By james art FLOTUS Pool Report #2 – Canvass launch in Winston-Salem
Executive One landed at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina at 11:13 p.m. The motorcade traveled to a field office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where FLOTUS launched a Women for Harris volunteer campaign.
FLOTUS entered the room to “Making My Dreams Come True” by Hall and Oates. She unbuttoned her blazer to reveal her Christian Sirano ‘Vote’ gown. “Do you like my outfit?” she asked the volunteers, who roared in response.
The motorcade arrived at 11:52. Jenny Marshall, chairwoman of the Forsyth County Democratic Party, introduced FLOTUS to an office packed with approximately 75 supporters, according to your puller count. Marshall called FLOTUS a “relentless advocate and leader” who demonstrated “the power to do the work for a cause greater than herself.”
FLOTUS began speaking at 12:02 p.m. “We love Joe!” shouted a supporter. “I love him too!” FLOTUS shouted back. She asked the Secret Service to remove the pillars that separated her from the crowd. “Doesn’t it feel much better? Yes!” she said. “I feel really connected to you now.”
“That’s it – just one more day until we elect a new generation of leaders in Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz!” FLOTUS said. A supporter shouted “thank God!” as she said it; FLOTUS responded with her own “thank God!”
FLOTUS repeated some of the same lines she shared at her stops in Pennsylvania yesterday. She noted that “character and temperament matter” in this election and that Harris is a “calm, decisive and strong leader” — “the president we all deserve.” She called Trump “the other guy” who just “takes care of himself.”
FLOTUS praised Harris’ plans to lower housing, grocery and prescription drug costs, as well as strengthen Social Security and Medicare. She said Harris would “protect our freedoms, like a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions — but no one should have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree that the government shouldn’t tell women what to do.”
Other than responding to the volunteers’ praise, FLOTUS did not mention her husband’s administration by name. “Are we better off than we were four years ago?” she asked at one point. “Yes!” the room shouted back.
“Let’s remember why we fired Trump the first time,” FLOTUS said, recalling the morning after the 2016 election when Democrats realized they had lost. “Remember that feeling? So today, let that feeling sustain you, encourage you, sustain you.”
FLOTUS concluded by saying that serving as First Lady was her “lifetime honor.”
Her speech ended at 12:09 p.m. The FLOTUS returned to the motorcade as it traveled back to Piedmont International Airport. Wheels up en route to Raleigh-Durham International Airport at 12:59 p.m.