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Speaker 3: Hey, fam You're about to hear a replay of one
Speaker 3: of our interviews from our live stream at the Democratic
Speaker 3: National Convention.
Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 3: You can also find a full list of all the
Speaker 3: guests we've interviewed. Welcome home, y'all.
Speaker 1: You guys, it's almost prime time and I actually wanted
Speaker 1: to wait for them to get their headphones on because
Speaker 1: I am thrilled. I can't tell you how much Julie
Speaker 1: Chavez Rodriguez is committed to the work.
Speaker 4: She very rarely does press.
Speaker 1: This is Kamala Harris's campaign manager. Well not even just
Speaker 1: about the looks.
Speaker 4: I didn't see that.
Speaker 1: Yes, you are fabulous, but she's Kamala Harris's campaign manager
Speaker 1: and she's joined tonight by the principal deputy campaign manager,
Speaker 1: Quentin Folks.
Speaker 4: They roll toe to toe.
Speaker 1: It always got each other's back and wanted to come
Speaker 1: join us together. So welcome to you both. Thank you
Speaker 1: for this making it on this history to night. You
Speaker 1: got to be thrilled.
Speaker 4: You all got time to sacrifice.
Speaker 3: I acknowledging, yes, we appreciate you guys get here, and Julie,
Speaker 3: I just wanted to tell you on our podcast your
Speaker 3: your ears uh maybe burning? Because Angela is so frequently
Speaker 3: when we say well, what does the campaign need to
Speaker 3: do or what needs to happen, she says, listen to Julie.
Speaker 4: Listen to Julie.
Speaker 3: So we are really thrilled to have you here tonight.
Speaker 3: I want to ask you, what would you say to
Speaker 3: the American people, Uh, some who may feel apathetic, some
Speaker 3: who may feel well, all this enthusiasm, the race is
Speaker 3: pretty much one uh some of these mysterious swing voters
Speaker 3: that people keep talking about. What does this campaign need
Speaker 3: to push President elect Kamala Harris over the edge?
Speaker 2: Well, I love that you call her president elect Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris because look, we believe that we have a strategy
Speaker 2: and our pathway to victory to win in November, and
Speaker 2: we are very excited, but we also know that it's
Speaker 2: going to be a close election. We are not taking
Speaker 2: anything for granted, any voter for granted. Fortunately, you know,
Speaker 2: Quentin and I have built an incredible organization in our
Speaker 2: battleground states. We've been able to raise the resources that
Speaker 2: we need to invest in organizing and getting on the
Speaker 2: doors doing you know what we say, focusing on the fundamentals,
Speaker 2: right canvassing, phone banks, text banks, doing everything that we
Speaker 2: can to be able to reach our voters. In addition
Speaker 2: to the incredible paid media campaign that Quintin is helping
Speaker 2: to lead that is speaking directly to our voters, speaking
Speaker 2: directly to Black voters, Latino voters, young voters, women voters.
Speaker 2: That's who we need to reach and draw out in
Speaker 2: the next seventy four days of this election. And the
Speaker 2: enthusiasm is incredible, but we have to turn that into
Speaker 2: real action and votes in November.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3: The granddaughter, by the way, itsay's our job is so
Speaker 3: appreciate you, Quentin, thank you for being here.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys having me.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: Can I go directly to a question for quin I
Speaker 5: don't know all of your political background, but you're a
Speaker 5: black man, and so I'd love for you to speak
Speaker 5: to some of this. I don't know how much of
Speaker 5: it is rumor how much of it is real, but
Speaker 5: I know we need every vote, which means we got
Speaker 5: to speak to everybody. How is the campaign figured in
Speaker 5: these final days and weeks of the campaign that we
Speaker 5: again begin to upset some of this narrative that black
Speaker 5: men are somehow mysteriously not going to be there for
Speaker 5: Kamala Harris. I think numbers betray that sort of narrative.
Speaker 5: But is there something a message that you would try
Speaker 5: to get out there to black men around the role
Speaker 5: that we may have in these closing days of the
Speaker 5: election to try to I think bring us all together
Speaker 5: toward a common goal, and that's electing Kamala Harris President
Speaker 5: of the United States.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So, I mean my answer to that first and foremost
Speaker 6: is you got to vote. And I think sometimes it
Speaker 6: can be hard to do that, especially when you keep
Speaker 6: getting asked to do it over and over and over
Speaker 6: again and you don't feel like anything is necessarily changing.
Speaker 6: And so for me, when it comes to you know,
Speaker 6: what we have to do, obviously, the vice president has to,
Speaker 6: you know, draft a vision for this country that includes
Speaker 6: black men. And I don't think it's just Kamala Harris
Speaker 6: or Democrats has to do better. It is Democrats because
Speaker 6: we need their vote, but everybody has to do better
Speaker 6: when it comes to black men. And I think we
Speaker 6: got to show it represented in the campaign. I got
Speaker 6: to think we got to show it represented in the
Speaker 6: policy proposals and the agenda that she's putting forward. And
Speaker 6: how we do it. I think we also have to
Speaker 6: be different from a you know, a standpoint of you know,
Speaker 6: how we're moving and shaking within the campaign to say
Speaker 6: it in a different way. And I think that they
Speaker 6: will recognize that. But I don't like to sort of
Speaker 6: just say, oh, well, black men have to turn out
Speaker 6: it just because it's a Democrat. I think black men
Speaker 6: have to turn out because they see themselves invested in something.
Speaker 6: It's incredibly important to the Vice President, which is why
Speaker 6: she has been doing. She hosted these black Men's dinners,
Speaker 6: she did the Economic Opportunity chore with a CBC chairman,
Speaker 6: Steve Horsford, and so we have to continue to do
Speaker 6: that and we have to build off of it. But
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, we as a campaign
Speaker 6: have the responsibility of making sure black men see themselves
Speaker 6: in the vision that Kamala Harrison Tim Walls are putting
Speaker 6: forward for America. And I think when we do that,
Speaker 6: they will turn off the vote.
Speaker 5: And so still hugely a part of that strategy is
Speaker 5: that part of what I missed the message.
Speaker 1: And he was apologizing for some of the stuff that
Speaker 1: this misinformation and stuff he spread before.
Speaker 4: But since we are talking.
Speaker 1: About tonight, I wanted to drop y'all into the celebration
Speaker 1: of this moment.
Speaker 4: Julie, this is a long time coming.
Speaker 1: You've been with Kamala since you were a state director
Speaker 1: in her Senate office.
Speaker 4: That's how I met her is through.
Speaker 1: Julie, and I just want you all, if you can,
Speaker 1: to preview for us some of what you expect in
Speaker 1: her remarks tonight.
Speaker 4: How do you think she'll continue to bring everybody together?
Speaker 1: It was miraculous which y'all pulled off that Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: right after Joe Biden said, Kamala's my person. You rally
Speaker 1: all the delegates, all the people that you needed to
Speaker 1: within a matter of forty eight hours or a lot less.
Speaker 1: So talk about how she's going to continue to galvanize
Speaker 1: this really important base tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, thank you for the question, and you know,
Speaker 2: we are so excited about this evening. I think it's
Speaker 2: a real opportunity for her to one talk about her bio,
Speaker 2: her experience, the work that she has done throughout her
Speaker 2: career and who she's been fighting for day in and
Speaker 2: day out when she's in the halls of power. I
Speaker 2: know and I have seen that she has been fighting
Speaker 2: for us, for our families, for our communities, day in
Speaker 2: and day out, and then seeing, you know, what the
Speaker 2: vision is for the future. As you know we've seen
Speaker 2: throughout the convention, our theme is, you know, for the people,
Speaker 2: for our future, and that's really what she's going to
Speaker 2: continue to really vision for all of us to be
Speaker 2: able to see ourselves. As Quentin said in what that
Speaker 2: future looks like, in a future that is focused on freedom.
Speaker 4: And it's freedom to.
Speaker 2: Be able to live and retire with dignity. It's freedom
Speaker 2: to be able to live free from gun violence. It's
Speaker 2: freedom to make decisions about our own bodies. It's you know,
Speaker 2: the freedom to be able to afford a house and
Speaker 2: rent and the American dream that so many folks aspire to.
Speaker 2: That is the vision that she is going to continue
Speaker 2: to focus on and invest in and make sure that
Speaker 2: we have the policy prescriptions in place to get it done.
Speaker 1: She said, freedom enough. I wonder does that mean freedom
Speaker 1: freedom Beyonce is coming.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 7: Honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Julie said, you're not gonna get me one is Taylor
Speaker 1: or Beyonce or Taylor and Beyonce because they did?
Speaker 4: How the get me?
Speaker 7: How is she paying for tonight? Because I heard she
Speaker 7: was their so whole house getting lit before.
Speaker 3: That ridiculous, You did not hear that?
Speaker 4: Fine, Julie said.
Speaker 1: You're not giving me on either one of these questions.
Speaker 2: I think that the president is she is, you know,
Speaker 2: very focused and understands the significance of the moment right
Speaker 2: and the opportunity to not just be able to step
Speaker 2: on the stage and be able to really show her
Speaker 2: experience and her skills, but to also be able to
Speaker 2: be you know, the example that so many young women
Speaker 2: are going to be watching tonight.
Speaker 4: You're not about.
Speaker 7: But y'all are prepared for people to be overly critical,
Speaker 7: especially being that she hasn't you know, done any interviews
Speaker 7: over the last few weeks, so people are waiting to
Speaker 7: hear what she has to say. So everybody's going to
Speaker 7: be overly critical of her, of her speak.
Speaker 6: But look, I think that what I would say to
Speaker 6: that is that she's going to meet the moment tonight
Speaker 6: because she's not trying to.
Speaker 4: Meet the moment there it is right.
Speaker 6: And I and I think I think the difference in
Speaker 6: between the Kamala Harris that you know, people have overly
Speaker 6: criticized for for far too long and pointed out every
Speaker 6: misstep or everything that they thought wrong. That's not who
Speaker 6: she is anymore. She's not trying to prove anything to
Speaker 6: anybody she's experienced.
Speaker 1: Would say she's never been there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say she's never been there. I mean,
Speaker 7: if you knew her before VP, and.
Speaker 4: That's what we all.
Speaker 7: So I had an expectation. So you know, the person
Speaker 7: you saw the last three and a half years, that's
Speaker 7: not her.
Speaker 4: She has a comfort in.
Speaker 1: Herself three and a half weeks is definitely who we've
Speaker 1: been knowing it.
Speaker 4: We're so late.
Speaker 1: She's like allowed me to reintroduce myself. We know you
Speaker 1: guys can't stay with us forever, but I wish you could. Julie,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna takes as a stay.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited now you guys need to.
Speaker 5: We wish you all radical success. Radical success means our
Speaker 5: success in the country's success, and beyond that. I have
Speaker 5: to admit the global stage, the global the world is
Speaker 5: counting on us to get this right, yes, which means
Speaker 5: we're counting on y'all to get it right, and y'all
Speaker 5: accounting all of us to get it right.
Speaker 7: And we thank you if y'all see it before this
Speaker 7: Pac and on my love till I'm rooting for and
Speaker 7: you know, I hope she knocks it out the park
Speaker 7: and then she will.
Speaker 6: We appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that well, and I'll just send them with saying,
Speaker 2: you know, one thing that President Obama used to remind
Speaker 2: us all is that we are the ones we've been
Speaker 2: waiting for.
Speaker 4: So time to do this.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what, since we have y'all on one thing,
Speaker 1: we've been asking everybody tonight, we.
Speaker 5: Can not get a floor pass.
Speaker 4: Anyway.
Speaker 1: The question is who favorite favorite.
Speaker 4: Speech this week? Get it, everybody. It's not even closed.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 2: It was the most powerful and on point and just
Speaker 2: everything like, yeah, but you wish that she.
Speaker 4: Would have closed instead of do you think that they
Speaker 4: should have switched? You can answer, thank you for your.
Speaker 5: Time, we need, we appreciate and you.
Speaker 7: Know what, I number one now, I hope after tomorrow's
Speaker 7: number two, and I hope the VP got the number
Speaker 7: one Speech of the week after the next.
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