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So once again, we need to know what's going on again. Okay. I'm terrified. I was only Jessica can do it. We're going to become. We're going to be hopeful. We're going to be clear about where we are right now. We're going to be talking about what's coming next. What's coming next. What we're going to see in the convention. What's the deal with all these endorsements. That's it. I think. What else?
How to manage expectations. Okay. Good. Yes. So tell us what are our expectations and then tell us how to manage that. Yeah. The founder of News Not Noise, a pioneering webby award-winning independent news brand over one million subscribers and followers across Instagram and other digital media rely on Jessica and news not noise to understand what matters, which experts to trust and to manage their information overload.
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You can also find her on the News Not Noise newsletter on Sevstack, which I cannot right now recommend enough. I literally was just on one hour ago was on therapy. And we were actually talking through how to create a world for myself over the next hundred days, where I am activated, engaged and not overloaded and freaked out. And then I went to the point that makes me ineffective to the world, to my family. And you were mentioned Jessica Yellen in my therapy session. I'm so honored.
I've been mentioned in a lot of therapies, but I don't think in the compel. Yes, you have. I mean, honestly, you're not the calmest person. So I didn't bring you up as a strategy during that particular session. But Jessica, can you tell us in general, you know what, sister, can you ask the question the kickoff question? I feel like you're better at this than my general question is always what the fuck? And then we can subdivide that. I feel like we have three categories of things right now.
Last we spoke, it was is President Biden going to stay in the race? Is he not and all the permutations of that? We are now at a point where President Biden has said that he is not going to participate as a candidate in the race and has endorsed Kamala Harris.
So my big three questions are what will happen next from Democrats and the campaign? What will happen next from Republicans from the other side? What can we expect? And what have we seen so far, kind of in these fresh, earliest days from the Kamala campaign and that alliance that she's building that gives us kind of an indisha of what do we know, what are their surprises are, though, what are we seeing? So Democrats.
Yeah, the official nomination just because Biden said I'm putting all my support behind her doesn't make her the official nominee. So can you walk us through that piece? For sure, an addition is such a good word. Well, in Disha. So yeah, the weekend was very dramatic when President Biden put out that first letter, which by the way, everybody was expecting him to exit did not expect it to come then.
He literally they had a conference call with their own internal staff and then sent the letter one minute later so it's not to have it leak. So it really caught people by surprise and that first letter came out just saying he was dropping without endorsing Harris. Yes, the key Harris. And so for 30 minutes, the entire political world was like, what happens next? And at that moment, it felt like it could be an open convention.
Then 30 minutes later, he put out this letter saying I pledge my delegates, I endorse my vice president Harris. And that suddenly reshaped what was the trajectory, but it didn't mean that she was the inevitable nominee. The party elders Nancy Pelosi, former president Obama, Hakim Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, who's the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, all put out statements thanking the president without endorsing Kamala Harris as the nominee.
And they said, we want to back on an open process. We want to process. And so at that moment, it was very much the case that other candidates, they were making it clear. Other candidates have the right to get in if you want to get into it now. And they were leaving an open door. I'll explain why they did that in a moment if you want.
But what happened next was truly remarkable. All of a sudden, within a few hours, one after another, state party chairs, all state party chairs, delegates, the entire delegation of Tennessee, one challenger after another endorsed Kamala Harris. And what they did was she effectively locked up the nomination and cleared the field within 10 on the outside 24 hours after Biden dropped. They brought in, I'm now hearing it was definitely $100 million from 1.1 million different sources.
They said they have something like 58,000 volunteers and it quickly changed from anybody could enter this in theory to it's inevitably going to be vice president Harris. And it's because she and her team, according my reporting sat their butts down in chairs and had it all ready to go who they needed to call sat on the phones and called Democratic party chairs, former rivals, everybody who mattered and asked for their support.
And there was also this call. I'm sure you've heard about it, maybe talked about it of 44,000 black women who got on a massive Zoom call to talk about the racism and sexism and the joy and all aspects of what was coming and that they were ready to get her back and they raised like $2 million to so it was work.
What I want to say is they put in the work and it that's why she's now the nominee speaking of work Jessica, I just wanted to say this to the pod squad is that we have been in contact with those women who ran that meeting the win with black women and we will be having a meeting for white women to answer the call and step up in a way that we did not step up for Hillary Clinton.
We're going to do it differently this time. We're going to leave it all on the field this time. We're going to get dirty. We're not going to protect ourselves and we are going to fucking show up and that meeting will be tonight. So, Kira, yeah, that meeting, I'll just say real quick that meeting is tonight, Thursday, July 25th. It is a virtual meeting 830 PM Eastern time. And you can go to answer the call 2024.com to register for that everyone is welcome.
One of the reasons what I just described was so important is not only did it clear the field. So she is now those most of the people who are sitting on the sidelines, Hackeem, Jeffries, Pelosi and Senator Schumer have now all endorsed her. She has won the support of the majority of the delegates. And so while she is not yet the nominee, the votes have to happen. It is inevitable. So the party can unify around her.
But what's really important about that Sunday day of calls is that a lot of the problems that we've been seeing on the campaign to date is that it felt like there wasn't a campaign, an aggressive campaign in place. And one of the knocks on Harris has been like, is she a good manager of a campaign team. And in one day they proved yes she is and they can get this job done.
And they really turned around perceptions, not just for the public, but also importantly for Democratic Party establishment people. So that there's enthusiasm in the public and then there's enthusiasm inside the party apparatus. God shout out to Harris's team. Good job, y'all. Good job. Amazing. And that in itself should quail a lot of concerns because the whole idea of like she didn't get through the primary last election cycle because of the perceived disorganization.
Whatever was happening there, the opposite was happening during that 24 hour period. So there are lessons learned. So last time you were talking about the rules for the convention. And so now there's a new set of rules to tell us about the new set of rules. And so when people. I mean these things are going to happen at a certain cadence based on these rules. So so what are the new rules saying. So what is going to happen from here is the rules committee has a meeting this week.
What they're going to do is set up a virtual roll call vote. And I think of this like you know when people get married overseas, but they get legally married in the US. And then they go overseas for the fun party and the event where it's like the celebration. It's kind of like that where they're going to have a virtual roll call vote where all the delegates who do the voting, all those Biden delegates are basically on a massive zoom.
And one by one they vote for who they want to be the nominee. And then it'll be done. And then they go to the convention with her already having won the nomination. And then the convention is basically a TV event and an event to unify the party and all the other things. That virtual roll call is going to happen between August 1st and 7th.
And just it's designed that way to ensure they get on the Ohio ballot. The nuances of that actually just it doesn't matter. It's just they're doing it protectively. And then it makes it over you arrive at the convention and you're ready to basically put on a show. So is that the answer to people are are saying this isn't democracy. You're just appointing Kamala Harris. We want to go through the process. This is the process, right.
This is always the process. I mean, sometimes the delegates vote at the convention and not before the convention. But you know, I think one of the things we've seen in the last eight years is that we're all paying more attention to how our process works. And some of it's surprising to people. It's always been the case that a direct vote of the people is not how we choose our representatives when it comes to the president. Right. It's mediated. It's by these delegates or it's by electors.
We're learning about our system. So this is how it works. And I think in fairness, it's a reasonable critique because even though the delegates actually do the election, there is in contested times, you know, like in the last election cycle, Biden and Kamala Harris and a slew of other people had to get up there and debate against each other until the field window down.
But the nomination. So I think when people are asking for a process, they want to see people compete and rise to the top because this has literally never happened before. I think it's that we just we don't have time. Yeah. Can we acknowledge this whole things, food bar, like what is happening? How, how is this like us, right? But it is. And so we're talking about the way forward within food bar. Right. And food bar is fucked up beyond all recognition.
But I would like to say something. It is food bar. And also it's perfection and beautiful. And this is why what we were talking about last time is that it feels like you could get to a place where you're like, are there just two kings that are following their own ambition. And what we saw is that there is on one side of the ticket, a value that is higher than personal ambition. Yes.
That there is in a time when leadership has lost a lot of its meaning, there is a valor in it that is about country before person. And that is what President Biden did. And that is what you will never, ever see out of the other side on the other side, the only value of Trump is self, self, self. And so that's why they can't get their freaking heads around it because it would never happen.
It would never happen. It's what for the good of the candidate, not for the country. And so that's beautiful. And I just got to say, I've been thinking about President Biden and Jill and I've been thinking about how difficult that decision was to bend. And I just, I just don't think many people do it. You know, we were hoping that he would do it. We were hoping that he would fall into the values of what we think and hope the Democratic party could be. And I just feel immense gratitude.
Because now we have a little bit of hope. Yeah. Yeah. And it's the modeling. And Jessica, isn't it the case? Like people are saying, oh, well, we should, I mean, there's a plenty of legit arguments that this should have happened a long time ago, which I am one of those people in that camp. This should have had, yes, thank you. But also, I'm not going to say that I don't have plenty of things, but also it would have been better a long time ago.
But the people that are saying it should have at least happened a couple of weeks, it's kind of great that it didn't happen before the RNC because they just wasted all their time making fun of Joe Biden. Had he resigned before that, they would have attacked Kamala the whole time.
There are a lot of ways in which this weirdly is a strategic advantage for Democrats. It was going to happen to do it now is strategically beneficial because first, yeah, they blew a whole week, you know, attacking Biden. And now it's a different candidate. And had they known that Kamala Harris would be at the top of the ticket, they would not have chosen JD Vance.
And so there's a lot of reporting now that there's extreme discontent in the Trump camp, specifically Trump, that he had picked Vance. And for a lot of reasons. Why? Well, for one thing, it's now a change campaign, right? He is effectively the incumbent because he's been president. And she's the face of change, right? So there's like you run a change or more of the same campaign and politics or a hope and fear campaign. But the bottom line is that JD Vance represents more of the same in a way.
Even though he's young, he's very old fashioned, he's very white male. He doesn't represent a larger coalition. He could have picked a Marco Rubio to reach out to Latinos. He could have picked a woman to reach out to women. He could have gone in a lot of different directions, even just somebody who's softer. Like JD Vance is almost the face of misogyny.
The things he says are he's called in the past Kamala Harris angry cat woman. And that's why she's so aggressive that she's a childless woman shouldn't be able to decide our future. And these things are not going to help them win the single woman vote or the white swing woman vote, both of which they have, you know, a claim on to some extent had. So they're in a bit of a hurt right now trying to figure out how to go at this.
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Speaking of vp's in this timeline we're talking about so it has to be that the roll call happens by august 7th when do you project that she will select a vice president and will that happen at the convention or before so I have to confess that I've had a hard time nailing down with certainty what I'm about to say.
I like to again like three people telling me this so but my understanding right now is that she can get the nomination by that virtual roll call vote without a vice president and could unveil the vice president at the convention now I want to confirm that before i'm certain but in either case you know she has either until early august or the convention starts on august 19th the advantage of waiting for her is it gives them more time to vet and for her to decide.
And it unveils a big surprise at the convention the counter is you know she got this big media boost now right like the momentum and excitement and the virality so she has got a positive cycle then she could have another positive cycle by announcing her vp and then a third at the convention so there arguments both ways but ultimately it's such an important decision.
And you don't want to let a media cycle drive that you want to be thorough in your vetting and finally those things really do come down to who she feel comfortable with they've never ever shown that a vice president makes the difference in the vote really maybe Sarah Palin I don't know in that people didn't vote for him because of it but mostly because it reinforces something they already were a little afraid about in the candidate.
Because that was just a judgment thing right like oh shit yeah that's your first decision no thanks yeah who's in the playing field so the main contenders that are really considered the top options are Josh Shapiro the governor of Pennsylvania he is a young governor very good on the stump charismatic and carries an important state Pennsylvania so if he could lock up Pennsylvania the thought is anybody who's from that region.
Could also help her win Wisconsin and Michigan which are the crucial states for a Democrat to succeed the knocks against him he's very young new on the scene not as sort of vetted by the national media he's Jewish and that could create some you know if there's anti-Semitism in the populist you want to make people vote for the first black woman who's also South Asian and a Jewish candidate's a lot maybe for some people.
Okay so that's Josh Shapiro but the big win on him is if he can deliver Pennsylvania that could lock up the election then there's Roy Cooper who's the governor of North Carolina and he reminds me a little bit of Lloyd Benson for people old enough to remember and he has been in like the state house you ran the state house he's like every office in North Carolina he's done it everybody knows him so he's kind of got this in his bones and for anybody who needs sort of how do I say like.
Permission like older white guy needs permission to vote for the black woman the South Asian woman the young woman well this guy is good with her so it kind of gives the permission right and then Mark Kelly who is the senator from Arizona also a battleground state NASA military you know Gabby Giffords husband so has like the gun safety message and you can see why that would be reassuring to.
No nervous voter because you kind of feel like in the situation room she's got a military man by your side yeah so they all have different reasons plus as a minus is you don't think Andy but shares is in there he's just not in the mix as much he is discussed okay but you don't he's not rising to that who knows here's the thing everybody gets these leaks and then everybody repeats them and some of the people who leak to us only partially know themselves so it's one of these things we'll know when we know.
Right it's a binary thing she'll pick one and then it's done and they can start a vet and add people in the process but you know a couple of the thoughts early on where should it be a huge change ticket where it's two women you know should it be Harris Whitmer or should it be Harris West more and seems that they've gone in another direction which is this permission structure
having a sort of centrist battleground state white man as her partner will make a lot more people comfortable making this vote.
And no mayor Pete mayor Pete oh I should say I'm sorry mayor Pete yes is in the mix and one of the reasons apart from obviously he's just a wildly adept politician communicator et cetera he doesn't bring a battleground state but they get along very well and having a partner you like is what president's concept is what president's constantly say that was what put it over for me. Okay and also then we'd have a first gentleman and a second gentleman.
It would be also a big change in the same way to women ticket would be in terms of you know he is a white man but he's also gay so that I mean that's another he contains multitudes that way. There isn't argument for doubling down on change you know it's just how do you make that calculus yeah right what are you hearing the response on the Republican side it appears that they are really annoyed by this yeah they have their playbook they've been building for two years.
And we've gone and done messed it right up so way correct a Monday this is not how it was supposed to go and Trump is boy is he winding all over truth social. His post lately have been basically like he wanted to subiton for fraud because he spent all this time in energy building a campaign against him and then you dropped out. And it's just not fair on and on and they're obsessed with this idea that this was a coup.
So there's been this thing if you follow as I'm sure you do far right accounts on social media you spend all your time doing that part of my job is to look at that stuff and so for a long time one of the themes was that Biden wasn't in control Kamala Harris was secretly in control and she is in turn controlled by all these globalists right.
So in the far right quarters they're saying this proves that like this was a long planned coup and they see this as a coup so Trump's doing some of that and trying to get the base going over that they're even trying to message that it's an undemocratic process for selecting her and so Democrats need to be mad like this what are you doing sir like this is not the way this nobody cares nobody cares but you nobody cares.
So yeah they're sort of stewing right now they're unhappy with the change it's surprising to me that they don't have a playbook to run against her because let's remember they were already running against her like she was on the ticket to why don't they have a message he's tried laughing Kamala he's tried lion Kamala but he can't find a nickname that sticks.
You know he's not happy to leave us a nickname that sticks right so I say all this and then I want to just remind everyone they're good at driving a message they're going to come up with a very you know effective for some people campaign message and strategy against her and there's a honeymoon phase right now where Democrats have it on lockdown and are writing high and the other side scrambling but they're going to get it together we can talk about what they're already messaging against her it's going to be a lot of work.
So if you're against her it's going to be some of it's going to be about border and immigration and she was the borders are and she let all this happen some will be policy but a lot of it will be really really ugly stuff yeah not necessarily coming from the campaign but from some of their you know allies.
We all got to be ready for that do you want me to say what it is yeah what is I'm just interested in what the it's it's not going to be surprising it's you know the border stuff she was handed on day one of Biden's administration right you're in charge of the border and they said she messed all that up yeah okay so she specifically was asked to get to the root causes of immigration why were people from Central America coming in such numbers to the border southern border and she put out a report in like July of 2021.
So that's why Trump calls her the borders are in anything bad that's ever happened related to immigration he's trying to make her fault also what they're trying to do is just lash her to Biden's policies and anything they were critical of with Biden they're going to blame her for and they say she's Biden but more radical literal and so they talk about crime even though crime in general is going down you know there's a feeling that it's not inflation prices gas prices all of that that they feel like they're going to be a lot of it.
So if they really think about急 treatment they've no idea how to get this I'd please think they're threatening the epidemic not the you know sayingiamo the wolfí to the mom thing. Oh, they say she's childless because she's had too many abortions. So that's oh, Lord have mercy. Okay. That's a real thing that's that is his allies are saying it. But I mean, one degree out. Sure. Of course. And then the very pointed stuff that's really
ugly is a member of Congress said she's a DEI higher. Right. Which let's be clear. DEI higher is the new racial slur because we can't say that anymore. We say GI higher. And that is clear as day. That's what they're using it for. And then somebody this guy who served in the Trump administration and is now sort of a public pundit said that she only has the job because she has a vagina and the right skin color. So that kind of distills for you what that message is.
It's you know, massage and war. Right. And I think that to some extent everybody's you know, the campaign and the democratic establishment world expected. But one still has to figure out how does the campaign deal with it? How does she deal with it? Some of it's you know, not going to work. When her message is I'm a prosecutor and I've come to prosecute the case against this criminal Donald Trump. The soft on crime thing isn't going to work. So but I've heard all sorts of
things about what they'll try to do. One of the challenges is the minute they you know, if they get to misogynist, they risk alienating those swing women voters that they need. If they get to racist, one of the ways Trump was pulling ahead was he was winning the support of young black men. Well, that that's not going to keep them on board. So it's a delicate dance for them. How do they do this messaging? Donald Trump doing a delicate dance. That's a nice visual.
And let's just be honest, they're not going to be delicate. They'll use a sledgehammer and they'll go super negative. And it's going to be ugly. Is there going to be a debate between them? This is so funny. There is a debate scheduled for I think like September 10th on ABC was committed to when Biden was a candidate. And Trump has been whining that he doesn't think they should do it anymore. He thinks it should be on Fox. Yeah. And so he thinks it should be on Fox. He thinks it
shouldn't be at all. Like he's trying to wiggle out of it. Okay. So now everyone picture after Trump doing a delicate dance now think about him wiggling. When we're all tuning into the convention, what should we expect? What's happening? Okay. That's a good question. So conventions used to be the place where they picked the nominee. When we talk about an open convention, it used to be more unknown. We're like party bosses would put their person forward and then barter and someone would
come out the winner. It wasn't known at the beginning always. Now it's known, right? And in this case, we know she will be the nominee barring some wild, crazy act of God coming in the middle. She's going to be the nominee and it'll even be done in advance, right? That virtual roll call. So the convention is a, it's a production to tell the public what your party stands for. What is the case to vote for them and to energize both the base and try to win over people who aren't always paying
attention. So there are three goals, really. One is to prosecute the case against Trump. All the things you've been seeing her say already to just put that on blast. Another, I should add four things. Another is to introduce her to people who aren't already familiar with her, biographical film telling you about who she is. Then it's to project a positive vision of the future. So here's where parties go wrong is when it's only a case against the other guy. If it were just
Trump is bad, that doesn't do the trick of capturing the youth vote, energizing people. Here's what her vision for the future is that she wants to deliver on and then unifying the party to the extent that there are still divisions. Some people are unhappy, even if there are protests to kind of bring people into union and show everybody how big the democratic party is. Diverse, a base, a future, et cetera. Speaking of unifying, I have seen a lot of chatter about, oh, do the
Obama's want someone else? Because why didn't they endorse her? But they did the exact same thing last cycle. They didn't endorse Joe Biden until he was the nominee, right? Yes. I mean, here's the situation. So I think all the party elders held off because they did not want to find themselves in a situation where people were revolting against her candidacy because there was no opportunity for anyone else to get in. So they were creating a space, a window to invite others to get in.
So that once it's solidified around her, assuming there wouldn't be that feeling of resentment or like she had been anointed. So they left a window open. It was Pelosi, Huckian, Jeffries, Schumer, and Obama. Obama still hasn't sealed the deal and come out and endorsed her, he will. And they would say that the reason they did it is to allow for this process and that he uniquely can unify the party around someone and he's going to play that role. Got it.
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I have a question about electability because this is what I hear a lot and I'm genuinely confused by it because I feel like what I think of when I think of electability is I think about the markets. I think about how when there is a lack of confidence in the markets, that results in the markets going down and when there's confidence in the markets, the market goes up. So isn't it a self-fulfilling prophecy? Like how do we, what is electability other than our perception of electability?
Right. And you can't do the first until you do the first, right? So this is a moment to test that. In her case, electability is really a question of is this person appealing to enough different demographic groups to make up a map that can get them the electoral votes they need to be really concrete? Up till now, we've been just obsessing over these certain swing voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Well, they still matter, but with Harris on the ticket,
is it possible it turns up the youth vote? And so you need fewer of those swing voters? Is it possible that those Nikki Haley voters? And I'll tell you, I have a lot of people in my audience who are Nikki Haley voters, never Trump, but did not like Biden and told me they would not vote for Biden. So will they now vote for a Democrat? Because it's Harris. So it kind of opens up the electorate. It builds you a different kind of coalition. And so that's when they say she's
electable, the coalition's different. Biden's coalition might have been more like working folks in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Hers might be more young, young people, swing people, and like diverse people or others who don't always vote, but she gets them off the couch. So that's why Trump is so mad because he was working with this set of marbles for his coalition. And now it's a completely new set of marbles. Yes, he has to look at the marbles all over again.
And right now, none of us really knows we're waiting to see what the marbles look like. Because any polls that are coming out are very, very new. And there's some polls that bowed well for her. She's pulling ahead, but it's not like the granular state level really detailed stuff yet. So everybody sort of all the pundits and strategists are waiting to see how she's quote, expanded the electorate kind of. How significant is it the $100 million in the first
couple of days of the announcement? Because I mean, to circle back to indisha, that feels significant to me. It feels like in just anecdotally in what I'm reading the room among my people, there's a level of excitement and intrigue that didn't exist before. I mean, quite literally, donation had been drying up to the Biden. You know, people had said we're not going to write because we don't, it was both a way to pressure him to exit. And just a lack of sort of confidence about what was coming.
So the fact that like the floodgates have opened is huge because it reflects enthusiasm, it reflects excitement. It's like there's so much desire to get in. And some of this is just, we need somebody with vigor who can take it to Trump, right? And that's what some of this is just like excitement to have somebody to run. And then it's also really, you know, there's that saying money is the mother's milk of politics. Like you just need money to get your message out travel,
get surrogates out, put up ads, all that stuff. And so it means she's in business. And when you talked about self-fulfilling, you know, when people start seeing her bring in the money, they think like, well, this is a winning candidate. So we're going to get on it. And it just money leads to money. And that is crucial in the game. And if I can also just take a moment to say that you said this before, but I mentioned about Biden not having vigor, the reason a lot of people, like people said,
Biden was being pushed out because of one bad debate. That's not the case. It's that one debate showed us how frail he was and made everybody realize he doesn't have the vigor to prosecute the case and take this over the finish line. It's also the case that as she said, he accomplished more in one term than many presidents have done in two. And I do think he'll be remembered as the LBJ of our era for his ability to work across the aisle that he's dedicated his life to public service.
And that even when he is supported causes and projects you don't believe in, there's a spirit of dedication to country that people on both sides of the aisle have, you know, respect and recognize that he's just given his life to this. And I think he transferred that to the ticket. I mean, I think that there's a perception of an integrity in the way of what you think about when you think about what you hope a leader will be. What you hope that a leader will also at the end of the day
be in it to be not about themselves. And I think that that shine translates to her side of things just because it's such a stark contrast to the other side when it's so I mean, it was a very interesting to me that the line over and over and over in the Republican National Convention was he doesn't need this. He has a long career. He's a multi-millionaire. He's successful. He could play golf all day. He doesn't need this. He absolutely more than anyone on the planet needs to be
in this office. Yeah, he goes to jail. He needs partens. Trump. Yeah, Trump. It's like Thou doth protest too much. They said it every single speech. But he needs to be president because he has felony convictions because he owes 82 million dollars that he doesn't have to give. So that's striking. And I don't feel like anyone's talking about that. That that motivation is precisely in his own self interest that he needs that. One of the lines I keep hearing is that Harris's
greatest asset is that she's not Biden and she's not Trump. Like those two guys, I mean, it's just it's just an old story. We're tired of hearing to some extent, right? And the irony is, you know, he built this case, Trump against the oldest man to occupy the Oval Office. Well, now he's wearing that because he's the oldest man now to run for president. He made that essential issue in the front of everyone's mind. And now he's in the lead man in that bed. And I thought it was pretty
savvy of Biden. Vice President Harris did this event at the campaign headquarters. And he called in and he said, Hey, kid. Yeah. Which was very seemed sweet and loving, but actually very strategic because it's emphasizing her comparative youth. Yes. And how great for all of us. I'm like, oh my god, I am a spring chick. She's 59. Everybody's calling her kid. She's the face of the youth. I'm like, I was I've barely been born. Jessica, what else do we need to know right now? Right now. Yeah.
I just think we have to be mindful that things change rapidly. New cycles are short. And, you know, outside world events do impact an election, right? So as you're watching what's unfolding, there's going to be ups and downs. And a key part of the job and of politics is remembering that some of what you're seeing is what's happening on air. And there's also a ground game going on in the States. And this is really about getting out. I mean, so much of the country is locked down.
They know what they're going to do. But the unknowns are the people on the couch who's going to be motivated to get off the couch and go vote. And then what do those state operations look like? And so, you know, for people who are super engaged going to those states and doorknocking and all that is, you know, a big move this year. And just remembering that as the attacks get brutal, as this feels very stressful, the new cycle changes again. And try to ride on the top of the wave,
not dive into every wave every time. So that makes sense. Yes, it does. Can I ask a one last question about what we have learned with Hillary Clinton running in terms of what attacks are brought against women specifically as candidates and the things that we should watch for because Kamala Harris is a woman. And because we're still dealing with that in America, is there things that we haven't watched for that Trump did last time that that is going to be a go-to move?
Yes, well, he calls her dumb, dumb as a box of rocks. They also, I think there is some report that he's going to willy-horton her, like try to find somebody she didn't jail. So she's too soft. The irony is they try to play too soft, right women are too weak. And then there's this crazy Tucker Carlson interview right now up where he's talking about how women leaders have more wars than men. And so if you don't want war, you can't elect a woman, which is like, well, which is it?
Two-week or two-war mongeries. Like, so. And what's our sample set of the women running the countries that go to war like, ah, Queens of England, Queens of England. That's literally what they did. You know, there's all the the fact that they make fun of her laugh, which I think is so funny because I mean, how many times have we talked about I was constantly told in the news to smile more. I'd be on the North Lawn reporting on the death toll in the Iraq war. And I'd get a call saying,
why weren't you smiling? And you're like, before or after the death toll, you know, so the fact that they're saying she smiles too much, it's just it's everything's a double bind. Here's what I one of the most interesting things I ever read around this is they've done studies and found that when a female candidate is the target of a sexist attack, it in fact can reduce her support. Her
poll numbers will go down. However, if she pushes back and reframes it and says literally, well, which is it am I too weak or to something or well, a lot of people like if she calls it out and makes it refuses to accept it, her number is not only go back up, they go higher than they were before because it shows the public that this is a resilient person who is strong and can defend with themselves and therefore will defend you. So this is not a context in which you one rises above.
You don't scream and shout that this is sexism. It's a calm reframe and it makes a big difference. And so everyone who's listening, that's for you too. That's for you in your offices. That's for you in your neighborhoods. That's for you in your community. When it comes at you, the calm reframe and you end up better than you were when it started. That's nice. That's really good advice. Well, I just want to tell the pod squad what they'll be seeing from me. I am 100% in. I am with Kamala Harris.
I believe in Kamala Harris. You will see me doing everything that I can do to help her get elected and to also stand in the gap whenever I can against all of the shit that's about to come to her. What I will say is I've been talking to a lot of young people who are confused by that from me and I understand their confusion because they are saying why do you think that anyone in this establishment in this two-party system can save us? Why do you believe that? And I do not
believe that. What I believe is that when Kamala Harris gets elected, we will not have world peace. We will not have equality. We will not have justice. But I believe we will have an environment in which the activism and the organizing that will have to be flourishing forever is allowed to flourish. I believe that in the tragedy of the other side winning, we will not have an environment in which my young passionate friends will be able to be organizing. I believe there will be silencing and
there will be nothingness. And so what I am doing is supporting the candidate who I believe will allow for that environment and who I believe has people in her ear and has a growth mindset and will be open to becoming more and more equality and justice minded. And I believe on the other side, we will go the other way. So that is why you will see me riding with Kamala Harris for the next hundred days and until she is elected elected. That is what is going to happen. Nobody is getting
inducted. Are they? No. All right. That is it. Just wanted to say that. Jessica, thank you so much. Thank you for coming on. In 12 minutes, I will text you again and ask you to come back. So what happened in the last 11 minutes? I love talking to you all. And sign up for the newsletter just in case there's more than 11 minutes between when Jessica will come back. You're going to want to get on that substack newslet. Yeah, that one's endorsed by therapists everywhere. So
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