Harris is being drained of critical support. Americans are waking up to how bad of a candidate she really is.
And MSNBC is stunned in silence after a key voter group betrays Kamala Harris.
In a recent MSNBC segment, anchor Alex Wagner shared a revealing conversation with Black voters in Philadelphia who are voicing their support for former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris, expressing skepticism about Harris’s leadership potential and experience.
The discussions, set in a traditionally Democratic county of Pennsylvania, shed light on why these voters feel Harris is not the right candidate for the job. One voter noted that Harris’s lack of perceived strength and experience raises concerns.
“She’s a woman of color. I’m not putting her down because of that,” she clarified. “I’m not putting her down because she’s a woman … but at the end of the day, I don’t think that [Kamala] has the personality.”
The voter went on to explain her doubts about Harris’s ability to handle international adversaries, particularly regarding figures like Vladimir Putin.
“I don’t think that she has what it takes to go up against Putin and go up against these other presidents that are built for this,” she said, expressing her desire for a leader with visible confidence and resilience. “I don’t want to be scared because my president’s scared. I want my president to feel secure, and manly, and about it.”
Another woman in the group explained her reluctance by pointing to what she perceives as Harris’s lack of qualifications. She just doesn’t “have the qualification or the education to really run America. Because she don’t have the experience. She don’t understand our struggles,” she added.
“And for me to believe you for another four years, you’re crazy. Like, you’re crazy. You’re saying the same thing that you said four years ago.”
Reflecting on Harris’s record as a prosecutor, a third voter said her first impression of Harris was negative, recalling Harris’s association with strict truancy laws that disproportionately affected Black families.
“The first time I heard the name Kamala Harris, it was in association to locking up parents for truancy,” she recalled, questioning Harris’s authenticity as a representative of Black America.
Another voter brought up the controversy around Harris’s identity, specifically Trump’s earlier comments suggesting that she only started identifying more with her Black heritage after entering politics. “Absolutely! She’s sworn into the Senate, it was the first Indian American … and that’s fine, we don’t care,” one woman commented.
One voter added, “We all know that she’s not Black, let’s understand that. … But my point of view is, she’s already been there. She’s in office right now.”
“We all know she’s not black” - Surprised MSNBC aired this one. pic.twitter.com/U7mK7lofUO
— Christy Kelly (@Kelly4Humanity) October 23, 2024
Finally, a significant point of discussion for many in the group was immigration. One Trump supporter expressed frustration with what he sees as a surge of violence from recent immigrants.
“For me, it’s immigration. I myself come from an immigrant family. I’m Guatemalan,” he said. “And for us, seeing the new immigrants come in, they’re more violent, it’s more chaos.”
He elaborated on the impact of this perceived rise in crime on the long-standing immigrant community: “They’re making us look bad as immigrants, and we’ve been here longer than them. And we’re getting more misrepresentation because of them.”
Another voter was even more resolute, stating, “unequivocally, period” that they would be voting for Trump and had no intention of reconsidering.
The perspectives shared in this interview reveal the varied and complex reasons some Black voters in Philadelphia are turning away from the Democratic ticket this election cycle, highlighting deeper issues concerning Kamala Harris’s leadership, identity, and policies.
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