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DNC 2024 Day 4 live updates: Harris pivots to attack on Trump, an 'unserious man' with 'serious' consequences
Harris has accepted the party's nomination.
The final day of the Democratic National Convention wraps up with Kamala Harris' big moment: her acceptance speech in which she gets to tell her story to the millions of Americans watching.
Her campaign says, in addition to describing her middle-class upbringing, she will continue to stress optimism and patriotism -- the "politics of joy" -- the overall themes we've heard throughout the gathering.
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Harris talking about one of her strongest issues: reproductive rights
Harris struggled to find her role in the first few years of the Biden administration, but began to shine when talking about the fight for reproductive rights after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
"Let's be clear about how we got here, Donald Trump hand picked members of the United States Supreme Court to take away reproductive freedom, and now he brags about it," she said.
She then turned her ire to Republicans in Congress.
"Why exactly is it that they don't trust women?" she said. "Well, we trust women."
Harris' family, running mate watch her speak
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, seated with his children and Harris' sister Maya, was seen wiping his eyes after Harris walked out to the lectern. He was the first person to receive a shout-out from the vice president, who remarked on their 10th wedding anniversary.
Her running mate, Tim Walz, was also looking on with emotion as she took the stage.
Harris warns of dangers under 'Project 2025'
Harris discussed the controversial "Project 2025" conservative policy proposals contending that would mean "Donald Trump with no guardrails."
"He would use the immense powers of the presidency of the United States not to improve your life, not to strengthen our national security, but to serve the only client he has ever had: himself," she said.
"Its sum total is to pull our country back to the past," Harris said of "Project 2025. "But America, we are not going back."
Harris sparks deafening 'we’re not going back' chant
After proclaiming, "America, we are not going back," the crowd erupted into chants of "we're not going back."
The chants got so loud that at first, you couldn't hear Harris over the speakers.