Campus Reform editor-in-chief Cabot Phillips shares the new video.
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editor and Chief Cabot, Philip
welcome to the show.
Before we even talk about this
topic, I want to toss over to
your exchange.
This is George Washington
University, with students on Joe
Biden
lets, take a listen and then
have a discussion about it.
Lets see
who do you think of as a face
of the democratic party?
Definitely not Joe Biden,
not quite sure exactly who,
but I dont think its Biden.
I dont view him as the face
of the Democratic Party.
I think he is more collecting
ideas from what Democrats are
saying.
I think progressive forum
jump on to secure his place as a
nominee.
What would you view
quintessential element of the
Biden Platform right now?
I dont really know
really an issue kind of for me.
The fact that he is not Trump
Jedediah Cabot tell us what
you found here.
I have found what I have seen
over the last three or four
years and talking to thousands
of young voters on thousand plus
campuses on leadership reform.
A lot of young people want
someone to come in and break up
the status quo and someone push
their radical leftist ideas,
the Bernie Sanders and Liz
warrens of the world
right now they are
disaliewtioned with Joe Biden,
even the ones that do come out
and support him do so.
Begrudgingly
pandering
feels like he is trying to give
us this wish list.
They know many of the ideas
arent coming from him from his
advisors or from his desire to
try to win over the far left
that might be working in some of
the polling. When you ask young
people there is this reflexive
instinct, where they are afraid
to support conservings.
Well, I support the democratic
candidate.
They want to prove to everyone.
They are going along with it
in reality, thats not going to
bring voter enthusiasm,
its going to take enthusiasm to
get young people to the polls
if they feel like he is
parroting ideas that he has
heard from other people and
doesnt really believe them
thats not going to get them out
to vote.
I do question the enthusiasm of
the Biden, young supporters.
They feel pandered to
they dont feel like he is
supporting what they want.
Jedediah you know Cabot. I
keep trying to figure out how
many of them will stay home
versus vote against Trump and
whether Kamala Harris will at
all be able to excite young
voters to get to the polls.
What do you think on Harris?
Well, we had a similar video
where we asked young people
about Kamala Harris and one of
the most common things that kept
coming up was her law
enforcement background.
You have to take into account
the irony of the Democratic
Party embracing anti cop
rhetoric,
elm bracing, this idea of
defunding the police and all
cops are terrible people, and
then they have someone in Kamala
Harris on the ticket who spent a
lifetime in criminal justice
reform
many times unfairly. Sentencing
young people that these same
people would now look at as this
terrible person, because she is
in law enforcement.
So it is interesting to see that
dynamic and a lot six young people
we have spoken to on campuses
around the country have not been
thrilled by the pick and they
feel a pressure to support it.
Though
thats another element thats
here
we have robbed the younger
generation of the ability to
think critically.
They are told you have to
support leftist ideas.
You cant even ask questions
about conservative ideas.
They automatically support the
democrat liberal candidates. They
want to show everyone else that
they are on board with that
thats dangerous and that will
have an impact on the polling
and the election in twenty twenty
Jedediah yeah.
It will for sure
you bring up an important point
on criminal justice.
A lot of young voters have done
their research on issue that on
Kamala Harris and they are fired
up on it,
curious to see how this all
plays out.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-22.