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The Michael Steele Podcast

Quick Take: All He's Gonna Get is Their Vote

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Guest Jonathan Capehart and Michael discuss the importance of Joe Biden's pick for running mate. They also get into the role social media platforms can play in removing harmful material.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody it's Michael Steele here and now I know you're waiting for the next big

0:14.0

episode of the Michael Steele Podcast but in the meantime give a listen to this Michael

0:18.9

Steele Podcast quick take Jonathan Capehart he is the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist

0:25.0

the question for me is fundamentally do you want to win or do you want to be woke?

0:30.6

Do you want to do you want to put in place someone who can transition away from crazy or do

0:38.0

you want to just double down on crazy and just strap in for the next four years because

0:42.2

you thought the last four years were fun?

0:45.4

Baby you don't know what's about to hit when Donald Trump gets reelected because then

0:50.1

the truth before him is okay y'all threw everything at me now I got something for you.

0:57.1

And you think he's unleashed now?

0:59.1

Right.

1:00.1

In a lot of ways he is.

1:02.2

Imagine if he were to win re-election how much darker in terms of mood, in terms of

1:12.7

policies this country will get.

1:15.5

I'm actually working on a part four of my little series and it's actually meant to address

1:24.0

what you just said the phrase you just said do you want to win or do you want to be woke?

1:29.4

What's interesting in the first two pieces that I wrote the reaction that I got back

1:37.7

both on my Facebook page and especially on Twitter which I know is not a representative

1:42.4

sample of anything but the number of people who said listen I'm going to vote don't

1:54.4

get it twisted I'm going to vote but if Biden makes the wrong choice or doesn't put a

2:04.0

black woman these are people who want a black woman on the ticket but if he doesn't do

2:07.9

that then that's all he's going to get is their vote which I thought was a very interesting

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