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that is tonight's "reidout". join us tomorrow night for special coverage of president biden's address to the nation. our team coverage begins at
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7:00 p.m. eastern. inside with jen psaki starts now. hi, everyone. it is jen psaki and i know you all tune in because you want to hear what chris hayes thinks of everything happening right now and especially at this crazy time. me, too, i get it. he is taking well-deserved time off with his family, but i assure you he will be back and tell you everything he thinks. in the meantime it has been over two days since president joe biden announced he would be dropping out of the presidential race and two days since he endorsed vice president kamala harris as his replacement. a lot has happened in that time to put it mildly. harris has already secured enough delegates to win the nomination, making her essentially that affect no nominee -- the de facto nominee.
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between sunday afternoon and last night the campaign raised over $100 million. with the majority of donors giving for the first time, that is a big deal. that includes the largest single day fundraising hall in american history. the campaign also says nearly 60,000 folks signed up as volunteers. doorknocking and making phone calls. harris has shored up support also from nearly every prominent democrat including just today, the respective party leaders of the house and the senate. >> kamala harris and her candidacy has excited and energized the house democratic caucus, the democratic party, and the nation. the enthusiasm in this big, diverse, representative party was amazing. it was palpable. you could cut it with a knife. >> and just today, harris made
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her first official campaign stop and she did it with a delicious, i mean delicious dose of trolling donald trump and the republicans. you know why? because her first campaign stop today was in milwaukee, wisconsin, the same city where last week the republican party held their convention. her speech did not feature an authoritarian vision for the countries future, honestly not. nor did it include anyone who just left a jail or hulk hogan ripping off his shirt, all things that happened last week. it had a very different vibe to it. >> we believe in a future where everyone has the opportunity not just to get by, but to get ahead. a future where no child has to grow up in poverty. where every worker has the
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freedom to join a union. where every person has affordable healthcare. affordable childcare. and paid family leave. >> so that response, all of that screaming and cheering, basically captures the feeling of most democrats over the past few days, which is pretty encouraging considering the weeks before that were dominated by painful, gutwrenching conversations inside the party about the future of a guy they all love, joe biden. once joe biden stepped aside and endorsed vice president harris, the unity around the task ahead, defeating donald trump, and the woman who is going to lead it has also exploded into public view.
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>> i know this will be a strong year with this ticket and the new energy we will see. >> she is young, she is dynamic. she cares deeply about the future of the country. >> it was great. exciting. 496 votes unanimously. i am so proud of her as a californian. >> so what happens now? for starters, president biden will give a primetime address to the nation tomorrow evening to explain his decision to step aside and talk about the next six months of his presidency during which time he can get a lot done and do a lot of things. he will continue to be out on the campaign trail and a lot of things will be taking place behind the scenes at the same time. she of course needs to pick a vice president of her own and the dnc wants the process to happen quickly, as in within the next two weeks, which is very fast for a process like this. harris has to integrate her team
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with the biden team. there is a big advantage because there is already an apparatus of very smart and talented people who have been ready for months and there is a lot to do, but there is no question this will be a smoother transition than any other would've been in this crazy moment. it also does not mean everything will be the same. this is the harris campaign now. she is free to differ from her predecessor on policy if she wants to. we will see. she has different superpowers and different areas she will need to work on to appeal to voters than president biden. i also think it is fair to say that the campaign is not only focusing on the proactive message, but attacks on donald trump, which we saw on full display this afternoon in the same speech. >> before i was elected vice president, before i was a united states janitor, i was elected attorney general of california and i was a courtroom prosecutor before then.
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in those roles i took on perpetrators of all kinds. predators who abused women. fraudsters who ripped off consumers. cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. so hear me when i say i know donald trump's type. and in this campaign i promise you, i will proudly put my
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record against his any day of the week. >> now she clearly did not hold back, which may or may not have given the trump campaign some pause. for what it is worth the ex- president claimed he has willing to debate harris and harris of course will have to deal with bad-faith attacks from trump and his fellow republicans and i'm betting a lot of them will be gross and racist and misogynistic, as you might expect. although thus far the last couple of days they have kind of struggled to figure out how to go after her. remember every ad and digital campaign was centered around joe biden, the guy they were running against and a lot of it around his age specifically. that is a big part of what they had and now they are running a convict did criminal against a female prosecutor who happens to be 20 years younger than donald trump. of course they have to throughout the old playbook and again they will find new lines
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of attack, i promise you. there is still a long road ahead. it is going to be an absolute grind, but so far kamala harris seems up for the challenge and it is clear that the democratic party is pretty much behind her every step of the way. david served as campaign manager for barack obama's campaign and is the cohost of the podcast, the campaign managers. claire mccaskill is a former democratic senator from missouri. they know a lot about campaigns and they join me now. david, we will talk about the harris campaign, but there has been a lot of reporting we have to ask about. it is the elephant in the room or maybe the donkey. there has been reporting you were asked to join the campaign. people out there maybe like please, david, join the campaign. have you made a decision about joining the campaign? >> you know well that when there is a change like this a lot of us who work in politics, former colleagues and even people in the private sector, there are rumors about who may come in. all i know is what you know
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which is that they ran a great campaign in 2020 undefeated donald trump. she will have to figure out what help need -- help she needs. the good news is the excitement and i have seen it on my phone and i am sure you have it on your phone. we are seeing record numbers in terms of volunteer sign-ups, donations, and enthusiasm and that is great. i think she is off to a good start. that is important. there aren't many days left, so everyday is important. the goal is to define herself, which may be strange about a vice president, but most people who will decide this election don't know about the tough fight she took on as a prosecutor or attorney general. it ultimately needs to be a choice between what would four years of donald trump look like for american families and what would kamala harris bring to families? i think that is a debate she is
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well situated to lead to. it is a long road, but a really promising start so far and we will see. trump said he would not debate two years ago and now he said he will debate many times. obviously he is a slippery character, so we will see. i think it is good for americans when candidates debate, so i think kamala harris should sayable see you september 10 and hope that he will show up and if he doesn't, he needs to be made to pay a maximum price for that, which he won't like. i agree that the last thing to say is they had plenty of time to prepare for this scenario. if harris is the nominee, what does the first minute look like? what does the first day look like? so far it is a pretty pathetic effort. eventually they will get their act together, but i was surprised by that because they had plenty of time to prepare for this contingency. >> no question about it they are a little all over the place. claire, let me ask you because you are always a straight shooter and the energy over the past few days has been bananas.
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the money, the enthusiasm, the volunteers, how unified it is, but this will be hard and i think it will be a grind and we need to prepare ourselves for that. you know tough campaigns. what wakes you up at night as you think about this campaign and what the harris campaign and what people out there who love and are rooting for her need to prepare for? >> well, we were facing two big problems. we were facing an enthusiasm problem and we were facing a problem that was one that was inherent in the candidate, in that there were a lot of people that i call the double haters. well, both of those problems are greatly diminished now. so the campaign, i believe what they will be able to do with enthusiasm is going to somewhat the on autopilot. my sense is that the women of america, that young black voters, that a lot of working people who are energized by
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this idea of this historic presidency, i just think that is going to solve itself, so now we've just got to really concentrate on those voters that really did not like either candidate before and convince two or 3% of those, the ones that maybe voted for trump and then voted for biden, to come back home to a party they can respect. i've got to tell you, i am with david on this. i am shocked how badly the republicans have handled this. the panic. i mean it really has been panic with a dose of racism. this idea, calling her a dei higher. all that is saying is she is not a white man. that is all that is. that is shorthand for kamala harris is not a white man and that is so offensive. and then, whoops, our guy is
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old now. wait a minute, he is the one who looks really old and really out of shape and really rambling and really does not have his act together, so i am not saying this is going to be easy, but it just got a lot easier than it was before. >> really it has been so encouraging seeing the last less than 72 hours and it turns out there was a headline like, guess who's old, which sums it up. david plouffe, claire mccaskill, thank you both so much. i appreciate you taking the time this evening. coming up the massive energy around kamala harris and how the vice president is meeting the moment. one of her longtime friends and colleagues in congress, barbara lee, joins me on that next.
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in this moment when we are all getting to know vice president kamala harris better, there is nothing more important than hearing directly from her, so i played a bunch of clips in the first block and i want to play another clip from her remarks in wisconsin where the vice president explains what she believes and what she would do as president. >> we, who believe in the sacred freedom to vote, will make sure every american has the ability to cast their ballot and have it counted. we, who believe that every
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person in our nation should have the freedom to live safe from the terror of gun violence. we will finally pass red flag laws, universal background checks and an assault weapons ban. and we, who believe in reproductive freedom, will stop donald trump's extreme abortion bands, because we trust women to make decisions about their own body and not have the government tell them what to do. >> congresswoman barbara lee has known vice president kamala harris for 20 years, before she
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even ran for political office. she has worked side-by-side as a colleague and friend from the california congressional delegation and also served as cochair on harris's first campaign in 2020 and she joins me now. i was just telling you during the break, i had so many friends were texting me and were so excited and enthusiastic. you've worked closely with her. what is it like watching the response to her and what it has been like the last couple of days? >> let me say how nice it is to be joining you. >> great to have you here. >> i have known her for decades, more than 20 years, and i am telling you, she is who she is. people see her and understand her for her values, but also how she connects with people and i am so excited because she has run for public office before. she was the attorney general for california. i supported her then and a lot of people did not believe she could win. she won.
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she ran for the united states senate. some people believed she could not win and she won. also she is ready, she is prepared, she has experienced. she knows what she is doing. i've been with her on the world stage. she is a global leader. i was there with her at the munich security conference and she is the person who can beat donald trump. here you have a prosecutor, as she has reminded us, and you have a convicted felon. who better to prosecute this? >> quite a contrast. you have a remarkable history yourself because you got your start working for shirley chisholm's campaign 50 years ago, is that right? >> it was in 1972. >> okay, you look fabulous. you have this tremendous woman of color, standing out there and getting this response. what does this mean for history? as your reflection on that.
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>> this is a very significant moment and a very humbling moment to myself personally because i was a youngster in oakland, california, working and i didn't believe in the two- party system, because i was a single mom on public assistance. i did not believe that the democratic party saw me, so what happened? shirley chisholm came to congress, the first black woman elected to congress. she talked like she was running for president. i had a course and i refused to work in any campaigns. she took me to task. she forced me to register to vote. i did. i ended up helping organize the northern california primary. i passed my class and i got an a and went on to miami as a delegate and the lesson there, if anyone has not seen shirley on netflix, it is important to see that home because like so many young people today, i was intentional about not voting.
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very conscious, very clear about the direction of the country and not seeing elected leaders speaking to my issues. well, shirley chisholm did, so fast forward now and vice president harris, as she climbs, she must lift. so this is a complete full circle for myself personally because even when vice president harris kicked off her campaign for the presidency in oakland, california, i was right there and she lifted up shirley chisholm as being part of her trajectory. it was so tough for shirley chisholm. it was tough. and now vice president kamala harris, through all of her tough campaigns, here she is. she is ready, she is prepared. we just have to circle the wagons. she already unified the democratic party and we just have to make sure voters get to know her, her record, and take a moment to thank president biden and offer a sense of gratitude to him for everything that he has done. the biden-harris administration.
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and thank him and make sure we use this moment, a moment of congratulations to him, also. he put country before person. >> such an important part of the story and you worked with him. i love that, as she rises, i love that phrasing. talk to me a little bit about president biden because i love him, too. he is beloved in the democratic party, because of all he has done and accomplished and the type of human being he is. you have been an elected official for a long time. tell me a little bit about your relationship with him. >> i had the privilege to work with president biden on many occasions, when he was vice president and now president. i have been with him in the oval office. i have been with him and discussions around foreign- policy. this man is a smart man, first of all. he is experienced, but he is a global leader and he connects
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with people where they are. he understands the plight of working men and women. he understands what it means that we have to deal with the climate emergency. he understands housing is key, key to reducing the cost of living and inflation. and he fights each and every day. look at what he has moved forward on in terms of student loan debt cancellation. of course the trump supreme court made the horrible decision they made, but he came back and said look, i will do as much as i can do through executive order. where there is a will, there is a way. he has always done that and he has always been a person who fought for justice and equity for everyone and it has been a pleasure working with him. i love him dearly. we don't always agree, but that's okay. this is a democracy and he has fought to the product our democracy as vice president harris has and we know right now we are at risk of losing
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our democracy. >> a really exciting campaign to watch. such a pleasure to have you here . thank you for coming in and sitting down with me. >> so good to be with you. thank you. >> thank you. coming up, buyers remorse? why trump might be regretting picking j.d. vance as his latest running mate. i will talk about that in just a moment. you could use opendoo. sell your house directly to them, it's easy. (kev) ... i guess we're movin'. (♪♪) (♪♪) voltaren... for long lasting arthritis pain relief. (♪♪) when migraine strikes, you're faced with a choice. accept the trade offs of treating? or push through the pain and symptoms? with ubrelvy, there's another option. one dose quickly stops migraine in its tracks. treat it anytime, anywhere
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so last week when donald trump picked his running mate,
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many on the trump campaign hoped that the freshfaced ohio senator, j.d. vance, would fire up trump's base. he is a young guy, only 39, he seems energetic and that may have been the point. i'm sure they were thinking the charismatic author of hillbilly elegy could speak directly to the workingman. surely he could give a rousing address that would have the maga faithful on their feet at the convention and in speeches across the country and then during the biggest speech of j.d. vance's life, this is how he sounded. >> ohio. >> i mean, awkward, yes. maybe an off night. not much time to prepare. he was only picked a couple days before. well, vance was out on the campaign trail yesterday and
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this is how that went. >> you know, when i see -- now. where can i get a good fried bologna sandwich right now? this is the guy, this is the guy who makes it. talking about donuts all day. i skipped lunch, so my mind is on donuts here, but you know? it is the weirdest thing to me. democrats say that it is racist to believe, well, they say it is racist to do anything. i had a diet mountain dew yesterday and one today. i'm sure they will call that racist, too, but it's good. i love you guys. >> i mean, is he hungry, is he thirsty? is he both? i don't know what that was, but it was definitely not a good
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stump speech. maybe he was trying to sound like trump, relating to the crowd, i don't know, but basically whatever that was bombed at the campaign event and on the other side of the political world, here again is a woman, we played a lot of clips and will keep playing them. here is a woman he suggested was a miserable, childless cat lady, his words, just a few years ago. >> are you ready to get to work? do we believe in freedom? do we believe an opportunity? do we believe in the promise of america? and are we ready to fight for it? and when we fight, we win. >> as the harris campaign stirs up democratic voters, like she did at that event, some polls are suggesting that vance does not move the needle. there is speculation that the notoriously fickle republican nominee, you know the one,
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maybe having buyers remorse. in the meantime vice president kamala harris now faces her own search for a running mate and has to be fast. part of that decision is picking someone who can give a speech. i don't know that trump found that guy. we will see. so what is kamala harris looking for? we will talk about that, next. into something we can see and hold. etsy. sometimes jonah wrestles with falling asleep... ...so he takes zzzquil. the world's #1 sleep aid brand. and wakes up feeling like himself. get the rest to be your best with non-habit forming zzzquil. ♪ ♪ (children speaking)
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democratic party's defect though -- de facto nominee, vice president harris has a lot of decisions. who should be her running mate? it is a high-stakes call and it has to happen very quickly. >> this process will be fair, transparent, open, but it's going to be fast. we will give it up to the nominee to make a determination. we are going to be on all 50 ballots. we have to have that done and locked up by august 7. >> august 7. in case you have your calendar in front of you, that is two weeks from tomorrow. it is normally a lot more time than that. lots of names are being thrown away -- thrown around, exciting names with pundits saying she should pick a midwestern governor or a southwestern senator. one of the big questions is, what we actually know about who could help her and where?
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the strategizing i know many of you are doing at home, like maybe right now. two things matter in this pic and this is an important piece. who does harris want to call from the oval office when she is dealing with a thorny issue? that is a big question. who does she want to be first in the room and last in the room with big decisions and with 105 days to the election, who has their own following, their own ability to fund raise and their own ability to garner crowds for events? there is no time for training, really. this is a crazy part of the process we are in, so who would be able to do that? that is what i'm interested in. veteran democratic pollsters and analysts join me now. let me start with that question because i have a lot of friends and family who are kind of whiteboard strategizing, but right now the five presidential contenders that have been reported her north carolina
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governor cooper, josh shapiro, mark kelly of arizona and tim walz, all from key states. is there anybody -- all great, right? is there anybody on that list that we know from data would offer a significant advantage? >> history tells us that there is no huge bump from the vp, because at the end people are still voting for the top. you can be hurt by your vp, like sara palin. overall you are still voting for the top, but i know people are doing the strategy things about does this person help with this date? i have to tell you i think there was something dramatically important about bill clinton and al gore. a new generation of leadership, young, vibrant leadership. i would use this as a virtue signal more so than thinking if i pick this person that i when
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in pennsylvania. that's that, if i were making the map and i am curious who you would pick, if i were making this pic i would go for the governor of north carolina. it is a state that we won under obama and it is a state going back and forth, so it is purple. they elect democratic governors. democrats at the top of had a hard time. this is a state like georgia and arizona that is breaking through and i think we are expanding the map with north carolina. >> it is kind of purple red right now, but that's okay. what about you? any data you have seen or any elect oral advantage and then i will ask you the same question that cornell t due up four. >> i am ready. look, there had been some polls that show people all over the place. the new york times did a straw poll with delegates and a plurality of them were undecided. about one third undecided. there was an npr marist poll that came out and they were
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mostly divided. there was nobody i think who had over 25%, so people are really divided on what they want. i think it is important to think of who does harris feel comfortable with and who would be a great asset to go out and help communicate and reinforce the message? generally speaking i agree with cornell that there has not been a history where avp upended the race in a big way. in 2016 we did this exercise to look at trump's pics and all we found was that picking ivanka, which was floated at the time, would not have helped him. that was the big finding. generally speaking it is not something that ultimately makes a difference because swing voters will take longer to really learn about whoever the vp pick is and decide in my picking the presidential race based on who the vp is? that is not necessarily a calculation that swing voters, folks who don't vote as often, that is not necessarily going to be there first go to thing. >> that is so interesting and
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the other thing you see shorthanded out there i will say is that it has to be a white man. because you know she is a woman of color. she is historic in so many ways, it has to be a white man because somehow that will comfort people. i don't even know. >> i don't want it to seem like she needs to have a white man in order to speak to white voters were white men. i don't think that is true. because just like, you know, it is not true that black voters are automatically going to go one way or latino voters will go one way or women, white women all vote one way. these groups are not monolithic, so i think we want to be careful in terms of how we talk about that. >> i think the idea put forth that you have to have a white man encapsulates so much. that you have to have a white guy appear to help a woman. you never think of this the opposite way around and quite
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frankly if you are a white guy and you are uncomfortable having a woman, a woman of color as commander-in-chief, i don't think putting a white guy on the ticket will make you more comfortable. >> you don't think it will make them get over the other piece? >> i don't think it will make them get over the other piece. >> that is fair. let's talk about j.d. vance because i read his speech for the convention in a written form and then he delivered it and i was like, that was not well delivered. the theory is that he was trying to double down on the base for trump. what do you think? does that help him? was it bad in that regard? >> i don't know. i think you will be an enthusiastic supporter of the president. he is out there seemingly enthusiastic to reinforce his message and i am going to assume it was not quite ready, his jokes weren't landing when taken in the abstract and maybe as he goes forward he will be a
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little bit different. i think the same is true for vance and trump that it would be, again, anybody other than ivanka would not make a difference, so does vance add or detract? i don't know that he does either. >> bigger and different and i think people don't realize what a big spotlight and when i see those clips of him it does not look like he is ready for that spotlight and i think that certainly does not help the trump ticket. >> no question about it. before i let you both go, one of the things i have been thinking about is who could complement the vice president superpowers? this is not an electoral question, right? is there anyone who is not mentioned out there that you focus on a secret list? >> i will say the governor of wisconsin, tony evers, who gave an adorable introduction to vice president harris today.
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from holy mackerel, to that is how enthusiastic i am. vice president harris is known for her dancing and governor evers loves to polka. >> oh, okay. in the five seconds we have left, do you have anyone on your list? >> michelle obama. >> oh my goodness. okay, thank you so much. thank you for bringing us the data and the numbers. it is always super helpful to level set with people. the selection is going to be front and center on september 7 and we have a big event in new york. msnbc live, democracy 2024 in brooklyn. you will find me, chris hayes, joy reid, basically the whole crew. we will all be together talking about the big issues in america. tickets are available and you can find them by scanning the qr code on your screen and i
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he is a leader who made the most difficult choice at the most important moment because he believed it was the right thing to do. here is someone who put country ahead of self until the very end. >> historically when a sitting u.s. president withdrew from the race to pass the baton to his vice president, one of the people telling his own personal story about joe biden and senator chris murphy of connecticut. murphy, a longtime advocate for gun reform, recounted how president biden turned to him for advice after tragic mass shootings. he consulted with him on a speech to build support for a gun safety bill, a speech biden ultimately delivered as a passionate appeal to all
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americans and specifically to republicans in congress. >> the children we've lost. the children we can save. the nation we love. let's hear the call and the cry. let's meet the moment. let us finally do something. >> senator murphy described the speech as perfect and deeply impactful, saying, quote, i am not sure the historic 2022 gun bill would have passed without that speech. senator chris murphy, democrat of connecticut, joins me now. thank you so much for joining me this evening. i have been working in democratic politics for a long time. you have been elected in democratic politics for a long time. the last couple of days, the energy, the fundraising, how unified everybody is, it has been surprising how fast it happened, to me. has it been surprising to you? >> listen, i have been in
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politics for a while, too, but i have not lost my ability to be surprised and i am just so happy for this country and for kamala harris and for a lot of folks who have felt like democracy is on the line. we are having a little bit of a hard time getting off of the sidelines and what joe biden did is extraordinary. he recognized this moment. i don't think it was fair. i told that story in part because i want people to understand how deeply, personally, intimately involved he was in all of these legislative successes, but he looked at the state of the party, looked at the state of the race and made this absolutely heroic, selfless decision to stand down, despite the fact that he had a path to victory. despite that he has this incredible legislative record because he thought it was good for the country.
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i keep coming back to this job year after year, deciding to run for reelection because people surprise me. because over and over again in a business that is filled with cynicism, people step up and do the right thing more often than you would think. so, yeah, i am still surprised. >> you don't have to be a bad apple to be in politics. i think that is important for people to know. i know you have worked with president biden on so many things. gun violence reform. he worked on a range of foreign policy issues. he has six months left in his break presidency. what do you hope to hear from him tomorrow night? what are you expecting? >> well i think the reason that kamala harris is this best of both worlds candidate is because she is the next generation. she is going to be an inspirational, historic candidate. it is important to have a woman
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on the top of the ticket running for president at a moment when women's rights are under assault, but she also will be able to carry forth all the amazing things this administration has done, so i hope joe biden takes a beat and reminds the american public that without his leadership we would not have rescued this country from covid. we would not be growing jobs at a historic rate. crime would not be down by 20%. joe biden did those things and kamala harris helped him, so i hope he takes credit for that and reminds people of the reasons why there should be interest in continuity and i hope he talks a little bit from his heart about why he made this decision. part of the reason we love joe biden is because he does share himself with us. he does reach down deep inside in a way that a lot of political figures don't, so i hope he shares a bit of his decision-making process with us. i think that would really round out this amazing, amazing
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moment. >> people would love to hear that, i totally agree with you. you are a policy nerd and i say that in a complementary way, but you have been through tough campaigns. you've seen people go through tough campaigns. this has been a moment of elation for a lot of people with all of the support, but this will be a bruising campaign. it's going to be hard. what are the things you think people should be aware of if they are sitting on the couch and think this is all in the bag? what is going to be really hard about it and what should people be prepared for? >> listen, i think this will be a very tough campaign and you already see some of the worst, easily oozing out of the republican infrastructure. there will be some basic racism and misogyny that is going to infiltrate this campaign and so we have to confront that head- on. we have to call it out. ultimately i do not think it is a winning strategy for republicans, but you have to name it and shame it and then i
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think you've got to turn this enthusiasm into actual action, right? we have to remind folks who are excited about kamala harris that just sharing a tweet is not political action. you've got to go on the website and make a small donation. you have to sign up for a volunteer shift. donald trump's infrastructure is incredibly weak. a lot of people don't know this, but he has not billed much of a campaign. he was golfing today. he is not out on the campaign trail the way he was four years ago, so we now have a candidate who will appeal to a whole new section of the electorate and we have the ability to use the enthusiasm to outwork republicans. the messages don't take anything for granted. sign up to work, sign up to volunteer. make a contribution. turn this enthusiasm into actual work product. >> we only have 40 seconds left, but you are a professional. for people wondering what can i do, what should i do, what should they do now if they are
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excited, they want to defeat donald trump? how can normal people watching on the couch get involved? >> so one thing you can do is make a small donation, not just a kamala harris, but to my colleagues running for swing seats across the country. tammy baldwin was standing on the speech in wisconsin. you should make a donation to her. when he told the senate and win back the house of representatives and the great thing about technology today is that even if you are in a blue state, a constituent of mine in connecticut, i would love for you to help me, but i won't feel bad or take it personally if you sign up for a virtual phone day in pennsylvania, in arizona, in wisconsin. it is as easy as going to the dnc website for the presidential website to find out how you can be part of these voter turnout operations in these swing states. that is a smorgasbord of options. >> that is a perfect elevator pitch, senator and very generous. senator chris murphy,

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