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The Michael Steele Podcast

"Actually, Black Men Showed Up and Voted for the Black Lady" (Quick Take)

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele speaks with Elie Mystal about what makes 2024 different from 2016, how Black men did, in fact, show up for Kamala Harris (and white women didn't) and how much the Democratic party is reliant upon the volunteer labor of Black women.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

For too long, we have said, America is better than this.

0:03.3

America is better than Trump.

0:05.3

Come on, guys.

0:06.2

It's the Joe Biden one, right?

0:07.8

Come on, guys.

0:08.6

Come on.

0:09.5

No, Joe, we're not.

0:11.6

We're not better.

0:13.0

We're not better than this.

0:14.3

We are this.

0:16.0

And we can never get better than this if we don't confront who we are.

0:22.7

If we don't confront what we are. if we don't confront who we are if we don't confront what we are if we don't confront why we want the things that we want right because that that is the first step

0:29.5

to recovery right you don't you don't you don't get over being a drug addict by saying i don't got

0:35.7

no no no no you get over being a drug addict by saying, I don't got no problem. No, no, no, no. You get over being a drug

0:38.1

addict by hitting rock bottom and admitting that you have a problem that needs to be addressed.

0:43.5

Trump is Trump is not the cause of any of this. America is the cause of Trump, not the cause of Trump,

0:53.5

not the other way around. And we have to, we have to deal

0:56.3

with that, right? And I don't, and I particularly noted what you said on TV because you were like

1:00.9

the only one who did. Or is there one of the only people who kind of got that aspect of it,

1:06.9

that this was, you know, this was a demand from this country to have him reinstall.

1:12.1

This is, that's why it's like, to me, so different than 2016, not just because like 2016,

1:18.0

shock, oh my God, what happened, right?

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