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Kamala Harris hits out at Trump, pledges 'new way forward' for US

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US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves as she arrives to speak on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted the party's nomination for president today at the DNC which ran from August 19-22 in Chicago. [AFP]

As red, white and blue balloons streamed onto a Chicago stage and people danced in the aisles, Kamala Harris waved to supporters and basked in the crowd's adulation after the speech of her political life.

As she accepted her party's nomination in the US presidential race, nearly every sentence Harris uttered was greeted with raucous cheers, her voice reverberating around the packed auditorium.

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