'Damn good': Rachel Maddow heaps praise as Harris reached out with 'strength personified'

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow lavished praise on Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign speech at the Ellipse, which she delivered Tuesday night to an estimated 75,000 people.

The rally — held at the site of former President Donald Trump's famous "Stop the Steal" rally just before the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was a clear attempt to turn the page on the former president's tenure — but also, said Maddow, to show just what kind of a president Harris can be in her own right.

"This is a damn good speech," said Maddow. "This strikes me as essentially the bookend to her Democratic National Convention speech, her acceptance of the Democratic Party's nomination. Hit some of the same lines, but she knew she was speaking to the Democratic Party and to those that elevated her within that party. Tonight, she was speaking to the whole country."

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Thus, Maddow continued, "she asked for people's vote, she reintroduced herself to the country. 'A lot of people say they don't know enough about me' — I am paraphrasing, she talked about her upbringing and worked most of her career outside of Washington and she ended with a big, you know, presidential flourish, a big vision. Nearly 250 years ago America was born when we wrested freedom from a petty tyrant. Across the generations, Americans preserved that freedom and expanded it and in so doing proved that the government for, by the people can endure. The United States of America, she said, is not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators. The United States of America is the greatest idea humanity ever devised."

Maddow said Harris' speech targeted people who may not have been inclined to vote for her or aren't wholly comfortable with her, and who may not have felt it was necessary to vote at all.

"She is there to say, I embody the future of the country and the other guy embodies the end of the democratic experiment," said Maddow. "It is worth voting for me because I will protect this country. That is strength personified."

The bottom line, said Maddow, is "she did a good job with the speech. The most important speech of her life thus far."

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