Kamala Harris closes out the Democratic National Committee meeting with a defense of Ukraine, and the Democratic Party's accomplishments

• Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the DNC winter meeting on Saturday.

• She sought to energize Democrats ahead of the November midterms.

• Harris also spoke of her diplomatic visit to Poland and Romania as Russia invaded Ukraine.

Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the Democratic National Committee on Saturday, closing out a week of official meetings with a rallying cry for Democrats ahead of what is likely to be a difficult midterm election for the party.

"The work ahead is not going to be easy," Harris said to a packed hotel ballroom in Washington, DC, the day after a Wall Street Journal poll showed Democrats losing ground to Republicans on several major issues, including curbing inflation and crime. "When we show what we have accomplished, just in a year, and when we show it is because the American people voted, I believe we will meet the moment again."

"Our task is to show people that in many ways they got what they ordered," she said.

The Democrats had spent the week attending to party business such as electing caucus chairs and debating a proposal to shake up the 2024 primary calendar and dethrone Iowa from its first-in-the-nation status.

But the winter meeting also served as an opportunity for party leaders to get their hundreds of emissaries from around the country on-message before the midterm elections.