important. >> cannot ask you quickly to react to what donald trump said, he did not know kamala harris was black, until a short time ago, she is changing it up? i will give you 20 seconds to answer that one. >> reporter: i don't know why anyone is asking what donald trump things about kamala harris ' race? i don't think a white man like donald trump has any right to weigh in on what her identity is. she has been black her whole life, she is also south asian, she is not shied away from both parts of her identity. he has no right to weigh in at all whatsoever. >> okay, duly noted. zerlina maxwell, that does it for me on this edition of alex witt reports. i will see you tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern. up next, the beat weekend. welcome to "the beat: weekend."

i'm ari melber. let's get into the headlines. vice president kamala harris won the delegate votes to become the official democratic nominee for president, punching the nomination as expected, through the early virtual votes. the voting began today and she clenched. the dnc will make it fully official on monday because they will complete this virtual roll call vote. just as the 2020 boat shifted virtual during the pandemic, this cycle's shift for the democratic convention and assorted procedures has begun earlier. like early voting, this is a step democrats have taken and it has become somewhat normal. in this case, they want to be proactively organize and stave off any possible republican legal challenges overstate deadlines. even before harris jumped into the race, you heard people mention, they were planning to go forward with the delegate vote, they're doing it today. harris swift caps this woman convention tradition.

>> we proudly cast 11 votes for our next president of united states of america, joe biden! >> all in favor for the motion to suspend the roles and nominated by acclamation barack obama as the democratic party's presidential candidate, please say aye to >> aye! >> that is what it looked like years past, the first black woman and south asian presidential nominee. condemning recent efforts at diversity in every sense of the work. if you think about or remember, the democratic ticket has featured racial or gender diversity on the presidential ticket the last four consecutive cycles including the harris vp. and the reports harris is mulling and her team meeting with six top contenders you see here, statewide officeholders who are white men. having fun around harris,

jovial emphasis on diversity of all kinds, complete with online rallies and zooms, where people have organized themselves or other groups have joined in with white men for here is, black men for hairs, white women for harris, so on. one piece of a wider and broad strategy that clearly worked and has elements that are so fast, it has been an organic rush to fund this nominee. the zooms that you see have raised a lot of money, trump raised by comparison, $137 million last month. today's new monthly report shows harris doubling that haul with a record $310 million. remember, you can see the july on the headline, this is for all of july, harris only formally entered the race the last 10 days of the month, when most of the big haul came in. july was supposed to be the rnc's big moment. conventions often draw wider interest and donations, trump tapped his new running mate this month.

vance, hulk, other prominent voices at the rnc could not keep up with harris. no one is saying the trump campaign overly fund raise the tragic events over his attempted assassination, that was also something in politics was in the days after a big unifying moment for the republicans. like i showed you, they raised money but nothing like harris. her whole includes 2 million first-time donors, an echo of bernie sanders online superpowers of fundraising. those are new democratic donors that will give again, every week or month if they want, nine out of 10 donations far into the legal matters, under 200 bucks in the case that you see from harris, she can go back to those people again and again through november. in modern politics, campaigns tend to measure support starting with the kind of inner core, the donors, the volunteers, these engaged online activists who carry the campaign managed -- message, show up to events, literal power. the ultimate outer layer is

your base voters, hear so much about debates. those people may not show up at a big rally like what harris held in rally but they do tend to vote in presidential years. the persuadable voters and sporadic or less engaged people we hear about, don't even call them voters because they often aren't. they may or may not vote at all this november, the people you hear about past as double haters or people that say, i don't have a reason to vote. this matters because over the days we are getting more information, more evidence. the harris campaign is seeing a surge of the core groups i mentioned, the inner core, including excited young people who are dancing their way into viral moments and people noticing them. they cannot upend this year's electorate by joining it, especially if they are of an age this is the first election they vote in, they can be powerful messengers online and in the field. that is something i want to break down tonight before i bring the great experts. democrats, as we end the week, are clearly now seeing it as a

real possibility they could bring back an obama level enthusiasm here. on a faster timeline than obama had, that is a marked contrast from the party's open concerns last month over joe biden and what had been a lot of indicators before the debate they did not have that level of enthusiasm. harris is also diving in and networking with pre-existing groups, some of them are not traditionally only political but they may involve overlapping interests like women's rights or female empowerment, taylor swift swiftie says agreed, swiftie's for harris that gained over 100,000 followers on social media. much of that organic, it launched as a thing that people can join last week. i took you about the beehive, the beyonce fans around the world, noticing beyonce signing off on harris using freedom in her first video, as i showed

earlier this week, these two strong women that have done a lot of different things and broken barriers have a pre- existing relationship, not a pre-existing condition like obamacare era, long-standing public alliance, if your beyonce fan, you might already know about the overlap. it is too early to tell if this kind of stuff that i'm mentioning and democrats are coming up, winning back states in november, the first two weeks suggest you have the diverse of young collision that launched obama to the white house. this idea or goal, this is not something of a secret strategy, obama was the democrats' last two-term president, more successful than president carter and wider margins of victory than president clinton before. any democrat to think about anything, i would like to be like obama. one difference is harris is poised to do it better, she is also a democrat who has been in the trenches. i want to point that out, for example, she talked of that goal in 2019 during her primary

presidential campaign. >> we need someone on the stage who has the ability to go toe to toe would donald trump and someone who has the ability to rebuild the obama coalition and bring the party and the nation together. i believe i am that candidate. >> many democratic voters agreed on the goal, rebuild the coalition, they did not agree she was the candidate in that moment. i showed that clip from 2019. indeed, it was obama's own vice president who was thomas foley, out of the race after losing iowa and new hampshire that the democratic party turned to. and the big reason we know veep stakes matter, we think about harris and nothing as soon as next week, once you pick a vp, very key driver seat. it is now biden's vp trying to finish the relay race. you saw the grassroots energy i mention from the donors to the young people, that is one piece of it, you can't do obama

coalition without members of the coalition, that is what you hope to build in a campaign. the trump ever tried to rebuild what was there coalition the year they won the electoral college. we know about that. who is doing the building? that brings us to more news tonight, the harris campaign brought on obama's famous architect for his victory, former campaign manager david plath. he is one of the democratic party's most successful and respected strategist, author of the audacity to win, tells that story, one of the key visionaries then and now of the obama network, still the most popular widespread victorious element of the democratic party. again, repeating even if it seems obvious, biden is a product of the obama network and coalition. many had sought after david plath's expert speaker in politics, noted across msnbc in this and other election years. these are the headlines, harris building up the campaign

specifically with plouffe and aides. and the white house director, jennifer palmieri. the campaign tried to do two things, emphasizing this, they are keeping all of the biden campaign leadership intact. they will be adding, not subtracting. harris made a point of attending that 2007 rally when obama first launched his presidential bid. it was a big deal, he was seen as a challenger to the more likely famous democratic party name, the summa encumbered of hillary clinton. you can see a photo that harris took from the facebook with both of the obamas. that was an event in illinois where this year's credit convention is being held. harris also hit the iowa caucus for obama and recounted the organizing, the fieldwork, and the weather in that effort. >> i remember being in iowa, it

was pouring, really, really cold. everybody was there, us californians did not know what to wear. the president and we just celebrated this first 100 days and we could not be more proud because the work any elected president of the united states in recent memory has accomplished. not just talk but accomplished. from his first days, he did what he promised us he would do and he has only just begun. >> only just begun. if you're into history or politics or news junkie, it is interesting to look at that and look at the younger harris and the rise. the point isn't simply these two barrier breaking figures have this connection across recent history, although they do. the point i'm sharing, adding another busy week of american

life and politics, harris was engaging on the ground, early, in the field. that means she has a deeper primary experiential knowledge and texture for what the obama campaign was doing at the time. she can try to pair the inspiration of a barrier breaking candidate, you don't get people out in the cold for nothing, she might pair that with actual years long developed knowledge of the grassroots movement organizing that happened in that campaign and something i have told you about long before kamala harris jumped into the race in this topsy-turvy year, some of the more successful candidates these days, whether it is harris like the last two weeks, aoc came out of nowhere to beat a member of the democratic establishment, the third piece is something obama also had, a pretty modern, open-minded posture toward american culture and the internet, which helped obama leap past opponents before some of them knew what was happening. david plouffe was essential to

organizing that, messaging policy. while the past does not repeat itself exactly, harris is time to do a lot more with less time than obama. it is not the same playbook and if it were playbook, you would have to condense it down instead of whatever, four quarters of a football game, i don't know, the fourth quarter. here we are the first two weeks and her supporters, on some measures, doing so far exactly that, more, faster. breaking fundraising records from bernie to obama. it is not a secret that time was short, it was part of the conversation that any democrat heard during the difficult debates over president biden, whether he should stay or go. president obama returned the favor to kamala harris, he backed her every step of her career from san francisco d.a. to the democratic nomination. >> a dear, dear friend of mine so i want everybody to do right

by her, san francisco district attorney, kamala harris. >> kamala harris knows that you have to be fearless against special interest as attorney general, kamala took the big things, as your senator, fearless fighter for the people of california every single day. >> my friend, kamala harris, he has chosen the ideal partner, who is more than prepared for the job. >> michelle and i could not be prior to dorsey, do everything we can to get you through the selection and into the oval office. >> that is not nothing, especially not in democratic politics where the obamas remain the most popular figures and in a season there has been so much talk about how this would go down, is it legitimate, how does that work out? when you have barack obama saying then on the way and then

at the vp level, then about a week ago, this is the one, that might help you rebuild the obama coalition. you also need the voters. new voters, record 142,000 registered the first week of this harris campaign, most under 35 years old, uptake of voter registration in key states like virginia, massachusetts, and north carolina where republicans recently took out ads in estate democrats won once in the last 40 years, by guess who, barack obama. the inner core that i mentioned, over 170,000 new volunteers joining the campaign, that is different from voters because they could be in any given state into a lot of good work and help as far as that campaign is concerned. that is where the young activists who might be in a state fully red or blue are not going to swing their state might be key to raising money or traveling and helping the campaign, which has a lot to do in a hurry. harris has multiple links to obama, his approve, his movement organizing.

we checked the archives, when you take it all together, she is not new to this. >> we are here because we understand re-elected, this great president is about us, it is about our children, it is about our appearance, it is about our grandchildren, it is about our community, about our country and our future. it is about dealing with the fact that we need leadership at a national level who stays true to their conviction. >> the american dream belongs to all of us. if we can work together and stand together and vote together on november 6th for president barack obama, that is a dream we will put within reach of all our people. >> sometimes the breaking news

is about recent news, sometimes it is about recent history, sometimes if you're old enough to remember something from 15 or 20 years ago, it starts to feel like ancient history but tonight is one of those nights, at the top level are the numbers, the obama movement and energy and the hires of people like david plouffe, that is the outer level. you go underneath, the video quality of the clips gets worse and worse, older cell phones, no news cameras at events that then d.a. harris was doing, you find something enemies that might be part of any other national winning moving campaign, especially in today's fractured politics, a heartbeat, an authenticity underneath that outer layer. do we have that tonight? i take that cushion to reporter april ryan and obama vet, special guests cleared for this. i will be back with them. this reminds me of my bike. the wolf was about the size of my new motorcycle. have you seen it, by the way?

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presidency to the joy of a statistical tie. >> sometimes that is all it takes, that was jon stewart joking about the shifts. we are joined by april and chai komanduri, director of the obama campaign and others. what have you seen with the obama and harris connections? >> former president obama known as the number five all-time president in history, from historians in september of last year, he is the most energetic, the most well-known face of the party as well is one of the most well-known and accomplished presidents in u.s. history, globally. of course, as kamala harris is moving not only into being president but saving the

democracy, she is trying to lean not only the principles of the party but also on the success of a two-term democratic president, the most recent one who is one of the most famous. i can't help but think about what happened in atlanta with those youth. people are energized and it reminds me of the night barack obama won in 2008, november 4, 2008. all of these young people, black and white, kids from all races and ages came to the white house chanting with balloons. it looked like a green bay packers game, it was so cold and i had no shirt on, singing. people were enthused, i have not seen that enthusiasm until now, since then. >> chai. >> yeah, but i think is really remarkable is that kamala harris has done all of these in one week. it has been 12 days since

president biden stepped aside. it reminds me of captain america saying, avengers assemble, and everybody appearing to take on donald trump. it is a really remarkable feat. if you think back 12 days ago, donald trump was talking about how he was going to shatter the obama coalition, how they were going to post double-digit gains among voters of color and young people. and that the obama coalition was dead. kamala harris has come along and fully revived it, built it, she is the one shattering maga.

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suffering, it gives me great comfort to know that their horrible ordeal is finally over. they and their families have shown incredible courage in the face of devastating circumstances. as vice president, it has been my honor to work alongside our president, joe biden, to bring home more than 70 americans over the last 3 1/2 years and we will never waver in our commitment to bring home every american who has been wrongfully detained or held hostage. >> today we are bringing home paul, evan, alsu, and vladimir, three american citizens and one american green card holder, all four imprisoned in russia unjustly, all three falsely accused of being spies. now their brutal ordeal is over and they are free. nothing matters more to me than protecting americans at home and abroad. >> video includes seven

imprisoned russian citizens and five germans in exchange for eight russians in prison across five different countries. among the release russians are convicted assassin who was sentenced to life behind bars for basically murder in germany. as you can see, not all life sentences mean your whole life. also a russian hacker serving time in the u.s. for stealing millions of dollars from investors. as with all prison swaps, people can debate the equities, the united states argues it was worth it and vital to bring these people home. it was all the product, as the times reports, complex web of negotiations for months among nations that are otherwise, quote, bitterly at odds over the russian aggression in ukraine you take it all together and you have news coming out of the biden/harris administration clearly in the works, that i just mentioned, for a long time. the individuals, the diplomats, the negotiators and high-level officials of the government knew this a long time.

there were no leaks about this happening today, there were certainly indications of a process. it is, by any account, a big breakthrough for the united states, a very significant action coming amidst the ongoing war and unrest in the ukraine/russian stand off. we begin with a member of the council on foreign relations and former senior official in the clinton administration, longtime foreign affairs analyst, practitioner, and writer. as we previewed moments ago, ali velshi's and reported international fares all over the world the russia in ukraine war and the middle east and more of that relevant reporting tonight. it is good to see you. david, someone that has been inside administrations dealing with these matters, how do you rate, give us context on what today's deal means and what do you think of what we heard from

the president and vice president? >> it is exceptionally important deal, the great accomplishment in terms of the statecraft involved, it is clear this has been going on many months, many members of the administration working at it throughout that period. the vice president, for example, met with the german leader and slovenian leader on the edges of the munich security conference in february. the president had a conversation with the slovenian leader moments before he announced he was now running again, another words, putting this before everything else as a priority, last week, cei director -- >> david, i will let you finish, you mentioned that remarkable tidbit of reporting for american audiences, i will put it on the screen and tell us about it, the journal among others reporting, widen, an hour before he notified the world he was dropping out,

called the prime minister of slovenia, which is contributing the russian spies, quote, to secure the pardon necessary for the deal to proceed. a reminder that although we see a lot these days with the cameras on and the internet, you cannot turn the internet off, as much as some might like to, we don't see everything. he was juggling the prelude to this big deal in the very hours he was doing that. go ahead, david. >> as you know and ali nose, most diplomacy happens off camera, most diplomacy is in the shadows and the real work of it, the real heavy lifting takes months and months and it is tedious, blocking and tackling, it is long negotiations and this administration, which might have the best national security team of any administration that i've seen in the 30 plus years that i've been in d.c., have worked this deal like they have so many others and have gotten a good result needless to say,

putin got something of what he wanted, putin got some people back that he wanted. i will tell you something, from the point of view from the united states, we got that journalist, we got back a businessman, we got back a man that has been important dissident voice, they got back killers and a hacker. what is a better deal, who ends up with the better end of this deal? i think that we do. >> ali velshi, you have covered this a long time concluding on the air today, i wanted to make sure that we played your interview with one of these individuals, this was a day before he was detained in russia. >> reporter: are you worried about speaking out against the russian government and against this foreign invasion from russia? >> the dangers, we all know the price of being opposition to the putin regime, about an hour ago i went to the bridge next

to the criminal where my friend boris nemtsov was murdered, gun down in february 2015 it is no doubt vladimir putin ordered that assassination, that is the price for freedom, the price of opposing the putin regime in russia. >> reporter: you see the interview, april 10, 2022, the next day he was arrested because he said something to me on that show and on cnn that day that violated russian policy. he went back knowing he would be arrested, bill brought her at dinner with him two nights before, begged him not to go back, he said i have to go back. you can see the picture of him coming out today getting off the plane, he is ill, not coming back to joint base andrews tonight, he is getting off in germany. i hope they take him to the hospital. this is a guy, it is interesting because david makes a point, we have a businessman, waylon has been there over 2008, evan gershkovich, there is hope you would come back because clearly ridiculous what they charged him with.

it is a mystery vladimir kara- murza was released, he is a dissident , opposition leader. all of these are different, when you're arrested in russia and prosecuted, the prosecution rate as high as 90%, you will go to jail. we knew there would not be a deal until evan gershkovich was convicted. you talk about the munich security conference, vice president harris had a meeting with the german chancellor on the sidelines of that, that is when we found out alexei navalny was dead, he was supposed to be one of the people released. that threw a wrench into the works and delayed things but they got back on track and completed the negotiation, very big deal. >> what you see in putin's mind? >> reporter: david got it right, he tells the russian people, she got these patriotic russians back, they are actually convicted of things they did in other parts of the world. americans convicted in russia. it is dubious looking at the russian legal system what the

prosecution is there. russians insist that these three americans, four americans really, three americans and vladimir, a permanent resident, or convicted of actual crimes. the crime vladimir was convicted of, for instance, speaking against the war. the crime evan gershkovich was convicted, the same as jason of the washington post in iran, spine, they go through journalist bones, yet state department officials in here and sources because our phones are filled with the same people spies would have. it is nonsensical. i think that vladimir putin thinks he got the better side of the deal but i'm with david, i think america got the better side of the deal. >> david, the president of united states was asked about former president donald trump's claims that he would somehow do what biden has now done, take a listen. >> reporter: president trump repeatedly said he could've gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange, would you say to that, what do you say to former president donald trump? >> why didn't he do it as

president? >> david . >> is exactly right. paul whelan, he could've achieved a great deal and breakthrough. the fact is he did not do that, he said something very unconstructive about this a couple months ago when he said, i will get them out after i get elected. clearly, there is a calculus going on in putin's mind. i think had put thought that donald trump was going to win, he would've waited because he knew he would get a better deal with his friend, donald trump. i think putin is looking at what is going on with american politics right now, he thinks that trump's chances are fading and with that, my leverages fading so it is the opposite of what trump said. non-a ve. targeted and long-lasting. i recommend salonpas. it's good medicine. ♪ hisamitsu ♪ (♪♪) (♪♪)

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valued at over $500. call or go online now to request your free quote. as my friend would say, he does not walk it like he talks it. >> kamala harris quoting atlanta artist, cuevo, he was also there endorsing her campaign and speaking. and megan thee stallion performing with her dancers clad in democratic we knew. at the rally, you can see the swain, thousands were swag surfing, popular swing dance. this is culture mixed with politics, it is organic, that was not organized by the campaign. the crowd spanned generations

and races, says the site reported there. attendees describing the rally as fun and invigorating, words not associated with the democratic party much lately. organizing in politics can be fun. it is kind of a strange part of the trump era if you think about it, so often, the right has seemed at times, more upbeat than the left, even the younger left, which has plenty of energy but might not be present in our politics. the right has dug in the grievance, last nights rally tapped into something else, an energy inviting people into harris' nascent campaign. >>, harris in key battleground, georgia tonight . >> see a performance from the rapper megan thee stallion. >> she has performed with beyonce out of texas. >> rapper quavo will take the

stage . >> in the birthplace of culture, also the same place to launch the first african american woman to run for president. >> let's give it done, atlanta! >> please give it up for quavo and megan. >> the birthplace of culture, culture, quavo's first album. for the culture is something you hear around atlanta and the whole country when we talk about celebrating what americans have created and shared, yes, culture can be for everyone. the idea is that culture will help reinforce and fortified harris' politics. >> everybody going crazy right now for megan thee stallion! >> if you love your party, let me hear you make some noise!

make some noise . >> megan thee stallion is the baddest, the baddest chick. >> please welcome quavo. >> one thing i learned about working with vice president harris, she understands business . >> as my friend quavo would say, he does not walk it like he talks it . >> changing the culture again, in the words of my brother, let me hear, kamala ! >> this kind of campaigning is a contrast to what trump is offering, when he claims to care about minority issues like today's widely panned and controversial remarks at the

black journalist conference, i should say that kamala harris' allies note the track record, she was in atlanta earlier this year, not to campaign, not to get a promotion but to push gun safety laws, with quavo, who spoke movingly about his nephew and bandmate's tragic death at the hands of gun violence. that was an issue he invoked again last night. if you hear anyone saying, this was just music or "just fun". no, they mix that in, a lot of people around the country care about gun safety laws. she hosted another atlanta artist, little baby at the white house years back to draw attention to police brutality efforts. there is style and substance here for those that can see it. these are stories of history and the future here for those opening to learning about these connections. just as other generations had

dylan and joplin at woodstock, today, it is megan and beyonce and kendrick. democrats have been using kendrick travis anthem that came out this year, not like us, to skew maga as weird. when the song was played last night at the rally, many attendees were visibly pumped. you can see one here holding a harris sign and getting down in the blue rapping along. this was captured on the pbs channel coverage, it literally went viral, as they say in real time. my boy was going crazy. another adding, you can't buy in the you have some like this, kamala is on a rocket to the moon. that video has over 7 million views under one day, joining several other kamala memes. another writer puts it, every day, a new jon ossoff is born.

do you see the resemblance? it is up to the people to decide. this is energy times culture, amplified at the speed of today's internet, which, by the way could identify the dancing enthusiastic harris man that you see. it turns out he is exactly the kind that young activists want to be enthused, the democrats engaged with, his name is parker short. he is president already of georgia young democrats. he has been out and about working in the trenches with candidates before his accidental star turned dancing at the harris rally. as people learn more about youth online and cultural enthusiasm, there he is, he is my guest, next. >> hey, y'all. ♪ (vo) you've got your sunday obsession and we got you. now with verizon, get nfl sunday ticket

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in what young people are thinking, you're very involved, we got photos of you with other officials last night. before we get into anything serious, start with you are enjoying the rally, you clearly like that kendrick song. when did you start finding out that you went viral? it is not like you making your own video, other people put this out to >> yeah, it was funny because it was pbs news hour stream and i watched news hour pretty regularly so everyone was texting me, parker, parker. i'm actually lucky to be a dnc delegate for kamala harris and i'm so excited to vote for her. our group chats were blowing up with all the georgia dems and a couple of my friends on the other side, they kept smiling at me. the truth is, i had that energy and i'm excited and young people have the energy because we are excited to win this election and we are going to win. >> take us further into the bible at the rally, the energy people are watching, what is happening out there, we have the surf swag as well, it seems

to be diverse, young and old, different groups and identities , one thing we talked about last night, brittany cooper, my guest here made the point, everyone is invited, this is for everyone. someone says, i don't know that exact song or move, the vibe seems to be, come on in and try it out. it is not some inside thing you're not welcome to, did it feel like that last night? >> you know what, that is the democratic party, it is a big tent with a lot of people. i got public democratic politics because i lost my dad's a little kid. i saw the impact, i was on social security, his labor union helped save my family from hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical debt. brian kemp refuses to expand medicaid, when he change standards, i lost my medicare. everybody in that room, everybody in the movement knows we are in it together and in together to win. there is so much at stake. no matter what music you like

or dance moves you know, we all want our kids to have a better future. that is why i'm here. i will say, before he started singing, not like us, i had the same energy for brickhouse, some ludacris songs, i was enjoying myself all night. the energy was a electric because we are excited. >> you might know, ludacris all about grassroots organizing, word-of-mouth is how you get the word out. going through the pictures of you and kamala, i want to ask, you are what they used to call, i'm guessing what i gather, yellow dog democrat. not someone who goes back and forth to the republicans, i say that by introduction -- >> i'm not a republican in any way shape or form. you know what i am, i care about good public policy . >> here's where i'm going, parker, i feel like if we caught up with you a month ago, you would be strong and loyal

for president biden. i wanted to ask in all honesty, we know that you support democrats, do you see any greater in the is the now that it is harris or is it too early to tell? >> that is the easiest question you ever asked. the vibe has absolutely shifted. young people are elated and ecstatic to put the first female woman of color in the white house as our president. she represents the values of young people and she relates to young people. i had the opportunity to meet her in person several times, she is one of the most compassionate, caring, personable politicians. this organizing work is really important and i have seen a huge amount of support at our georgia young dems organizing space, from instagram, website, fundraising. it has been amazing and young people and everyone else alike are excited and ready to win. >> thanks for watching "the beat: weekend." join us weekdays at 6:00 p.m. eastern for "the beat" on

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good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, going for gold. flawless and in the moment, that's how i'd describe vice president kamala harris'