Starkly different messaging from Biden & Trump campaigns on Juneteenth

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On this Juneteenth, the Biden-Harris campaign is out with a new ad focusing on African-American contributions to the nation, as Trump's team releases a five-line statement starting with "All Slaves are Free!" Then, a new warning about what far-right wants to see in a future America. Also, the White House responds to Netanyahu's accusation that the U.S. is "withholding weapons" from Israel amid its war with Hamas. Vaughn Hillyard, Molly Jong-Fast, Symone Sanders Townsend, Tim Miller, Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, Heather Cox Richardson, and Michael Allen join.

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0:00.0	Tonight the Biden campaign calls out Trump's comments on race as America marks
0:06.2	Juneteenth. Then new tensions with Israel, the fallout from Benjamin Netanyahu's
0:11.2	video slamming the Biden administration.
0:14.1	And Louisiana has a new law.
0:16.2	The Ten Commandments must be posted in all school classrooms.
0:20.4	The constitutional showdown as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday night. Good evening once again. I'm Stephanie Rule and we are now get ready for it
0:36.5	139 days away from the election and today marks 159 years since the last black slaves were given their freedom down in Galveston, Texas,
0:47.0	a day that is recognized as Juneteenth.
0:49.4	Today, millions of Americans from coast to coast celebrated with parades, concerts, and
0:53.7	speeches and this is the fourth year that Juneteenth has been designated a federal
0:58.6	holiday. President Biden signed it into law back in 2021 and today his campaign is out with a very powerful new
1:05.8	ad. This Juneteenth we salute those who built this country those who sacrificed those who've
1:13.0	sacrificed those who suffered and refused to be defined by pain or silenced by oppression.
1:19.0	We celebrate freedom freedom to live, breathe, play, choose Mary, vote. And with Joe Biden and
1:28.8	Kamala Harris we're ready to face the future. Together, we can't stop now.
1:36.0	So what did Donald Trump do to celebrate this day
1:38.7	that is so important to so many Americans?
1:41.8	Well, the man himself, he didn't do anything. He did make at least
1:45.6	18 posts on truth social today and not a single one mentioned the holiday. And
1:50.8	remember on Juneteenth four years ago, Trump tried to hold a
1:54.7	campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the site of one of the worst racial
1:59.3	attacks in American history when the area known as Black Wall Street was burned to the ground.
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