I was. The wave of support that came within the first 12 hours was really quite overwhelming, because I think a lot of Black women who have been in this space for decades all kind of felt the same way... It was overwhelming. It was reassuring. There aren't even words for it.
The weeks before actually had been really quite painful, hearing people say, 'Oh, we need to find a candidate. We need to find somebody, draft somebody' when we had an extremely qualified vice-president sitting right there... So when the endorsements started coming and the energy around her just really reached a fever pitch, it was overwhelming.
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