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This has been a week of celebration. Shout out to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their victory and props to everyone who made their voices heard at the ballot box.
Remember: When you're celebrating, the world is watching.
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Remember: When you're celebrating, the world is watching.
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Watching a woman—a woman of color—speak as the Vice President-Elect? I can’t tell you what that meant to me and to the women in my life, who can now set their sights higher than ever before—as it should be.
I also want to keep it real: https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1325299256261971969
I also want to keep it real: https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1325299256261971969
Our work is not finished. Politics isn’t all about winning elections, though that’s an important first step. It’s about what you do with the power you have. Showing up to vote for president? That should be the floor, not the ceiling, of what we do for our democracy.
Now, I am not exactly the right person to lecture you on throwing down before you’ve done the hard work. As you might remember, in the summer of 2010, we had quite a party upon our arrival in Miami.
That was a legendary week. And I don’t regret it. But I do wish that, as we felt the joy of anticipation, we had done a better job thinking about all of the work that was ahead of us—and about how those watching our premature parade might feel a way about it.
So I want to share a motto that helped me throughout my career, which applies to everyone, no matter who you voted for in this election: Don’t get too high and don’t get too low.
We talk a lot about how you can’t let a loss get you down—and that’s true.
We talk a lot about how you can’t let a loss get you down—and that’s true.
When you lose, the answer isn’t to fume that the game was rigged against you. (That’s like blaming the referees, even after instant replay showed they were right to call a foul on you) But you also need to be level-headed when you succeed—in fact, it might even be more important.
Because when you win an election or a title, you can feel like you’re on top of the world. And you’ll have a lot of people telling you that you are. But you’ll only stay on top if you keep up the hard work.
After all, that’s why we vote in the first place: Not just because we want to win, but because of what we want to accomplish when we do.
