i'm told that maxine waters, for example, veteran congresswoman from from california that bobby scott also was saying this is the wrong thing. we cannot push joe biden out and they're not alone. we're hearing that from other lawmakers and also from a lot of grassroots organizers and people who have been home. i mean, remember, it's july 4 week, so all of these lawmakers have been home on july 4. most of them were out at parades or events. so they've really been interacting with their constituents. and it is not one-sided at all debbie dingell was on state of the union with me this morning. she comes from the critical battleground state of michigan and she said she heard justice much support for joe biden pleading with her to tell him to stay in the race as people saying, please tell him to go so it's not cut and dry in the least i think that's really important context and we've certainly been playing some of the sounds from the grassroots voters as well on the ground. what are they thinking? and certainly, some of them said, look, i was concerned when i saw as debate performance, but

to chairman and gregory meeks over foreign affairs to bobby scott with education and labor to bennie thompson the department of homeland security all the subcommittee chairs who will also be elevated. not only gavel spoke for the american people for the issues to censor the people in the policies that we are seeking to advance that i want to commend vice president kamala harris we have been working in partnership with her. on reproductive justice tours to protect a woman's right to make her own health care decisions about her body that disproportionately affect black women. the fact she is joined at the congressional black caucus on the economic opportunity tours to help lift up black america through artwork, wages, wealth a jet at the congressional black caucus is leading. it is because of this work we will win to a message to the american people is democracy is a team sport. it is going to take all of us to defeat donald trump. now come the vice president is the most prepared the most qualified person to win this nomination she has now secured the nomination as our presumptive nomi

i'm told that maxine waters, for example, veteran congresswoman from from california that bobby scott also was saying, this is the wrong thing. we cannot push joe biden out and they're not alone. we're we're hearing that from other lawmakers and also from a lot of grassroots organizers and people who have been home. i mean, remember, it's july 4 week, so all of these lawmakers have been home on july 4 most of them were out at parades or events. so they've really been interacting with their constituents. and it is not one-sided at all debbie dingell was on state of the union with made it. she comes from the critical battleground state of michigan. and she said she heard just as much support for joe biden pleading with her to tell him to stay in the race. as people saying please tell him to go. so it's not cut and dry in the least dr. larry sabotage joins us now from the university of virginia, he's the director for the center of politics and uva and also the editor of return to normalcy, the 2020 election that almost broke america. >> always good to see you, said, there's been the deba

we're also told democratic representatives, maxine waters and bobby scott. scott spoke in support of biden's. you can see that there were fractures over the course of this call, but one senior democratic guede telling our colleague jeff zeleny that it was pretty brutal now, there haven't been any decisions yet as to whether there will be a letter or a meeting with the president about this matter. but what it does tell us is that some of the leaders that are within the house of representatives are very much questioning whether president biden is a risk worth taking going into november, whether he should be the candidate and in calls and i have had one of the questions that comes up is, shouldn't this would be resolved before august? they don't want to be in a position where august comes around. president biden becomes the nominee and then they don't have a choice going into november. so clearly, despite the president going to wisconsin since despite his abc interview and despite him hitting battleground pennsylvania today, everyone still has a lot of question

it house democrats, several of the giants of the congressional black caucus from maxine waters, bobby scott, david scott bennie thompson, greg meeks all argue that the party needs to stick with biden focus back on trump, talk about policy contrasts what role do you think these lawmakers play and what happens next? >> that's a very good question, kate, i was just at essence festival past weekend with a lot of black lawmakers and troy carter and team jeffries and others. and the sentiment is, we're rocking with biden and we're going because that's who the voters wrought. there are a lot of people who would vote for a an old joe biden versus donald trump, not i appreciate it. my good friend running off a bunch of talking points about how he felt joe biden looked or how he felt he wasn't his emotional state or his physical state. he's a good comms director. i'll give them that. but the fact is my candidate is old like his candidate wants to ban abortion nationwide. he wants to limit or ban access to birth control pills. they want to get rid of the department of education, speaking about someone

democratic leader at with the ranking members maxine waters, better-and house member from california, bobby scott veteran house member from virginia. they were i'm told among the most vocal and arguing that the president needs to stay in and that goes all the way through the congressional black caucus and beyond. what did you hear? well, dana, there's a different conversation happening across many communities in this country than happening in washington i spoke with black voters at the essence fest, hundreds of thousands of black voters from across the country at this festival and they're saying democrats need to stick with the game plan they say, we love the vice president, we love the precedent in you know, one poor debate does not negate all that he is doing for our community. >> and so we see, i think many members of the cbc, especially the older members, we know that there is a generational divide coming out in support of him in such a forceful way, because that mirrors what you hear from black voters just going to read you another quote that i heard over the weekend. it just seems like they

also told cnn that lawmakers like a congresswoman, maxine waters hunter's as well as congressman bobby scottoke up in support of the president staying in this race. now, one of the concerns that was expressed in this phone call is the potential that keeping biden at the top top of the democratic ticket could weigh down other democrats running in competitive races in the house and senate. there is a concern about democrats been unable to win back the house majority if biden remains at the top of the democratic ticket, though, these are private calls from these lawmakers join the already other five democratic lawmakers who since the debate have called for president biden to step aside a publicly now, president biden himself believes that the democratic party is still behind him. that is something that he's told reporters today as he was traveling and pennsylvania trying to make his case directly to voters, the president spent some time visiting a black church and then also speaking at a campaign headquarters where he showed note signs of backing down from this race. take a listen to what he to

and then i was in hampton roads doing campaign events with congressman bobby scott on sunday when the news broke, and what you saw was a momentum toward both energy and unity. we had unity before the debate, but we were low on energy after -- but we were low on energy. after the debate, we lacked energy and unity, and we need both to win. but what we saw when the announcement hit sunday and joe biden put his strong support behind his vice president is this energy and unity starting to come together. so you need energy and unity to win. we were lacking. now we see a credible path forward to having that energy and unity. but we have to -- you know, we have to harvest it, and look, i've been part of two history making campaigns. i was on the inside of the obama 2008 campaign from october 6. it was a few people from illinois and me, and it was extremely hard. we were successful, but it was extremely hard. and then i was on the ticket with hillary and we failed. greatest success in my life, greatest failure of my life, both were history-making campaigns. it's hard to make history. and so t

bobby scott. maxine waters. a number of people who came in the door bigger than life. and there was sheila. who was also bigger than life. and who taught us along the way things that were sometimes not so obvious about fighting for what you believed in. she was a member of the houston city council. before she got here. and they didn't know what to do with her. because she would not stop fighting for the thing she is believed in. one of which was gun control and gun safety. long before it became something popular for people to talk about and advocate. and it was in that houston city council that sheila passed their first ever gun safety ordinance, putting the onus on parents to keep guns away from children in the house, to keep them locked or to not have them there altogether. some people thought it was an overreach. but nobody knows to this day how many lives may have been saved, how many children could have been injured that were not, and it was many years later that that same council and many of the people of houston thanked her for what she had done. now before shea

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