♪ Oh what I wouldn't give for ya ♪
♪ Don't worry 'bout who's saying what ♪
♪ It's gonna be fine ♪
♪ Work what you got ♪
♪ Feeling great because the light's on me ♪
♪ Celebrating the things that everyone ♪
♪ Told me would never happen ♪
♪ But God has put his hands on me ♪
♪ And ain't a man alive could ever take it from me ♪
♪ Working with what I got I gotta keep on ♪
♪ Taking care of myself ♪
♪ I wanna live long ♪
♪ Ain't never ashamed what life did to me ♪
♪ Wasn't afraid to change 'cause it was good for me ♪
♪ I wanna ♪
♪ I just wanna be myself ♪
♪ I just wanna be ♪
♪ No sweat girl, be yourself ♪
♪ No sweat girl ♪
[Kamala Harris] Good evening, Iowa.
(crowd cheers)
So we all know why we're here.
We're here 'cause this is a moment.
This is a moment where we have to be prepared
to fight for the best of our country.
This is a moment where we need to fight
for this country we love, for the rule of law,
for our system of justice, and for our very democracy.
(crowd cheers)
We're all here to fight.
We're all here to fight, we're all here to fight
to end that national nightmare called Donald Trump.
(crowd cheers)
And to win, Democrats, to win.
It can't be about anything other
than looking at the future.
It can't be about looking at yesterday.
We need to be focused on tomorrow.
(crowd cheers)
To win, we're gonna have to fight against those
who have been trying to push hate
and division among us and have Americans
turn on each other.
To win, we are gonna have to fight
for what I know in my heart
and in my soul to be true,
which is in the beauty of the diversity
of who we are as a nation.
(crowd cheers)
We all have so much more in common than what separates us.
(crowd cheers)
And to win, and to win, and to win.
We're gonna need a nominee on that stage with Donald Trump
who has the ability to go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump.
And Iowa, you're lookin' at her.
(crowd cheers)
I've spent my career as a prosecutor.
I've only had one client in my entire life
and that's been the people.
Unlike other people.
Unlike others, I've never represented a corporation.
I've never represented a special interest.
I started my career fighting for the people.
In fact, the first day I walked into a courtroom,
I spoke five words.
Kamala Harris for the people.
(crowd cheers)
Those words "for the people" capture our system of justice
because there are two points when we say for the people.
One, in our system of justice we have rightly said
a harm against anyone is a harm against everyone
that no one should ever be made to fight alone.
And for the people, when I stood there,
and when I stand here today, also means all the people
regardless of race, regardless of gender,
regardless of sexual orientation, regardless of the party
with which they're registered to vote,
regardless of the language your grandmother speaks.
It means all the people.
(crowd cheers)
It was for the people that a large part
of the early part of my career was about
fighting against those who molested children
and raped women because it was about saying
that those survivors deserved justice
and a voice that gave them safety without judgment.
(crowd cheers)
For the people, when I was the elected District Attorney
of San Francisco, meant saying that that war on drugs
was an abject failure
and so I created national models
about what it means to give jobs to people
who are arrested for drugs.
For the people, when I was the Attorney General
of California running the second-largest
Department of Justice in the United States,
second only to the United States Department of Justice,
meant taking on the biggest banks in the United States
who had engaged in predatory lending practices
and bringing back to the homeowners of my state $20 billion.
(crowd cheers)
For the people, as a United States Senator,
meant taking on Jeff Sessions.
Taking on Bill Barr.
Taking on Brett Kavanaugh.
(crowd cheers)
Iowa, I stand here before you today for the people
fully prepared to defeat Donald Trump.
(crowd cheers)
That's why I'm running, for the people.
- [Crowd] For the people, for the people, for the people,
for the people, for the people!
- [Kamala] And I will say.
- [Crowd] For the people, for the people!
- That in the name of the people,
I believe that in 2020, justice is on the ballot.
(crowd cheers)
Justice is on the ballot.
When in America there is a father
who is holding down two jobs, trying to figure out
how to get through the end of the month,
and paying more taxes than the richest 400 families
in America, economic justice is on the ballot.
(crowd cheers)
I'm running for President to pass
the largest middle-class tax cut we have had in history.
You wanna know how we're gonna pay for it?
On day one, we're gonna repeal that tax bill
that benefits the top 1%
and the biggest corporations in America.
(crowd cheers)
When in America, there is a mother who is in a parking lot
of a hospital afraid to walk through the sliding glass doors
to get into the emergency room with her child
because she knows if she walks through
those sliding glass doors,
she'll be out of pocket a $4,000 deductible,
healthcare justice is on the ballot.
(crowd cheers)
I am running for President
to make sure there is Medicare for all.
Not Medicare for some, Medicare for all.
To bring down costs and to ensure that you also get choice
because I heard from folks that said,
"Kamala, don't take away my opportunity
"to have a private plan."
You'll get a public or private plan
depending on your choice.
(crowd cheers)
When we are looking at teachers, who across America
and here in Iowa, are holding down two
and three jobs to get through the end of the month,
education justice is on the ballot.
(crowd cheers)
I am running for President to put in place
what will be the first in our nation's history
federal investment in closing the teacher pay gap
here in Iowa that'll be $12,200 a year.
When all over America,
there are woman who are being attacked
for their constitutional right to make decisions
about their own bodies,
reproductive justice is on the ballot.
(crowd cheers)
I am running to ensure every woman will have her legal
and constitutional right and that not these out of date
Republican legislators tell women what to do
with their bodies.
When children in America,
regardless of who their parent voted for for President
are afraid to go to school
because they are afraid they may get shot,
they are afraid there will be a gunman
roaming the hallways of their school,
justice for children is on the ballot.
(crowd cheers)
I am running for President
to take executive action if necessary
and implement what people who have failed
to have courage have not done,
which is take on the gun lobby in Washington, D.C.
(crowd cheers)
I wanna give a shout-out to Beto
because he had the courage.
Beto had the courage to say,
"Look, you can't walk around talking about gun safety,
"but you don't have the courage to figure out
"how you're gonna take five million assault weapons
"off the streets of America."
(crowd cheers)
Justice is on the ballot.
It is time that we fight
and this is a fight that is about all of us
because yes, a harm against any one of us
is a harm against all of us
and here's the bottom line, Iowa.
Here's the bottom line.
I do believe, I do believe that when we overcome
these injustices, we will unlock the promise of America,
and the potential of the American people.
I do believe, I do believe that is what we want and need
and this is the America, that is the America that I see.
That is the America I believe in.
That is the America I know us to be
and that is why I'm running
for President of the United States.
(crowd cheers)
Please join me and caucus with me in Kamala's Corner.
Thank you.
(upbeat hip-hop music)
♪ Work your thing out out out out ♪
♪ Work you thing out out out out ♪
♪ There's so many girls ♪
♪ I hear you been running ♪
♪ From the beautiful queen ♪
♪ That you could be becoming ♪
♪ You can look at my palm and see the storm coming ♪
♪ Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it ♪
♪ Just because the length of your hair ain't long ♪
♪ And they often criticize you for your skin tone ♪
♪ Wanna hold your head high 'cause you're a pretty woman ♪
♪ Get your runway stride home and keep it going ♪
♪ Girl live ya life ♪
♪ I just wanna be myself ♪
♪ Don't sweat girl, be yourself ♪
♪ Follow me follow me follow me ♪
♪ Girl be yourself ♪
♪ Just wanna be myself and I'm gonna love it ♪
♪ Let 'em get mad, they gonna hate ♪