Next year the American people must decide as a nation who we are and, perhaps even more importantly, who we want to be. I believe that we are so much better than who President Donald Trump thinks we are.

I still believe in the exceptional idea written into our founding documents: that all men and women are created equal. We’ve never lived up to it, but we’ve never abandoned it — and every generation has worked to make it real for more people.

The seismic events that shaped my youth — the assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the 16th Street Church bombing and the Orangeburg massacre, the burning and subsequent occupation of my city, Wilmington, Del., by the National Guard — seared into me that the struggle against hate, injustice and institutional racism must be the unrelenting work of all our lives.....

The Department of Justice will once again protect the fundamental right to vote. And I’ll lead the fight to restore the Voting Rights Act and pass laws that make it easier for people to exercise their rights. But this work can only start once we kick Donald Trump out of the Oval Office.

We must resolve that 2020 will be the year that South Carolinians and Americans across the country stand up to continue the fight for equal rights and equal access to opportunity. I know we can do it, because I’ve seen what this nation can accomplish when we stand together and stand for our highest ideals.

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