Vice President Kamala Harris brought a historic Democratic National Convention to a close with a speech outlining her vision for America’s future on Thursday.
And a number of DNC speakers used the hours leading up to Harris to scorch former President Donald Trump.
The Rev. Al Sharpton told the Chicago crowd that all the GOP nominee has been consistent on is “making himself richer” and “sowing division to get that done.”
“This man sat right here in Chicago a few weeks ago refusing to apologize for claims that migrants were taking Black jobs,” said Sharpton of Trump, who was asked about his “Black jobs” remarks during his chaotic appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention last month.
“Well, in November, we’re gonna show him when Blacks do their jobs.”
Sharpton’s speech was followed by remarks by Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated “Central Park Five” that was wrongly accused of an assault in 1989. Prior to the group’s trial, Trump paid $85,000 for a full-page newspaper ad calling for New York to bring back the death penalty.
Salaam, now a New York City councilmember, declared that America “will finally say goodbye to that hateful man” when “they see us.”
“We will say what I have said after seven long years of wrongful incarceration: Free at last, free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last,” Salaam said.
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), Generation Z’s first congressman, later took the DNC stage where he emphasized that it’s “patriotic” to fight climate change before turning to the GOP nominee.
“Unlike Donald Trump, our patriotism is more than some damn slogan on a hat. It’s about giving a damn about the people who live in this country,” said Frost as the crowd erupted in applause over the jab.
Aside from lawmakers, celebrities also challenged Trump including actor and comedian D.L. Hughley, who ripped the former president over his racist claim that Harris “happened to turn Black.”
“Now of course Trump is saying that Kamala isn’t Black. I guarantee you this, Kamala’s been Black a lot longer than Trump’s been a Republican,” joked Hughley in reference to the former president changing political parties several times.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), meanwhile, used her DNC speech to slip in a response to Trump’s attacks on her where he referred to her as “that woman from Michigan.”
Gretchen has previously worn a t-shirt with Trump’s attack written on it and told “CBS Sunday Morning” last year that the best way to disarm a bully is to “take their weapon and make it your shield.”
And that she aimed to do after she brushed dirt off her shoulders over the “insult” on Thursday.
“Being a woman from Michigan is a badge of honor,” Whitmer told the Chicago crowd.
Harris, in her speech that wrapped up the DNC, broke down how Trump’s picks for the Supreme Court led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and warned that the former president along with his allies could limit access to birth control and “enact a nationwide abortion ban, with or without Congress.”
“And get this — get this, he plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator, and force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions. Simply put – they are out of their minds,” Harris said.
“And one must ask, one must ask — why, exactly, is it that they don’t trust women? Well, we trust women.”