In rare cases — such as when you are facing a hostile audience, you might want to start out by emphasizing where you agree with your audience, and then carefully working your way towards your most divisive, most daring claims.
Set a timer, and deliver your speech to a willing co-worker or family member, your pet fish, or the bathroom mirror.
My students are often surprised at how hard it is to fill up 3 minutes for an informal practice speech early in the term, and how hard it is to fit everything they want to say into a 10-minute formal speech later in the term.
Once you have the right amount of content, make a video recording of yourself practicing. If you plan to show a video clip, or ad-lib an explanation of a diagram, or load a website, or pass out paper handouts, or saw an assistant in half, actually do it while the camera is rolling, so that you know exactly how much time it takes.
Time it out.
If you know your conclusion takes you 90 seconds to deliver, make sure to start your conclusion when you have at least 90 seconds left.
At several key points during your speech, maybe while you are playing a video or while the audience is taking in a complex image, glance at the clock and check to see — are you on track?
If you notice you’re starting Section 3 60 seconds later than you had intended, try to make up for time by rushing through your second example in section 3 and cutting the third example in section 4, so that you still have the full 90 seconds at the end to deliver that powerful conclusion.
I once sat through a four-hour training session, during which this was all I could see of the instructor.
Go ahead and write your whole speech out so you can read robotically if you blank out, but you should practice your speech so you know it well enough that you can glance up from your notes and look at your audience as you speak.
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Pay attention to the audience, and they will pay attention to you.
Don’t try to recite from memory . If you spend your energy worrying about what you’re supposed to say next, you won’t be able to pay attention to whether the audience can hear you, or whether the overhead projections are focused.
Preparation : Set up before the audience files into their seats. If you have scheduled a presentation for a class, don’t sit in your seat like a lump while your professor calls the roll and hands out papers. Few things are more boring than watching a presenter log into the computer, fiddle with the video data projector, hunt around for the light switches, etc.
Introduction : As the audience files into their seats, have a title card displayed on the screen — or at least write your name and the title of your talk on the whiteboard. In a formal setting, usually a moderator will usually introduce you, so you won’t need to repeat everything the moderator says. Avoid canned introductions like “Principal Burch, members of the faculty, and fellow students, we are gathered here today…”
Hashtag : If it’s likely that many people in your audience use the same social media network, consider encouraging them to post their thoughts there. When you introduce yourself, give your social media handle and suggest a hashtag.
Handouts : Consider distributing handouts that present the basic facts (names, dates, timelines) and your main points. You can keep the conclusion just slightly mysterious, if you don’t want to give everything away immediately, but the idea is to free the audience from the feeling that they have to write everything down themselves. (Note: Simply printing up all the overhead slides wastes a lot of paper.)
Grabber : Grab the attention of your audience with a startling fact or claim, an inspiring quotation, or a revealing anecdote. This is not the time to try out your nightclub act; the “grabber” is not just comic relief, it also helps you set up the problem that you are going to address. If the audience will be diverse and general, you can use the “grabber” as a metaphor, helping the audience see why the topic is so important to you, and how it might be important to them, too. If your audience shares your technical specialty, and thus needs no special introduction to the topic, feel free simply to state your purpose without much to-do; but bear in mind that even technical audiences don’t want to be bored.
Road Map : Once you have established the problem or the main point of your talk, let the audience know how you are going to get to a solution. You might put up a series of questions on a slide, then as your talk progresses, proceed to answer each one. You might break each question down into a series of smaller questions, and answer each one of these in turn. Each time you finish a subsection, return to the road map, to help your audience keep track of where you have been and where you are going.
Conclusion : To give your presentation closure, return to the “grabber”, and extend it, modify it, or otherwise use it to help drive home your main point. Recap your main points, and demonstrate how they all fit together into a thought that the audience members can take with them.
Don’t read word-for-word with your nose buried in a stack of papers . If you bother to show up to hear a person speak, how do you feel when the speaker mumbles through page after page of written text? Do you feel you should have just asked for a copy of the paper in the mail?
When you present, make every effort to include your audience; after all, they are the reason you are speaking in the first place.
If you do feel that you must write out your speech word-for-word, you should be familiar enough with it that you don’t need to look at the paper all the time. (And hold the page up when you glance at it, rather than bending down to look at it.)
Your slides should present an (not just the bare framework) of your talk. If you begin with a slide that lists a series of topics or questions, your audience will expect the rest of your talk to work through that list in more detail (just as this web page began with a list of tips, then followed up with details about each tip.) If each page throws up more lists, your talk will seem random. Larry Lessig (an ethicist, open-source culture activist, and politician) has developed a very sparse PowerPoint style that assists his spoken voice. His slides sometimes contain just a single word, and he times the slides so that the written words (and occasional images) emphasize the spoken words. (See: |
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A slide that simply presents the bare structure of your talk is pointless. Rather than a slide labeled “Introduction,” ask a question that actually introduces some idea. Rather than a slide labeled “Case Study 1,” give a startling fact from the case study. |
Cluttered and wordy slides can be overwhelming. | |
People can read faster than you can speak, so don’t bore the audience by reading a slide full of text word-for-word. By the time you get to the end of the slide, we will already probably be liking cat pictures on Instagram. |
Spinning and bouncing text impresses nobody (and fools nobody). The people in your audience probably see dozens of slide shows every month. They want to evaluate your ideas. Proving that you can select a cool transition from a drop-down list is not going to earn you any points or win you a contract. |
To help pace yourself, at the top of each page of your notes, write down what time it should be ; as you turn each page, you can glance at the clock and see whether you are on track.
(The first time I gave this advice to a technical writing class, I mimed the action of “looking at the clock” — and noticed that I was running ten minutes behind, eating into time that I had promised to a student for an in-class testing session. That was a rather humbling experience!)
See the “preparation” section above. If you have already practiced your speech and timed out the various sections, you’ll know whether you are running long. If you are, don’t talk faster — cut something that you already marked out as optional.
Decide in advance which examples, which anecdotes, which subsections you can drop, without damaging the whole presentation.
I was at a conference in 1998 where the first speaker talked for 40 minutes — double her allotted time. (Why the moderator allowed this is a mystery to me.)
The benefits include:
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Thank you for these very useful tips on Oral presentation. I am taking an Organizational Behavior class and need to do a 5 minute oral presentation on a real life situation about Conflict Management in the Workplace. I am not sure how to structure or begin the presentation.
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Hi, I going to do 3 minute presentation and my topic is My son. what is a best tips to talk about the this topic. I am not sure where to start. Any tips to help me with.
Is that the topic you were assigned? Are you taking a public speaking class, a child development class, a class in writing personal memoirs, or are you learning English as a second language? I don’t know how your instructor will evaluate your work, so I am not sure how to help.
You might find it useful to look at this handout on writing personal essays. http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative1/personal-essays/
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I suppose to give out a presentation on Monday on someone or something in either an athlete or an actor and I don’t know how to start
i have a question i am supposed to give a speech but it has to have a power point or a drama thing the only problem is that i can’t have a power point because it won’t work into my speech and neither will a drama thing what should i do?
I suggest you talk to whoever set up the requirement for a slideshow/drama component. Maybe there is some flexibility, or maybe you’ll find a way to work that component into your speech.
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I have to do a presentation about “Importance of learning English”. There are 6 people in my group including myself. The presentation has to be exactly 8 minutes. We can’t use PowerPoint. Can you give us any unique, memorable and creative idea?
What are some lessons or life experiences that you find unique and memorable? I’d probably do a play, with a character who gets into trouble because he/she doesn’t know English, and then has a chance to correct those problems by demonstrating how learning English can fix the problems.
Hello mr.Dennis,I go straight to it.how can I become the most sought after Master of Ceremony(M.C.)/tv show presenter extra-ordinaire in my country before going international?any useful tips?
Sorry, that question is not something I cover on this page.
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thank you for the great tip, but my problem is actually that I have a presentation on ‘All About Me’ and I have to keep the audience ‘engaged’ like by making a guessing game or something. If anyone has any other ideas please help!!
This may help: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative1/showing/
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The major differences between formal and informal speech come from the social and cultural contexts in which speakers use them. Speakers tend to use informal English among friends and relatives. Informal speech can include informal text messages and other written communication. Speakers use formal speech in more professional settings, usually among colleagues or new acquaintances. Judgment of comfort level and social expectations give clues to speakers so that the average person switches between formal and informal speech in a variety of situations.
To recognize the difference between formal and informal English, pay close attention to contractions, phrasal verbs, colloquialisms and, in informal text, the use of the first person.
A contraction is a shortening of two words that combines them into one. Some common examples of contractions are can’t, won’t and don't. While most who speak English use contractions regularly, whether you're speaking in a formal setting to business people or your friends at school, contractions in formal written English are less common. So the use of contractions sometimes makes an easy indicator if a piece of writing qualifies as informal text. The more informal a text is, the more it will sound like regular speech, contractions and all.
Example Sentence: "I can’t go to school today because my car won’t start."
This sentence is informal for a number of reasons. The primary one is its use of contractions. To make the sentence sound more formal, a writer could take out the instances of contractions and replace them with their standard English equivalent.
New Sentence: "I cannot go to school today because my car refused to start."
A phrasal verb is an idiom in which a verb is accompanied by another word to make a complete expression. Some examples include “picked on,” “takes after” and “looking forward to.”
Example Sentence: "I put up with his shenanigans for so long that the two of us would have passed for brothers."
Not only do the phrasal verbs in this sentence make it informal, they make the sentence feel long-winded and wordy as well. To correct that, a writer should find more succinct synonyms for the phrasal verbs.
New Sentence: "I endured his shenanigans for so long that the two of us seemed like brothers."
Slang is a type of vocabulary used by one social group but not by the population at large. Colloquial speech often refers to the use of a regional dialect and is often conflated with informal speech.
Example Sentence: "My rad Delorean zapped me all the way to the 2020s, and it was a totally righteous trip."
The problem with slang is that it isn’t always descriptive. It indicates tone and feeling more than it does detail. As you will see, attempting to excise slang can completely change the meaning of a sentence, so be careful!
New Sentence: "My energy-efficient Delorean helped me travel to the 2020s, and the trip was quite informative."
While most people speak in the first person, many types of documents require more formal third-person writing. If you're writing a formal essay, watch out for the sneaky “I” appearing where it shouldn’t.
Example Sentence: "I think time travel is a fascinating subject, but I’m not sure it will ever become as easy as in the movies."
Even when writing an opinion essay, the use of the first person is unnecessary. The reader will assume that you think or believe everything you write unless you say otherwise. To make your writing more formal, remove the first person.
New Sentence: "Time travel is a fascinating subject, but it will never become as easy as in the movies."
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Topic outline.
The purpose of a speech is often to inform or persuade an audience.
Speeches are usually written to be spoken directly to an audience and can be used to entertain, influencing the listeners that the viewpoint of the speaker is correct.
Speeches can also be used to encourage the audience to take action or to change their behaviour in some way; for example, to join a particular school club or society, or to recycle more.
The ways you use language and vocabulary when writing the words of a speech will depend on the audience and the purpose you are writing for; for example, in a speech to a group of teachers and parents giving your views on a recent proposal, formal language is most appropriate.
Enhance your professional image with our guide to formal conversation basics. Ensure your communication skills reflect your professionalism!
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Conversation starters, phrases to express your opinion, phrases to express agreement or disagreement, how to (politely) interrupt a person speaking, how to say goodbye formally, additional tips, the bottom line.
You have probably noticed that there are many things in English that you can separate into casual and formal: clothing, events, and even relationships. Conversations are no exception.
Every English learner should master different communication styles with other people to be able to hold conversations of different levels of importance — and with people of different levels of familiarity.
You need to keep proper expressions in mind to be able to use them depending on the situation. Sometimes, just a few words are all it takes to turn the conversation in a completely different direction. Choosing the right ones at the right time will allow you to show yourself as a professional at all times.
Below, you will find a step-by-step guide to maintaining a formal conversation in English, along with helpful tips. Let's begin!
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Any conversation begins with a greeting. Formal greetings in English are appropriate when you communicate with colleagues, business partners, as well as people you meet for the first time.
When meeting new people, you need to find out the person's name, give your name in response, and say that you are pleased to meet them .
Here is a set of phrases for a formal greeting:
Possible responses to the formal greeting:
Make sure to check our post about the difference between "How are you?" and "How are you doing?" to find out which one is suitable for the business environment and which one to use in less formal settings.
If you did not hear what the other person said, ask them to repeat using one of the phrases :
After you have greeted the person, you need to continue the conversation . When talking to a friend, you are likely to quickly find a topic of conversation. However, if you have just met a person at an official event, it is necessary to establish contact between you and your new acquaintance .
We've already discussed the basic rules for running a small talk in the previous article . Although they refer to more casual chatting, they are also applicable to a given setting, so make sure to check them as well.
At a formal event (contrasting small talk or everyday conversations), you can use the following phrases to start a formal conversation in English:
Once you have the person’s attention, it is important to be able to keep the conversation going . Most likely, your new acquaintance will ask a question or will be interested in your point of view on a topic. To answer them, you need to know how to express your opinion in a polite manner .
Here are several phases suitable for both formal and casual speech:
At an official event, try to formulate your thoughts more carefully and less emotionally than when communicating with friends. For example:
First of all, let's figure out how you can agree with someone in English .
All the phrases listed below are appropriate in both formal and informal settings. They are neutral : if you are at a business event or a meeting, say them in a calm tone, and at a party with friends, you can get a little bit emotional.
Choose a phrase to agree with the person in a proper way:
When you want to express disagreement in a professional context, you need to be very polite to avoid offending the other person , especially if you have just met them or are at an official event.
We recommend using the following expressions of disagreement in a formal English conversation:
Interrupting someone without offending them is a real skill. Of course, it is important to note that you should not interrupt the speaker and wait until they are finished to express your opinion .
However, if it's necessary to intervene in the conversation, make sure to say "Excuse me!" first and then use one of the following examples:
After you have expressed your opinion, do not forget to pass the word back to the person . To do this, you can say:
After the conversation, you need to say goodbye to your new acquaintance . Of course, the standard " Goodbye! " is suitable for almost any given setting. However, you can say goodbye with other phrases as well.
Here is a list of expressions for ending a formal conversation in English:
As you already know, the formal style is used in an official setting — when communicating at conferences and presentations, conducting business negotiations , writing documents, corporate emails, and scientific articles.
You should follow several rules to make the speech sound formal:
In formal writing, there is no place for contractions like “I'm,” “I'd,” or “I don't.” Instead, use the complete forms of the words : “I am,” “I would,” and “I do not.”
Moreover, the use of contractions is one of the primary reasons for the most common misspellings — for example, confusing " their " and " they're ."
Misspellings can hurt the initial meaning of a sentence and make you look unprofessional .
Speaking of misspellings, let's take a closer look at the formal go-to phrase " duly noted ," which means that something is properly recorded or taken into proper consideration, i.e., in strict accordance with requirements. The word “duly” alone means something is done in a due manner or time, e.g., “duly elected” or “duly apologized.”
Its common misspellings include "dually noted," "dully noted," and "duelly noted." " Dually " means a double capacity, while " dully " means something is done in a boring manner. And if you’ll ever see “duelly noted” written, just know it's an incorrect spelling of “duly noted.”
When spelled correctly, you can use "duly noted" in a formal speech in the meaning of simple acknowledgment of an opinion or action. That's why you also don't want to confuse the word "duly" with "dully" — to avoid letting someone know you barely consider what they're saying.
Moreover, "duly noted" can also be used sarcastically, meaning that something is heard and ignored rather than taken into appropriate consideration. It’s not necessarily rude, but you should pay close attention to the context in which you use the phrase "duly noted."
When holding a formal conversation, there are a few things you should avoid to make it sound appropriate. Some of these things include:
The formal English language uses not only long phrases but also complex grammatical constructions . If you have started to express an idea, make sure to develop it, support it with clear arguments, justify it and bring it to a conclusion .
In addition, formal emails and oral speech allow you to use the passive voice much more often than in casual conversation, as it is more suitable for an official setting. The reason is that the active voice personifies speech, while the passive voice has a more formal connotation , compare:
As you can see, the first option sounds more discreet and respectful.
If you want to speak formally, do not forget to use complex sentence structures (for example, independent clause + at least one adverbial phrase), participial phrases, conditional sentences, etc.
Each industry has its own specifics, so try to use the appropriate jargon or vocabulary. For example, if you work for an accounting firm and check the financial statements of a business, it would be appropriate to say " audit " instead of " check ."
Try to use specific, industry-related words in an official setting and business correspondence — your English speaking skills will not only benefit from this, but the person you’re speaking to will also be pleasantly surprised.
If you are writing a business letter or conducting business negotiations, try to avoid expressions such as " I think " and " in my opinion ."
As a rule, you should speak on behalf of the company you work for — talk less about yourself and your personal opinion, and contact business partners as a representative of the company.
Here are the example sentences:
are pleased to receive your offer. Can discuss this in further detail? |
are looking forward to taking partnership to the next level. |
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are pleased to receive your offer. Can discuss this in further detail? |
are looking forward to taking partnership to the next level. |
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Last but not least. Formal speech is an example of ethical, respectful, and inclusive communication . Choose your words carefully to avoid offending the people you’re addressing.
To write and speak inclusively, make sure to follow these principles:
As you can see, to maintain a formal conversation in the English language, you need to learn some common phrases that will help you start a conversation, and you’ll need to be careful with your choice of words. Fortunately, you don't have to memorize all the examples mentioned in this article — you can revisit it as frequently as you need to.
Furthermore, with practice, you will learn a lot of additional expressions from native English speakers and boost your English vocabulary.
If you're interested in expanding your vocabulary and picking proper phrasing, you can download our Langster app . It is full of bite-sized stories with grammar explanations for each, which will allow you to enjoy your English learning experience even more. See for yourself:
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We use formal language in situations that are serious or that involve people we don’t know well. Informal language is more commonly used in situations that are more relaxed and involve people we know well.
Formal language is more common when we write; informal language is more common when we speak. However, there are times where writing can be very informal, for example, when writing postcards or letters to friends, emails or text messages. There are also examples where spoken English can be very formal, for example, in a speech or a lecture. Most uses of English are neutral; that is, they are neither formal nor informal.
Formal language and informal language are associated with particular choices of grammar and vocabulary.
Contractions, relative clauses without a relative pronoun and ellipsis are more common in informal language.
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informal: relative clause without the relative pronoun |
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Informal: ellipsis (more likely to be written or texted than spoken) |
More formal vocabulary commonly involves longer words or words with origins in Latin and Greek. More informal vocabulary commonly involves shorter words, or words with origins in Anglo-Saxon. Most dictionaries indicate very informal and/or formal words.
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commence | start |
terminate | end |
endeavour | try |
We often choose to use certain modal verbs to be more formal and polite:
Can I suggest you try this new model? (neutral)
May I suggest you try this new model? (more formal)
Might I suggest you try this new model? (very formal)
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Whanganui Mayor Andrew Tripe says he would to love see what Prime Minister Christopher Luxon would do differently with council budgets. Photo / NZME
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s speech at the Local Government NZ conference was not a hit with mayors in Whanganui, Ruapehu and Rangitīkei.
Luxon said local authorities needed to tighten their spending before asking central Government for financial help and “the days of handouts are over”.
Ratepayers expected councils to do the basics - “pick up the rubbish, fix the pipes and fill in the potholes” - and expected to pay for it in exchange, he said.
“What they don’t expect to pay for is a laundry list of distractions and experiments that are plaguing council balance sheets across the country.”
Whanganui Mayor Andrew Tripe said he would love to see what Luxon would do differently when it came to Whanganui District Council’s books.
He said Whanganui was about 4% below the average national rates rise for 2024/25.
Whanganui residential ratepayers face an average rise of 11.2% this year.
“We’ve gone through our own plan line by line a number of times and found a significant number of efficiencies and savings,” Tripe said.
“In regard to what he said, I have no issue about councils getting back to the basics but, for me, he missed the mark in not understanding that many councils have just gone through their long-term plan process.
“In our case, we’ve been more prudent and efficient than many other councils across the country. I think he was throwing a blanket over all of local government.”
Ruapehu Mayor Weston Kirton said Luxon’s speech reminded him of his first day at boarding school in Auckland after leaving Taumarunui.
“What to do and what not to do, and I was shivering at the end of it.
“I think it was a bit unfair when you consider a lot of our projects come from central Government.
“Projects like community halls have always been encouraged by central Government in the past - to get them over the line by working in with Government.”
Tripe said Luxon’s speech was light on how central and local Government could partner better.
“We know it’s challenging out there for us. How can we work together to deliver for all our community?
“The ratepayer and the taxpayer are the same people.
‘”All of us in the room felt like we were being told off - the naughty kids who have been chucked in the corner for doing something wrong.”
Luxon said he was committed to take the four well-beings - social, economic, environmental, and cultural - out of the Local Government Act, and Cabinet would investigate options to limit council spending on “nice to haves”.
Kirton said removing the well-beings was the coalition Government trying to stamp its mark.
“It’s the nature of the business, there are always tweaks and changes and resets.
“At the end of the day, we have to be able to afford the infrastructure and some of the things that go on at a council level.”
Luxon used the location of the conference - the Tākina convention centre - as an example of wasteful spending, saying the Wellington City Council spent $180m on something that was now losing money.
Rangitīkei Mayor Andy Watson said it was “not just about a building”.
“We are providing facilities in Rangitīkei to make people actually want to come and set up businesses and enjoy what we have to offer,” he said.
“It’s very difficult to see something like the Tākina centre in isolation. You have to make your places attractive and desirable for people to operate and live in.
“It felt like the Prime Minister was saying ‘We don’t want to see libraries and swimming pools, anything other than Three Waters and roading’. I’m sorry, but it’s not that simple.”
Watson said local government worked on a 10-year long-term plan with strategic decisions over that period but central Government did not.
“We’ve seen so many examples of a turnaround in policy. A huge expense has been put into something and the new Government drops it, or forces us to change our direction and puts costs on us.
“One organisation is looking to the future and trying to make long-term benefit gains and the other ... I’m just not seeing that at the moment.”
Tripe said the well-beings would “always be there” regardless of legislation.
“We always need to give them consideration in all the work we do.
“At the end of the day, people are not just about numbers. They are about a social and community fabric.”
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The DNC has been star-studded with celebrities and politicians showing support.
Vice President Kamala Harris is setting out to achieve three key objectives in her highly anticipated Democratic National Convention speech Thursday night, according to a campaign official.
The vice president will tell her story of being raised by a working mother in a middle-class neighborhood. Sharing how her background means she knows the everyday joys and challenges experienced by middle-class families like hers, explaining how she shares those values, the official said.
She will also discuss how she became a prosecutor in order to protect others, be they survivors of sexual abuse or homeowners impacted by the foreclosure crisis, a Harris-Walz official told ABC News.
She will point out the dangers posed by former President Donald Trump's campaign, specifically, the Project 2025 agenda, which will rip away people's freedoms, increase the cost of living, and take the country backward, the official said.
In contrast, the official told ABC News Harris will present a New Way Forward - an optimistic agenda that provides economic opportunity and protects fundamental freedoms for all Americans.
Harris will root her optimism about the future in her faith in the American people. She will work to make a stark contrast with Trump, sharing her belief in the promise of America, according to the campaign official.
And she knows that loving your country means being willing to fight for its fundamental ideals. She is driven by a deep sense of patriotism and a desire to be a President for all Americans, the official told ABC News.
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Video shared on social media shows the moments a Florida road rage incident took a dangerous turn with a man pulling a gun on another driver.
Port St. Lucie Police said the incident happened Tuesday when 63-year-old Paul Slane drove his black Mercedes around a truck while pointing a handgun at the two people inside, then stopped in front of the truck in a roadway.
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The video, apparently taken by the passenger of the truck shows Slane get out of the Mercedes and approach the truck with a gun in his hand.
"Get out of the f---ing car now!" he yells in the video.
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"Should I shoot him?" says the man who's driving the truck, who also appears to have a handgun in his hand.
"Get out of that f---ing car!" Slane says in the video. "I'm telling you right now!"
"You were the one that started it," the truck's driver responds.
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Slane then reaches into the truck and swipes at the woman's phone.
"Give me the f---ing phone," he says. "Get out of the f---ing car now…out of the car!"
"Who the f--- are you bro?" the woman says. "You're getting arrested, you know this, right?"
Slane then walks back to his Mercedes and drives away.
Police said Slane was later arrested on multiple charges including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, attempted armed robbery and simple battery.
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