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Oprah Winfrey, who grew to become a billionaire and a family identify from her Chicago-based “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” opened her remarks with: “Who says you’ll be able to’t go residence once more?”
She drew deafening applause from Democrats gathered within the United Center as she stepped onstage. She urged the viewers to shun the darkish imaginative and prescient of America as “a nation of us in opposition to them” and one which raises unrealistic fears the place individuals “imagine that books are harmful and assault rifles are secure.”
She additionally reiterated that, generally, you need to stand as much as bullies in life.
After namechecking a number of states she’s known as residence over her profession, together with Mississippi, Tennessee and California, she stated she’s seen a few of the worst that America has to supply, from sexism to racism to earnings inequality and division.
“I’ve not solely seen it, at occasions,” Winfrey stated, “I’ve been on the receiving finish of it.”
But she additionally stated the individuals she has met throughout the nation “will assist you to in a heartbeat if you’re in bother” — they usually make her proud to be American.
“We are usually not so completely different from our neighbors. When a home is on fireplace, we don’t ask in regards to the home-owner’s race or faith,” She stated. “We don’t surprise who their associate is or how they voted. No. We simply attempt to do the very best we are able to to avoid wasting them.”
She then quipped, “And if the place occurs to belong to a childless cat girl — we attempt to get the cat out, too,” in reference to vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s feedback disparaging girls with out kids.
Winfrey, a registered unbiased, additionally made her pitch to unbiased voters as to why they need to vote for Harris.
“I’m calling on all you independents and all you undecided,” Winfrey stated. “You know I’m telling you the reality that values and character matter most of all, in management and in life.”
She added, “And greater than something, you understand that is true, that decency and respect are on the poll in 2024 — and simply plain frequent sense.”
