in a global
knowledge-based economy, the
country that out-educates the
world will out-earn the world,
out innovate the world and
o ut-lead the world.
She knows that debt free college
is not a gift.
It's not charity, it is an
investment.
It represents the best of our
values, the best of our
h istory, and the best of our
party all of our shared ideas
and values together.
Hillary Clinton knows that when
we pay, have paid family leave,
that this is something that must
happen, because when a parent
doesn't have to choose between
being there for a sick child
and, but when a single mom earns
a equal wage or equal work.
It empowers the most important
building block in our nation,
and that is the family.
Hillary Clinton knows that
security doesn't come from
scapegoating other people
because of their religion,
alienating our allies, stoking
fear and  pointing fingers.
It comes when we band together
to face down and defeat our
common enemy.
And she knows something I fight
for every day, that our criminal
justice system desperately needs
reform, that we need to bring
back fairness to a system that's
still as professor Brian
Stevenson says streets you
better if you are rich and
guilty than poor and innocent.
And she knows that we can be a
nation that both believes police
officers deserve more respect,
they deserve more support, more
cooperation and love and believe
that a black 20 
something-year-old protester
deserves to be valued, deserves
to be heard, that she should be
listened to with courageous
empathy and that change is
needed in the system.
And Hillary Clinton knows what
Donald Trump portrays time and
time again in this campaign,
that we are not a zero sum
nation.
It is not you or me.
It is not one America against
another American.
It is you and I together,
interdependent, interconnected
with one single interwoven
destiny.
When we respect each other, when
we stand up for each o ther,
when we work together against
our challenges, against our
neighbor's challenges, be it a
neighbor where  with a beautiful
special needs child or one
struggling with the ugly disease
of addiction, when we as
Americans help them, when we
show compassion and grace, when
we evidence our truth that we
are the United States of
America, one nation, under God,
indivisible, that is when we are
stronger.
That is when we go from an
already great America to an even
greater America.
[Cheers and Applause]
Now, let me tell you right now, 
when Trump spews insulting and
demeaning words about fellow
Americans, I think of that poem
by Maya Angelou, you all know
it, you know how it begins.
You may write me down in history
with your bitter, twisted lies,
you may trod me in the very
dirt, but still, like dust, I
rise.
Well, you all know it.
You all know 
it.
This, this captures our American
history.
240 years ago, an English king
said he would crush our
rebellion, but Americans from
around our nation joined the
fight from bunker hill to the
battle of Trenton, they stood
and so many fell giving their
lives in support of our  daring
declaration that America, we
will rise.
This is our history.
[Cheers and Applause]
This is our history.
Escaped slaves, knowing that
liberty is not secure for some
until its secure for all.
Sometimes hungry, often hunted
in dark  woods and deep swamps,
they looked up to the north star
and said with a determined
whisper, America, we will rise. 
Immigrants risking their lives
in times of sweat shop and child
labors.
They organized labor unions and
devoted themselves to lifting
the tired, the poor and the
huddled masses with faces of
grit they shouted so all could
hear.
America, we will rise!
King points to the Mountaintop,
Kennedy points to the moon from
sent ca falls to those who stood
at stonewall inn, giants before
us said in a course of
conviction, America, we will 
rise!
My fellow Americans, my fellow
Americans, we cannot fall into
the complacency or indifference
about this election because
still the only thing necessary
for evil to be triumphant is for
good people to do nothing.
You know the saying.
My fellow Americans, we cannot
be seduced by cynicism about our
politics because cynicism is a
refuge for you could  you could
wards and this nation is and
must always be the home of the
b rave.
We are the United States of
America.
We will not falter or fall.
We will not retreat or
surrender.
Our values, we will not
surrender.
Our ideas, we will not surrender
the moral high g round.
Here in Philadelphia, let us
declare again that we will be a
free people, free from fear and
intimidation.
Let us declare again that we are
a nation of interdependence and
that in America, love always
Trumps hate. 
Let us declare, debt us
d eclare -- let us declare so
that generations yet unborn can
hear us, we are the United
States of America, our best
d ays are ahead of us, and
together with Hillary Clinton as
our President, America, we will 
rise!
God bless America!
Let us rise together!
God bless 
America!
It hurts my heart to think that
I took some of the money that I
received after my husband's
death and invested it into an
organization that scams people.
In September of 2007 I woke up
to a knock on the door where I
had a chaplain and sergeant say
that they regret to inform me
that command sergeant major had
died.
I did receive money to take care
of me and my son.
I needed to do something good
with it.
I needed to be wise with it.
When your spouse dies and
decisions have to be made, it
can be paralyzing.
At Trump university we teach
success.
That's what it's all about,
success.
It's going to happen to you.
One of the things that drew me
to the program was that Donald
Trump himself who was already
successful was going to teach
other people how to be
s uccessful as he was.
It was a classic bait and switch
scheme.
It was not a university.
During the initial free seminar
they will tell you they can
further your business.
The only package offered was the
$35,000 package.
He prayed on vulnerable people
told them they could make money
in a market.
I realized this isn't what I  
signed up for.
Within a week I called the
person supposed to be mentoring
with me and I got no help
whatsoever.
Many instructors and mentors
have no experience buying or
selling real estate.
The whole focus of Trump
university was on selling.
Even to single mothers with
three children who may need
money for food.
When you make a mistake like
this, it's very embarrassing.
I'm a single mom, I'm a widow.
I have a kid who depends on me.
I believe Donald Trump has built
his empire not by treating
people respectfully.
I can't see him helping anyone
but 
himself.
Announcer: ladies and
g entlemen, please welcome
Cheryl Langford from San
Antonio, 
Texas. 
CHERYL:  When you lose a spouse
you know that your life will
change forever.
You know it won't be easy.
I didn't expect on top of
grieving the loss of my husband
and trying to take care of my
baby, I would be the victim of a
scam.
You just saw what happened to
me, how Trump university cheated
me out of the money I received
after my husband's death, how
they broke their promises, how
they stopped taking my calls,
how the whole thing was a lie.
By conning me out of the money
the military gave me after my
husband died, I felt like Trump
university was disrespecting
Jonathan's memory.
I was you're fuss -- furious,
frightened, and the truth was I
was embarrassed.
The worst part is that I wasn't
the only victim of Donald
T rump's agreed, far from it.
He preyed on vulnerable people
like military widows and the
elderly.
He made millions of dollars off
of people like me, millions.
He cheated more than 5,000
students, hard-working, middle
class folks, teachers, police
officers, even veterans.
These are folks just like me who
didn't have a lot, but who were
told that if they paid for
Donald Trump's program, they
might be able to make a better
living.
Here is a guy who was born rich
and who has all of the money in
the world and there is nothing
wrong with that.
In fact, I signed up for Trump
university because I thought I
could learn something from him,
but then he decided to make
h imself even richer by cheating
working people who had nothing
to spare.
What kind of man does 
that?
It's not newsy for me to get up
and tell my story.
For a long time, I didn't tell
anybody, not even my family or
my friends.
but I'm here because America
deserves to know the truth.
[Cheers and Applause]
This election isn't about
Democrat versus Republican, it's
about right versus wrong.
It's before someone who helps
ordinary people no matter what
it takes versus someone who
helps himself no matter who it 
hurts.
[Applause]
Donald Trump made big promises
about Trump University and I was
fooled into believing him.
Now, he is making big promises
about America.
Please don't make that same
mistake.
[Cheers and Applause]
Michelle Obama is probably very
busy.
You guys ready to get to work?
>> The first lady inspires me
because she has done so much.
She is funny.
She likes kids and I'm a kid.
I obviously have to thank my
wish, Michelle owe  Michelle
Obama who has focused on
service.
Michelle Obama wants gids to get
out of their house and move
instead of just sitting on the 
couch.
She is definitely one of my
favorite first ladies, probably
first or second out of 
three.
We know that our journey is far
from finished.
It starts with each of us taking
responsibility for ourselves and
our families.
I kind of grew up without a
m om.
Just her being the first lady it
was really important.
She is someone we can look up
to.
The first lady has inspired me
to become a stronger more happy
and independent young female.
Young people are our future, and
she gives us hope, and she gives
me hope personally.
She should be proud of how she
treats the country's kids as
hers own.
Days like this make me think of
my own daughters so forgive me
if I get a little teary.
I want to publicly thank the
first lady for being an
inspiration to communities here
in the United States and around
the 
world.
She is not just a woman standing
next to a man.
She is making her own place in 
history.
If she was here right now, I
would probably like freak out.
I would tell her, you did
g reat!
I would tell her thank you for
looking out for me.
Thank you for making this
country a better 
place.
[Cheers and Applause]
Announcer: ladies and
g entlemen, please welcome first
lading Michelle Obama
[Cheers and Applause]
Michelle:  Thank you all.
Thank you so much.
You know, it's hard to believe
that it has been eight years
since I first came to this
Convention to talk with you
about why I thought my husband
should be President.
[Cheers and Applause]
Remember how I told you about
his character and conviction,
his densecy and his grace, the
traits we have seen every day
that he has served our country
in the  Whitehouse.
I also told you about our
daughters, how they are the
heart of our hearts, the center
of our world and during our time
in the Whitehouse, we have had
the joy of watching them grow
from bubbly little girls into
poised young women, a journey
that started soon after we
arrived in Washington when they
set off for their first day at
their new school.
I will never forget that winter
morning as I watched our girls
just seven and ten years old
pile into those black SUVs with
all of those big men with guns.
And I saw their little faces
pressed up against the window,
and the only thing I could think
was what have we done?
See, because at that moment, I
realized that our time in the
Whitehouse was form the
foundation for who they would
become and how well we managed
this experience could truly make
or break them.
That is what Barack and I think
about every day as we try to
guide and protect our girls
through the challenges of this
unusual life in the spotlight,
how we urge them to ignore those
who question their father's
citizenship or 
faith, how we
insift sift that the hateful
lapping wage they hear from
public figures on TV does not
represent the true spirit of
this country.
[Cheers and Applause]
How we explain that when someone
is cruel or accounts like a
bully -- acts like a bully, you
don't stoop to their level.
Our motto is when they go low,
we go high.
With every word we utter, with
every action we take, we know
our kids are watching us.
We as parents are their most
important role models, and let
me tell you, Barack and I take
that same approach  to our jobs
as president and first lady
because we know that our words
and actions matter not just to
our girls, but to the children
across this country, kids who
tell us I saw you on TV.
I wrote a report on you for
school.
Kids like the little black boy
who looked up at my husband, his
eyes wide with hope and he
wondered is my hair like yours?
And make no mistake about it,
this November when we go to the
polls, that is what we are
deciding.
Not Democrat or Republican, not
left or right.
No, in this election and every
election is about who will have
the power to shape our children
for the next four or eight years
of their lives.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
And I am here tonight because in
this election there is only one
person who I trust with that
responsibility, only one person
who I believe is truly qualified
to be President of the United
States, and that is our friend,
Hillary Clinton
[Cheers and 
Applause]
That's right.
See, I trust, I trust Hillary to
lead this country because I have
seen her life long devotion to
our nation's children, not just
her own daughter who she has
raised to perfection, but every
child who needs a champion.
Kids who take the long way to
school to avoid the gangs, kids
who wonder how they will ever
afford college, kids whose
parents don't speak a word of
English but dream of a better
life, kids who look to us to
determine who and what they can
be.
You see,  Hillary has spent
decades doing the relentless, 
thankless work to actually make
a difference in their lives,
advocating for kids with
disabilities as a young lawyer,
fighting for children's
healthcare as first lady, and
for quality child care in the
Senate.
And when she didn't win the
nomination eight years ago, she
didn't get angry or 
d isillusioned.
Hillary did not pack up and go
home because as a true public
servant, Hillary knows that this
is so much bigger than her own
desires and d isappointments.
[Cheers and Applause]
So she proudly stepped up to
serve our country once again as
Secretary of State, traveling
the globe to keep our kids
s afe, and, look, there were
plenty of moments when Hillary
could have decided that this
work was too hard, that the
price of public service was too
high, that she was tired of
b eing picked apart for how she
looks or how she talks or even
how she laughs.
But here is the thing, what I
admire most about Hillary is
that she never buckled under 
pressure.
She never takes the easy way
out.
And Hillary Clinton has never
quit on anything in her 
life.
And when I think about the kind
of President I want for my girls
and all of our children, that's
what I want.
I want someone with the proven
strength to persevere, someone
who knows this job and takes it
seriously, someone who
understands that the issues a
President faces are not black
and white, and cannot be boiled
down to 140 characters.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
Because when you have the new
clear codes at your fingertips
and the military in your
command, you can't make snap
decisions.
You can't have a thin skin or a
tendency to lash out.
You need to be steady and
measured and well 
informed.
I want a President with the
record of public service,
someone whose life's work shows
our children that we don't chase
fame and fortune for ourselves,
we fight to give everyone a
chance to succeed.
And we give back even when we
are struggling ourselves because
we know that there is always
someone worse off, and there but
for the grace of God go I.
I want a President who will
teach our children that everyone
in this country matters, a
President who truly believes in
the vision that our founders put
forth all of those years ago,
that we are all created equal,
each a beloved part of the great
American story.
And when crisis hits, we don't
turn against each other.
We listen to each other.
We lean on each other.
Because we are always stronger 
together.
[Cheers and Applause]
And I am here tonight because I
know that that is the kind of
President that Hillary Clinton
will be, and that's why in this
election, I'm with her.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
You see, Hillary understands
that the President is about one
thing and one thing only, it's
about leaving something better
for our kids.
That's how we have always moved
this country forward by all of
us coming together on behalf of
our children.
Folks who volunteer to coach
that team, to teach that Sunday
school class because they know
it takes a village.
Heroes of every color and creed
who wear the uniform and risk
their lives to keep down those
blessings of liberty, police
officers and protesters in
Dallas who all desperately want
to keep our children safe.
People who lined up in Orlando
to donate blood because it could
have been their son, their
daughter in that 
club.
Leaders like Tim Kaine.
Who show our kids what decency
and devotion look like, leaders
like Hillary Clinton who has the
guts and the grace to keep
coming back and putting those
cracks in that highest and
hardest glass ceiling until she
finally breaks 
through.
Lifting all 6 us along -- of us
along with her.
That is the story of this
country, the story that has
brought me to the stage 
t onight.
, the story of generations of
people who felt the lash of
bondage, the servitude, the
sting of segregation but who
kept on striving and hoping and
doing what needed to be done so
that today I wake up every
morning in a house that was
built by slaves.
And I watch my daughters, two
beautiful, intelligent black
young women, playing with their
dogs on the Whitehouse lawn.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
And because of Hillary Clinton,
my daughters and all of our sons
and daughters now take for
granted that a woman can be
President of the United States.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
So don't let anyone ever tell
you that this country isn't
great, that somehow we need to
make it great again.
Because this right now is the
greatest country on earth!
[Cheers and Applause]
And as my daughters prepare to
set out into the world, I want a
leader who is worthy of that
truth, a leader who is worthy of
my girls' promise and all of our
kids' promise, a leader who will
be guided every day by the love
and hope and impossiblely big
dreams that we all have for our
children.
So in this election, we cannot
sit back and hope that
everything works out for the
best.
We cannot  afford to be tired or
frustrated or cynical.
No, hear me, between now and
November, we need to do what we
did eight years ago and four 
years ago.
We need to knock on every door.
We need to get out every vote.
We need to pour every last ounce
of our passion and our strength
and our love for this country
into electing Hillary Clinton as
President of the United States
of America.
[Cheers and Applause]
So let's get to work.
Thank you all!
God bless!
Announcer: ladies and
g entlemen, please welcome
representative Joseph Kennedy,
III, from
 Massachusetts.
JOE:  Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks, 
guys.
It's my first day of law
s chool, my very first class.
The goal, escape unscathed.
Not three seconds in, and I get
the first question.
Mr.Kennedy, what is the
definition of asum 
sit.
Mr.Kennedy, you realize a sumsit
is the first word in your
reading.
I actually circled because I
didn't know what it meant.
Mr.Kennedy, do you own a
dictionary?
That's what people do when they
don't know what a word means,
they look it up in a
d ictionary.
I never showed up unprepared for
professor Elisabeth Warren ever 
again.
She was the toughest teacher on
campus, but the wait list for
her class was a mile long.
She pushed us hard, she brought
out our best, she believed in
us, and she believed in the 
l aw.
Not as an abstraction, but as a
living force with the power to
make life better or worse.
She taught us that it's impacts
lay not in classrooms or
textbooks but in a society where
wages have not budged for 40
years where 2.5 million children
are homeless, where we can
expect one in three black men to
go to 
prison.
That fact fueled I a law school
professor to take on this
country's most entrenched
financial interest.
It brought a middle class
champion back to a Massachusetts
Senate seat.
And it led a first term U.S.
Senator become our 
g overnment's.
In a sea R Sea of power and
privilege, Senator Warren is an
anchor to the voiceless and
victimized.
She asks more from all of us
because she believes deeply in
each of us.
That faith in our country, in
the American people is the very
foundation of our Democratic
Party.
It echoes through this arena
tonight, through every
classroom, living room, and
hearing room that Senator
Elizabeth Warren has ever
touched.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my
honor to introduce to you your
Senator, my Senator, our 
Senator, Senator Elizabeth
Warren.
[Cheers and Applause]
ELIZABETH:  Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh, I love that!
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Joe.
And thank you Massachusetts for
the great honor of serving as
your Senator.
Thank you 
guys.
What's a night! 
Wow!  Michelle Obama, Cory
Booker!
And we still have Bernie coming
up.
[Cheers and Applause]
Bernie reminds us what Democrats
fight for every day.
Thank you, Bernie.
Thank 
you.
Now, we are here tonight because
America faces a choice, the
choice of a new President.
On one side is a man who
inherited a fortune from his
father, and kept it going by
cheating people, by skipping out
on debts, a man who has never
sacrificed anything for anyone,
a man who cares only for himself
every minute of every day.
On the other side is one of the
smartest, toughest, most
tenacious people on this
p lanet, a woman who fights for
children, for women, for
healthcare, for human rights, a
woman who fights for all of us
and who is strong enough to win
those fights.
[Cheers and Applause]
We are here today because our
choice is Hillary Clinton.
I'm with Hillary.
I'm with Hillary.
[Cheers and Applause]
I'm with Hillary.
For me this choice is personal.
It's about who we are as a
people, it's about what kind of
a country we want to be.
I grew up in Oklahoma.
My Daddy ended up as a
maintenance man.
And my mom worked a minimum wage
job at Sears.
My three brothers served in the
military.
The oldest was career,  288
combat missions in Vietnam.
The second worked construction
and the third started his own
small business.
Me, I got married at 19,
graduated from a commuter
college in Texas that cost $50 a
semester.
The way I see it, I'm a
j anitor's daughter who became a
public school teacher, a
professor and a United States
Senator.
America is truly a country of 
opportunity. 
Truly.
I am deeply grateful to that
America.
I believe in that America but
I'm worried.
I'm worried that my story is
locked in the past, worried that
opportunity is slipping away for
people who work hard and play by
the rules.
I mean, look around, Americans
bust their tails, some  working
two or three jobs, but wages
stay flat.
Meanwhile the basic costs of
making it from month to month
keep going up, housing,
healthcare, child care, the
costs are out of sight.
Young people are getting crushed
by student loans.
Working people are in debt.
Seniors can't stretch a Social
Security check to cover the
basics.
And even families who are okay
today worry it could all fall
apart tomorrow.
This is not right.
It is 
not.
And here is the thing, America
isn't going broke.
The stock market is breaking
records.
Corporate profits are at
a ll-Tim highs.
CEOs make tens of millions of
dollars.
There is lots of wealth in
America, but it isn't trickling
down to hard working families
like yours.
Does anyone here have a problem
with that?
Well, I do too.
People get it.
The system is 
rigged.
It's true.
Now, so called experts claim
America is in trouble because
both political parties in
Washington refuse to
c ompromise.
Gridlock.
That is just flat wrong.
Washington works great for those
at the top.
When giant companies wanted more
tax loopholes, Washington got it
done.
When huge energy companies
wanted to tear up our
environment, Washington got it
done.
When enormous Wall Street banks
wanted new regulatory
l oopholes, Washington got it
done.
No gridlock there.
But try to do something,
anything for working people, and
you will have a fight on your
hands.
Democrats have taken on those
fights.
That's what we do.
[Cheers and Applause] 
Democrats fought to get health
insurance for more Americans,
Democrats fought for a strong
consumer agency so big banks
can't cheat people, we fought,
we won and we improved the lives
of millions of people, thank you
  Barack Obama.
[Cheers and Applause]
Yes, we won, but Republicans and
lobbyists battled us every step
of the way.
Five years later that consumer
agency has returned $11 billion
to families who were cheated and
Republicans, Republicans, they
are still trying to kill it.
Now look, I'm not someone who
thinks that Republicans are
always wrong and Democrats are
always right.
There is enough blame to go
around, but there is a huge
difference between people
fighting for a level playing
field and the people fighting to
keep the system rigged.
[Cheers and Applause]
Look at Congress since the
Republicans took over.
Democrats proposed refinancing
student loans and Republicans,
they said no.
Democrats proposed ending tax
breaks for corporations that
ship jobs overseas, and
Republicans, they said no.
Democrats proposed raising the
minimum wage and Republicans,
they said no.
So to every Republican in
Congress who said no, this
November the American people are
coming for you.
[Cheers and Applause]
And where was Donald Trump?
In all of these fights, not once
did he lift a finger to help
working people, and why would
he?
His whole life has been about
taking advantage of that rigged
system.
Time after time he preyed on
working people, people in debt,
people who had fallen on hard
times.
He has conned them, defrauded
them and he has ripped them
o ff.
Look at his history.
Donald Trump said he was excited
for the 2008 housing crash that
devastated millions of American
families because he thought it
would help him scoop up more
real estate on the cheap.
Donald Trump set up a fake
university to make money by
cheating people and taking their
life savings.
Donald Trump goes on and on and
on about being a successful
businessman, but he filed
business bankruptcy six times,
always to protect his own money
and stick the investors and
contractors with the bill.
Donald Trump hired plumbers and
painters and construction
w orkers to do hard labor for
his businesses, then he told
them to take only a fraction of
what he owed or fight his
lawyers in court for 
years.
So what kind of a man acts like
this?
What kind of a man roots for an
economic crash that caused
millions of people their jobs,
their homes, their life
s avings?
What kind of a man cheats
students, cheats investors,
cheats workers?
Well, I will tell you what kind
of a man, a man who must never
be President of the United
States.
[Cheers and Applause]
And we have got the leaders to
make it happen.
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine,
they are going to make it  
happen!
Donald Trump knows that the
American people are angry, a
fact so obvious he can see it
from the top of the Trump
t ower.
So now, he is insisting that he
and he alone can fix the rigged
system.
Last week Donald Trump spoke for
more than an hour on the baggest
stage -- biggest stage he has
ever had, but other than talking
about building a stupid wall
which will never get b uilt.
[Cheers and Applause]
Other than that wall, did you
hear any actual ideas?
Did you hear even one solid
proposal from Trump for
increasing incomes or improving
your kids' education or creating
even one single g ood-paying
job?
Or let's face it, Donald Trump
has no real plans for jobs or
for college kids or for
s eniors, no plans to make
anything great for anyone except
rich guys like Donald Trump.
Just look at his ideas.
Donald Trump wants to get rid of
the federal minimum wage.
Donald Trump wants to roll back
financial regulations and turn
Wall Street loose to recommend
our economy again.
And Donald Trump has a tax plan
to give multimillionaires and
billionaires like himself an
average tax cut of $1.3 million
a year.
You are struggling to put your
kids through college and Donald
Trump thinks he needs a million
dollar tax break.
Trump's entire campaign is just
one more late night Trump
infomercial.
Hand over your money, your
j obs, your children's future,
and the great Trump hot air
machine will reveal all of the 
answers.
And for one low, low price, he
will even throw in a goofy hat.
And here is the really ugly
underside to his pitch, Trump 
thinks he can win votes by
fanning the flames of fear and
hatred, by turning neighbor
against neighbor, by persuading
you that the real problem in
America is your fellow
Americans, people who don't look
like you or don't talk like you
or don't worship like you.
He even picked a Vice President
famous for trying to make it
legal to openly discriminate
against gays and lesbians.
That's Donald Trump's America,
an America of fear and hate, an
America where we all break
apart, whites against blacks and
Latinos, Christians against
Muslims and jews, straight
against gay, everyone against
immigrants, race, religion,
heritage, gender, the more
factions, the better.
But ask yourself this, when
white workers in Ohio are pitted
against black workers in North
Carolina or Latino w orkers in
Florida, who really benefits?
Divide and conquer is an old
story in America.
Dr.Martin Luther king knew it,
after his March from Selma to
Montgomery, he spoke of how
segregation was created to keep
people divided.
Instead of higher wages for
workers, Dr. King described how
poor whites in the south were
fed Jim Crow which told a poor
white worker that, quote, no
matter how bad off he was, at
least he was a white man, better
than the black man.
Racial hatred was part of
k eeping the powerful on 
top.
When we turn on each other,
bankers can run our economy for
Wall Street, oil companies can
fight off clean energy, and
giant corporations can ship the
last good jobs overseas.
When we turn on each other, rich
guys like Trump can push through
more tax breaks for themselves,
and then we will never have
enough money to support our
schools or rebuild our highways
or invest in our kids' future.
When we turn on each other, we
can't unite to fight back
against a rigged system.
Well, I have got news for Donald
Trump, the American people are
not falling for it.
[Cheers and Applause]
We have seen this ugliness
before, and we are not going to
be Donald Trump's hate-filled
America, not now, not ever.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
This is about our values, about
our shared values with our
candidates, Hillary Clinton and
Tim Kaine.
[Cheers and Applause]
Let's talk about those values.
We believe that no matter who
you are, no matter where you are
from, no matter who you love,
equal means equal.
Hillary will fight to make sure
discrimination has no place in
America, and we are with her.
[Cheers and Applause]
full time should live in pouf 
poverty.
Hillary will fight for raising
the minimum wage, fair
scheduling, paid family and
medical leave, and we are with 
her.
We believe every kid in America
should have a chance for a great
education without getting
crushed by debt.
Hillary will fight for
refinancing student loans and
debt-free college.
We are with her.
[Cheers and Applause]
And we believe that after a
lifetime of hard work, seniors
should be able to retire with
dignity.
Hillary will fight to expand
Social Security, strengthen
Medicare, and protect our
retirement accounts, and we are
with her.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
We believe that oil companies
shouldn't call the shots in
Washington, that science
matters, that climate change is 
real.
Hillary will fight to preserve
this earth for our children and
grandchildren, and we are with 
her.
We believe, and I can't believe
I have to say this in 2016, in
equal pay for equal work and a
woman's right to control over
her own body.
Hillary will fight for women and
we are with 
her.
We believe we don't need weaker
rules on Wall Street.
We need stronger rules, and when
big banks get too risky, break
them up.
Hillary will fight to hold big
banks accountable, and we are
with her.
And we believe that the United
States should never, never sign
trade deals that help giant
corporations but leave workers
in the dirt.
Hillary will fight for American
workers and we are with her.
[Cheers and Applause]
Okay.
And just one more, just one
more.
We believe we must get big money
out of politics and root out
corruption.
Hillary will fight to overturn
citizens united and return this
government to the rnment to the
people.
If you believe that America must
work for all of us, not just for
the rich and powerful, if you
believe we must reject the
politics of fear and diff 
division.
If you believe that we are
stronger together, then let's
work our hearts out to make
Hillary Clinton the next
President of the United States!
Thank you.
Thank you.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
Announcer: please welcome
representative Keith Ellison
from Minnesota. 
KEITH:  How are you doing 
Democrats?
You know, tonight, tonight my 
Democrats we are, we are united
around the most progressive
platform in history!
The most progressive platform in
history, a 15-dollar an hour
minimum wage, banning private
prisons, expanding Social
Security, the public option, and
debt-free college tuition.
That's the platform that Bernie
Sanders and Hillary Clinton
wrote together.
And that's the platform that
w e, that's the platform that we
can make the law of the land if
we stand together, if we work
together, and if we vote
together on November 8th.
You know, Trump, he wants to
divide and conquer us with his 
antiMuslim, anti-Mexican,
a nti-worker message.
They don't want us to vote.
They want to push voter ID laws
that block black and lat  Latino
voters.
Paul Ryan won't allow a vote to
restore the Voting Rights Act.
You know, we must push back.
Voting is not -- not voting is
not a protest.
It is a surrender.
When they bring the fear, we
bring the courage.
When they bring the division, we
have to bring the unity, 
everybody!
As a proud, and I said proud
Bernie Sanders supporter, I will
always remember feeling the burn
in Minnesota.
There is my Minnesotans over
there.
6,000 in Dell  duluth, 14,000 in
St. Paul, Bernie sparked the
beginning of a revolution.
He packed them in from Davenport
to Detroit, to your town and
mine.
13million Americans voted their
progressive  values and millions
more made an investment in
building that movement $27 at a
time.
You know, together we call for
climate justice, we call for
racial justice, we call for wage
justice.
And you know what, we made our
voices heard, and together
Democrats, we will make our
voices heard in November when we
defeat Donald Trump
[Cheers and Applause] 
And elect Hillary Rodham Clinton
to the next President of the
United States of A merica!
[Cheers and 
Applause]
But tonight, tonight let us
raise our voices in gratitude to
the man who has helped make this
great party greater than ever,
ladies and gentlemen, I give you
Bernie Sanders!
[Cheers and Applause] 
BERNIE:  [Music]
  Announcer:
please welcome, Senator Bernie
Sanders from
 Vermont.
Thank 
you.
Thank 
you.
Thank you.
Thank 
you.
Thank you all very 
much.
Thank 
you.
Thank you very 
much. 
It is 
an honor -- thank 
you.
Thank you very 
much.
It is an honor to be here 
tonight.
Thank 
you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It is an honor to be here 
tonight and to be following in
the foot steps of my good friend
Elisabeth Warren.
[Cheers and Applause]
And to be here tonight to thank
Michelle Obama for her
incredible service to our
country.
[Cheers and Applause]
She has made all of us proud.
Let me begin by thanking the
hundreds of thousands of
Americans who actively 
participated in our campaign and
volunteers.
Thank 
you.
Let me thank the 2.5 million
Americans who helped fund our
campaign with an 
unprecedented
8 million individual campaign 
contributions.
[Cheers and Applause]
Lrve anyone know what that
average contribution 
was?
>>   $27.
BERNIE:  Right, $27, and let me
thank the 13 million Americans
who voted for the political 
revolution!
[Cheers and Applause]
Giving 
us the 1846 pledge
delegates here 
tonight.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
And delegates, thank you for 
b eing here and thank you for
all of the work you have done.
I 
look forward -- I look forward
to your votes during the roll
call tomorrow 
night.
And let me offer a special
thanks to the people of my own
State of Vermont who have
sustained me and supported me as
a mayor, Congressman, Senator,
and presidential candidate.
[Cheers and Applause]
And to my family, my wife,
J ane, our four kids and seven
grandchildren, thank you very 
much! 
I understand that many people
here in this Convention hall and
around the country are
disappointed about the final
results of the nominating
process.
I think it's fair to say that no
one is more disappointed than I 
am.
But to all of our supporters
here and around the country, I
hope you take enormous pride in
the historical accomplishments
we have achieved.
[Cheers and Applause]
Together, my friends, we have
begun a political revolution to
transform America and that
revolution our revolution 
continues.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
Election Days come and go, but
the struggle of the people to
create a government which
represents all of us and not
just the 1%.
[Cheers and Applause]
A government based on the
principles of economic, social,
racial, and environmental
justice, that struggle 
continues.
[Cheers and Applause]
And I look forward to being part
of that struggle with 
you.
Let me be as cheer as I can be.
This election is not about and
has never been about Hillary
Clinton or Donald Trump or
Bernie Sanders or any of the
other candidates who sought the
presidency.
This election is not about
political gossip, it's not about
polls, it's not about campaign
strategy, it's not about
fundraising, it is not about all
of the things that the media
spends so much time 
discussing.
This election is about and must
be about the needs of the
American people.
And the kind of future we create
for our children and our
grandchildren.
[Cheers and Applause]
This election is about ending
the forty-year decline of our
middle class, the reality that
47 million men, women and
children today live in poverty.
It is about understanding that
if we do not transform our
economy, our younger generation
will likely have a lower
standard of living than their  
parents.
This election is about ending
the grotesque level of income
and wealth inequality in America
today.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
It is not moral, it is not
acceptable, and it is not 
sustainable that the top one
tenth of 1% now owns almost as
much wealth as the bottom 90%.
or that the top 1% in recent
years has earned 85% of all new
income.
That is unacceptable.
That must change.
This election is about
remembering where we were seven
and a half years ago when
President Obama came into office
after eight years of Republican
trick will-down economics.
-- trickle-down economics.
The Republicans want us to
forget that as a result of the
agreed, recklessness -- greed,
recklessness and illegal
behavior on Wall Street, our
economy was in the worst
economic downturn since The
Great Depression.
That's where we were.
That is where we were.
Some 800,000 people a month were
losing their job, 800,000
people.
We were running up a
r ecord-breaking deficit of
$1.4 trillion and by the way,
the world's financial system was
on the verge of collapse.
That's where we were when
President Obama came into
office.
Well, we have come a long way in
the last 7.5 years and I thank
President Obama and Vice
President 
Biden!
[Cheers and 
Applause]
I thank them for their
leadership in pulling us out of
that terrible recession.
Yes, we have made progress, but
I think we can all agree that
much, much more needs to be
done.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
This election is about which
candidate understands the real
problems facing this country and
has offered real 
solutions not
just fear mongering, not just
name-calling and divisiveness,
we need leadership in this
country which will improve the
lives of working families, the
children, the elderly, the sick,
and the poor.
We need leadership which brings
our people together and makes us
stronger.
Bernie.    Not leadership which 
insults Latinos and Mexicans,
insults Muslims and women,
African-Americans and veterans
and seeks to divide us up.
By these measures, any objective
observer will conclude that
based on her i deas and her
leadership, Hillary Clinton must
become the next President of the
United States.
[Cheers and 
Applause] 
The choice -- this  election, 
this election is about
 a single
mother, a single mom I saw in
Nevada who with tears in her
eyes told me she was scared to
death about the future because
she and her daughter were not
making it on the 10.45 an hour
she was earning.
This election is about that
woman and the millions of other
workers in this country who are
struggling to survive on totally
inadequate 
wages.
Hillary Clinton understands that
if someone in this country works
40 hours a week, that person
should not be living in 
poverty.
[Cheers and Applause]
She understands that we must
raise the minimum wage to a
living 
wage.
And she is determined to create
millions of new jobs by
rebuilding our crumbling
infrastructure, our roads,
bridges, water systems, and
waste water plants.
But her opponent, Donald Trump,
well, he has a very different
point of view.
He does not support raising the
federal minimum wage of 7.25 an
hour, a  starvation wage.
While Trump believes in huge tax
breaks, huge tax breaks for
billionaires, he believes that
states should actually have the
right to lower the minimum wage 
below 7.25.
Brothers and sisters, this
election is about overturning
Citizens United.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
Citizens United is one of the
worst Supreme Court decisions in
the history of our country.
That decision allows the pel
thinkest people -- wealthiest
people in America like the will
onnare Coke brothers --
billionaire Coke brothers to
spend hundreds of millions of
dollars buying elections and in
the process undermine American 
democracy.
Hillary Clinton will nominate
justices to the Supreme Court
who are prepared to overturn
Citizens United.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
And end the movement towards
oligarchy that we are seeing in
this country.
Her Supreme Court appointments
will also defend a woman's right
to choose, workers' r ights, the
rights of the LGBT community,
the needs of minorities and
immigrants, and the government's
ability to protect our
environment.
[Cheers and Applause]
If you don't believe that this
election is important, if you
think you can sit it out, take a
moment to think about the
Supreme Court justices that
Donald Trump would 
nominate.
And what that would mean to
civil liberties, equal rights
and the future of our country.
This election is about the
thousands of young people I have
met all over 
this country.
[Cheers and Applause]
The thousands that I have met
who left college deeply in
d ebt, and tragically the many
others who cannot afford to go
to college.
During the primary campaign,
sect Clinton and I both focused
on this issue, but with somewhat
different approaches.
Recently, however, we have come
together on a proposal that will
revolutionize higher education
in America.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
It will guarantee, guarantee
that the children of any family
in this country with an annual
income of $125,000 a year or
less, 83% of our population will
be able to go to a public
college or university 
t uition-free.
That proposal also substantially
reduces student 
debt.
This election is about climate
change, the great environmental
crisis facing our planet.
And the need to leave this world
in a wave that is healthy and
habitable for our children and
future 
generations.
Hillary Clinton is listening to
the scientists who tell us that
unless we act boldly to
transform our energy system in
the very near future, there will
be more drought, more floods, 
more asid ficcation of the
associations more rising sea
levels.
She understands that we can
create hundreds of thousands of
jobs transforming our energy 
system.
Donald Trump, well, like most
Republicans, he chooses to
reject science.
He believes that climate change
is a hoax, no need to address 
it.
Hillary Clinton understands that
a President's job is to worry
about future generations, not
the profits of the fossil fuel 
industry.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
This campaign is about moving
the United States toward
universal 
healthcare.
And reducing the number of
people who are uninsured or
under insured.
Hillary Clinton wants to see
that all Americans have the
right to choose a public option
in their healthcare exchange.
She believes that anyone 55 or
older should be able to op in to
Medicare.
[Cheers and Applause]
And she wants to see millions
more Americans gain access to
primary healthcare, dental
c are, mental health counseling,
low cost prescription drugs,
through a  major expansion of
community health centers.
And what is Donald Trump's
position on healthcare.
Well, no surprise there, same
old, same old Republican 
contempt for working families.
He  wants to abolish the
Affordable Care Act, throw
20 million people off of health
insurance, and cut Medicaid for
lower income Americans.
Hillary Clinton also understands
that millions of seniors,
disabled vets and others are
struggling with the outrageously
high cost of prescription drugs.
And the fact that Americans pay
the highest prices in the world
for the medicine we use.
She knows that Medicare must
negotiate drug prices with the
pharmaceutical industry.
[Cheers and Applause]
And that drug companies should
not be making billions in profit
when one out of five Americans
are unable to afford the
medicine they need.
The greed of the drug companies
must end.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
This election is about the
leadership we need to pass
comprehensive immigration reform
and repair a broken criminal
justice 
system.
It's about making sure that
young people in this country are
in good schools and at good
jobs, not rotting in jail
c ells.
[Cheers and Applause]
Hillary Clinton understands that
we have to invest in education
and jobs for our young people,
not more jails or 
incarceration.
In these stressful times for our
country, this election must be
about bringing our people
together, not dividing us 
up.
While Donald Trump is busy
insulting one group after
another, Hillary Clinton
understands that our diversity
is one of our greatest 
strengths.
Yes, we become stronger when
black and whites, Latino, Asian
American, Native American, when
all of us stand 
together.
Yes, we become stronger when men
and women, young and old, gay
and straight, native born and
immigrant, fight together to
create the kind of country we
all know we can 
become.
It is no secret that Hillary
Clinton and I disagree on a
number of issues.
That is what this campaign has
been about.
That is what democracy is 
a bout.
But I'm happy to tell you that
at the Democratic platform
committee, there was a
significant coming together
between the two campaigns and we
produced by far the most
progressive platform in the
history of the Democratic 
P arty.
Among many, many other strong
provisions, the Democratic Party
now calls for breaking up the
major financial institutions on
Wall Street.
[Cheers and Applause]
Lightning and the passage of 
a 21st
 century glass ceiling Act.
It also calls for strong
opposition to job killing trade
agreements like the 
TPP. 
Our job, right.
We have got to make sure that
T PP does not get to the floor
of the Congress in the lame duck
session.
[Cheers and Applause]
Our job now is to see that
strong Democratic platform
implemented by a Democratic 
controlled Senate, by a
Democratic House and a Hillary
Clinton presidency.
[Cheers and 
Applause]
And I am going to do all that I
can to make that 
happen.
I have known Hillary Clinton for
25 years.
I remember her, as you do, as a
great first lady who broke 
precedent in terms of the role
that a first lady was supposed
to play as she helped lead the
fight for universal healthcare.
I serve with her in the United
States Senate and know her as a
fierce advocate for the rights
of children, for women, and for
the 
disabled.
Hillary Clinton will make an
outstanding President, and I am
proud to stand with her
t onight.
Thank you all very much!
[Cheers and Applause]
[Music]
 Announcer: ladies and
gentlemen, please welcome rabbi
Julie Shoenfeld of white plaps,
New 
York.
God of goodness, you have given
a beautiful earth to all
humankind, and a beautiful
country to the American people.
You have given us our minds to
discern your truth, and the
means to preserve and protect
your gifts.
God of compassion, show us the
way to improve the lives of our
fellow Americans.
Remind us that our greatest
achievements begin by helping
each of us to build a good
l ife, to have the opportunity
to work and to contribute, to
care for ourselves and our
families, to raise up our
children with proper healthcare
and a good education, and to age
with wisdom and dignity.
God of healing, comfort us in
the difficult days that have
marked this turbulent summer in
our country and around the
world.
Guide our hands to reach out
towards one another, certain in
the truth that what unites us is
greater than anything that
divides us.
Let us keep the faith that the
healing of our wounds will make
us stronger than ever.
God of strength, safeguard this
great nation and hour allies.
Watch over the brave who protect
us here and abroad.
Guide our leaders in wisdom and
experience to protect our nation
and our values against those who
would threaten us.
Bring us closer together to
understand our challenges and to
overcome them.
God, who is great, mighty and
awesome, in a season so filled
with chatter of who is great and
what is great, and what shall be
great, let us remember 
scriptures clear, simple
explanation of greatness.
God is the great, the mighty,
and the awesome, for God
d efends the cause of the widow
and the orphan, and loves the
stranger residing among you.
This is God's greatness, and
this is the greatness, 
greatness the American people
must strive to imitate.
God of history, help us to
understand that this is the most
important election of our lives.
Help us to recognize that the
gift, the miracle of U.S.
democracy, our freedom, our
community, and everything we
hold dear rests in the hands of
her people at this moment.
We are a beautiful country of
people as diverse as your
creation.
We are each unique, each a part
of a group or groups we identify
with proudly, and each a person
of infinite value created in
your divine image.
Help us to choose wisely, to
walk in your ways, which are
paths of pleasantness and peace
and let us say 
amen.
[
Applause]
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