Read Kamala Harris’s rally speech introducing Tim Walz as her VP pick in full

Good evening everyone, good evening, good evening!

It is good to be back in Pennsylvania so let me say on behalf of myself and the first Second Gentleman of the United States, my husband Doug Emhoff, thank you for the warm welcome and let me just say it’s good to be here with all of the friends all of the leaders who are here.

I want to thank former Governor Ed Rendell, Senator Bob Casey, who we will re-elect this November, Senator John Fetterman, Mayor Charelle Parker and Chairman Jamie Harrison.

It is so good to be here with your incredible governor Josh Shapiro and I will say Josh is a dear, dear friend and an extraordinary leader. He and I have been spending a lot of time together over the years and I told Josh, look, I am so, so invested in our friendship in doing this together because, together with Josh Shapiro, we will win Pennsylvania and I thank you Josh, I thank you.

So Philadelphia, I launched my campaign for the President of the United States two weeks ago and it’s been a bit of a whirlwind and just last night the delegates to the Democratic National Convention finished voting and so I stand before you today to proudly announce I am now officially the Democratic nominee for president of the United States and so now we’ve got some work to do.

We need to move to the general election and win that and to all the friends, listen, we also need to level set. We are the underdogs in this race but we have the momentum and I know exactly what we are up against.

Now, many of you know before I was elected vice president or elected a United States senator, I was an elected attorney general and before that elected district attorney and before that I was a court prosecutor, so in those roles I took on perpetrators of all