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The Michael Steele Podcast

How White, Liberal Women Respond to Kamala Harris' Campaign

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This is an excerpt from the full episode "Becoming the Leaders We Need (with Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.)"

Michael Steele speaks with educator, author, political commentator and Princeton University professor, Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. about his book,“We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For." The pair discuss the impact of liberal white women on Kamala Harris' campaign.

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0:00.0

Can we or should we promote this black woman to be the nominee of our party?

0:05.6

Because let's be truth be told there were some Democrats probably more than people would be

0:11.0

surprised to know who did not think that was the wiser move

0:15.7

the wiser play politically what did that tell you not that because it told me a lot.

0:25.0

But what did it say to you that given everything that we know about Kamla Harris,

0:30.0

her pedigree, her background, her education, her success, her ups and downs, her political

0:38.2

narrative that still wasn't enough Eddie, it still wasn't enough for people to say, well she's the sitting vice president

0:49.0

United States, damn Skippy, what else would you do? That was my attitude, but it was surprising to me how many people didn't see it that way? And don't, and don't, we haven't talked about on the Republican side, because we know what's up with that.

1:03.8

Right.

1:04.3

But on the Democratic side, that hesitancy,

1:07.1

despite everything else that we know about this one.

1:10.6

You know what he said to me, Mike?

1:11.9

We've always been dancing with the

1:15.0

ugliness in the country that Democrats or whomever have they've all there's

1:21.7

always been this odd dance, this odd capitulation to racism to the

1:33.0

ugliness in the country. I mean you can see it in the early days of the republic,

1:37.0

right?

1:38.0

Even in the foundation of the country,

1:40.0

what these folk, they're committed to slavery,

1:42.0

what can we do? What can we do to keep them because they're threatening to tear the whole

1:46.4

damn thing apart and so we're going to make all of these compromises and we're going to build it into

1:52.0

the Constitution but we're not going to name it, right?

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