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Posted: 2024-08-21T08:00:11Z | Updated: 2024-08-21T08:00:11Z

Former first lady Michelle Obama issued a blistering assessment of the Donald Trump years during a rousing speech for the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday, delivering a revamped version of her famed catchphrase for the modern political era.

Obama first delivered the now-iconic line When they go low, we go high in 2016 as she stumped for then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clintons bid for the White House. On Tuesday, she painted a vision for America under a different woman president as she and her husband, former President Barack Obama , took the stage to support Vice President Kamala Harris and her own run for office.

This election is going to be close So we need to vote in numbers to erase any doubt, Obama said. We have the power to pay forward the love, sweat and sacrifice of our mothers and fathers and all those who came before us. We did it before yall, and we sure can do it again.

Let us work like our lives depend on it, and let us keep moving our country forward and go higher, yes, always higher than weve ever gone before.

Watch the moment below beginning at 19:15.

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