did the young african-americans see somebody who could knock the block off donald trump? i think they were seeing her as qualified and i think last night saw her even more qualified. there are people worried after barack obama they got donald trump in there, whether they re ready for that. whether the nation is ready for a woman or african-american, she put that to bed last night because she was able to go after joe biden in a hard way. i want to quickly say when we talk about representation or people of color, it s not gone away. there are definitely schools not integrated and majority white. and people saying the school i send my child to is integration issues and still only one black woman in the senate. the power shift is still largely white and male, you look at the democratic party. chris, can i tell you, last
those things because he could and get the benefit of the doubt. people like him. 48% of african-american voters going into that supported senator biden. you know joe, even when he was pretending he was neil kinnock speech, he never apologized for that. should he have said i shouldn t have gone with busing and that alliance. he didn t back off this today, by the way, senator. i did listen to his speech. what he was trying to say, overall, he was pushing hard to make sure everybody could have fairness and justice and equality. it is hard for joe to say the words all politics hate to say, i was wrong. the thing is, what saved him so far, remember, every single pun
beat hillary clinton among african-american voters because they picked a potential winner. does kamala harris look like a potential winner to take all the marbles right now? the problem is, in this scenario, joe biden is hillary clinton, not barack obama. this is a generational divide. older african-americans are four square for joe. they know him. but what about kamala harris? that s exactly it. black voters under 50 are shopping anyway. they will look at kamala harris and see a president. that s what sunk hillary clinton. i looked at all the factors that affected donald trump, it was nostalgia? can democrats beat nostalgia with nostalgia or do they need to beat it with change. last night, kamala harris is change and joe biden is nostalgia. totally political but the ethnic piece is part of that.
debate but to win. she was looking joe biden in the eye and going after the very popular former vice president. there s two things i think this signals as vulnerability for joe biden. number one, it made it clear he is a candidate of the past, a nostalgic candidate. the era bind and some of his contemporaries are nostalgic for is an era of compromises between one white leader and another excluded in a lot of ways, people of color and it casts kamala harris as that generational hinge, one of the people who suffered as a result. second, it punctured the idea joe biden would be the best person to go up against donald trump in a debate. kamala harris threw him off. he didn t seem to have an answer prepared. he had to know someone would ask. the one black woman of color, if
night after the debate, pull up that video. who was crowded around kamala harris after the debate? black women. i noticed that, too. there was such a vivid picture last night of biden putting his head down after being whacked by her. why was he putting his head down? what was that about. thank you. i agree with joy most of the time because i think things are moving in that direction. i think biden didn t look like he could beat trump last night. that younger woman, the prosecutor with a personal story, which she didn t have in the earlier fights with bret cavanaugh and bill barr, this time she had a personal witness to bring to it, not just a professional. i think that gave her the equipment to win last night like i ve never seen anybody win. this is the biggest knockout since lloyd benson knocked out dan quayle. thank you former senator barbara boxer and joy s new book, trump