carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. you were a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with. can you feel the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed. he won re-election to a fourth term in the senate 54 to 46%. that strategy worked, it worked well, making gant the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage ipfavor of less qualified minorities, it was potent stuff. the race baiting and the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered them a
people as the central players shush, don t tell them. well, cats out of the bag. it s happening. i think it happened today. thank you for the book plug, as well. thank you my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the year was 1990. republican incumbent north carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election. so helms cold in the political consultants, who helped the helms campaign figure out a way to fight back. and this is what they came up with. this ad. you needed that job. you are the best qualified. but they had to give it to a minority tick is of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt says he supports ted kennedy s racial quota law but makes the color of your skin more important than your qualifications. you ll vote on this issue next tuesday. for racial quotas, i began. it against racial quotas, jesse helms. that added, with
the year was 1990, republican incumbent of north carolina senator jesse helms was polling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election, so home called in the political consultants who, in turn, helped the helms campaign figure out a way to fight back, and this is what they came up with, this ad. you needed that job, but they had to give it to a minority because of the racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt says it is. he supports the racial quota law, making the color of your skin more important in your qualifications. you will vote on this issue next tuesday, harvey gantt . that ad, with the white hands holding the rejection letter as the narrator intones you are a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with, can you steal the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed, he. term in the senate, 54 to 46%. that strategy worked. it worked well. making ga
now turning the tables as we learn new leads on the biden family money trail. zero in on the remaining unknown biden who appears to have received $70,000 from the chinese electric company in a deal with the parent ties to the biden family enterprise. jonathan turley and joe concha standing by. first, we go to david spent who gist us the latest this afternoon on a friday from there on this case. hi, david. hi, martha. you mentioned aggressive. it s clear hunter biden s team has upped the ante. this counterclaim today it s a counter suit against this computer repair shop owner makes interesting observations and questions including questioning of who owned the laptop. i want to read this specific part. it s a foot note. it says this is not an admission by mr. biden that mack isaac, the shop owners or others possessed any real laptop containing data belonging to mr. biden. mr. biden says at some point matt isaac obtained electronically stored data some of which belongs to mr.
i mean, first of all, he s acknowledging with the military has said, which many people said is that diversity is paramount to having functioning society but also a functioning business or a great college or university. he acknowledges that that s okay for the military, but that s not okay for other areas of american life. the cynicism of that, when we re talking about brown and black people, it s okay to ship them off to war, but don t ask as ketanji brown jackson said in her opinion, don t put them in the boardroom. john roberts has been prosecuting the case against affirmative action for quite some time. he has had to mask it in a number of number of ways. he is mastered about this term with some through voting rights or not. but a bottom this is a conservative court. a super majority of conservative justices doing conservative things. and here this whole nod to the military academies, the military academies are no different from other institutions of higher education. colleges h