Michael steele former spokesman for john boehner. so, we just heard that voter, jada, point out elizabeth warren s proposals. those plans that elizabeth warren rolled out student debt reform, child care and affordable housing. michael steele, we ll start with you. do you think these proposals will help warren break through to specifically black voters? that is what she is hoping. it is hard to have a strategy, historically, where you don t compete seriously in the first two states of iowa and new hampshire. i think what we re looking at here is senator warren has to get past bernie sanders and has to surpass bernie sanders in new hampshire and that will be the sling shot that sends her addressing the policy concerns that many voters have.
Her policies. geoff, that very first woman you heard from, jada campbell. she s a waitress here in town and trying to save up money to return to college. the reason i bring up jada is she is much like the rest of this electorate that we talked to through the last up canal months in south carolina. a question of who is kamala harris. she did not know who she was. i asked her about bernie sanders. she said that is where her support would lie. she said she saw more of that moderate type of a candidate. whether it be joe biden or hillary clinton. where hillary clinton got them last go around. there is a large part of this electera electorate that needs to be introduced. thank you for your time. joining me now to break this all down is zerlina maxwell and
Question if i may, a lot of these folks want to hear from the candidates. some of the people i spoke with, the question on their mind was who is kamala harris. let me introduce you to jada campbell in katarina, lopez. what about kamala harris? kamala harris. haven t heard of kamala harris. is he representing the democratic party? or independent? reporter: kamala harris is actually a democratic senator from california. oh, okay. reporter: he s a woman of color, she s going to be down the road in spartanburg. do you know who you re talking about? i m sorry. reporter: it s okay. you would be interested to know more about her, though? absolutely. i heard you guys talking about harris. reporter: kamala harris. yes. i m not sure how to say her name. she sounds very interesting and i was definitely wanting to hear a little bit more when i had walked past because i tried to do a quick google search, it just brought up her campaigning
And whatnot. reporter: in defense of both those women you heard from, craig, there are issues that are very much important to them. the first woman, jada, is a waitress, trying to raise enough money to go return to college. but what we hear, and again, to their defense, there s 23 candidates in this race. if you look across the country, morning consult released a poll this week showing where african-americans support is. most of it is with joe biden, with bernie sanders and kamala harris behind him. folks know who bernie sanders and joe biden is. kamala harris is just in her third year in the u.s. senate. she s from california. there is a large part, just because you ve been here six times does not mean the folks here in south carolina are familiar with you. and what we heard from those women and other folks that we talked to is that they want to hear from these candidates. that s a good eight months until the south carolina primary.