Editor’s note: After Hillary Clinton’s speech CNN Suzanne Maveaux, interviwed Democratic delegate, Anne Price-Mills, a Hillary Clinton supporter, about her emotional reaction to Clinton’s speech. What was your take on Price-Mills’ reaction?
COOPER: Suzanne Malveaux is down on the floor with some very strong Hillary Clinton supporters. Apparently they had tears in their eyes during some parts of the speech. Suzanne, what are you hearing from them?
MALVEAUX: Joining us here obviously very strong Clinton supporters.
Tell me, why is this so important to you? What does this moment mean to you?
PRICE-MILLS: Hillary Clinton proved to me tonight that she would have made an excellent president. She was presidential tonight. She’s the evidence that women have come so far and to let gender be a hindrance, to let a phenomenal, an intelligent, a powerful, a moving, a motivating person not move us into the next generation, not move us into the future that we deserve, not move us into the green economy that we deserve, not being able to address the concerns that we deserve, and now everybody just want us to suddenly shift.
You just saw it yourselves. You saw it yourself; you know that was a presidential speech. You know it. When you guys look back at the end of this week and you start to tear apart the speeches and you will, you know that was a presidential speech.
She did everything for Obama that she was supposed to do. Now it’s time for him to step up and do what he’s supposed to do.
MALVEAUX: Will you vote for her when you cast your votes later in the week?
PRICE-MILLS: I was selected to come here as a delegate for Clinton. I will vote for Clinton.
You ask me about my personal vote in November? Obama has two months. I won’t vote for McCain. But he has to get me there and I haven’t connected with him. Experience speaks to me. I ask everybody all the time, I said, would you take us to heal us? Would you take somebody straight out of Harvard, even if they had the education, and put them as a CEO in the company?
MALVEAUX: Tell me the kind of connection you felt with Hillary Clinton.
PRICE-MILLS: I see in Hillary, I saw in Hillary what my potential future could be. I saw more than just dreams. I saw things that could be reality.
In her eyes and in her words, I could envision the reality of knowing that we can actually have green jobs instead of talks. That we could have the image that we once have of a United States that was respected and that went out and did the jobs that we’re supposed to do on the global level. I saw the country that we strived to be and wanted to be and she could have made it happen.
MALVEAUX: Will you cast that vote for him in November? Will you cast your vote for Barack Obama in November or will you vote for McCain or not vote at all?
PRICE-MILLS: I will not vote for McCain. I will not vote for McCain. But for the first time since I was 18, and that’s been a long time, I may be faced with something I don’t want to have to deal with.
I’ve never not voted. I am one of the strongest Democrats I know. I call up all my family and say, Carl, you need to get out the house, I don’t care how much rain is pouring down. I don’t what’s going on in your schedule, you need to vote.
For the first time I’m faced with not being a person who calls them and says go vote. They may have to call me and tell me and remind me of how hard and how long we strived to get to the right to vote, the right to be here.
Experience counts. I don’t care what anybody told you. And his resume is just —
MALVEAUX: Okay. Anne Price-Mills, thank you so much for joining us here on CNN. I appreciate it.
Obviously a very emotional delegate who says that she doesn’t even know at this point whether or not she’s going to vote in November; a very difficult decision for her — Wolf, Anderson.
COOPER: Suzanne, on Thursday night after Barack Obama’s speech, let’s try to find that delegate and see if she has changed her mind after hearing from Barack Obama and from Joe Biden.
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