Ep. 138 - About Kamala Harris dropping out

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Kamala Harris just dropped out of the presidential race. Shaun discusses some of the unique challenges of Black women in politics and unpacks what her dropping out means for the race at large. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:06.0	I'm pregnant
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0:10.0	I've been old my electricity that's all
0:12.0	don't think I should even be in here.
0:14.0	A new series of the Baffa Award winning time.
0:18.0	You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and
0:26.0	Bella Ramsey time watch on BBC I player as you may have seen yesterday Senator Kamala Harris announced that she is dropping out of the Democratic presidential primary.
0:38.0	And on one hand, I was surprised because she had made the cut to appear in the next Democratic debate.
0:44.7	But on the other hand I was not surprised at all because her campaign was
0:48.4	struggling financially. It was struggling on some levels with messaging and she had recently had to let a lot of her staff go
0:56.0	But after she dropped out I saw a lot of frustration understandable frustration on how that means that all six of the people who have currently made the cut for
1:05.4	the next Democratic debate are white. I have some thoughts on that that might surprise
1:10.2	you. Let me unpack and explain it. This is Sean King and you are
1:14.0	listening to
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1:23.0	About two years ago I did an interview.
1:31.0	About two years ago I did an interview I think with political about Senator
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