"And so, in particular to all the young people, this issue is going to require your leadership." "I do believe that every generation has its calling, that there are moments in time that find you and require and depend on your leadership," she said. She encouraged them to continue the fight. In her remarks, Harris also praised students and other young leaders who converged upon the state Capitol en masse to push for gun control after the school shooting but haven't swayed the state's Republican majority. “They thought they could expel democracy,” he said, addressing the crowd from a stone platform. Pearson was met with raucous applause and cheers as he arrived for the event. Afterward, she met with other Tennessee Democratic lawmakers and Nashville Mayor John Cooper. Upon arriving in Nashville, Harris met privately with the three Democrats at Fisk, which hosted a gathering of community leaders to support the expelled lawmakers. The expulsions have become a national flashpoint on the issues of gun control and race. Harris' hastily arranged trip to Nashville came after Tennessee House Republicans voted overwhelmingly Thursday to expel Jones and Pearson. He also invited them to the White House in the near future. He thanked them for their leadership in seeking to ban assault weapons and standing up for democratic values, the White House said. President Joe Biden also spoke to the three Democrats, who have become known as the "Tennessee Three," during a conference call Friday ahead of Harris' visit.
In a democracy, she said, "you don’t silence the people, you do not stifle the people, you do not turn off their microphones when they are speaking about the importance of life and liberty." “That is not a democracy,” Harris said of the expulsions. Stay in the conversation on politics: Sign up for the OnPolitics newsletter Johnson, who is white, dodged an expulsion by one vote. House Republicans voted Thursday to expel Jones and Pearson, both of whom are Black, for their role in the protest. “It’s about whose voices they were channeling. “It wasn’t about these three leaders – it was about what they were representing,” she said during an event at Fisk University. Justin Jones of Nashville, Justin Pearson of Memphis and Gloria Johnson of Knoxville – showed courage in pushing for gun reform following a mass shooting at a Nashville private Christian school that killed six people. In a surprise trip to Nashville, Harris said the three Democrats – Reps. NASHVILLE – Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday praised three Tennessee Democratic lawmakers who staged a protest in favor of gun control on the statehouse floor in an act of defiance that led angry Republicans to expel two of them from the General Assembly. Watch Video: 'You don't stifle the people': VP Harris meets with expelled TN Dems
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