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13-05-2025
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Jasmine Crockett points to Kamala Harris' role as prosecutor as reason she had trouble with Black men
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, pointed to former Vice President Kamala Harris' role as a prosecutor on Monday as a reason why she didn't perform well with Black men in the 2024 election. Crockett appeared on The Chuck ToddCast with ex-NBC News host Chuck Todd, who asked the Democratic lawmaker if Black male voters were hesitant to vote for a woman. Harris served as a district attorney for San Francisco as well as California Attorney General before launching a bid for the Senate and ultimately serving as vice president. The former VP faced criticism from both sides of the political aisle over her prosecution record. "I definitely think that there was misogyny in this across the board no matter what color male you're talking about. I just think that you'd be in error to not like know that there was misogyny that existed," she said. "The very first polling briefing that we had, with a pollster that I trust a lot, he briefed the Black caucus, and he said that one of the issues that he was running into with Black and Brown communities was that she had been a prosecutor." Black Group Fires Back At Obama For 'Insulting' Harris Pitch: 'Worst Kind Of Identity Politics' "There was definitely some resume stuff that disallowed her from being able to build the type of rapport of trust within these marginalized communities that historically have been targeted," she said. Read On The Fox News App Crockett told Todd that she was given guidance to lean into Harris' background as a prosecutor, which she believed was not going to be helpful. "When I did it, I did a bit of a swing on it, right, as a criminal defense attorney, and I explained like this is the kind of prosecutor we all would have wanted, right? So, I built it that way," she added. Crockett said a prominent rapper told her he was uncomfortable openly endorsing Harris, citing her prosecution record. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture "So he told me that one of the issues was just kind of like the prosecutor thing. And I said, and I made sure to talk about the things that we had been told move the needle with these groups, right? Like knowing that she had like second-chance programs and things like that, like letting them know that she was one of the good ones," she said. The lawmaker argued that the fact that Harris was a prosecutor was "baked in" and people didn't know much beyond that. "When you're talking about 107 days of a campaign, it's kind of hard to get that across," she added. Crockett recently suggested Democrats were looking to run the "safest White boy" in 2028. "It is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system, will have about voting for a woman because every time we voted for a woman, we've lost, so far," she said in a clip posted to Instagram. "And I think that that's a natural fear because we just want to win." The Democratic congresswoman added, "I had a donor on the phone with me telling me that all the donors are lining up behind that candidate. So I can tell, and I tell you, it's not a Black person, nor a woman, OK?"Original article source: Jasmine Crockett points to Kamala Harris' role as prosecutor as reason she had trouble with Black men
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10-04-2025
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Media Feared They'd Be ‘Helping Trump' by Covering Biden's Mental State, Chuck Todd Says
The mainstream media was scared it would be perceived as 'helping Trump' if it reported on former President Joe Biden's cognitive decline, ex-NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd said. Todd made his comment while appearing on 'Piers Morgan Uncensored' on Wednesday. Morgan asked Todd, who left NBC earlier this year, 'why was the mainstream media so reluctant' to cover President Biden's mental state while he was in office — especially when 'everyone was seeing [it] with their own eyes.' 'The only thing I can chalk it up to is this, whatever you want to call it, this fear that some members of the media had sometimes that they would be perceived as helping Trump if they somehow diminished Biden, right? That it was some sort of zero-sum game,' Todd said. 'And I think this has been the fundamental mistake that many members of the traditional press have done.' A moment earlier, Todd said the American public was able to conclude President Biden had dropped off cognitively because the media had been subtle in its coverage — hinting at him not taking questions from the press or using 'the back staircase' to enter and exit rooms. But while some mainstream reporters were willing to point out his decline, Todd said the 'collective media' had shown a 'reluctance to draw the conclusion' the president was not as sharp as he once was — out of fear they would be branded pro-Trump lackeys. Todd added the mainstream media 'doesn't have the influence' it once did because it failed to fully cover stories like Biden's mental decline. Another reason, he said, is that mainstream reporters were calling for tech companies like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to kick President Trump off of their platforms, following the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot. Todd said he did not understand the push to 'de-platform' Trump or anyone else. 'I thought, why would you do that? I've interviewed the president of Iran. I got no problem interviewing a member of Congress who chose not to certify the election,' Todd told Morgan. 'I never understood that logic, when you think about the First Amendment of our Constitution.' The disconnect between the media and the American public has been an important trend to keep an eye on, both before and after the 2024 election. An October Gallup poll found America's trust in the media is at an all-time low, with only 31% of respondents saying they had a 'great deal' or 'fair amount' of confidence the news was being reported accurately. And it is not only President Trump who believes the mainstream media is 'fake news.' In fact, most of his fans agree, with 88% of self-identified conservatives saying they have little to no faith the press accurately reports stories, per a March Gallup poll. You can watch Todd's full response to Morgan by clicking here. The post Media Feared They'd Be 'Helping Trump' by Covering Biden's Mental State, Chuck Todd Says appeared first on TheWrap.
