JASMINE CROCKETT: Trump, Kamala, & The Debate! - August 29th, 2024
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How did Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett describe her convention experience and COVID concerns?
Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone. Welcome to the Don Lemon Show. We're so glad that you're here. Quickly, I want to get to my first guest, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Congresswoman, it's so good to see you. Thank you for joining. You were a rock star at the convention. I didn't get to see you in person. I was all over that place, but I saw you on the stage. How do you feel about what you did and the entire week and the COVID super spreader that it is? Let's be real.
Oh, my gosh. So thankfully, I did not contract COVID. I don't know how, except for God knew that I needed to be on the campaign trail because somehow my mama, my daddy, as well as my driver all ended up contracting COVID and they interacted with less people. But let me tell you something.
This is what I've been doing, by the way, just every day.
Listen, I'm taking mine as well as my vitamins and everything else. But that really was the most difficult thing that I've ever had to do. I've spoken in a lot of venues. I've spoken to all different types of crowds. But I felt as if I was needing to deliver a solid closing argument in a short amount of time as to why the American people, not just Democrats, but the American people should look to Kamala Harris for leadership. Number one, I basically took my jabs at Trump by definitely pointing out the hypocrisy of the Republicans, by putting that on full display because of all the things that they claim to love. And he is the antithesis of all those things. In addition to trying to make sure that people understand who she is on a deeper level, it was very frustrating as people started trying to pretend as if she wasn't Black and all this other kind of stuff.
And I know that people always look at me and think I'm super Black. So I thought it was really important that I share what the initial interaction was like between the two of us so that people could, number one, if they have any questions, find out that, yes, she really is Black. But also, really just find out that she's actually a good person with a good heart. And I hope that that came across.
Well, I think that whole argument is so dumb. And for years, I've been trying to explain that to people. And of course, the right wing media takes it out of context where they can certainly understand if someone is Irish and Italian, right, that they're European. I mean, and they can't understand that if someone, you know, there are people who are Afro-Jamaican, they're Afro-Cuban, they're African. Like, there are different... shades and degrees of blackness, but that we're all black and we're all treated the same in America. And somehow for people not to understand that, and by, you know, being a Jamaican American black person does not negate her blackness. Like, it's just bizarre to me. But listen, that is over, and I think it's dumb.
It was dumb for, I think Donald Trump really damaged himself by doing that, by saying what he said at the NABJ And in his interview, but now she has been interviewed. And we have a clip from her interview that will run tonight. And I want to play it for you. I want to get your reaction. Here it is.
Generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes that you've made, that you've explained some of here in your policy? Is it because you have more experience now and you've learned more about the information? Is it Because you were running for president in a Democratic primary? And should they feel comfortable and confident that what you're saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?
Dana, I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act. We have set goals for the United States of America and by extension the globe around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as an example.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How did Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett describe her convention experience and COVID concerns?
0:12–9:43
2
What arguments did Crockett make about Kamala Harris’s identity and leadership at the convention?
9:43–13:30
3
How did Dana Bash’s interview clips frame Kamala Harris’s policy evolution and values?
13:30–28:29
4
What examples of price gouging and economic pain were debated on the show?
28:29–35:04
5
Why did Crockett share her emotional story about meeting Vice President Harris?
35:04–48:04
6
What do recent polls say about Kamala Harris’s standing and why does turnout still matter?
48:04–1:02:50