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Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris is officially running for president of

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Speaker 1: the United States. She posted a statement on x formerly

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Speaker 1: Twitter quote on behalf of the American people. I thank

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the

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Speaker 1: United States and for its decades of service to our country.

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Speaker 1: I am honored to have the President's endorsement, and my

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Speaker 1: intention is to earn and win this nomination. Vice President

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Speaker 1: Harris raised close to sixty million dollars from donors and

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Speaker 1: grassroots supporters hours after her campaign launch, According to fundraising

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Speaker 1: platform Act Blue. Vice President Harris has secured the backing

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Speaker 1: of some of the Democrats' biggest donors and Hollywood celebrities

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Speaker 1: like Barbara Streisan, Cheryl Lee, Ralph Jamie Lee, Curtis, Robin Seed,

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Speaker 1: Tina Knowles, Rosie O'Donnell Carti B. Carti B posted on

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Speaker 1: social media, stop playing with me said this on June thirtieth.

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Speaker 1: Bento ya Kamala should have been the twenty twenty four candidate,

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Speaker 1: fike Ly posted, once again, a sister comes to the rescue.

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Speaker 1: Yes this is true, no lifestone right. Yes this is

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Speaker 1: good to me. I love it.

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Speaker 2: We were talking about it at the beginning of the show,

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Speaker 2: telling me about the phone call with the black women

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Speaker 2: that was had on Sunday night and just energized.

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Speaker 1: I think the country is energized right now. We're excited.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you see that donors, celebrities, everyone is energized

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Speaker 2: by VP Harris as the Democratic Party nominee for president.

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Speaker 1: Come on, how does that sound sound? Sound right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And she's still gotta win the nomination at the Democratic

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Speaker 1: Convention going down in August. But she's had so much support.

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Speaker 1: I think she's done what but I didn't think could

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Speaker 1: be done, and that's bring the Democrats together for once.

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Speaker 1: Yah know, I feel party unity right now. You know

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Speaker 1: with her three days ago, we looked like a shipwreck,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It just looked bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we absolutely did. Democratic Representative Jim Clyborne of South Carolina

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Speaker 1: also endorsed VP Harris for president. Referring to Biden, he said,

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Speaker 1: I echo the good judgment he demonstrated in selecting VP

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Speaker 1: Harris to lead this nation alongside him, and I am

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Speaker 1: proud to follow his lead in support of her candidacy

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Speaker 1: to succeed him as a Democratic Party's twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: nominee for president, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocassia Cortes pledge her full

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Speaker 1: support to Vice President Kamala Harris, and she posted this

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Speaker 1: statement on social media. She said, now, more than ever,

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Speaker 1: it is crucial that our party and country swiftly unite

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Speaker 1: to defeat Donald Trump and the threat to American democracy.

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Speaker 1: End quote. There we go. You know what I want

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Speaker 1: to see? Now? What now? I want to see a debate.

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Speaker 1: That's what I want between Yeah, oh, between the prosecutor.

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Speaker 2: Because who assure Yeah, I can sure you you not

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Speaker 2: ready to debate this, sister.

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Speaker 1: I can show you you not ready. She's built for this, baby,

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Speaker 1: she is built for this. Yes, yes, yes. So now

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Speaker 1: we got to get to the polls. We got to vote.

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Speaker 1: We got to find out what our registration status is.

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Speaker 1: All of that. Uh, you know, if you've changed, if

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Speaker 1: you've moved, you got to update your address so you

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Speaker 1: can find you a new polling place. It's still a

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Speaker 1: lot of work to be done in a very short

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Speaker 1: period of time, but we can do it, though.

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Speaker 2: We can do it, especially if you're a first time voter.

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Speaker 2: You know, Tommy, you talked about this earlier in the

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Speaker 2: interview with Roland Martin talking about energizing the youth and

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Speaker 2: getting out to the polls.

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Speaker 1: And it was funny. I was having a conversation with.

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Speaker 2: A young person who is old enough to vote, and

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Speaker 2: you know what he said. He said, well, you know,

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Speaker 2: we don't vote because you know before we didn't like

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Speaker 2: either candidate.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, that's some reason not to vote.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what we have been dealing for your vote? Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're live, y'all, just getting to the party. We've been here.

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Speaker 1: This is what we do. We vote, right, So it's

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Speaker 1: our job to school them.

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Speaker 2: It's our job to teach them, just like you know

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Speaker 2: Rolland was saying, and like it said yesterday on air,

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Speaker 2: you know, so we got work to do, y'all in

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Speaker 2: a short amount of time.

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Speaker 1: We got a lot of work to do. Way to

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Speaker 1: go in a small way to get there, short way

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Speaker 1: to get there. That's what my faster used to say

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Speaker 1: all the time, well before he started sermon. Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: get it. I got a long way to go in

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Speaker 1: a short period of time. Let's go. But it looks

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Speaker 1: a little brighter. I'm feeling a lot brighter right now. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next to nephew in Today's Frank phone call.

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