National Grassroots Call with Tim Walz and Kamala Harris [Full Remarks]

EXCERPT:

HARRIS: “You put in the time, it was personal for you, and you gave all that you could to support our campaign. Because of your efforts — get this — we raised an historic $1.4 billion, almost one and a half billion dollars from grassroots supporters alone, the most in presidential campaign history. Nearly 8 million donors contributed an average donation of about $56 to fuel our people-powered campaign. And understand that the work that we did included the work that so many of you here did, which is to talk to first-time voters — many of you are first-time voters — and to talk about how being involved can make a difference, and that remains true. And that’s one of the pieces that I just want us to please take away, that our fight for freedom and for opportunity and for the promise of America, it included, for example, nearly almost 4 million first-time contributors to our campaign. Because of the work you did of helping people know that they can be engaged and that they’re not outside, that they’re inside, that we’re all in this together. And that work continues. The work must continues (sic) of reminding ourselves that we have an ability to stay engaged in a way that will make a difference. The work that you all did, it’s going to have lasting effect. Again I’ll say, you know, the election didn’t turn out like we wanted it to, certainly not as we planned for it to, but understand that the work we put into it was about empowering people. That’s the spirit with what we did. Our spirit and our work was about saying that it is a strength that we each have to lift people up, as opposed to beating people down. It is a strength we have that has lasting effect. So all that work that you did that was about engaging with other people, engaging with perfect strangers and in their face seeing a neighbor, that has lasting effect. It reminds people that there are leaders like you who care and will bring us together.”