With the elections starting to show a move toward Trump, the Harris-Walz strategy is showing symptoms of despair. They’re sending former president Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to seal the deal for her rather than just sending Kamala out for ball conversations.
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On Thursday night, Barack Obama was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, tasked with the work of boosting dark voter turnout for Kamala Harris. More particularly, Obama’s goal was to help Kamala get over black people, who are extremely leaning toward Trump.
Obama’s communications was, to say the least, disrespectful. Like Joe Biden’s “you ai n’t black” moment in the 2020 campaign, Barack Obama used race and gender to shame black men for not supporting Kamala.
He implied that black people are hesitant to support Harris because she’s a girl and urged them to evaluate, suggesting that real power is n’t about supporting Trump’s “bullying” actions. Obama painted Harris’s management as a way to stand up for those in need, framing Trump’s laws as dangerous.
” Because part of it makes me think—and I’m speaking to men directly—part of it makes me think that, well, you just are n’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that”, Obama reportedly said. And then you’re considering supporting someone who has a history of demonizing you because you believe that’s a sign of strength, as a result of your thinking that being a gentleman is? Putting women over? That’s not appropriate”.  ,
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Sending Obama out there to increase the black men vote for Kamala was, on its face, hungry, and still Obama’s speech somehow managed to make it worse. For Obama to suggest that black men vote based on identification, or accusing them of rejecting Harris only according to her sex, reveals the party’s main concern. Obama’s march conversation just underscored his concerns about Harris’s ability to win, as he could n’t plausibly argue that Harris’s plans have improved black life during her sin president.
Former Democratic Ohio position Sen. Nina Turner blasted Obama’s speech on CNN.
Why are dark people receiving such harsh instruction? she asked. Why are dark men being demonized in way that no other election party does?
” Today, a lot of love for former President Obama”, she continued,” but for him to single out black people is bad. And some of the black people I’ve spoken with had arguments for their differing voting preferences. And even if some of us may not like that, we must honor it.
Turner, who was the former national co-chair of Bernie Sanders ‘ 2020 presidential campaign, was n’t finished blasting Obama.
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My message to Democrats is to bring it to black men, who, by and large, do n’t vote much differently from black women, unless President Barack Obama goes out and lecturing every other group of men from other identity groups, she continued. However, President Obama should correct this. When black men have their own reasons, the Harris-Walz strategy should take the wrong program.
It’s wrong to focus on Black men when they are the most devoted men’s voting bloc for Democrats because Black men and Black women do n’t vote very differently.
It’s patronizing and bad. photograph. twitter.com/2OXmq9q1TW
— Nina Turner ( @ninaturner ) October 11, 2024
Ouch.