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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Shadow of South Africa's apartheid rears its head in the 2024 U.S. Election

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The ReidOut, Joy Reid leads with Elon Musk making a dangerous accusation, which is just one facet of the fearmongering, racism, and disinformation coming from Trump and his MAGA allies. Plus, Vice President Kamala Harris is deploying a shrewd media strategy, engaging voters through traditional forums like "60 Minutes" and more unconventional spaces, including the "Call Her Daddy" podcast, which is especially popular among young women. Listen now.

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0:00.0

Tonight on the readout.

0:05.0

Get everyone you know and everyone you don't know.

0:10.0

Drag them to register to vote.

0:15.0

And then make sure they actually do vote.

0:18.0

If they don't, this will be the last election.

0:25.0

A dangerous accusation from Elon Musk, and it's just one facet of the fear-mongering racism and disinformation coming from Trump and his

0:35.6

MAGA allies. Plus, VP Kamala Harris's shrewd media strategy, how she's

0:41.3

reaching voters in traditional forums like 60 minutes, as well as places

0:45.3

that aren't so typical, like the Call Her Daddy podcast, especially popular among young women.

0:55.4

But we begin tonight with the manic bizarre and frankly childish fanboying of Donald

1:00.0

Trump as illustrated by ultimate fan boy Elon Musk, literally jumping up and down on stage with Trump, during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

1:09.0

It was not just weird and meme-worthy, sparking hilarious online monikers like Dork MAGA and Two Live coup, but also ominous, given some of the frankly alarming things Musk has been saying. But when you look at the people backing Trump,

1:25.4

some of the most noticeable ones, notable ones I should say, are steeped in this

1:30.3

precise moment.

1:47.0

I, Nelson Hollisas of Mandela, do hereby serve to be faithful to the Republic of South Africa. That moment in South Africa when Nelson Mandela became president,

1:51.2

giving hope to people not just in South Africa, but around the world.

1:55.0

An anti-apartheid activist and former political prisoner inaugurated as president of South

2:01.2

Africa, just four years

2:03.2

after the end of apartheid.

2:05.6

But for Afrikaners, meaning South Africans of European descent,

2:10.1

it was a moment of panic, an official end of racial segregation, a policy that benefited them and only them,

2:18.0

despite them comprising less than 10% of the population, by separating the minority white population and

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