and that kind of typifies the difference between the two parties and thou they target black voters. for republicans it s helping to fund a strong man candidate designed to syphon votes from the opposing party. for democrats it s creating actual legislation to help black communities. it s talking policy. as president biden did today when he delivered the commencement address at a historically black university in south carolina. with the infrastructure law we just wrote and signed into law and jim did so much to pass, we re going to pass better jobs for millions of peoples to rebuild our roads, highways, bridges, small towns, rural communities. it means more opportunities for black businessmen, black contractors, black engineers building black communities back to where they have to be. and i mean it. so if you don t know the community it s hard to know what it needs. joining us now eugene
daniels, white house reporter for politico and an msnbc political contributor. eugene, i ve been waiting to talk to you all night about this. i want your reaction to this kanye report but also, come on, republicans, you think running kanye is going to get you black votes? why do republicans do this? look, you re trying to get me in trouble on a friday night. i think the thing as you re reading this over and over and this story is what you realize is that the misunderstanding of black voters by certain segments of the political world is still at an all-time high in a way that is kind of shocking, right? because something black voters have made very clear over and over and over again is that they take the right to vote very seriously that in 2020 they felt the stakes were very high. so there s no world in which a bunch of black voters were going to change their mind and flock to kanye west because they liked
potentially stealing biden votes. the daily beast reports the kanye 2020 campaign committee didn t even report paying some of these republican advisers and used an odd abbreviation for another moves which campaign finance experts say appear designed to mask the association between gop operatives and them campaign and could constitute a violation of federal laws. eugene, it s clear republicans wanted to hide their connections to kanye. but, come on, i remember during the campaign and i m sure you did, too, we all knew. we all been done knew this was going on, right? right. i mean the reporting in this story makes it pretty clear it s possible even kanye didn t know this was happening, there were republicans within the campaign. and what s really, really interesting i think trying to unspool this and figure out what happened here sounds like it s going to be impossible not
the dropout or the graduate or any of his albums, right? that wasn t something that was going to happen. he wasn t talking about policy, and they saw joe biden. they know joe biden as someone who s going to, you know, take put his hands on the will of the country and move them forward, right? that is what black voters thought in south carolina in the primary, and they thought that all the way through the general election. so putting kanye or any rapper up i think would not have worked. beyonce maybe but kanye right. i was going to say if you re going to go down that route, jay-z, beyonce. those are for okay, i don t want to get you in trouble. i don t want to get you fired. you re just engaged, about to get married, don t want to mess up the household. look, eugene, it s not about
right, and so we believe that as an administrator. i believe that as mayor, and we ll continue to make sure we fight for flint and all american citizens for this country. flint michigan mayor sheldon neeley, thank you for joining us tonight. coming up, it s friday night. how you feeling? feeling good? well, sorry in advance. there is new reporting about these two characters that s going to make you mad. eugene daniels joins me next. u . eugene daniels joins me next i want a sugar cookie. wait. i want a bucket of chicken. i want. it s the easiest because it s the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win.