WEBVTT - DNC Shorts: Harris Campaign Managers Julie Chávez Rodriguez & Quentin Fulks 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.960 Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:05.400 with Reason Choice Media. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.879 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:11.520 Hey, fam You're about to hear a replay of one 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.480 of our interviews from our live stream at the Democratic 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:15.440 National Convention. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:16.000 Now. 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.720 If you want to listen to or watch the full stream, 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.680 be sure to check out links in the episode description. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.000 You can also find a full list of all the 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.200 guests we've interviewed. Welcome home, y'all. 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.000 You guys, it's almost prime time and I actually wanted 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.680 to wait for them to get their headphones on because 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:38.120 I am thrilled. I can't tell you how much Julie 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.880 Chavez Rodriguez is committed to the work. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:42.600 She very rarely does press. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.400 This is Kamala Harris's campaign manager. Well not even just 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.000 about the looks. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:51.400 I didn't see that. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.560 Yes, you are fabulous, but she's Kamala Harris's campaign manager 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:00.360 and she's joined tonight by the principal deputy campaign manager, 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:01.160 Quentin Folks. 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:02.480 They roll toe to toe. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.959 It always got each other's back and wanted to come 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.120 join us together. So welcome to you both. Thank you 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.200 for this making it on this history to night. You 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:10.040 got to be thrilled. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:14.679 You all got time to sacrifice. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.400 I acknowledging, yes, we appreciate you guys get here, and Julie, 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.840 I just wanted to tell you on our podcast your 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:26.360 your ears uh maybe burning? Because Angela is so frequently 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.400 when we say well, what does the campaign need to 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.679 do or what needs to happen, she says, listen to Julie. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:31.800 Listen to Julie. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.240 So we are really thrilled to have you here tonight. 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.160 I want to ask you, what would you say to 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:43.080 the American people, Uh, some who may feel apathetic, some 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.520 who may feel well, all this enthusiasm, the race is 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.240 pretty much one uh some of these mysterious swing voters 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.160 that people keep talking about. What does this campaign need 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.440 to push President elect Kamala Harris over the edge? 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.440 Well, I love that you call her president elect Kamala 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.400 Harris because look, we believe that we have a strategy 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.120 and our pathway to victory to win in November, and 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.640 we are very excited, but we also know that it's 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.600 going to be a close election. We are not taking 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.520 anything for granted, any voter for granted. Fortunately, you know, 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.480 Quentin and I have built an incredible organization in our 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.760 battleground states. We've been able to raise the resources that 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.600 we need to invest in organizing and getting on the 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.000 doors doing you know what we say, focusing on the fundamentals, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.600 right canvassing, phone banks, text banks, doing everything that we 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.400 can to be able to reach our voters. In addition 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:34.400 to the incredible paid media campaign that Quintin is helping 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:38.120 to lead that is speaking directly to our voters, speaking 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.000 directly to Black voters, Latino voters, young voters, women voters. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.160 That's who we need to reach and draw out in 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.600 the next seventy four days of this election. And the 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.600 enthusiasm is incredible, but we have to turn that into 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:52.840 real action and votes in November. 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:53.800 Yeah, I love that. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.519 The granddaughter, by the way, itsay's our job is so 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.880 appreciate you, Quentin, thank you for being here. 0:02:58.919 --> 0:02:59.639 Thank you guys having me. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:00.440 Well. 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.760 Can I go directly to a question for quin I 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:07.480 don't know all of your political background, but you're a 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.120 black man, and so I'd love for you to speak 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.160 to some of this. I don't know how much of 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.320 it is rumor how much of it is real, but 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.680 I know we need every vote, which means we got 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.920 to speak to everybody. How is the campaign figured in 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.720 these final days and weeks of the campaign that we 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.120 again begin to upset some of this narrative that black 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.560 men are somehow mysteriously not going to be there for 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:37.680 Kamala Harris. I think numbers betray that sort of narrative. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.360 But is there something a message that you would try 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.920 to get out there to black men around the role 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.960 that we may have in these closing days of the 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.840 election to try to I think bring us all together 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.120 toward a common goal, and that's electing Kamala Harris President 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:52.920 of the United States. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:53.400 Yeah. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.360 So, I mean my answer to that first and foremost 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.520 is you got to vote. And I think sometimes it 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.200 can be hard to do that, especially when you keep 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.080 getting asked to do it over and over and over 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.960 again and you don't feel like anything is necessarily changing. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.880 And so for me, when it comes to you know, 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.040 what we have to do, obviously, the vice president has to, 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.760 you know, draft a vision for this country that includes 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.160 black men. And I don't think it's just Kamala Harris 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.800 or Democrats has to do better. It is Democrats because 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.279 we need their vote, but everybody has to do better 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.200 when it comes to black men. And I think we 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.479 got to show it represented in the campaign. I got 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.000 to think we got to show it represented in the 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.200 policy proposals and the agenda that she's putting forward. And 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:29.919 how we do it. I think we also have to 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:34.080 be different from a you know, a standpoint of you know, 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.080 how we're moving and shaking within the campaign to say 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.920 it in a different way. And I think that they 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.320 will recognize that. But I don't like to sort of 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.120 just say, oh, well, black men have to turn out 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.400 it just because it's a Democrat. I think black men 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.720 have to turn out because they see themselves invested in something. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.200 It's incredibly important to the Vice President, which is why 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.039 she has been doing. She hosted these black Men's dinners, 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:57.440 she did the Economic Opportunity chore with a CBC chairman, 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.520 Steve Horsford, and so we have to continue to do 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:00.839 that and we have to build off of it. But 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:02.920 at the end of the day, we as a campaign 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.320 have the responsibility of making sure black men see themselves 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.600 in the vision that Kamala Harrison Tim Walls are putting 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.680 forward for America. And I think when we do that, 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:11.200 they will turn off the vote. 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.080 And so still hugely a part of that strategy is 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:22.120 that part of what I missed the message. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.760 And he was apologizing for some of the stuff that 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.560 this misinformation and stuff he spread before. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:27.719 But since we are talking. 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.760 About tonight, I wanted to drop y'all into the celebration 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:31.520 of this moment. 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.359 Julie, this is a long time coming. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.360 You've been with Kamala since you were a state director 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:38.440 in her Senate office. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.040 That's how I met her is through. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.800 Julie, and I just want you all, if you can, 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.560 to preview for us some of what you expect in 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:46.599 her remarks tonight. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.159 How do you think she'll continue to bring everybody together? 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.920 It was miraculous which y'all pulled off that Sunday afternoon, 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:57.320 right after Joe Biden said, Kamala's my person. You rally 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.560 all the delegates, all the people that you needed to 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.240 within a matter of forty eight hours or a lot less. 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.640 So talk about how she's going to continue to galvanize 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:05.880 this really important base tonight. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.760 Yeah, Well, thank you for the question, and you know, 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.240 we are so excited about this evening. I think it's 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.400 a real opportunity for her to one talk about her bio, 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.960 her experience, the work that she has done throughout her 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.640 career and who she's been fighting for day in and 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.000 day out when she's in the halls of power. I 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.080 know and I have seen that she has been fighting 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.640 for us, for our families, for our communities, day in 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.840 and day out, and then seeing, you know, what the 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.560 vision is for the future. As you know we've seen 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.440 throughout the convention, our theme is, you know, for the people, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.480 for our future, and that's really what she's going to 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.719 continue to really vision for all of us to be 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.760 able to see ourselves. As Quentin said in what that 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.279 future looks like, in a future that is focused on freedom. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:50.840 And it's freedom to. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.680 Be able to live and retire with dignity. It's freedom 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.760 to be able to live free from gun violence. It's 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.520 freedom to make decisions about our own bodies. It's you know, 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.200 the freedom to be able to afford a house and 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:08.200 rent and the American dream that so many folks aspire to. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.080 That is the vision that she is going to continue 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.640 to focus on and invest in and make sure that 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:23.560 we have the policy prescriptions in place to get it done. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.000 She said, freedom enough. I wonder does that mean freedom 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:30.320 freedom Beyonce is coming. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:33.240 I don't know. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:34.480 I don't know. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.520 Honestly, I don't know. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:45.679 Julie said, you're not gonna get me one is Taylor 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.280 or Beyonce or Taylor and Beyonce because they did? 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:58.800 How the get me? 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.080 How is she paying for tonight? Because I heard she 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:05.720 was their so whole house getting lit before. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.160 That ridiculous, You did not hear that? 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.280 Fine, Julie said. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.120 You're not giving me on either one of these questions. 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.080 I think that the president is she is, you know, 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.800 very focused and understands the significance of the moment right 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.520 and the opportunity to not just be able to step 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.640 on the stage and be able to really show her 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.760 experience and her skills, but to also be able to 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.920 be you know, the example that so many young women 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.480 are going to be watching tonight. 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:36.640 You're not about. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.640 But y'all are prepared for people to be overly critical, 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.040 especially being that she hasn't you know, done any interviews 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.440 over the last few weeks, so people are waiting to 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.760 hear what she has to say. So everybody's going to 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:50.520 be overly critical of her, of her speak. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.199 But look, I think that what I would say to 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.160 that is that she's going to meet the moment tonight 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:55.120 because she's not trying to. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:56.840 Meet the moment there it is right. 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:01.800 And I and I think I think the difference in 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.440 between the Kamala Harris that you know, people have overly 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.000 criticized for for far too long and pointed out every 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.880 misstep or everything that they thought wrong. That's not who 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.920 she is anymore. She's not trying to prove anything to 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:13.960 anybody she's experienced. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.240 Would say she's never been there. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.000 Yeah, I would say she's never been there. I mean, 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:20.720 if you knew her before VP, and. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:21.880 That's what we all. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.520 So I had an expectation. So you know, the person 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:27.959 you saw the last three and a half years, that's 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:28.439 not her. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:29.920 She has a comfort in. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.360 Herself three and a half weeks is definitely who we've 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:32.839 been knowing it. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:33.360 We're so late. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:41.360 She's like allowed me to reintroduce myself. We know you 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.920 guys can't stay with us forever, but I wish you could. Julie, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:48.600 I'm gonna takes as a stay. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.120 I'm so excited now you guys need to. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:56.000 We wish you all radical success. Radical success means our 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.360 success in the country's success, and beyond that. I have 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.000 to admit the global stage, the global the world is 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.040 counting on us to get this right, yes, which means 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:06.480 we're counting on y'all to get it right, and y'all 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.000 accounting all of us to get it right. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:09.800 And we thank you if y'all see it before this 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.160 Pac and on my love till I'm rooting for and 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:13.560 you know, I hope she knocks it out the park 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:14.360 and then she will. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:15.280 We appreciate it. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.000 I appreciate that well, and I'll just send them with saying, 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.080 you know, one thing that President Obama used to remind 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:22.640 us all is that we are the ones we've been 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:23.480 waiting for. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.199 So time to do this. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.240 Oh you know what, since we have y'all on one thing, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:28.880 we've been asking everybody tonight, we. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.480 Can not get a floor pass. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:33.520 Anyway. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:39.840 The question is who favorite favorite. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:43.720 Speech this week? Get it, everybody. It's not even closed. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:45.880 It was. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.679 It was the most powerful and on point and just 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.319 everything like, yeah, but you wish that she. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:53.960 Would have closed instead of do you think that they 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.360 should have switched? You can answer, thank you for your. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.520 Time, we need, we appreciate and you. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:05.400 Know what, I number one now, I hope after tomorrow's 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.640 number two, and I hope the VP got the number 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.439 one Speech of the week after the next. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:19.240 Thank you, thank you, She appreciate you, thanks for listening 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.760 to you guys. Please please please remember to rate, review, subscribe, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.199 and tune into our regular episode on Thursdays. 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