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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an event at Discovery World
Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Milwaukee. | Morry Gash/AP---People's World
Harris ended her 20-minute address on May 21 with that warning to the 3,500 union delegates meeting at their convention in Philadelphia. Her speech was repeatedly interrupted by chants of “Four more years!” And she urged the union to “get out in the streets to defend the country.”
Historically, vice presidential nominees, including incumbents, have been used as what much of the media described as “attack dogs” in both presidential and off-year campaigns. Two Republican examples: VP Spiro Agnew blasted the media as “nattering nabobs of negativism” in 1970 and Republican VP nominee Bob Dole, a badly wounded World War II veteran, called it and other conflicts “Democrat wars” in 1976.
Given Trump’s track record, and his “I’ll be a dictator on day one” statement, Harris went further with strong words that reflected the actual threats the country faces.
But before discussing the impact of a Trump triumph, Harris ran through a long list of accomplishments for workers by President Joe Biden. They included better pay for home healthcare workers, a $15 hourly minimum wage for federal contractor employees, mandatory nurse-patient ratios at nursing homes that get Medicaid money, and more job safety enforcement. Those issues were of particular importance to workers represented by SEIU. The White House posted the entire speech on YouTube.
For additional coveraage by People's World of the SEIU Convention, read more here.
SEIU Local 1 members march through Philadelphia during the union's national
convention this past weekend. | Baily Koch / SEIU Local 1 via X--People's World
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