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The Desperation of Kamala Harris

But I have to tell you, decency, goodness, joy and hopefulness wins every time. So let’s get out there and make it happen. Let’s go. We have to get out and vote. We have to win, win, win. They got a win, win win. Well, former President Donald Trump and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz sending a last minute message to supporters as early voting has kicked off in Georgia already, a record number of ballots have been cast.

According to CNN, over 328,000. All this while a judge announces significant shifts in Georgia’s election landscape. I’m Ben Swan. This is truth in media.

We begin in Georgia, where a Fulton County judge has just announced he will block a controversial rule requiring hand counts of Election Day ballots after the polls close. This comes right on the heels of another ruling mandating the county officials must certify election results by a legally required deadline. Now, why does this matter? Well, Democrats say the Republicans will use these new rules to count ballots that undermine the election’s legitimacy and possibly refuse certification.
So let me ask you this. What’s the problem with making sure that every single vote gets counted? If we’re striving for clear and fair elections, shouldn’t we have solid procedures in place to ensure that happens? After all, every eligible voter deserves to have their voice heard. And today, we’re getting a clearer picture about how one particular group of voters stands on the election.
According to a recent New York Times Siena poll, Harris’s support among black voters has fallen below 12% when compared to Joe Biden’s in 2020 and 14% lower than compared to 2016. And take a look at this tweet by CNN election forecaster Harry in who writes this quote. No matter how you slice the data, Trump seems to be the strongest Republican with black voters since 1960.
Young black men in particular have trended right during Trump’s runs, cutting the dem margin by 40 points from 2012. But Trump’s doing historically well with black women, to end quote. And that may explain why the Harris campaign seems to be in all panic mode, doing media appearances on every corner of the internet. He’s now slated to appear on Fox News, and she is actually pitching to go on Joe Rogan, and she’s even appearing to openly pander.
Take a listen to her words last night during an audio townhall with Charlamagne Tha God. So my agenda well, first of all, on the point of reparations, it has to be studied. There’s no question about that. And I’ve been very clear about that position. It seems a little convenient, doesn’t it? Like, I don’t know the low hanging fruit that she is reaching to rally support here.
And that’s not where it ends. The Harris campaign has gone as far as to roll out a list of policy proposals aimed specifically at black men. He’s calling it an opportunity agenda that will provide this $1 million in loans that are fully forgivable, $20,000 for black entrepreneurs to start a business training and mentorship programs that will lead to high paying jobs for black men, a national health initiative aimed at illnesses disproportionately targeting black men.
And the kicker? Legalizing recreational marijuana to create opportunities for black males to succeed. If any other candidate announced these policies aimed towards Black Americans, it would be considered racist. It’s a massive contradiction that you hear nobody talking about this on any mainstream network to discuss. I’m joined by Hannah Cox. She is the co-founder and president of Based Politics.
And Hannah, we have to start there because it seems not only like a desperate attempt, but it also seems a little bit insulting. Three weeks before the election and all of a sudden now Kamala Harris cares a lot about black men and about black voters. What do you think of this? Well, I think it’s especially insulting when you consider her record and how she got where she is, which is as a prosecutor and as an attorney general who built her career on the backs of black men that she was locking up for these very crimes, oftentimes of smoking marijuana.
So I think it’s a huge slap in the face. What I’d actually like to hear from her is what she plans to do to reverse some of those convictions, to try to actually come in and lobby for people who are currently still in jail, because she put them there in California for nonviolent crimes. It shouldn’t be crimes to begin with.
I find it to be a completely self-serving thing for a politician to do when they have been in favor of the war on drugs and then try to come out and act as if they are high minded and progressive on these fronts, while doing nothing to clean up the damage and devastation in their wake, which it absolutely has created for the country at large, for our constitutional rights, but especially for the black community in this country.
So I would be living if I were a black man. And I read this. Yeah, absolutely. And I don’t think it seems to be moving the needle with very many of them either. But when we talk about President Obama, who actually he essentially scolded black men recently for not showing the same energy for Harris as they did for him, and he suggested kind of that it was sexism that’s holding them back.
And there was so much backlash to his comments that he’s kind of kind of hidden now as a result of that. But the reality is this the Democratic Party has acted for years as if they are entitled to the black vote without actually doing much for those black voters once they get in office. How do you see it?
Yeah, well, I think you’re absolutely right. And I also don’t think that anybody has ever decided to come and support a politician because they got called sexist or racist or bigoted. So, you know, I saw that clip from Obama. I thought it was very out of character. He’s usually very polished. He’s usually very well-spoken. That particular clip, he seemed very thirsty.
If you will, very desperate to try to come in and then kind of just entitled. I think he does seem very entitled to the black vote. And, you know, there might be some elements of sexism for why some people don’t want to vote for Kamala. I think that that could be plausible at times. But I think, moreover, the dominant reasons that people do not want to support her or the left at large is because we have all had to live with the ramifications of their economic policies over the past four years especially, and it’s been terrible, and it’s been mostly terrible for people who were already on the margins, particularly in minority communities, who are already suffering economically. The past four years have been devastating for them, and they want relief. They’re desperate for it. And I would also argue that many of them have started to wake up to the patterns of the Democratic Party, like you’ve said, over time, recognizing that their lives are not getting better. In fact, they’re often getting worse in some met in some metrics.
And so they’re ready for something new. They saw the Obama presidency. I think a lot of them did have a lot of stock in him as the first black American president, that he would come in and really progress their community. He didn’t back together very similarly to Bush in many regards. And so he also was very, very bad for the economy and led to I think what you now see is the MAGA movement that has been, and to some degree an overcorrection, but a backlash against many of those policies.
So I’m really tired of the identitarianism that we see in this country that says because you were a certain sex or gender or race, that you should vote in this way, as if people aren’t individuals and cannot weigh these policies as individuals and on how they will best impact their lives. I think you’re absolutely right. Hannah Cox, thanks so much for joining us.
Thanks for having me. Well, Washington is cranking up the pressure on Israel, if you want to call it that, to get its act together regarding a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. So get this. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin have recently sent a letter to Israeli officials, a letter strongly worded here stating that if Israel does not step up within 30 days, they might just face some military aid restrictions and a wagging of the finger.
They want at least 358 trucks a day going into Gaza, and some actual pauses in the fighting in order to make that happen. Are you kidding me? Let’s be real here. Benjamin Netanyahu is not going to take this seriously. They wrote him a letter. Well over a million people right now in Gaza are at risk of starvation. And Israel has 30 days to respond.
Again, this humanitarian situation in Israel has been dire for over a year now. And meanwhile, the U.S. this week announced that they’re sending missile systems and they’re sending U.S. troops to support Israel’s defense, even as the World Food Program reports that no aid trucks have made it into Gaza this month. So I’ll repeat. Israel was supposed to respond to a strongly worded letter as we continue to send them weapons and missiles and U.S. troops.

But make sure you respond to that letter as soon as possible. Benjamin Netanyahu. That is our report for today. Thanks for watching. Be sure to check us out online. You can check us out on X @Truth_InMedia. Or you can watch all of our full episodes at TruthInMedia.com.

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