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How Black Voters Matter Is Organizing For Harris

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What A Day

News, Daily News

4.612.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Vice President Kamala Harris is well on her way to shoring up the kind of historic support from Black voters that was starting to slip away from President Biden before he dropped out of the presidential race. In addition to recent polls that show Harris faring significantly better with Black voters than Trump, there’s also been considerable energy among groups of Black organizers who have set up Zoom calls to fundraise for the Vice President’s campaign. But amidst that enthusiasm, voter suppression remains a major concern heading into November. Cliff Albright, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund, discusses how his organization is working to educate voters in states with a history of suppressing the Black vote.


And in headlines: President Biden gave his first sit-down interview since leaving the presidential race, Israel carried out a deadly air strike in Gaza City, and the 2024 Paris Olympics came to a close.

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0:00.0

It's Monday, August 12th.

0:03.0

I'm Trayvon Anderson.

0:04.2

And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day.

0:07.0

The show that's asking Trump's presidential campaign,

0:09.2

why do you keep playing unauthorized music at your rallies? Last week in Montana, they played Saline Dion's Classic,

0:16.2

My Heart Will Go On from the soundtrack of the 1997 film Titanic,

0:21.0

Dion's official X account posted that she does not endorse this or any similar use adding

0:27.2

quote, and really that zone.

0:31.2

On today's show, President Biden reveals what led to his decision to step down from the election

0:35.4

plus we say goodbye to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

0:39.2

But first Vice President Harris is well on her way to shoring up the kind of historic support

0:44.2

from black voters that was starting to slip away from President Biden before he

0:48.7

dropped out of the race. In addition to recent polls that show Harris

0:52.3

faring significantly better with black voters than Trump,

0:55.6

there's also all of this energy in many of our communities that can't be denied.

1:00.6

From the Zoom calls of black women and men fundraising to church sermons going viral on

1:05.7

Tik-Tock encouraging people to vote.

1:08.3

Yeah, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, which Vice President Harris joined when she was a student at Howard University,

1:14.0

even filed paperwork on Friday to create its own political action committee to help raise money

1:18.0

for federal candidates.

1:19.0

The AKAs are one of nine historically black sororities and fraternities collectively

1:23.5

known as the divine nine and that will certainly help boost turnout among

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