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mr. harris: -- vice president vice president yes, we are doing this. when i hear my young leaders such as jasmine, our future of our country is so bright. so bright. and it is so good to be back in greenville with so many leaders. thank you. i want to thank the incredible governor roy cooper! thank you. your next governor! [cheers and applause] representative manning.

mayor. the countless state candidates and all the leaders with us today. from north carolina two nights ago, donald trump and i had our debate. [cheers and applause] ms. rice: -- the vice president: did you watch it, and i believe we need to have another debate.

keep our nation safe and secure. [cheers and applause] but that's not what we heard from donald trump. [laughter] >> i called it at the beginning of the debate. same old tired playbook we heard for years with no plans how to address the needs of the american people. well, folks, look, it's time to turn the page! [cheers and applause] america is ready for a new way

forward and we are ready for a new generation that is optimistic about what we can do for our country together! [cheers and applause] we have a duty to put country above partisanship and defend our constitution and defend our constitution. and that is my pledge to you. i will always put country above party from the courthouse to the white house. i have always fought for the people. i have always fought for the people.

from being a young courtroom prosecutor. [cheers and applause] from being a young courtroom prosecutor in oakland, california. i have stood up against people who abused women. and i took on banks. i stood up for veterans being being scammed to workers being cheated out of their wages, wages that were due and seniors facing elder abuse. i will be a president for all americans. [cheers and applause] and together, together we will

build a brighter future for our nation. [cheers and applause] we are going to build a future what i call an opportunity economy. so every american has an opportunity to own a home, to build wealth, to start a business. [cheers and applause] i love our small businesses. are there small business owners here? raise your hand. so, you know, growing up, growing up, my mother, she worked long hours and worked very long hours and my sister

and i would go over to our second mother. she asked me, and she would take care of us in the evenings and on the weekends when my mother was working and she was a small business owner. and let me tell you what i learned about a young child. a small business owners, you are business leaders and you are sink leaders and community leaders. you hire locally. you mentor. you are part of the fabric of our communities. and you are the backbone of america's economy. [cheers and applause] the backbone. so i have a plan for you and my plan is to give a $50,000 tax deduction for startup

businesses. [cheers and applause] because i understand not everybody likes the person who was on the stage the other night and hands out 400,000 on a silver platter and files for bankruptcy six times. come on. i know my mother worked hard and saved up and not until a teenager she was able to buy our first home. i know the challenges that working people are having in terms of affordable housing and we need to build more affordable housing in america. [cheers and applause] part of my plan, part of my vision for an opportunity economy we are going to cut red tape and build three million new homes by the end of my first

term. [cheers and applause] and i have a plan to lower the cost of living for america's families from health care to groceries and taking on price gouging and those corporations when they take advantage of people in need. under my plan, more than 100 million americans will be getting tax cuts. thousands of dollars of your hard-earned money will go back in your pockets including $6,000 during the first year of a child's life for young parents knowing in that critical stage of your child's development, you might need a little help, not just to get by but to get ahead. and i will always put the middle class and working families first. i know where i came from.

[cheers and applause] i know where i came from. [cheers and applause] donald trump has a different plan. just google project 2025. i see you have. it is a detailed and dangerous blueprint for what he will do if he is elected president. donald trump will give billionaires massive cuts, massive tax cuts and cult corporate tax cuts by over a trillion dollars even as they pull down record profits. he intends to cut social security and medicare. [crowd booing] and he wants to impose a trump

sales tax on every day basic necessities which will cost the average american family nearly 4,000 a year. some of the top economists in our country and in the world have reviewed these plans. goldman sachs, for example, has said that my plan would grow our economy and his plan would shrink the economy. [cheers and applause] his plan would re-ignite inflation and send us into this in the next year. on top of this, donald trump intends to end the affordable care act. think about that. think about that. we remember what it meant when insurance companies could deny you for a preexisting condition. remember what it was. you wants to get rid of it and

as he said in the debate, he has no plan to replace it. you remember? you remember? he has are concepts of a plan. concepts of a plan. i mean, what does that mean? concepts of a plan? which means no actual plan. which means no actual plan. and 45 million americans are insured through the affordable care act. so understand what it means. he is going to end it based on a concept and take us back while folks are suffering. well, we are not going back. we are not going back! we are not!

[cheers and applause] we are not going back. this a fight for the future. and ours is a fight for freedom. [cheers and applause] like the fundamental freedom of a woman to be able to make decisions about her own body and not her government tell her what to do! [cheers and applause] and we remember how we got

here. donald trump hand selected three members of the united states supreme court with the intention, with the intention that they would undo the protections of roev.wade and did exactly what he intended and now more than 20 states have a trump abortion ban including north carolina and every single state in the south except virginia. many with no exceptions even for rape and increst -- cyst. it is immoral. and i know everyone understands let us agree that one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held believes that the government should not be telling

her to do with her body! [cheers and applause] and when he was asked on tuesday night, donald trump refused to say he would veto a national abortion ban. well, well, when congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, as president of the united states, i will strongly sign into law, proudly sign it into law. [cheers and applause] we are not fooling around. and across our nation we are witnessing a strong attack on

hard fought, hard won fundamental rights and freedoms, like the freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from gun violence,. [cheers and applause] the freedom to breathe clean air and drink clean water. and the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride! [cheers and applause] and here's the thing i know about all of the north carolinaian leaders that are here. you know it so well. generations of americans before us led the fight for freedom. generations of americans before us, many from right here led the fight for freedom.

[cheers and applause] let's get a medic over there, please. let's get a medic over there. that's what leaders do. looking after each other. [cheers and applause] ok, we got a medic. generations of americans before us led the fight for freedom. and now the baton is in our hands. the baton is now in our hands. and we, who believe of the sacred freedom will pass the john lewis voting act and freedom to vote -- [cheers and applause]

and we who we believe to live safe from gun violence will finally pass a assault weapons ban and universal background check and red flag laws. [cheers and applause] so much is on the line in this election. and we got this. we got this. this is not 2016 or 2020. the stakes are even higher, because two months ago, the united states supreme court basically told the former president that he will effectively be immune no matter what he does in the white house. [crowd booing] well, here's the thing, the

courts will take care of that and take care of that in november, all right? [laughter] imagine what that court ruling means because there might have been at least, the belief there would be the threat of consequence, but now there is an explicit ruling from the court that he would be immune. imagine donald trump with no guardrails? imagine what that would look like. he would vowed he would be a dictator on day one. he will call for the quote termination of the constitution of the united states. and let us be very clear, someone who suggests that we should terminate the constitution of the united

states should never again stand behind the seal of the president of the united states. [cheers and applause] never again. never again. [cheers and applause] never! [cheers and applause] and put that all in the context of people who have been talking about how he was when they searched served with him in the white house, people who was in the white house, his national security, his chief of staff and his vice president, all, all of whom have warned america donald trump is not fit to be president of the united states!

[cheers and applause] should never occupy our nation's highest office again. so, north carolina, i believe it all comes down to this, we are here together. we are here together because we love our country. we love our country. [cheers and applause] and we together understand the awesome responsibility that comes with the greatest privilege on earth, the privilege and pride of being an american! [cheers and applause] that's right.

that's right. [crowd chanting u.s.a.] i do believe it is the highest form of patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country and to fight to realize the promise of america. [cheers and applause] and so north carolina, we have 54 days until election day. [cheers and applause] 54 days until election day. and just 35 days until early voting begins. [cheers and applause] and it's not only the presidency on the ballot. there are many important races

like your candidate running for governor whose opponent was hand picked by donald trump because he wants a total ban of abortion in this state. [crowd booing] and that is one of the many stakes that are in this election. but we know the power is with the people. the power is with the people. your voice is your vote, north carolina. and you are going to make all the difference in the outcome of this race. and we know ours will be a very tight race until the very end. we are the underdog. let's be the and we are the underdog and we have hard work ahead of us but we like our

work, hard working is good work. hard work is good work. and with your help, we will win! we will win! and so i ask you to make your voices heard? [cheers and applause] do we believe in freedom? do we believe in opportunity. [cheers and applause] do we believe in the promise of america? [cheers and applause] and are we ready to fight for it? [cheers and applause] and when we fight, we win. there you go. god bless you. and god bless america!

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