Kamala, Joe, And The Fissures In The Base

Code Switch

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Black voters are the Democrats' most reliable and influential voting bloc. But this election has underscored the tensions between those Black voters, along generational and ideological lines — which could have major consequences on turnout this fall.

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0:00.0	I'm Shireen Marisol Miraji.
0:01.8	I'm Jean Demby and you are listening to Code Switch.
0:04.9	From NPR.
0:08.4	So the news just like just came in that Joe Biden,
0:12.2	the presumptive Democratic nominee for president,
0:14.5	paid Kamala Harris, the junior senator from California,
0:17.7	to be his running mate.
0:19.0	That's right.
0:19.7	And that makes her the first black woman
0:21.6	to be on a major party ticket as vice president
0:24.6	and the first South Asian as well.
0:27.0	This is a historic moment.
0:29.5	And it underlines the themes of this episode,
0:32.3	which we started working on before this news broke.
0:35.9	Because Kamala Harris is a polarizing figure,
0:39.3	especially among the people we were planning
0:41.1	to talk about today, that is black Democrats.
0:45.8	And we're going to talk a little bit more about Kamala Harris
0:47.4	a little bit later.
0:48.4	But first, you remember way back last year, Shireen,
0:51.2	when we dove into the particular outlier universe
0:55.6	of black Republicans.
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