Eight years after her famous speech in which she said, “When they go down, we go up,” former first lady Michelle Obama lifted the audience at the Democratic National Convention by declaring that hope had returned with the nomination of Kamala Harris.
“America, hope is back,” Michelle Obama said, referring to “something wonderfully magical” in the air across the country. “It’s a contagious force of hope,” she said, drawing a parallel to the energy of her husband Barack Obama’s campaign that led to his election in 2008.
But just as Hillary Clinton did in her speech on the first day of the convention in Chicago, Obama also warned that enthusiasm and positive poll numbers cannot lead to complacency or division.