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on the edge? tomorrow at nine on cnn >> i'm jessica dean in new york. we're now exactly 24 days from election day in america. and today, vice president kamala harris is headed to north carolina, stepping up her outreach to black voters as the campaign continues to hone in on crucial swing states. meanwhile, former president donald trump is opting to spend precious, precious time in a solid blue state don't take center stage for a rally in california's coachella from also stopping in aurora, colorado on friday again, stoking anti-immigrant fears with rhetoric it included referring to the city as a war zone. cnn's kristen holmes is joining us now, live from coachella with the latest on this and kristen, the question now is trump expected to continue to focus on immigration as he has for the last several days at today's rally.
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>> well, jessica, we expect him to focus on immigration from now until election day when you talk to the people closest to him, they tell you that both donald trump and his campaign believed this kind of fear based rhetoric, whether it be about immigration or the economy will help propel him to the white house in november 1 thing to keep in mind is that donald trump firmly believes the issue of immigration helps get them to the white house in the first place in 2016, and will help him again this time around. so don't expect him to any way back off from these kind of commons, as you noted, they are getting increasingly darker at one point at that speed. and during that speech in aurora, colorado, he said that our country was occupied america making very dark references. so don't expect him to kind of back away from these remarks, but we are told that here in california, a lot of the messaging is going to be around kamala harris's record here. he's going to attack her. he's going to attack gavin newsom say that they destroyed that state talking about crime levels, its cetera, this is something we have heard from him time and time again on
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the campaign trail, you might be asking why exactly is he in this solidly blue state? if you look at the polling that came out yesterday from the wall street journal, the new polling that came out today, it shows you just how close this race is, particularly in those swing states that are going to determine this race. and when i talked to a number of his the advisers, they say they don't believe that at the end of the day it really matters where he is campaigning, that this is a national media campaign that events like this that drop people to a blue area like california with donald trump holding a rally, are going to get national media attention. and on top of that, they believe that they are trying to reach these low propensity voters first, people who don't typically go out there and vote and they also don't engage with politics in the same way are on the same media landscape that they have in the past, meaning that clips from today, eclipse from various events like this could be put out on podcasts or on various youtube channels, or put out on other kinds streaming networks. and
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they believe that could get just as much play with these voters. they're trying to reach that a traditional rally in a swing state could get, obviously we will not know if the strategy works until november, but it is something they're putting forward the other thing we have heard from donald trump is that he wants to get more of that popular vote even though at the end of the day it's not going to matter because he's just not going to win a state like california or colorado, or this week, illinois, where he'll be or new york where he'll be doing a rally in madison square garden. but again, they say that it doesn't matter where he is, that he still has that reach. that message is getting out there, jessica. >> yeah, it is certainly an interesting strategy jane, kristen, and we will we will all see if it works. kristen holmes for us in coachella. thank you so much for that. another significant campaign development today is the release of medical information about vice president kamala harris harris campaign is using this moment to highlight trump's lack of transparency when it comes to his own health. seen until alvarez has been following this story great for us, priscilla
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saying that she is quote, excellent health in a letter summarizing her medical history. now, this is the first time that the vice president's office has released her medical records with this level of detail. and in this two-page letter, her doctor saying that she has seasonal allergies, hives, and is near-sighted, but also making the point that her routine blood work and her april physical exam, show no cause for alarm? that is the resounding message of this letter where her doctor also says, quote, she possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the presidency to include those as chief executive, head of state, and commander in chief. now of course the vice president in her campaign trying to draw a stark contrast with former president donald trump, including on age to the former president, of course, is 78. and earlier this year, age was a top concern among voters when it was president biden up
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against former president donald trump's. so trying to quell concerns here with this letter from the vice president's doctor essentially showing that she has a clean bill of health. all of this still though coming as polls remain close senior advisers to the vice president are well aware of that this is a tight race. it's a close one, and sources close to the campaign telling me that they are growing quite anxious as the needle has not moved as much as they would have liked. now the vice president is headed to north carolina on saturday in a swing that will be the vice president doubling down on black voter a reach later today, xi will be meeting with local black elected officials and community leaders out of local restaurant. she will also be helping with hurricane relief efforts. now, tomorrow, the vice president will be in greenville, north carolina, where she will be attending a church service there. she'll deliver remarks according to the campaign and then she will also be meeting with local black farmers to
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discuss what she has described as an opportunity economy before hosting a campaign rally. now of course this comes as the campaign has been focused on black voters and especially black men, amid waning enthusiasm. so all of this in effort to dry out votevors and to shore up suppor, especially among these slices of the electorate the campaign of course, trying to make ground where they can, including in states like north carolina, where they're trying to remain quite bullish jessica priscilla alvarez in washington. thank you so much for that reporting. and joining us now, politics reporter for notice, jasmine wright and cnn political analyst and national reporter for axios. alex thompson. good to see both of you. thanks for being here. >> thank you. yeah. >> well, we've got new polling out. i feel like now we've entered the stage where we have new polling a lot and everyone wants to kind of analyze every side of it, but we do have new polling from the new york times and siena college showing
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shockingly and extremely tight race in pennsylvania. and also arizona, where it's a little bit more wider of a margin. harris slightly ahead within the margin of error in pennsylvania, trump continuing to hold that advantage in arizona alex, let's start first with you. what does this new data point tell you about the difficulties, the challenges that each campaign is facing in getting a clear advantage in these final weeks is it even possible for him? anyone to get a clear advantage in this campaign i'd say buckle in because we are in for quite a polar pollercoaster to use a very corny phrase over the next few weeks. >> the fact is there's going to be, as you said, more pulling every single day, every single week every media organization is trying to basically gleick, reach those people. the very key people which are really just a few hundred thousand people in these seven states who are undecided, these next several weeks. the fact is new york times poll also showed kamala harris up five points in arizona, just a month and a
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half ago, and now they showed donald trump up five. now, obviously one of those polls was an outlier but which one was an outlier? we really don't know. >> yeah. i mean, that's exactly it. and jasmine honing in on pennsylvania, we have seen in polling average, which includes this latest poll from the new york times. and it shows a slightly tighter race when you factor all of these n harris's support averaging 48 to trump's 47%. but zooming out we saw democrats having a week of what i think you could categorize if you were being generous, was concerned some have said it's gone all the way to. they're they're already bedwetting here. how is the harris campaign reacting to this? >> yeah, that's one of the reasons why we saw former president barak obama in pittsburgh as his first stop on the campaign trail heading into november. jessica, because there's no bigger indication that campaigns are heading into this last stretch, then seeing the big gun brock obama on the stage, really kind of admonishing ching black men telling them to get out and
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vote, telling them to move beyond their biases, but also encouraging people not just about what the stakes of the election, but to get out and early vote because to alex's point, they're going to be so many polls. but what the campaign is looking for right now is hard data where people early voting, where people not early voting, so that they can surge three resources. now of course, a campaign is growing anxious because they believed in some ways are really hoped that they would be able to pull away from donald trump a little bit more. but as we've seen in these last tranche of polls that hasn't happened. now i talked to one person close to the vice president who said that they weren't incredibly worried yet because they're not but seeing the former president break away from the vice president instead, they're seeing repeated poles. let's have them locked in a tight race showing that they still have a chance. but i was in arizona and i talked to the mayor of meza john giles and he said what we really need is just a another bout of momentum. another thing that can really draw so much attention to the vice president. get people excited to the polls. so certainly that
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is what democrats are hoping for. now of course, there's not going to be another debate says the former president, so i'm not sure where they can find that, but of course, people are anxious when you're seeing just this racing, these really important states, just down to a point. >> and you make such a good point that with no debate planned at this point, there's just no major inflection point that we have left, but that would be scheduled between now and the election. of course, alex, anything? >> and we've lived through this season, anything could clearly happen. >> i want to ask you about the other side, about the republicans who in the same week in the last several days have grown increasingly. a lot of republicans increasingly and bullish on former president trump's chances. what are you hearing yeah, i think that's exactly right. >> and you're seeing it because originally kamala harris's campaign and they still say this, where are the underdog with the underdog? but their actions actually did not suggest that that was true. they were playing at prevent defense a risk averse strategy, which was basically after the
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debate, they thought they could sort of run the clock out. now you've seen the fact that they are taking more risks, they are putting her in front of reporters. they are putting her in new scenarios. and the fact is that republicans now do think that by denying her oxygen in some ways, which is basically what donald trump it is doing by denying her another debate. they are denying her another moment, one democrat close to the campaign basically said, i don't know where she is going to get another critical moment in this campaign, the debate could have been it, but there's three-and-a-half weeks left there could be another opportunity. >> so jasmine, knowing that what, what are they looking to you mentioned that that brock obama, of course, is out on the trail. we're seeing former president bill clinton going out there starting to deploy the harris campaign. a lot of these big name surrogates yeah, they're deploying, in essence closures people to relay the stakes and as folks get out early, put their ballots in the mail early so that they can see where to surge resources. >> but i also think when you look at north carolina and the
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events at the vice presidents doing this weekend, you're seeing her revert back to a kind of traditional polling. i think that there i mean campaigning think that there was kind a sense around the campaign that they could reach all voters by the kind of risk averse campaign that she was doing. just a few weeks ago. and now we're seeing her do the traditional things that we often see democratic campaigns do barnstorm north carolina, talked to black leaders, go to churches, really trying to concentrate a lot of them their efforts in places where those numbers are soft, in places where she's just not meeting where president biden was in 2020, like the black vote, both in north carolina and pennsylvania and across the country. and so we're seeing them shift to those core democratic base is because it's no longer convince people about who the vice president is that was a media strategy from last week. now, it's about getting out the vote in increasing the numbers in your base and hoping to reach some of those undecided voters along the french. >> yeah alex, are our colleague, kristen holmes was
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was reporting on this strategy. so as jasmine talking about what the vice president doing, which is more traditional campaigning, we're seeing the former president donald trump in places like colorado light, california, like new york, that he states he doesn't have any chance of winning really tripling down on this anti-immigrant rhetoric, really upping the inflammatory rhetoric that he's using. and they're banking on the fact that they're going to reach these voters in these swing states whether there in the swing state or not, what do you make of that strategy i mean, there's a risk because the fact is he's almost certainly not going to win california, new york, or colorado. >> and but the point of going to those places is that they are big messages they are messages that immigration, they are messages of the day. i will say that obviously the madison square garden rally will obviously attract a lot of media attention. and some of this just goes back to donald trump's fundamental thesis of
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sort of political life. and honestly his celebrity life, which is that all press is good press, even negative presses good press, negative attention is good attention and that is what he is seeking by going to these places and jasmine, the vice president, again, just trying to get into these places speaking of going to places that you wouldn't normally when we have seen them going into more rural counties, i'm thinking about pennsylvania specifically here they're trying to at least eat into kind of run up that, keep it cut down how high former president trump will rank in those places, how much support he can get by just keeping those margins down a little bit. >> are they continuing forward with this strategy? are they seeing any traction in that sort of thing? >> yeah. >> i think that democrats largely certainly some folks within the campaign that i've spoken to were concerned about just had the soft numbers that she had, particularly white working class men of place in which donald trump has focused on and has really increase his margins by a lot since just
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2020 that they were seeing those numbers a bit after for but for the vice presidents with that was why you saw her going into rural areas and pennsylvania laying out manufacturing. who saw tim walz talk about it? just a couple of days ago, laying out their plan for manufacturing, laying out a plan not just for the middle-class, but also for the working class. and you're going to see that continue because they're trying to do both they are trying to strengthen those numbers with their base. when you talk about black voters, women voters, obviously this issue of abortion, but they're also trying to eat into donald trump's margins because they see this not as a win by state, by state although that's important, but they see this as a election by the inches trying to claw anywhere they can. so you're going to see her try to do both hit both even it may be in the same dais as we get closer to november and she starts doing more events because they need to get those points up at across the board wherever they can. >> all right. jasmine wright and alex thompson. our thanks to both of you for your analysis there. we appreciate it. >> thank iran. yeah. thank you.
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across across the middle east to try and secure some help and minimize that retaliation. iran, though also making it clear to the u.s. and other middle eastern countries it will retaliate against any new israeli attack. cnn's nic robertson is in tel aviv and cnn's fred pleitgen is in tehran tonight. fred, i want to begin with you to iran trying to gauge whether it can produce the scale of israel's response is that working the iranians, obviously at this point not facing that retaliation yet, but i think one of the things that we can definitely ascertains that iran air defenses right now very much on high alert. >> and one of the things jessica, that we have to keep in mind is that the same unit two of iran's elite revolutionary guard corps that conduct did that missile attack on israeli territory last week, trying to hit, of course, an air but actually hitting an airbase in israel. that's the same unit that's responsible for air defense here in this country. and no doubt they're going to be on high alert right now. the same time, the iranians have been engaged in diplomacy the region, but
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they've also made very clear and this comes directly from a source to cnn with knowledge of the discussions inside iran that there will be retaliation if the israelis strike iranian territory and the iranians did convey that not only two countries in the region, but also the united states. of course, we have to mention that this most probably happened through trump mediaries because of course, the u.s. and iran do not have direct diplomatic relations with one another. the iranians nevertheless, over the past couple of days of launched, what can only be described as a diplomatic blitz, really, you had the foreign minister of iran, he was insulting audio rabia for some very important talks there yesterday, the iranian president met with vladimir putin in turkmenistan and today, the speaker of iranian parliament actually went to lebanon. there saying that he was carrying a message coming mean directly from iran, supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei, and that message was that iran is not going to back down and is going to continue to back hezbollah and also lebanon as well. jessica.
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>> all right. fred pleitgen in tehran. thank you so much for that reporting. i do want to go to nic robertson now, who is in tel aviv and nic just a few moments ago, we learned israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be holding a war cabinet meeting sunday as we said, is israel continues to raise its response to iran. what more can you tell us about that cabinet meeting. >> just a few days ago. his cabinet discuss how they would respond to iran. there was some differences of opinion reported twin his defense minister who had been told to stand down by the way, are not go on a trip to see his counterpart, lloyd austin in washington so the defense minister, according to some reports, that having a difference of opinion with some cabinet members, not clear precisely what it was and it's really not terribly clear how much that cabinet meeting and the discussions chen that was hard about how to respond. not
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really clear if it's narrow the differences between the united states which wants to see a proportional response, which would be therefore targeting the same sorts of things that iran targeted. here, which would be air bases, perhaps which would be intelligence headquarters. that's what iran was targeting here, are not what many in the prime minister's cabinet want to do, which they see this as a moment of opportunity while hezbollah is weak to the north to target the things have always wanted a hit in iran late the nuclear facilities obviously, the president, president biden has made clear that's not something he really approves of and it doesn't really approve of iranians oil facilities being struck either. so the cabinet meeting may narrow the differences. again, an out of all of this whatever discussions are being had, it's still not really clear when israel is going to choose. it's got the right moment, which will absolutely have the
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military component to it because the military will be saying, okay, the conditions on this night or this day or whatever it is are ready. we've got everything in alignment that all those sorts of factors that we tend not to think about like the weather and where the moon is, and how big the moon is and all those sorts of things will come into play so i think everyone in the country at the moment is guessing the one thing i think they know is that israel will respond that something will happen. and you mentioned president biden. a. we know that the two president biden spoke with prime minister netanyahu for the first time in months what does that say to you just as someone who's been there and covered this what did that meeting or that phone call rather, what, if anything, stick out to you about that? >> you know, i think the fact that it was a real pressure point, i mean, president biden had said that, you know, week or so ago that he'd be having a conversation with prime
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minister benjamin netanyahu fairly soon. it's very important for netanyahu that he keeps the united states support because obviously the hair, the biggest backer i mean, israel and that's that support is epically much unequivocal oblique in the public domain, whatever pressures may be unseen. but i think, my takeaway from this was this conversation came about pretty quickly because it was right on the eve of the defense minister on about to leave to go to washington and the prime minister put a block on it and said, not until i've had a call with president biden. and then that call happened i think that dynamic was interesting, but it's hard to say what it really tells us the conversation was reportedly direct graph to read into that what we can absolutely. >> right. nic robertson. thank you. fred pleitgen. our thanks to you as well. there are still more than 1 million people without power across florida as the lines for gas are very long and residents try to recover after hurricane milton
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rebuild one major problem is a gas shortage, gasbuddy saying nearly one in three gas stations in florida are out of gas right now. governor ron desantis says officials are trying to distribute full fuel as quickly as they can. in the meantime, though, conspiracy theories about hurricanes helene milton have run absolutely rampant on social media, ranging from chemtrails to secret pentagon weapons including from georgia congresswoman representative marjorie taylor greene posting the government is controlling the weathethey've also been false stories about the response from the government and fema despite democrats and republicans calling them lies and encouraging people to apply for federal aid. joining us to discuss these conspiracy theories is cnn chief media analyst and author of the book, network of lies. brian stelter, brian, good to see you you do it is really remarkable to me how these extreme conspiracy theories about things like the
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government controls the weather and then all the way down to what's been said about just the response. and if you apply for responds, what will happen that they have become so mainstream that's so many the americans do believe them point in that regard. >> jessica, actually, i would say the last two weeks in the last two weeks between the response to helene and all the lies about helene. and then the government's manipulate the weather theories about milton. there a number for a misinformation, reporters disinformation researchers, people who i've known for years who have all said they're at their wit's that they've never seen it this bad. they've never seen the information environment, this polluted. and i think i have two reasons to offer why that is. the first is that we're on the precipice of a very stressful election. everybody today's anxiety levels are high. everybody is worried about the election no matter who you're planning to vote for. and in that environment, there's a lot of misinformation including about these hurricanes, but also
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about lots of other topics a number to some of these misstatements, some of these lies are coming from former president trump, particularly about the fema response to helene so when you have have someone's so trusted by a broad swath of the country, spreading misinformation. it's obviously going to go a lot more wide and far for that reason yeah. >> for absolutely. in and continuing to amplify them as well. and i think you've just you got into this about why people are prone to falling in to sound are falling for some of these theories i guess just, i just i'm curious from your perspective, does it make me or others naive to be shocked that people are falling for this? >> no no. not, at all. i tried to always have fresh eyes when it comes to these things, because conspiracy theories are inherently confusing in some ways what they do is they tried to take a complex world and make it very simple for people. so you can understand why some of these theories would be appealing would be, would be really indulged how by some
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americans. let's be clear, this is a problem that exists. most dramatically on the right among i would argue the trump base. i don't want to say all republicans, but among people that tend to believe in qanon years ago, for example, they're the same kinds of folks now spreading these hurricane conspiracy theories, the scary thing for me to last couple of weeks, jessica has been to see the book bullying and harassment of scientists and meteorologists that's again one of the differences that's happened in the last couple of weeks television meteorologists, national weather service officials say that they're getting intimidation, they're getting harassment from people who not only don't believe the forecast, but instead believed these far out fringe theories right? >> and because there are real-world impacts to this sort of stuff, and you just, you just explain one of them and i can't help but draw a line between what you're talking about with scientists, meteorologists, and then to, let's say election workers who also have, have had to face this sort of thing because of online conspiracy theories
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that's exactly right. i was speaking this week with stacey abrams, you know, the former candidate for governor in georgia. he's very worried about the disinformation campaigns that are starting to creep up when it comes toward the election. but let me try to offer a note of positivity. you know, there's a lot to be pessimistic about when it comes to the age of disinformation elon musk's x has become much more of a sewer, a swamp full of disinformation that's where a lot of this stuff that we're talking about is spreading right now. musk is really unleashed it by discouraging fact checking and by encouraging his fans to be spreading lies. so there's a lot to be pessimistic about. but i think vice president kamala harris is right when she says and basically, every every one of her speeches that the vast majority of americans actually have much more in common than they have a part that she likes to say more in common than what separates us. i think that's true when we talk about this information space as well most people don't want to be fooled. they don't want to be bamboozled. they don't want to spread misinformation on their social media pages. they might be confused about what is real the world because it's an awfully
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loud, chaotic world out there. and oftentimes the loudest voices are the ones that are lying. but i think the vast majority of americans do want to know what is true and real, and they don't want to get confused by all this noise and nonsense that's what makes me have an optimistic note, even though it is ugly out there right now. >> yeah, we like to end on a positive no, for sure. brian stelter as always. thank you so much. >> thanks. >> called black men, keep vice president kamala harris from moving into the oval office this week, the first black man to become president i had some strong words for this voting bloc. >> what she did do, we're going to talk about that next here in the cnn newsroom a break from breaking news to air. have i got news for you? >> breaking news. i'm getting a sandwich. >> we need to talk about what constitutes breaking news thereof. >> i got news for you. tonight at nine on cnn and streaming next day on max, deal dash.com online auctions since 2009, this playstation 5s sold for
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commentator bakari sellers, he's also a former south carolina state representative and author of the moment thoughts on the race reckoning that wasn't and how we can all move forward now, bakari, good to see you good to see you. thank you for having me. >> i'm so i'm so glad you're here to have this conversation because when the former president gave that, he gave a campaign rally speech later that night. but this was what we just watched it with a clip of him stopping by field office there in pittsburgh. it made so many waves and everybody had a taste on it. i'm curious what you think was this a smart move for the campaign? do you think it could backfire because he's kind of chiding people there no it's. >> not going to backfire. and yeah. i mean, anytime you can roll out barack obama, that's a brilliant move. donald trump doesn't have anybody that wants to stand next to them. but this is a part of a larger conversation. i mean, the warning lights had been on with black men for a very long period of time. and this race is about kamala harris being someone who listens to the needs and desires and wants us different demographics in black
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men want someone who's going to listen to them because we feel as if we haven't been a part of the process for very long period of time the facts or this though, and we have to recall that black men have been the second largest demographic voting for democrats for the last four or five decades. that's not going to change in this election at 85, 90% of black men are going to vote for kamala harris. now what she has to do is work on making sure she increases in, solidifies those margins, particularly in detroit, milwaukee, philadelphia atlanta she's doing those things that are necessary it's all hands-on deck but why, what is the message? >> do you think that some black men would want to hear? why do you think that that has there is concern? why do you think there's been softening? is there a specific message she should be taking to them or that you think? would really resonate well, i mean, i'm a pushed back on the framing of your question about softening. >> i don't think there has been softening. i think the fact is
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if you look at polls, she's running behind with with black voters generally. but she's running behind. see right? if you will. you can't see it right now, but she if biden got 90% in 2020, she's at 78%. so there it is softening in those numbers yeah. first of all, if you look at any other demographic in the entire country and you say that i'd elected official gets 78% of that demographic. you'll say, oh my god, they are just doing yeoman's work and we're talking about 24 days out. we're talking about the fact i got a lot of these polls that these partisan polls we're not even talking about the nonpartisan ones. there. you have to literally turn the page and read the cross tabs. does kamala harris have to do work when it comes to black voters the answer is yes, of course. is she doing that work? the answer is yes. while donald trump said lollapalooza or i don't know coachella wherever he is today. she's actually in greenville, north carolina, going to black churches, meeting with black ministers then the other part of your question is, what do black man
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or black people need to hear? and i think that a lot of times democrats, particularly progressive whites on my left and the far right and conservatives including trump have continued to speak at black folk. and that's not what we need. i mean, it's not about what we need to hear. we need elected officials that listen to us. they listen to those cries. >> yes. brock obama was talking about something that's even more cultural than that. >> he was talking about the fact that there is a question and people sometimes bring up whether or not black folk are black like men in particular will vote for a woman. >> and i would tell 44 and i would tell barak obama that sometimes that messaging has to be about the fact that we understand the strength of black women who are in our own lives are mothers, our grandmothers, those women who run local, local grocery stores, or five and dimes, those women who were in the churches that were the big hats that's and smell like chanel number five and make sweet potato pies out of a stickers were butter and what they mean to our communities. and i think that is a better message saying that if those women can lead our communities than kamala harris can be president of the
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united states listen, the end of the day, i don't like the framing of this discussion because of kamala harris doesn't win. i don't want what people to then say that it's black men's fault because that's not the case or was black people's fault because that's not the case. she's going to do the work necessary over the next 24 days. if college-educated white women come out and support her, unlike what they did with hillary clinton then she will win this race. if black voters come out like they always do, she will win this race. and i believe she went and i hear you on the framing. >> i really do. i just i am curious the why you felt at the president obama felt so passionately about. i mean, he gave a very impassioned talk right there. it clearly is something he felt like was a message that needed to be delivered correct. >> and the reason he feels that is because of the fierce urgency of now, there is right now and we haven't been in persuasion politics regardless of what people who may come on tv, i love people who've never
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run a race or run for office we come on tv and talk about all these undecided voters and what she has to do to persuade. we haven't been in persuasion since the debate. we've been in gotv and every day and gotv, there is a sense of urgency and barack obama was talking about that martin luther king i have a dream speech, fierce urgency of now. what that means is that yes, we want to get black folk coming out in the same way they came out for him. that means that black men have to do that much more. that means black women have to continue to turn out in numbers that they have because we know where those voters are there's also a question about culturally what kamala harris means for our community. she went to howard university. she's the product of a black sorority she is a black woman that we can all identify with and we can all say we know the thing that's missing, which i feel is going to come to a head in the next 24 hours is what are her policies? for black folk? and when those come out and she rolls those out, and people begin to talk about those things then that type of energy
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