Former First Lady Michelle Obama spoke Monday evening at the kickoff of the first-ever virtual Democratic National Convention, and the Morning Joe panel discusses her message.
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Is what it is: Michelle Obama, using those words from President tromp inner keynote speech last night for the Democratic National Convention good morning and well
morning Joe, it is Tuesday August eighteenth. Along with Joe will I welcome back and me we
White House, Rapporteur for the Associated Press, Jonathan, the mere politics
journalism, professor at Morgan, State University, politics, editor at the and MSNBC political contributor.
Listen Johnson
and senior opinion rider at the Boston, glow, better limit, MSNBC contributor Kimberly Atkins as well.
It's good to have you walling Joe, it's good to have willing
It certainly is we'll lines, and I started talking of Red Sox Willie's been on assignment. We can't really talk about where
assignment wise, but on assignment, but really the conventional ass, an eye. Judging from the reviews from across the political spectrum, was actually
its success. You even had the Fox Couple Fox NEWS anchors talking about
Dana Primo. Talking about how Michelle Obama
duck the landing and Chris Wallace talking about what a great contribution she
I gave to the Biden campaign that she Slade Donald Trump with our small, it's great
back I'd rather be in a restaurant in a bunch of people. Do
Shell in Milwaukee, but here we are in this strange year and it was of course the convention was weird, but we knew what was going to be where you have to get used to it for a little while, but putting theatre criticism aside close,
with Michelle Obama, with opening acts that included Republicans whose
which their minds and want to support Joe Biden over Donald Trump. You had the family of George Floyd. You had victims of covert nineteen Gillis
Rating Donald Trump failings on all of that, the leader
including Bernie Sanders which solidify the progressives, who may still be a little bit disillusioned with Joe Biden. Thinking he's to moderate, you couldn't really put together a better package of speakers. However, it came across through those tapes.
Messages than then that and of course, will get into a but closing with Michelle Obama, who said again last night, I hate politics, but I think that's precisely why she's such a girl?
speaker and a great messengers, because she lived somewhere above the pole
go round where she can speak
human being as a mother, ass, a wife and as a former first lady, about the failings of Donald Trump.
Me guy. I thought it went off very well last night, it was a show in the show when
very well considering the circumstances of it. There were some people,
online that we're talking about how it was it the most exciting thing in the world and the responses online. I thought were fairly accurate,
Do you remember what these things were like when they were lie? They were even more boring, even Moors S day, seminar, even even more sleep is then they work as we would get up there and drawn on mess.
I mean it's not like that. Stuff
suppose some really weird people I deny so I thought it was. I thought again for the first night, I thought it was those very good performer,
so I strongly said they get everybody from Republicans
the Michelle Obama Bernie Sanders. Who really did
Moreover, the most compelling message to progressive, which is aid, listen the consequences of failure or two,
the areas, though he did not quote General Douglas Mc
author. He in fact fact said there is no substitute for victory
and that was the message that he had for progressive human right and love Joe Biden. But right now, unity
and the consequences for failure with the convention were high, especially when
have so much material speakers. As we said spam,
the political spectrum from Bernie Sanders and other former prime
primary rivals to Republicans like John K, sick
and then Michelle Obama headliner. She assailed president tromp, while making the case that a man,
ECHO needs Joe Biden leadership now more than ever,.
More than one hundred and fifty thousand people have died and
economy is in shambles because of a virus that this president downplayed for two
whenever we look to this White House for some leadership or come
elation or any semblance of steadiness. What we get instead is chaos, the vision and a total and utter lack of empathy.
You take one thing from my words tonight. It is this. If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me they can and they will, if,
Don't make a change in this election if we have any hope
ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe
I'd like our lives depend on it.
I know Joe, he is a profoundly decent man guided by faith. He was a terrific vice president.
He knows what it takes to rescue and economy beat back a pen.
They make and lead our country.
And he listens. He will tell the truth
and trust sites. He will make smart plans and manage a good team.
And he will govern as someone who's lived alone
that the rest of us can recognize
Kimberly Adkins, its fascinating that four years later, Donald Trump. Some message has,
And turned on its head, not just by Michel,
but by a hundred and fifty two hundred and six
a hundred and seventy thousand that's what it Donald Trump say to African Americans,
Why did he say to black rotors four years ago? Why do you have the lives and last
Michelle Obama message after four years of death after four years of economic devastation,.
What did Michelle Obama say if you don't think things can get
course you're wrong. They can and that especially for black
voters, but for senior citizens and for small business owners and for Americans have been devastated by this pandemic? The Donald Trump has been.
Down from the very beginning, though,
his words likely resonated last night
really did I mean you're, absolutely right the answer to the question tromp posed for years ago, we ve learned what he said. What the hell do you have to lose demeaned, learn that the answer is your livelihood, your jobs, your health care and, potentially your life uncertainly. Now your ability to row to be able to get your prescription drugs through the male Michelle Obama did a very good job of underscoring the urgency look. We ve been hearing for months now about not just within the broad democratic Party, all the factions, and can they get energized and will Joe Biden be the right person? What you saw it last night was from Republicans from progressive
from Michelle Obama from everyone saying look weather
Not Joe Biden was your guy in the primary. Whether or not Joe Biden is the guy in your party
This is a moment that is urgent and requires your action. She used her own words about going high when others go well. She said that voters, king
hi by doing everything.
They can, by voting like their lives, depend upon it. So she put that there that's the urgency. It's a pandemic. You may have to wear a mask. You may have to pack a dinner because you have to stand in line, but that was the call to action and she was the the best messenger of that she was the best speaker and twenty sixteen in Philadelphia. If you recall, she'd lit up that place, the electricity which is really hard to explain- and I didn't know how she could possibly bring that kind of smoke last night and she managed to do it.
Former first lady also delivered a message with her necklace, which said simply, vote
earlier in the day in which
concept in presidential
ass to who wants to listen to Michelle Obama do at taped speech. Well, some folks, a Fox news were listening
and here's the reaction after the speech from them very different.
To try to connect with an audience without an actual audience there with you, but she has the ability to connect with people through the scream, and you just got the sense that when you talk about anticipate
she has it in spades, I think of the day and see if they look
of course the night, the first virtual convention of our history. I think they would say that Michelle Obama stuck the landing and Michelle Obama she's doesn't like politics, and she said that this speech was remain contribution
the Biden campaign it was about contribution. She really Slade sliced and dies. Donald Trump.
So so Willie, Dana pre now present pushes fair press secretary said
but Michelle Obama start the landing, and Chris Wallace talked about that being heck of a contribution to Joe
I to Joe Biden election efforts. It really was again a speech that,
through praise from all quarters.
It did and she didn't get into policy, and she did that. I think deliberately: Bernie Sanders gave a long policy speech about progressive values and protecting those and why he believes Joe Biden will do
what she was able to do. The former first lady is to talk about the character of the country and that we're better.
Nurse and that this is not a president whose up to the job that he was elected to do closing
that line. It is what it is Jason Johnson.
Also by wearing that vote, necklace that wasn't the
of her message to people who are registered to vote in this country, who did not show up in two thousand sixteen, she kind of laid out that three million vote margin that Donald Trump One, the popular election by those slivers and
there's like Michigan were ten thousand votes, decided the election and something
a hundred million registered voters didn't show up to vote in two thousand. Sixteen her message was
not about policy. Specifically, it was about telling people if you
like what you see right now get out and do something about it.
Yeah, really when she said that in some areas it broke down to basically two votes per precinct. You can tell that that the former first lady had really done our homework. It was, and it made
be so good, will see if Maloney tries to lift some of this, like you did four years ago, of which it gives our speeches,
We for our and see this as this
The thing that I thought was was most interesting linguistically about what machine
Obama said last night there were so many key buzzwords that she used several female
friend smashing married friends of my takes me last night, Michelle Obama.
Kept saying, Donald Trump doesn't listen.
He doesn't he's a man who does it listen to you,
all of my married for info like oh, my gosh. Yes, yes, a man who tells it listen that were so many different when she said I hate politics, there were lots of people who obviously say I hate politics, but I was amazed
for woman who's been in public life for the entire
we offer husband, Barack Obama, she sounded like. Where do people? Why talk to me like? Look, I don't like policies that are really care, but these are things that matter, and one thing I also want to say it was so resident to me, John Glad that you mention is made of the four year anniversary of done.
Tromp saying, what do you to lose, the black people in a church in Detroit is tomorrow we actually have a special day of cover
the real. What we're talking about? What have lack law?
over the last war, you were talking about healthcare, economic, we're doing a whole day of coverage on that tomorrow on the real, but what
pointed out. It's a hundred. Fifty thousand people died over thirty two thousand.
African Americans had died at weeks three and four times what Americans
because of the mismanagement of the cuban pandemics,
while she hid it out of the park yesterday, she in Bernie Sanders really the highlights of a night that, for a lot of people, was kind of boring, but people watch those two clips and those who
Messrs isn't, Dnc want one to get across, that's frank and President tromp attend
to counter programme the DMZ yesterday by stumping in Wisconsin, a new Paul from the battle
by the way, shows Joe Biden continuing to hold a lead in that state, the
This morning, console Paul finds Biden in front of tromp in Wisconsin by six point, forty nine to forty three percent among likely voters there and looking at the polls- breakdown,
Biden is winning the states suburbs by eight points, women by ten points, college educated voters by twenty three trumpet.
With white voters without a college degree by twelve points, and they said,
Joe a little place where he could speak to folks when he land
which again now
necessarily safe in terms of social distancing guidelines, small crowd,
you know what one of the things that I really felt good about. Looking at the crowd
the tromp rally was the fact that almost all of them,
will, there were wearing masks, at least in the pictures that I saw
but the mere we saw this happen in New Hampshire, where Donald Trump had to cancel
that because the crowd sort as big as expected,
This is a man who is used to going insane five. Ten fifteen thousand people rallies
Yesterday was yet another small crowd
GOSH. Perhaps that was because there is not. The excitement out, therefore, that there was four years ago are. Perhaps
because the Americans understand even trumps most
I didn't supporters understand we are in the middle of a pandemic.
It's really not safe to go out and congregate around large crowds. If you're,
older american or if you have underlined conditions
Joe. What we're seeing here is these are considered official rallies by the campaigns. Parliaments are more invite only their deliberately meant to be smaller and we are seeing. Is this what you deceived pressing forward? A lot of airport hangar amounted to yesterday when it was content and one and then a soda that gives them the feel of a rally, the connection with the crowd, but yes, certainly not the site
that is used to seeing and I'd say from my colleague who is on the ground yesterday said mask wearing
inconsistent somewhere for sure. Why not
We want in the social distancing kind of one out the window once air force. One landed use that, as this backdrop, the to take-
ways that we should say from the president's appearances yesterday. I was content
I'll swing state Minnesota one where his campaign thinks they have a chance, but they're down priests in ITALY in those
one is, the president was considered
a visit to the George Void
site in Minneapolis in the Governor Minnesota says that he warned the present not to do that for the fear of what
The meeting in the objects of unity wouldn't want him their sex
The president in Wisconsin said paraphrasing the basically, the only way we can lose this election is if it were rigged.
And I think that is obviously a message- we're all going to have to watch going forward here.
Planting. Those seeds has been so in chaos with his assault on the post office, which we have currently here on the show and again.
He's leading into that argument. Yesterday,
his response to the convention? Last night, most of his tweets were singled out of New York under Angel
oh, who appeared early in the evening, was very critical of the president's response to the Krona virus pandemic, and I
It is an echo what was said before a Michelle Obama egos.
Did she hates politics than delivering such wicked? If Sir
at times daggers to the president.
Using his name only once, I believe using his own words, it is what it is that powerful. I think it's telling the president is this:
far hasn't saving about her or as a final thought. What might have been most powerful moment of evening when they had some real people up there?
some real people whose lives have been changed by the present policies and its responses.
It, including one woman, does end with this quote. We said this was said of her father, who was a troops of were he's only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that we pay with his life. He died of the corona
George is so Jonathan. Let me ask you: why is so that event yesterday and in
airport. Hangar was invalid.
Should only
These are small groups. These are not. These were not widely distributed tickets. This was for locals trump supporters, local groups in
states acceded to yesterday. I was talking one another so that at least for now the trunk campaign is
still shying away from trying
have a big rally. We saw what happened in tone
so, they didn't dry anywhere near the crowd they would have expected, and then the health officials in that city believed that that event help spread over night
infections and then yes, as you mentioned, there are other attempted
was one knew, was one New Hampshire where they cancelled its public
the rain the privately, because they were afraid that nowhere
watch that are now trying to have much well mauler events while getting the President Ben Willie
that's interesting. I mean I've followed a lot of present
campaigns and a lot of gubernatorial campaigns and at this stage of a campaign,
I must say, I've never been to an airport hangar event,
That was restricted to invitation only. It obviously is meant to stop the present.
Big embarrassed again by low turn out. Yeah. There's no way,
Jonathan said Tulsa was a huge wake up call for the campaign about the number of people who
on it to come out or were willing to come out in the middle of a public health crisis. To see
the presence of United States. So yes, this is definitely by design
Kimberly. I want to talk to you for a moment about this pole just going back and areas
concern inside Wisconsin? That really are reflective of his areas of concern nationally Wisconsin, of course, another one of those states like Michigan that he won
sliver in two thousand sixteen needs to
again. But if you go through the cross tabs they're just
And a lot of areas that look good for him, including senior
which is so interesting. A grouping cleaned up with nationally in two thousand sixteen he's down there again by double digit and this data was Constance
Sixty five in older, and these are people
for me impact and quite bluntly by covert nineteen, unlike any other group
absolutely these are people whose lives have been up by covert nineteen, the sheer about how much more susceptible they are to the virus, the inability
of them to see them.
Loved ones. I spent my vacation through the Midwest, including Michigan, where I visited my parents and I couldn't get within six feet of my own mother and father. Because of this, people are being impacted by this in a real way, and this is he knows that this is in.
These are important states for him. If he loses those states, it will be difficult, if not impossible, for him to be realised
These are in those small margins that you talked about. Ten thousand votes in Michigan, where
he won back victory and twenty sixteen. So clearly, they are not trying to expand the biggest they're not going to other states trying to expand their voters there, trying to make sure that the voters that they have come out. Rest assured, I saw a lot of trump signs throughout Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania last week, but clearly there are signs that that support is eroding in a way that could be devastating to let campaign.
All right, Kimberly Atkins. Thank you so much and
There is no doubt that Donald trumps campaign, as
there of millions of dollars, and they are going to use that money to focus
on getting their people out
many people who they believe have never voted for before and that even vote in twenty sixteen. They think they can get them to the poles. This share too, to win
election. It's interesting that we get really talked about seniors and we ve been talking about this
since March Betsy,
citizens understand there on the front line of this pandemic. Yeah I've killed a hundred and seventy thousand people. The president is,
saying that it was one person coming in from China, and it would go away that it was fifteen people that had
but soon would be down to zero, kept saying
with magically disappear in April when the weather
got warmer said he
they to reopen the economy by Sir Easter said he wanted it kids to go back to school
last spring.
Here we are this fall. We saw what happened at you in secret,
oh hell we're right. I d get students to go back to school
they had to shut it down already will there's apologists came across financial times? Was an empty PETE Petersen Foundation, Paul
one Americans view about sending children back to school and once again, Don
rob, finds himself in the minority over two thirds of Americans believe it is unsafe and they fear
that it will be unsafe, descend, children back to school. Now. Can we
there that's the case or not. Whether schools can figure out a way to see
fully send children back to school and take care of them, and that is of course up to
each individual school word there, trying to figure it out, needs school system, but again
to show you how Donald Trump is
I'll, be out of step with Americans, as he has been wildly out of step with senior citizens throughout this entire pandemic. A president who has been put
king for schools to be reopened now for several months, is
the wrong side of a two thirds majority, and that's happened-
time and time again through throughout this cry,
and it has to be the reason why he's having such problems with senior citizens
also I didn't have to be. This way we could be opening school
was more safely had this been mitigated,
correctly. So these schools, but
being super spreader events. Religious highlights how poorly this has been handled
in terms of that event. In Wisconsin. That was
invitation only. I wonder if
made them click on a waiver saying you don't have to sue the trunk campaign
No, you can't see the trunk campaign. If you get her,
the virus greeting the press
and the airport I mean, because those people were squish together. Some
wearing masks and they were invited by the trunk campaign. It's like they don't
they don't listen to the science, they don't learn or they don't care.
Which is something were where we're assessing every day, Joe
watching you hunched over a desk for many many months, and I think it's time now that we share with our viewers that you have a book coming out printing
of Amber its entire
saving freedom, Truman, the Cold war and the fight for West
civilization
you're always rating is spent you're alive. Studying history, presidential history, but why Harry Truman and why now rod was hunched over the dusk, of course, because Williamite making the dogs and try to pick writing, I didn't rioting and when I wasn't looking it exists,
Actually it's a hard job, but somebody has to do it, but now what
So what I wasn't doing that I've been I've been working on this book and riding on a long time,
Harry treatment, of course, had an extraordinary biography, written about him by David Mccullough several decades ago and
There was a part of his story than I thought,
is extraordinarily timely and that was what he did following
old war to you. Wouldn't we obsess so much, and I obsess so much of my reading about world
or two in the great as well,
in Churchill and after your in
either now or in the allied powers. But what happened after the war
so he shaped our world is much as as any presidency.
Truman, of course, had stolen met Stalin.
End of the war and its harder
but the Soviets where our allies took the brunt of of
the casualties during World war, two enemy
We following more this guy, who was a failed haberdasher from Missouri,
a simple man had to.
Surely lead western civilization and its fight again.
Stalin's aggressive over
across Europe
So it's it's a story of an accident or president a guy.
When, after your and nineteen forty fourth, the Chicago Convention found him and asked him to be, as vice president said, go to Hell
and empty are. Who was it used to being crossed? Responded back to
said. Well. If you want to break up the Democratic Party in the middle of a war, go ahead and Truman
We decided to take that on, but was nineteen forty four. He become
president in April of forty five. He does
even now about the atomic bomb after your had kept
framing bade only met a couple of times when, after he was selected to be,
take it. He then had to make the decision that fateful decision,
and then going into nineteen forty seven agrees
in Turkey were endanger Stalin and the Soviets we're looking for
westward and it was
Truman who, after the British, sent to now suit
who diplomatic Minoan saying we are exhausted.
We can no longer to defend grace. We can no longer defend Turkey. Harry trim,
The decision to make did the United States
back in through their isolation, this mode, which we ve been end since George Washington's fair,
well address, or
The United States actually create a doctrine which
the follow up to the Madison argument.
Oh doctrine and end
that would actually contain the soviet threat, and this is
credible story of how he did that, how we did that would republican support, who were isolationist at the time and how we
democratic support as well, and
we, the world that we live in right now. The foreign power
see structures whether you talk about
NATO, or whether you talk about
again: the Truman Doctrine the world we live in was shaped by
Simple man from Missouri, nobody would have expected it. David Ignatius called Truman
I can miracle and that's exactly what is life proved debate, yeah and
like David Ignatius. This story in this book fits in perfectly to our times, because foreign policy experts, like David and Richard House when they talk about the unreal,
levelling of all the work that America has done since Truman, creating the
of world war, two era and the
can century that points to this time that you're writing about. So congratulations on the book. I honestly didn't know you were doing this. A lot of us picked up habits during
Nineteen, you said Diana wrote, a book about it
and so well done. I play key, no doubt I believe everything I've done but Joe. I want you mentioned accidental president. Any really was, I think people
realize or don't remember that he don't even vice president for a couple of months
after our died right, and I think the story is you'll know better than than I do that he was having a drink with SAM Rayburn and in Re Burns Office gets a phone
the come to the White House and Eleanor Roosevelt. The first lady inform them that after has died- and here you go
Here's the oval office in the middle of world war, two.
In the Middle World WAR, two and, of course, that famous exchange between the two Harry Truman
new that, after yard was in a bad physical shape.
At the same time was shocked.
By the news and asked the first lady there
anything that he could do for her, and she said
you're the one in trouble. Now what can we do for you and your ride? He they were still
what war in Europe he would have to make the decision
like I said whether dropped the
atom bomb on on Japan
to eventually or whether they have a fool
scale, invasion of Japan that could cost up to a million american lives.
But here he was such an accidental president and he was a guy who is just to simplify this. The ride need danger, field of chief executive Z,
its entire life. His mother in law had no use foreign from this
he met
his wife,
till she died in the White House in king. You never seem to be able to get as many people's risk,
he only ran for Senate in nineteen thirty four, because the first
or man, but the party
wanted to run refused IRAN, so they push Truman out. There were a shocking VIC
nineteen, thirty four he ran for reelection after six years of supporting after yard and nineteen, forty here
Consider dead in the water by the Saint Louis Dispatch, Sdr refused to
can endorse him again. He was dismissed as a rule by the New York Times. Once again, it was
that Harry Truman was going to lose, he said,
somehow managed to shock of political world and nineteen forty
and again, and then, of course, the nineteen forty four
when he was selected as vice president
he- was treated with contempt
this strange little man and- and I remain-
and I tell the story briefly of my parents, my mom telling me that that you
They were a royal family in Dalton Georgia struck
through the great depression it felt like they only get through the great depression, because that, because of empty, are in the new deal and I
member. My mom saying that her family would just laugh every time they heard Harry Truman talk. They were.
Dyed in the wool Democrats. They were a bad. This just like carry Truman, but the clerks
Alt and Georgia felt like the press parent,
of New York City
This guy just was up to the job, and yet he
everybody wrong, didn't it
strong Mary job, especially in the field of foreign policy and we
heralded the world than heritage
and here's one of the big stories of those
spoken and then I'll shut up. I promise Harry Truman
surrounded himself with some of the greatest minds in foreign policy, Harry Truman, Dynamic, ensign,
George Marshall Cannon-
go down the list. He had giants in foreign policy around him. He asked
their guidance he took their guidance.
He was very decisive in the decisions that are made and believe that the buck stops with him and
and most of those decisions he made were the right ones and changed the world we live in, ensure that
world we were born into was the world in the middle of the american century. We looked for it tat ten. I look forward to you being Tom with writing.
Still I had a morning Joe another state that
rush to reopen during the pandemic reaches a grim marker in terms of deaths, will get the latest on the. U S response, and this
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to vote, they would those where we now get that right to vote for another four decades until the passage of the Voting Rights ACT of nineteen sixty
five and so while it is important that we mark the centennial, it is a milestone, it is a landmark. We must
That in taking
opportunity to tell the whole truth about the Nineteenth amendment so that we move
as a country together as women? Absolute
They worth remembering and an commemorating and
and respecting this moment in history, Jen Palmary as we look back wheels
look forward. How do you think women
our galvanizing today in this? Next?
election. Do you think the turn out will be something different than we ve never seen before, or
Maybe something like the mid terms. I'm in the majority.
What we saw we'd never seen before. You know we had for the three big benchmarks. One was their women's March nineteenth and nine and twenty seventeen second was image
turn out, and then the third was the widow bonkers turn out. Well,
Biden on Super Tuesday, Annie men, women, let her not about then, and it
you know, I'm just not going back I've.
That that Mary, the moment I saw the turn out, I'm two thousand seventeen for the women's March was that there was some
in about Hilary losing to this guy that told women at our God wow. We are
by the one set of rules. If we can have this kind of out, I'm in America and its Michelle Obama said last night: pillory can win by three million both with bill lose the president fate. We are doing
wrong, and you see women just this third in themselves and waves they haven't done before, and now that I try to in my book. I try to draw lessons from the from suffering in the suffrage light and there's too,
lessons. Wine is when women band together and fight with each other, a fake
and they have enormous power to change the world and when we put ourselves against each other, we put ourselves against other marginalized populations,
and described, then you hold everyone back and what's rate about what you see happen in the women's movement now is. It is as errand described as the name,
the news outlets embraces, which is
all women, all people of color fighting together. If it's the same power systems at ultimately became a power so that women from you
in our potential of the same power systems, are keeping all people follow from from doing so,
Erin its Willie. If you look at me NBC News, most recent Pauling general election match up the spread among women is nineteen points for Joe Biden. If you look at major polling that, somewhere in the middle around twenty three percent
in an Paul lower in the teens and some other poles
We knew for a long time that job I was going to select a woman to be his running mate. But what do you think this
section of this woman Senator Camel Hair Ass, a woman of color approach.
United States Senator now elevating her
to the national ticket when you think that does to gas.
Denies women of color in particular. I am thinking about even yesterday
and television, Senator Doug Jones of Alabama went out of his way to say yeah, I'm here because so
urban women and black women put me here because they turned out in my special election. What do you think com
whereas on the ticket means to Joe Biden, prospects with women,
It was interesting. Senator in the interview that I had with her on Friday said that by Joe Biden, picking her, she called
an audacious move. But she also said that he has moved this Congress.
Nation forward decades. In terms of
when a woman can be seen in roles like the vice presidency, or the presidency
I know a lot of a black women voters and organizers that I've spoken to were calling for
black women were thrilled to see the choice of cinema common areas because of the combination of her qualifications, but also lived experience as a
woman, we know that when black
and though they do it not only for themselves or their household but for their rights,
their community and their country, and so you know when black women vote
Is it pushes us forward as a society, and so
the choice of camel hair is something that we are already seeing in. Some polling is energizing some voters. I think, though, that it is in
to teach you asked, because I am hearing a lot of black women asking because of twenty sixteen, because you saw fifty three percent of white women voting for our President Trump over
Hillary Clinton they are wondering if white women are going to be excited and are going to get on board with with Joe Biden, choice of the woman of Common Harris
running may: will they get behind the
women who are excited about this ticket in the same way that black women got behind Hillary Clinton,
overwhelmingly. Ninety four percent of black women voters,
Hillary Clinton and twenty sixteen
their wondering if that will be the case in twenty twenty and last week, Press
Tromp tweeted this? He did it again. The suburban half housewife will be voting for me. They want safety.
There are thrilled that I ended. The long running programme were low income. Housing would invite.
Their neighborhood Biden. Would
install it in a bigger form, with Corey Booker in charge and hearing
as yesterday, during his trip to Wisconsin, I keep hearing about suburban women. I made
well, you know what's wage recently, I call you,
urban housewives. They all loved it, but what I
they sent siren of that's politically correct as it don't worry about it. They'll get all her and write a guy's Willie Guy steer this week on the Sunday sit down pod gas. I get together with Amy Humour to talk about her life in quarantine as a new mother. Her new series expecting Amy and her breakthrough in train wreck get our conversation now for free
wherever you download. Your pod casts General Mary, our women gonna get over that most of us are knives
and when you see I've been nineteen point gender gap, Muslims, most of us are not
heard that there are some women whose there- and you know, I'm sure,
or generally are in your right. There are some white women who work in its four Donald Trump and there will probably embrace a suburban housewife, but it's really
you know that moniker bites
really telling bad e hotspot great book or a match weakens you know. Who's really popular in square bugger actually happen.
At supper and women re bad is how wise, where Bugger United States senator because suburban women in New Jersey, both for though this is heap, Mean Trump hegemony,
really it's obviously really troubling him is he keeps coming back. That's it. You're trying to use adds just
Are women em into voting for him and, if not working, they ve done. I believe that their fourth round of an
that gender gap heaps of moving and violence for action and
same comments so much racism, Jean Paul Marian Aaron Haines. Thank you both very much
for being on the show this morning
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Under this administration, or
ism has taken root in our country together.
We must build a nation that is more
portable, more compassionate and more inclusive. I know they're Joe Biden we'll begin that fight
on day, one to everyone who supported other candidates in the primary
To those who may have voted for Donald Trump in the last election
You're all about democracy is at stake. Today,
is Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden chief competitor during the two thousand and twenty
campaign, and you Jason, I you know I have always done
counted endorsements endorsements, don't really matter most of the time. What one pot
location says about another politician. It just doesn't really push somebody. The poles I'll make an exception
their when Bernie Sanders reaches across the aisle and said
state, his fervent supporters, this guy's going
fighting from for us on day one. I think that maybe
we have an impact in this election. Well,
the euro I got- I gotta admit Joan. This- is one of the the myths about scientists that I think people forget more seniors, voters and twenty. Sixteen voted for Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Voters voted for Obama. Two thousand eight right like I. I think there is
tendency to believe that the loudness of some supporters of Bernie Sanders represents
majority of regresses in this country, and does it most
aggressive realize it Donald Trump as a threat, most progressive are going to end up voting for Joe Biden.
It was significant about sanders. Speech last night is the way in which it
about jobs and policy perspectives. Like look, we have different
is on how you get the full covered, but this guy
it's gonna, listen to me this guy's gonna work with me
Obeid has done a very good job of integrating Sandra Supporters Sanders advocates as Paul.
People into his campaign, and I think anybody
can be honest, clear and say: Bernie Sanders,
way, more n for Joe Biden anywhere for Hillary Clinton and twenty sixteen and well we're not going to have the huge rallies that we had in the past that helps for me,
of his team, the from many organisations on the ground for like ok, birdies. Okay, with this
and we can be enthusiastic about when
Jonathan or mere. This is an example of where having a virtual convention for either party stop support
some going on the floor. Talking to us
and their supporters has now Joe Biden Zella, that you know, and you find the two or three or four people which reporters will do, find the two or three or four
blue disagree and suddenly cable
works. Newspapers are quoting those people and
case, perhaps it's because it's a virtual convention, but certainly in large part, but
the burning speech last night. This Damn democratic party looks far more unified than it did in twenty sixteen or even in two thousand
when there was a split between healthy and Barack Obama, there's no question that there are
it showed the virtual convention. As we noted earlier, there was some thought that early on last night, things were a little slow asylum is, where alludes maybe didn't land I do think we
deprived to some of the images that that make these conventions so special and not just the balloon drop, but I think we can. We can thank you
imagine that tonight's, from now in southern Harris, becomes the parties nominee for VP. Yes, I'm the kind
shots, but that would be like other women of color reacting to that historic moment, and those are those images that I think the party
will be sorry not to have last night, though their problem,
glad to have to not have those images exactly right. Let's remember in twenty six
There was a lot of tension in the crowd there in Philadelphia. Some Bernie
supporters were not on board with Hillary Clinton, and that became
certainly a new story there for a couple of days. That is avoided because
not seeing no shots here, and I think we also should underestimate part of a region
I've centres is. Is this went much more quietly? To summarize, the personnel is between him, Joe Biden. The two men get along well
these were certainly tensor between he and Secretary Clinton, certain
can't be overstated, the value of trying to bring progresses into the tent here. Will
you're from representative ambassador across her Cortez. She speaking out tonight
the convention on that effort, as was the case
address for night, too, of the Democratic national convention will be given by Doktor Jill Biden. Who will be
bring her speech lie from Brandywine High School in Wilmington Delaware, where she was an english teacher from the very classroom
they taught her students in the early nine nineties here now, is an exclusive first look at the video that
will introduce Doktor Barton when she
second lady Jill, told me that she would buy to continue teaching at community cause and
I said
that's insane. You cannot possibly do that. I said I
I can do both jobs. I now
never saw her on any day of the week where she wasn't carrying a huge stack of papers to grade
second lady. She was teaching full time for eight years
credit semester, these
students who wanted to be in your classroom- and I saw-
their tenacity and they were taking care of Chile,
and just like I had done- he gave a hundred percent from her
Changes to days, she's a great teacher tissues outward your does its. She is just simply cares.
You may get way when you were interviewing jail early in the campaign.
Ask her about those two when she is
second lady and she was also teach,
can you be so
you tell us the stories of kids two three four weeks anyone come up and they re like.
I saw you on tv, hoo, hoo
you will. I saw you standing next to Michelle Obama would what's she like noses that just one
So much with me, her story around the
we're second lady will be our guest tomorrow morning, right here a morning Joe look forward to that, and still at this morning the Wash
imposed. Robert Costa joins us with his latest reporting on how the Biden campaign plans to fight efforts to undermine the vote, plus
Eugene Robinson with his new column after Michelle Obama, Dnc Speech entitled for someone is
as she ate power dicks. Michelle Obama is a poem
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