Jaime Harrison, Mike Espy, and Raphael Warnock on Running As a Democrat in the South

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

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4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Bakari speaks with three Democrats on what it's like to run for a Senate seat in a Southern state and the difficulties of running a campaign in the midst of a pandemic. He talks with Jaime Harrison, running in South Carolina against Lindsey Graham (5:56); Raphael Warnock, running in Georgia (24:09); and Mike Espy, running in Mississippi (45:51). Host: Bakari Sellers Guests: Jaime Harrison, Mike Espy, and Raphael Warnock Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Bakari Sellers Podcast. I'm so excited to be on my 12th episode and today is a special show because we have my good friend Jamie Harris and we have Reverend Raffaio Warnock and we have Mike
0:24.4	S.B. three individuals who are called friends who should be the next United
0:29.6	States senators from South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi, respectively.
0:35.0	But before we get into what will be our 12th episode,
0:38.7	I first want to just simply say thank you to everyone who is downloaded,
0:43.4	everyone who's subscribed and everyone who spread the word
0:46.4	about the Bakari Salas podcast,
0:47.9	this thing has been growing,
0:49.6	and we try to bring you good content every week,
0:51.7	and I'm so thankful for the guests and I'm so
0:53.5	thankful for all of you. But today I wanted to talk about the Vice Presidential
0:59.0	vetting process which has been royally pissing me off lately.
1:03.2	If you've been following the news, you know that Vice President Biden is now reportedly
1:07.4	down to anywhere between two to four choices.
1:10.8	Senator Kamala Harris and former UN Ambassador and US National Security Advisor
1:16.9	Susan Rice are apparently the two finalists with Congresswoman Karen Bass and
1:21.2	Senator Warren being the under to under serious consideration.
1:26.0	Now everyone who knows me know that I think Kamala Harris is the clear choice and
1:31.0	you won't find a better debater against Mike Pence. You won't find
1:34.4	someone with the kind of experience she has at every level of government. She
1:39.5	energizes women, women of color, and particularly black women. In a general election her
1:44.7	background as a prosecutor and former attorney general is an asset especially
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