Hillary Clinton Backs Kamala Harris in Emotional Speech at DNC: ‘The Future Is Here’

Hillary Clinton took the stage of the Democratic National Convention Monday night in Chicago, thanking Joe Biden for his lifetime of service.

Eight years ago after losing the presidency to Donald Trump, Clinton now has a chance to support another woman at the top of the ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris. Clinton said in her DNC speech that after she lost in 2016, “We refused to give up on America. Millions marched, many ran for office.”

“Now we are writing a new chapter in American history. The future is here!” she proclaimed.

Clinton got a big cheer from the fired-up DNC crowd when she assailed Trump, saying “Donald Trump fell asleep at his own trial. When he woke up, he made his own kind of history, the first person to run for president with 34 felony convictions.”

“We have him on the run now,” she also said of Trump.

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“She will never write love letters to dictators,” Clinton said of Harris.

Clinton continued, “No matter what the polls say, we can’t let up. We can’t get driven down crazy conspiracy rabbit holes. We have to fight for the truth. We have to fight for Kamala as she will fight for us. You know what? It still takes a village to raise a family, heal a country, and win a campaign.”

“I know her heart and her integrity,” Clinton said of Harris. “So as President, she will always have our backs. She will fight to lower costs for hard-working families. Open the doors wide for good paying jobs. And, yes, she will restore abortion rights nationwide.”

“Let’s go win it!” she concluded.

Also speaking at the convention Monday night were Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and President Joe Biden.

Clinton wrote about her loss to Trump in her memoir “What Happened,” admitting that she shouldn’t have called half of Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables” and that she would not have used the private email server, which led to then-FBI director James Comey reopening a federal inquiry that was harmful to her campaign.