Bill Clinton says choice between Harris and Trump is ‘We the people’ vs. ‘Me, Myself, and I’

Former President Invoice Clinton instructed the Democratic Nationwide Conference on Wednesday, “In 2024, we’ve got a transparent selection: ‘We The Folks’ versus ‘Me, Myself, and I.’ “

“I do know which one I like higher for our nation,” Clinton stated.

Vice President “Kamala Harris will work to resolve issues, seize alternatives, ease our fears, and ensure that each single American, nonetheless they vote, has an opportunity to chase their goals,” stated the previous president, who served two phrases within the White Home till January 2001.

“Kamala Harris is the one candidate on this race with the imaginative and prescient, the expertise, the temperament, the need, and sure — the sheer pleasure — to do this on good and unhealthy days. To be our voice,” he stated of the Democratic presidential nominee.

Clinton’s spouse, Hillary Clinton, misplaced the 2016 election to former President Donald Trump, the present Republican presidential nominee.

Clinton made a pointed joke at Trump’s expense at the beginning of his speech.

Now, let’s lower to the chase: The stakes are too excessive and I am too outdated to gild the lily,” Clinton stated. “I really turned 78 two days in the past. And I am nonetheless not fairly as outdated as Donald Trump.”

Clinton additionally contrasted Trump to Harris

“Donald Trump has been a paragon of consistency,” Clinton stated. “He is nonetheless dividing, he is nonetheless blaming, he is nonetheless belittling different individuals.”

“He creates chaos, after which he kind of curates it, as if it have been valuable artwork.”

“The following time you hear him, do not depend the lies. Rely the ‘I’s’ ” Clinton quipped after noting that Trump “principally talks about himself.”

“His vendettas, his vengeance, his complaints, his conspiracies: He is like a type of tenors, opening up earlier than he walks out on stage, like I did, making an attempt to get his lungs open by saying ‘me, me, me me.”

“When Kamala Harris is president, each day will start with ‘you, you, you, you.”

NBC Information reported that Clinton tore up the prior draft of his speech Monday after seeing the primary night time of the conference

A Clinton aide stated that Clinton was moved by the power and enthusiasm on show in Chicago and wished to mirror that in a revised speech that he delivered Wednesday.