An Insider's View of Kamala Harris with Jamal Simmons
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Bill talks with Jamal Simmons, former Communications Director for Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House. He discusses the remarkable launch of Harris as the new Democratic nominee, highlighting the success of various Zoom calls organized by different groups to raise funds for her campaign. Simmons describes Harris as someone who is attentive to the needs and perspectives of different communities and has a keen mind for asking questions. He believes that Harris, having been elected in California three times, has the campaigning experience and skills necessary for a general election. Simmons also mentions that Harris's background as a law enforcement officer and her progressive approach to prosecution could be an asset in the campaign. He emphasizes that Harris is not afraid to talk about reproductive freedom and believes that she will focus on issues such as abortion rights, childcare, healthcare, and space exploration. Simmons dismisses JD Vance's first week as lackluster and suggests that there may be buyer's remorse among Republicans. He also speculates on the possibility of Donald Trump replacing Vance as his running mate. Simmons concludes by discussing the qualities Harris should look for in a running mate. He expresses optimism about the future of the Democratic Party and the strong bench of potential candidates for VP.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, good friends, and welcome back. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. Well, you know, |
| 0:12.7 | it's hard to believe, but it's only a little over a week since President Biden passed the |
| 0:17.2 | torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, and since then, the political world has been turned |
| 0:21.9 | upside down. The Kamala Harris campaign took off like a rocket, uniting the Democratic Party |
| 0:28.8 | from top to bottom, raising tons of money, recruiting hordes of volunteers, and generating |
| 0:34.9 | a lot of very positive media. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has been sputtering |
| 0:40.8 | unsure how to take on Harris and struggling with more and more bad press about JD Vents. |
| 0:49.0 | You know, coming from California, I'm a longtime fan of Kamala Harris. But despite her experience as San Francisco District |
| 0:56.6 | Attorney, California, Attorney General, U.S. Senator from California, and Vice President of the United |
| 1:02.6 | States, most Americans still don't know Camilla Harris well. So today, we wanted to take a good |
| 1:10.0 | look at Camilla with one who knows her best, her former communications director in the White House, Jamal Simmons, now political commentator for CNN. |
| 1:20.8 | Jamal Simmons, hi, so good to talk to you, and it's great to reconnect after a couple of years. Welcome to the Bill Presspot. |
| 1:28.4 | It's good to be back, Bill. You know, I always come whenever you call. |
| 1:33.4 | Just remember that. So, Jamal, I have to say, even you must have been surprised at the remarkable launch of Kamala Harris as the new Democratic nominee. She's had one hell |
| 1:47.3 | of a first week. Is that what you expected? Well, I certainly expected that she was going to be |
| 1:53.5 | able to kind of unite the clans, right, and bring all the Democrats together from across the factions. |
| 1:58.5 | Because once you started to think through who could be |
| 2:01.8 | the nominee of our party, the math just led you back to Kamala Harris every time. |
| 2:06.9 | Who was going to be easy to get the money? |
| 2:09.2 | Where was the organizational strength going to be? |
| 2:10.9 | If the president endorsed her, that was probably going to be the end of the question. |
| 2:14.1 | And then you get, you know, all the other super friends out there, you know, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, the Clintons, Nancy Pelosi, you know, Chuck Schumer |
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