Thank you, New York. Thank you. A lot of people ask me why I left the Democratic Party. I say, I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me. This is not the party anymore of Martin Luther King, of Robert Kennedy, of John Kennedy.

That was the party of peace. It was the party of constitutional rights, of civil rights, of freedom of speech.

It was the party that wanted to protect and nurture the middle class. It was the party that stood up to censorship, to surveillance, that stood up to the CIA, the military-industrial complex.

It was the party that wanted to protect public health and women’s sports. My uncle, Ted Kennedy, wrote Title IX, which protected women’s sports in college. It was the party that believed in voting rights…

Today’s Democratic Party is the party of war. It’s the party of the CIA…

The Harris campaign is very proud that it received the endorsement of 50 former CIA agents and officers, and of John Bolton, and of Dick Cheney.

These are the people that gave us a war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy catastrophe that’s ever happened to this country. These are the people that gave us the Patriot Act that launched the surveillance state…

This is the party of Wall Street, of big banks, of big data, of big tech, of the military contractors, and the party of big pharma, big ag, big food, and big chemicals…

Don’t you want a president who’s going to put America first?…