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The Beat with Ari Melber

Oprah campaigns with Harris in crucial swing states

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Thursday, September 19, and reports on the 2024 election and Oprah/Obama unity. Plus, artist Joey Bada$$ returns to The Beat for a Fallback feature. Tony Schwartz, Chris Hayes, Joan Walsh, and Brittney Cooper also join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Melver and she mentioned some of the big stories we're following.

0:03.3

We have a lot going on.

0:04.4

Tonight we cover this.

0:06.8

What started in Chicago isn't staying there.

0:08.9

The most prominent surprise addition to Harris's DNC was Oprah, you might recall. She hadn't previously endorsed by the 2024 campaign. prize brought down the house and today we can report the Harris campaign is deploying Oprah

0:24.5

in the key state of Michigan. We're just hours away from 8 p.m. Eastern time

0:30.6

where we're in Michigan and we have a thousand screens everywhere you see those little heads there and 400 people in the audience for what we are hoping is going to be one great big giant

0:48.0

voter rally getting people fired up to Voto November 5th with Kabbalaharis.

0:55.8

That is Oprah doing what she does so well.

0:58.2

And she also, as you might have seen on the screen,

1:00.5

is doing this pursuant to something that my colleague Nicole Wallace just

1:04.4

mentioned that a lot goes on YouTube nowadays Oprah's Detroit event will rally

1:08.6

voters literally there in Michigan but also across the nation because the TV star

1:12.2

is broadcasting the event

1:14.1

live to her streaming and YouTube audience and you can imagine Oprah has a lot of

1:19.0

people interested. She'll be flanked by the state's Democratic governor

1:22.0

Whitmer.

1:23.0

And while campaigns tap politicians as surrogates, they go to the floor of Congress and ask people to help,

1:29.0

a Harris campaign clearly sees Oprah as larger than any member of Congress, a famous and respected

1:34.5

validator who is literally one of Harris's most influential surrogates as the

1:39.0

times put it. Oprah does not campaign on every big national political debate.

1:45.2

She doesn't get involved in most local races.

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