Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren announced her strong endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris during her speech on the final day of the Democratic National Convention.
She appeared emotional as she took the stage Thursday, greeted with a roaring applause by the crowd at the United Center. But the senator quickly got down to business, drawing a sharp contrast between the Democratic nominee and disgraced former President Donald Trump.
“Kamala Harris cannot be bought and she cannot be bullied,” Warren said, noting that she first met her in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, when “banks broke laws and scammed people and stole homes.” During that time, Warren explained how Harris, as California’s attorney general, protected families while Trump “defrauded students at Trump University and tried to make money off people who lost their homes.”
“Kamala Harris has risen to the top. She has enforced the law, she has taken on the big banks, she has provided billions of dollars in relief to families,” Warren said. “That’s the difference between a criminal and a prosecutor.”
Massachusetts also appeared to mock Trump and Vance over an unfounded rumor that Vance once had sex with a couch. “Do you trust Donald Trump and J.D. Vance to take care of your family? I don't trust them to move my couch,” she said.
Both Warren and Harris campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, but Harris dropped out the previous year while Warren stepped down after a lackluster finish on Super Tuesday.
The senator was one of Harris’s first supporters after the vice president announced her candidacy for president this year. “I have known her for 14 years, first as California’s attorney general, then as a U.S. senator and now as vice president,” Warren said in an op-ed for The New York Times. “I have seen firsthand her strength, her intelligence and her compassion.” luster In July. “I support her for president of the United States because she will unite our party, pursue the case against Donald Trump, and win.”
Warren wasn’t the only one to make fun of the couch on Thursday at the Democratic National Convention. While MSNBC cameras were live during the event, an attendee managed to hold up a phone behind a guest talking to anchor Katy Tur that had the words “J.D. Vance fucks couches” written on it.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) appeared to allude to the couch rumor while discussing U.S. veterans issues and taking aim at the Trump ticket.
“I know a couch soldier when I see one,” he said.
