Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris just making history, accepting for the
Speaker 1: first time as a woman of color, the Democratic nomination
Speaker 1: for president. In a speech that ran almost forty minutes long.
Speaker 1: She introduced herself as the child of an Indian and
Speaker 1: Black American, as a former prosecutor as a senator, but
Speaker 1: also took aim at her opponent Donald Trump several times,
Speaker 1: at one point saying Donald Trump is in many ways
Speaker 1: an unserious man, but saying the consequences of putting Donald
Speaker 1: Trump back in the White House are extremely serious. Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris asked Americans to consider what would happen if we
Speaker 1: give him power again, as she made the case in
Speaker 1: the United Center here in Chicago on this final night
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Convention, Joe that they should put her
Speaker 1: in power instead.
Speaker 2: That's right, as we now see Kamala Harris on Bloomberg
Speaker 2: TV with the second Gentleman, Doug M. Hoffspoke earlier this week,
Speaker 2: standing by for the big balloon drop. Of course, Kaylee,
Speaker 2: you're right, almost forty minutes at the podium and not
Speaker 2: only a biographic cold tale here, but counterpunching on just
Speaker 2: about every line of attack that we've heard from Donald
Speaker 2: Trump and Republicans, aimed at Kamala Harris and her running
Speaker 2: mate Tim Walls, also on the stage now as the
Speaker 2: two couples get together here in showing the ticket that
Speaker 2: has now become formalized in Chicago. She talked a lot
Speaker 2: about Donald Trump, issue by issue, went through the border,
Speaker 2: went through his character, went to Israel as well, where
Speaker 2: she made some news, trying to appeal to both sides.
Speaker 3: As they now wave to the crowd, Kaylee.
Speaker 2: There are more than one hundred thousand red, white and
Speaker 2: blue balloons that.
Speaker 3: Are set to drop on these delegates tonight.
Speaker 1: Which speaks to the festivities of the moment and again
Speaker 1: historic moment that we are in and as we reflect
Speaker 1: on the words we just heard from the Vice president
Speaker 1: and Democratic nominee back with us now our political panel
Speaker 1: Rick Davis, partner at Stoneport Capital and Jeanie Shanzano, Senior
Speaker 1: Democracy Fellow with the Center for the Study of the
Speaker 1: Presidency and Congress. And you obviously are still hearing people
Speaker 1: going wild on the floor of the United Center, a
Speaker 1: lot of energy in arena. As the balloons come down,
Speaker 1: you can see them on This is not no no, indeed,
Speaker 1: and we want to get thoughts now from Rick and Jeanie. Rick, you,
Speaker 1: of course said that for much of this convention, over
Speaker 1: the last several days, there hadn't been enough attacking Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: She talked about him by an eight for most of
Speaker 1: this speech. At one point she said, dictators are rooting
Speaker 1: for Trump because they know Trump won't hold autocrats accountable
Speaker 1: because he wants to be an autocrat himself. How did
Speaker 1: she strike the balance to you of attacking Donald Trump
Speaker 1: while also talking about herself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I think this was a fair balance, right,
Speaker 4: This was a sober speech.
Speaker 3: Last night. We heard Oprah give a joyful speech.
Speaker 4: This was sober night, and she definitely took it to
Speaker 4: Donald Trump in a way. Frankly, no other person on
Speaker 4: the stage and four nights did it. So I think
Speaker 4: she sees this as a contest between Will's. She's ready
Speaker 4: to take him on directly, and I would say she
Speaker 4: took him on using his own words. She didn't quote
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty five Project. She quoted Donald Trump over
Speaker 4: and over again, deeming his positions unacceptable to the greater
Speaker 4: part of America.
Speaker 2: And Donald Trump was I won't say live tweeting, but
Speaker 2: live posting on his truth social platform. Genie you had
Speaker 2: your eyes I guess on the OPO or the counterprogramming
Speaker 2: during this. But as the Democrat at the table, how
Speaker 2: did this strike you tonight? The tone of the balance
Speaker 2: between introducing herself biography and actual policy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it was fascinating because there was an
Speaker 5: abrupt shift from the biography where she talked about her
Speaker 5: mother passed away in two thousand and nine, never saw
Speaker 5: her daughter achieve everything she has and how much of
Speaker 5: an impact she had on her life, all the way
Speaker 5: into this issue issue by issue that you were just
Speaker 5: talking to Rick about attack on what she says Donald
Speaker 5: Trump is going to do to this nation, and she
Speaker 5: pivoted from the watchword of the election so far weird
Speaker 5: to say they are simply out of their minds when
Speaker 5: it comes to reproductive rights. One of the many things
Speaker 5: that if you look at truth social, that really drove
Speaker 5: Donald Trump mad, and he had a very extended screen
Speaker 5: on Truth Social about.
Speaker 3: That with Yeah, that's for sure. He's really busy tonight.
Speaker 2: Com up like all of us watching this, let's jump
Speaker 2: into the balloon drop right now with Bloomberg's and Marie
Speaker 2: hor Dern, who is somewhere on that floor at the
Speaker 2: convention and Marie, oh, oh, it's.
Speaker 6: Absolutely electric on this floor. I just spoke to set it.
Speaker 6: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer again following this speech, and he
Speaker 6: said it was pitch perfect. I think one thing that's
Speaker 6: very clear, Kamala Harris is able to come into this
Speaker 6: race and close that gap. It's like a relief full
Speaker 6: market rally at this convention. Remember this was really unthinkable
Speaker 6: about a month ago. Looking through some of the policies though,
Speaker 6: whether it was the economy, talk about the fact that
Speaker 6: no one in the middle class will get a tax, race,
Speaker 6: reproductive rights, foreign policy, or the border. Well, you see,
Speaker 6: Kamala Harris do is picking and choosing from the Biden
Speaker 6: Harris campaign and administration that she was part of. And
Speaker 6: I think the next few weeks, as we go into
Speaker 6: that debate on September tenth, she's really gonna ask and
Speaker 6: asked some hard questions for voters to really understand what
Speaker 6: differentiates her from Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: All right, Bloomberg's and Marie Hordern on the floor, as
Speaker 1: the balloons are bouncing around, thank you so much. Still
Speaker 1: with us our political panel, Rick Davis and Jeanie Shanzano.
Speaker 1: At this point, we can basically declare Rick, the convention
Speaker 1: and the party over. Kamala Harris now has to do
Speaker 1: this final stretch of seventy five days to actually win
Speaker 1: this thing. Did she improve her aunts with the speech tonight?
Speaker 1: Or is this race still just as tight as it
Speaker 1: was before she took the podium.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, in a divided country the way it is,
Speaker 4: the race is going to be tight all the way
Speaker 4: to the end. Right, no one is going to really
Speaker 4: gain a decisive advantage between now and election day. I
Speaker 4: would say the convention writ hole, I think has improved
Speaker 4: her chances of coming out of here continuing to have
Speaker 4: the momentum remembers. Came into the into the convention with
Speaker 4: a great head of a momentum. She was able to
Speaker 4: take on the mantle of the change candidate while being
Speaker 4: the vice president of an unpopular administration, And so I
Speaker 4: don't think she's lost a bit of that. She has
Speaker 4: established this speech as a change speech, even though it
Speaker 4: mimicked as and Marie said, almost every policy of the
Speaker 4: Biden administration.
Speaker 3: So right now she's getting away with it. We'll see
Speaker 3: how long she can make that last.
Speaker 2: Well, we've got another week here of summer that it's
Speaker 2: on the Labor Day, Genie, and a presidential debate on
Speaker 2: the tenth of September. With such a small time frame
Speaker 2: here you've referred to it seventy five days left.
Speaker 3: Do these two.
Speaker 2: Candidates just get hotel rooms in Pennsylvania and Michigan for
Speaker 2: the rest of this campaign?
Speaker 5: They do, They are going to be living in those
Speaker 5: swing states, particularly as you mentioned Pennsylvania and Michigan, Wisconsin,
Speaker 5: adding North Carolina. And you know, one small point to make.
Speaker 5: We noticed she did not wear white today. Like many
Speaker 5: of the women on the Flora and you guys were
Speaker 5: talking about the history making that this is tonight, she
Speaker 5: is not playing into that, at least with her dress today.
Speaker 5: She did not want to draw attention to her history
Speaker 5: making as the first woman of color to get this
Speaker 5: nomination in terms of wearing that suffragette white. She chose
Speaker 5: to go another way. She also didn't lean in on
Speaker 5: her role as vice president. A lot on prosecutor, not
Speaker 5: a lot on VP, and not a lot on Joe Biden.
Speaker 5: Once again, think how many times we hear Donald Trump
Speaker 5: versus Joe Biden in that speech.
Speaker 3: Oh true, Well, it's really something killy.
Speaker 2: As we watch these images now and a chance for
Speaker 2: the Harris Walls campaign to soak up the energy along
Speaker 2: with thousands of delegates who have made their way here
Speaker 2: to Chicago. This is it the grand finale as we
Speaker 2: have experienced together in the first draft of history on
Speaker 2: Bloomberg TV and Radio. Now it's to the road show,
Speaker 2: Yeah Kaylee, and the first debate between Donald Trump Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: And of course she has promise that by the end
Speaker 1: of the month of August she will be sitting down
Speaker 1: for a big interview. Tonight we did see the Vice
Speaker 1: president and Democratic nominee reading from a teleprompters right Answering
Speaker 1: questions from the press for an interviewer might be the
Speaker 1: next challenge ahead for her, in addition, of course, to
Speaker 1: competing in the Swing States against Donald Trump as they
Speaker 1: both try to claim the presidency in November.
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to be talking a lot, likely about
Speaker 2: a convention bounce here as posters get into the field
Speaker 2: starting tomorrow.
Speaker 3: That might be the next leg in this story.
Speaker 2: As we bring you daily coverage of this historic campaign
Speaker 2: on Bloomberg TV and Radio. That does it for us
Speaker 2: here in Chicago live at the twenty twenty four Democratic
Speaker 2: National Convention. Thanks for spending the week with us with
Speaker 2: Kaylee Lines. I'm Joe matthew on Bloomberg TV and Radio.