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Vice President Harris was peppered with questions Tuesday astir her program for Black Americans from vigor big Charlamagne tha God and his listeners successful an interrogation that’s portion of a late-campaign media blitz earlier Election Day.
The interrogation began with Charlamagne asking Harris to respond to disapproval astir the prime of her responses to questions and the conception that she is repetitive, which she characterized arsenic “discipline.”
She besides addressed “the value of the moment” successful her relation moving for president against Trump.
“I consciousness an bonzer value of work close present to bash everything I can,” Harris said. “When I spell to furniture astatine night, successful summation to my prayers, I volition ask, ‘Have I done everything I could bash today?’"
“This is simply a margin-of-error race. It's tight,” she added. “But I'm going to win. I'm going to win.”
Throughout the interview, Harris shared her presumption connected topics specified arsenic reparations — which she said she supports studying — gathering up Black homeownership and the accidental to turn generational wealth.
The interrogation was an accidental for Harris to talk straight to Black voters, a radical that polls amusement overwhelmingly enactment her implicit Trump. But immoderate of the interrogation questions besides revealed immoderate disenchantment astir voting and whether the campaigner could fulfill the promises she’s making connected the run trail.
At 1 point, Charlamagne pointed retired that Harris is facing the contented of misinformation successful this year’s election, peculiarly connected her past arsenic a prosecutor.
“One of the biggest pieces of misinformation, 1 of the biggest allegations against you, is that you targeted and locked up thousands of Black men successful San Francisco for weed,” Charlamagne said. “Some accidental you did it to boost your career. Some accidental you did it retired of axenic hatred for Black men. Please archer america the facts.”
Harris instantly denied the allegations and alternatively said she was “the astir progressive prosecutor” successful California. She past pledged to enactment to decriminalize marijuana if elected president.
“I cognize precisely however those laws person been utilized to disproportionately interaction definite populations, and specifically Black men,” Harris said.
Questions astir Black men and what Harris plans to bash for them popped up repeatedly during the interrogation — unsurprising arsenic polls amusement her enactment among the demographic slipping portion Trump’s numbers are improving.
Harris released an "Opportunity Agenda for Black Men" connected Monday, but 1 caller asked her wherefore she didn’t bash truthful sooner and wherefore enactment for Black men is lone sought retired during predetermination cycles.
“I've been successful this contention astir 70 days. You tin look astatine each my enactment earlier those 70 days to cognize that this, what I'm talking astir close now, is not new, and is not for the involvement of winning this election,” Harris responded. “This is astir a long-standing commitment, including the enactment that I've done arsenic vice president and before, erstwhile I was senator.”
Harris’s clip arsenic a legislator came up astatine different constituent successful the interrogation erstwhile a caller from Nevada asked what she plans to bash to code constabulary brutality and its disproportionate interaction connected Black Americans.
The vice president rapidly pointed to her enactment connected the George Floyd Justice successful Policing Act with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) during her clip successful the precocious chamber.
“We couldn't get the votes successful Congress,” she admitted. “But what we did erstwhile we came successful bureau and during the clip that I've been vice president, is we passed an enforcement bid … that says that for national instrumentality enforcement, the pursuing things person to happen, which we, for the archetypal time, enactment successful place: nary sound warrants, barring chokeholds, a nationalist database for america to cod accusation and way constabulary officers who person breached the law.”
“I'm inactive going to ever enactment connected getting the George Floyd Justice successful Policing Act passed,” she added. “Part of the enactment that I'm doing arsenic a campaigner for president of the United States includes lifting up those candidates who are running, either for reelection oregon for the archetypal clip to Congress, who are supportive of what we request to bash connected each of the issues we've been discussing.”
While the interrogation was Harris’s accidental to talk straight to Black voters, Charlamagne besides pressed her connected caller comments that she said she would not bash thing specifically for Black people.
Harris denied making the statement, reminding Charlamagne of the commencement of the speech astir misinformation.
Later, she added that she is moving “to beryllium a president for everybody.”
“But I americium clear-eyed astir the past and the disparities that beryllium for circumstantial communities and I'm not going to shy distant from that,” Harris said. “It doesn't mean that my policies aren't going to payment everybody, due to the fact that they are. Everything I conscionable talked astir volition payment everybody.”
