Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York Magazine and the Cut, had a story about one of the best advocates Kamala Harris has on her side: Michelle Obama.

On the last Saturday of October, Michelle Obama appeared in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and gave one of the most remarkable political speeches in memory. It was expansive and nuanced, yet conveyed the most straightforward message imaginable, applicable not just to the presidential candidate she was supporting, but to the millions of people who will be voting in the 2024 election:

“I am asking you all, from the core of my being, to take our lives seriously,” she implored. “Please, please do not hand our fates over to the likes of Trump, who knows nothing about us, who has shown deep contempt for us. A vote for him is a vote against us. Against our health, against our worth.” This is a question, she said, “about our value as women in this world.”

Her speech, which you can view in its entirety, was one of the best appeals I’ve ever heard. Traister called it:

… the more vivid, deeply felt, blood-and-guts vision of what this election is about. At its heart was the simplest and most heartbreaking of contentions — that women are people.

The fact that one side does not consider women as individuals and thinks of them more like how they are viewed in The Handmaid’s Tale is shockingly atrocious.

And should be immediately disqualifying.

The fact that Michelle Obama still must go up and tell an audience that women are people is sad.

I want this election to be over so bad.