In honor of the first day of Women’s History Month, the First Lady of The United States Dr. Jill Biden traveled to Atlanta to launch Women for Biden-Harris.
Women for Biden-Harris is a national organizing program to reach and mobilize women across the country to reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Biden delivered remarks at Studio House Atlanta, a woman-owned collaborative workspace, where she met with women to discuss what’s at stake in the upcoming election, how a second Donald Trump presidency would be a great disaster for women, and the pivotal role women will play in reelecting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Along her stops in the city, Biden also made an impromptu stop by the 3 Parks Wine Shop, a Black-woman owned small business, as part of her Women for Biden tour to highlight women small business owners and how the Biden-Harris administration is delivering for them.
“It’s no accident Georgia is where we’ve chosen to launch Women for Biden because four years ago, Georgia, you put us in the White House. From how much work you put in for us and how much you gave, we’re grateful and that’s why I wanted to start here in the place that lifted us over the top,” she said.
Dr. Biden said she wants to do what America did in 2020 and 2022 (Biden’s election), which is talk to friends and tell them why this election is crucial.
“We’re going to tell them what’s at stake and we’re going to make this moment as if our rights and democracy are at stake because they are,” she said. “Here’s the thing about men like Donald Trump, they underestimate our power because they don’t understand how we lead through collaboration by empowering others.”
Dr. Biden also said what gives people clarity to fight is fighting for what’s right and children’s futures are at stake.
“I think our love for our children makes us soft, but we know these are the lives that light a fire in our hearts that makes us fierce. Our daughter’s futures are at stake where our country and its freedom hang in the balance. We are immovable and unstoppable,” she said.
Additionally, Founder of Village Market Georgia, Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon said the Biden-Harris Administration has had intentionality around small business owners.
“As they solve national problems, they have the uncanny ability to go city by city and look eye-to-eye, lifting their stories and celebrating their business because they know when small businesses do well, America does well,” she said.
Hallmon also said she created her business to advance and support founders in the city of Atlanta and around America because she wanted to make sure the “sky was set high” and entrepreneurs had an opportunity to accelerate the community.
“What’s so inspiring about being an entrepreneur is it takes a level of grit, vision, and determination, but what’s so incredible about being a woman-led business is we don’t just build for ourselves, as we advance, the community advances,” Hallmon said.
(Photo by Isaiah Singleton/The Atlanta Voice)
Skye Jackson, senior at Spelman College, will be casting her vote for the first time and is excited to vote for Biden-Harris in November.
“The significance of this moment resonates deeply with me as I transitioned from academia into my future career,” she said. “My education at Spelman has empowered me to recognize the pivotal roles that political engagement plays in shaping our future.”
Jackson also said she knows President Biden and Vice President Harris are fighting to ensure young people like herself can have a great and affordable college education.
Furthermore, FLOTUS said it’s time to show them once again what the power of democracy can do by working every day from now until polls close on primary day in Georgia on March 12 and on Election Day in November.
“By re-electing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, by deciding the future we want and all need, when we do, ladies, no one can stand in our way,” she said.