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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

The Rise of Kamala Harris with Heather McGhee

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Chris just got back from vacation. It just so happened that he was way during one of the most remarkable periods in American presidential political history. There’s a lot to unpack with our guest this week. Heather McGhee is a New York Times bestselling author of “The Sum of Us” and the board chair at Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice group. She joins WITHpod to discuss the most seismic recent political developments, vibes within the Democratic Party and more.

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0:00.0

You don't sit in the seat of the highest, the greatest power in the free world.

0:07.0

Do what you consider a bang-up job, and then just say,

0:18.0

you know what, I'm going to walk away from this

0:23.3

think that I can't cut it.

0:25.3

But remembering the projected chaos, right?

0:29.8

Just in your point of going back, Chris,

0:31.9

we were like, is there going to be a mini primary are they

0:35.5

obviously going to skip over Kamala Harris like that really the idea was it's going to be all these other

0:41.4

people and it was a shock watching cable news from the United States and seeing how much it was so quickly.

0:51.9

All of the visuals were Vice President Harris.

0:55.0

You know, there were two different announcements, one was he's resigning, I don't remember

0:59.0

how many minutes later, but it wasn't, I don't think an hour, when it was full endorsement of Kamala Harris and then it was it and we were off to the races.

1:09.0

Hello and welcome

1:13.0

why is this happening with me your host Chris Hayes. Well, if you watch the television show I host called All In on a MSNBC, you'll know that I was

1:26.9

away for a little bit for a little family vacation, which was amazing.

1:30.3

Went to Iceland.

1:31.3

Magical, dramatic, fascinating, beautiful place with my family.

1:36.0

I got some time to do some stuff like chop wood and clean my garage, which was really genuinely

1:42.0

the highlight of a vacation vacation which is so lame but so true

1:45.7

maybe I'll post some pictures it looks really nice now I made a Google dock of where

1:50.0

everything is so it's searchable so we know where the batteries are and the roller skates and all that stuff.

1:54.8

So that's what I was doing for two weeks, but some stuff happened in the world and it was one of the most remarkable

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