Former president of the United States, Barack Obama, has told fellow Democrats in Chicago Tuesday that “the torch has been passed” to Kamala Harris and that the US was ready for her to become president.
Obama said Vice President Harris would fight for Americans, and called her November poll rival Donald Trump “dangerous”.
“Kamala Harris is ready for the job. This is a person who has spent her life fighting for people who need a voice,” he said.
Obama said Harris is “someone who sees you and hears you and will get up every single day and fight for you.”
“Yes she can,” Obama said of Harris, prompting the boisterous crowd to repeatedly chant the phrase, recalling Obama’s own “Yes we can” campaign slogan.
Earlier, his wife and former US first lady Michelle Obama told convention goers that hope — another rallying cry of her husband’s successful 2008 campaign — “is making a comeback” with Harris.
In deeply personal remarks shifting the focus onto Harris’s qualities, her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, told the convention “she is ready.”
“She brings both joy and toughness to this task,” he said to cheers.
“At this moment in our nation’s history, she is exactly the right president.”
With the party united and Harris polling strongly, Democrats are making clear they believe they can defeat Trump.
