Oprah Winfrey called upon independent and undecided voters to support Vice President Kamala Harris on this year’s presidential ballot during a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday evening. The media mogul opened her speech by emphasizing: “America is an ongoing project. It requires commitment.
It requires being open to the hard work and the hard work of democracy and every now and then. It requires standing up to life’s bullies.” Winfrey then offered an example of the “best of America,” squeezing in a dig at Donald Trump’s running mate J.
D Vance’s largely unpopular “ cat lady” remarks : “When a house is on fire, we don’t ask about a homeowner’s race or religion. We don’t wonder who their partner is or how they voted — no! We just try to do the best we can to save them. And if the place happens to belong to a childless cat lady, you well, we try to get that cat out too.
” Oprah: When a house is on fire, we do not ask about the homeowners race or religion. We just try to do the best we can to save them. And if the place happens to belong to a childless cat lady.
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com/Oms9vO3d5c Her hypothetical anecdote drew cheers from the crowd as Winfrey pressed on and told the story of New Orleans civil rights icon Tessie Prevost , who died last month and was born “not long after the Supreme Court ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.” Winfrey credited Prevost, al.