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Notes from America with Kai Wright

Did 44,000 Black Women Just Close Dems' 'Enthusiasm Gap' in One Zoom Call?

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Mere hours after Joe Biden announced he was bowing out of the 2024 election, an estimated 44,000 Black women connected via Zoom to celebrate and strategize a win for Kamala Harris.

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0:00.0

It's notes from America. I'm Kai Wright and I am hopping.

0:08.8

It's notes from America. I'm Ty Wright and I am hopping into the podcast feed with a special conversation because a lot is happening in the political world now.

0:18.8

And notably, friends, within hours of Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the new presumptive

0:25.5

nominee of the Democratic Party, something like 44,000 black women got on a Zoom call

0:31.4

to talk about what it meant for them to talk about how they

0:34.6

could support the campaign and just process the historic moment and then a day

0:39.8

later at least according to the organizers, another 20,000 black men did the same thing.

0:46.6

So I just wanted to process that moment, what happened on these calls, and I've called up somebody who joined them.

0:54.3

Eva McKinn is CNN's national political correspondent.

0:58.9

She was on the call and she is on the campaign trail right now.

1:03.2

Eva, where are you?

1:04.6

I sure am.

1:05.6

My producer is driving us from Chicago to Indianapolis.

1:10.7

We're in Milwaukee yesterday with the vice president and we did have to drive yesterday and then took a little nap in Chicago and our

1:19.1

You're gonna be in my hometown Indianapolis is my hometown. Oh, it is.

1:23.0

You'll have to give me some lunch recommendations later.

1:26.0

Oh, all right, I'm gonna call my brother

1:27.5

to see if he could help you out.

1:28.9

Because it's been some years for me.

1:31.5

Listen, so Eva, you were on this call, the first call with black women. First off, how did you hear about it?

1:39.7

Just word of mouth. You know, there were a lot of women talking about it

1:44.0

texting me about it. Are you gonna hop on that when with black women call? Have you

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