county was a 6% drop in turnout. there were 37,000 viewer voters in that county that holds detroit. so when you look at that 11,000 margin in a county that voted in a 2-1 favor for hillary clinton, the kamala harris campaign contends that they would win michigan if you just drive that turnout to barack obama levels of 2012. kasie. and certainly that was a big part of barack obama s strategy was driving up turnout in heavily african american areas. allie vitale, you re just back from covering elizabeth warren. she and other women candidates have also been facing these quote/unquote electability questions. yeah. i think there is two conversations people are having when they talk about electability, though. on the one hand, it s can you beat trump, which is top concern for most voters that i talk to. on the other hand, it s that lurking gender question that we re all very much aware of. on the electability trump front, elizabeth warren did struggle with that at the beginning, because
as you know, two-thirds of the votes are, they have about a 3.5% lead statewide. it may not sound like it s gigantic. it s not presidential year margin, but it s probably going to be enough because there probably aren t enough votes out there unless heller can really get a huge margin in the rural counties on tuesday. and that s going to be very, very difficult to do. a gender question. is it better to be a woman candidate in nevada now than a male candidate? has it changed? like in california, it seems like it s an advantage. but your thoughts. yeah, i think so. there is some conflicting evidence about what the makeup of the electorate is, though, chris. i think it s more female than male, but jackie rosen would become the second female senator elected from nevada. as you know, two years ago, kathryn cortez mass tell became the first latina ever elected on the strength of the hispanic vote in the presidential year turnout. i think it is an advantage for jackie rosen, and especiall
justice kavanaugh. he grew up here with one of the most powerful figures in american politics, bar none before he became confirmed to be a justice on the supreme court. so very much it s important to remember. your point here is absolutely right. it is a class question as well as a gender question. christine ford was also a member of the same class, the same washington community. we can t discount how much this conversation changed when avenatti came in with the swetnick allegations of gang rape. you think he if you listen to susan collins speech yesterday, and the rhetoric on the right and coming out of the white house. they seized upon this much less credible looking set of allegations to taint the original ones by association. and this is the thing that, hey, mothers, your sons are going to be hit with fraudulent allegations, where suddenly they were drugging and gang raping everyone, and everyone s what is
community. trump campaigned on draining the swamp but you won t find someone who is more a creature of washington than judge soon to be justice kavanaugh is. spent much of his career here, grew up here. one of the most powerful figures in american politics before he became confirmed to be a justice on the supreme court. so very much it s important to remember your point is absolutely right. it is a class question as well as a gender question. remember christine blasey ford was a member of the same washington community. i think we can t discount how much this conversation changed when avenatti came in with the swetnick allegations of can you gang rape stuff that seems to have been much less taken as credit credible. do you think he gummed it up? if you listen to susan collins speech yesterday and the rhetoric on the right, they seized upon this much less credible looking set of allegations to taint the original ones by association.
mass and race and boundaries and some interesting ways pushing the envelope. something interesting about 1991 and now there was a process. that process is now completely broken in my view race is bracketed. so the gender question is. what is interesting between 1991 and now is the fund mental ground of sexism in the country hasn t been up ended if that makes sense. i ve been asking myself the question particularly given the last segment about what have we learned from the me too movement? have we learned? right now we ve been embroiled in adjudicating individual cases of harm, but what s the big cultural shift? since we re confronting this,