Michael Steele, former RNC chairman: 'Donald Trump is the biggest block to the American Dream'
Capehart
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan Kapart and this is Cape Up. Finally, it's election day. |
| 0:09.6 | And there's no one better to talk to on this day than Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican Party. |
| 0:17.0 | This marks Steele's sixth visit to the podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | As always, I ask him why he's still a Republican, especially since he endorsed Democrat |
| 0:26.1 | Joe Biden for president, and we talk about the state of the campaign for the White House |
| 0:31.6 | and the Senate. |
| 0:33.0 | But the bulk of our conversation revolved around the power of racism in America |
| 0:38.0 | on this election, and why Steele says, |
| 0:41.0 | I don't trust the White vote. |
| 0:42.0 | Find out why right now. |
| 0:45.0 | Michael Steele, |
| 0:50.0 | Michael Steele, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | It would not be election day without you here. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm going to ask you the same question I always ask you, |
| 1:00.4 | but instead of at the end of doing it at the beginning are you still a Republican |
| 1:04.5 | absolutely yes even more so and why because I really appreciated the number of |
| 1:11.0 | Republicans who have served inside this administration, who recently left the administration, |
| 1:17.0 | to come out and say that this is not us, this is not what republicanism is, is not what conservatism is. It's not what conservatism is. |
| 1:23.6 | They've agreed to stand with us in the center of the town square |
| 1:27.6 | to declare our independence of Trumpism and our resiliency and fight against it. |
| 1:35.0 | And I appreciate that because I know it's not easy. |
| 1:37.7 | It's not an easy thing for them to do. |
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