'That last part is just stupid': Michael Steele pours cold water on Dem election fears
As part of the ongoing, and seemingly endless, postmortem on Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to Donald Trump, the co-hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend" attempted to tackle the finger-point at voting groups for not showing up and questions over running women and people of color for office.
According to co-Host Symone Sanders Townsend, she has spent years working in Democratic politics, "when there were usually, the people at the top were men and they were all white men and then over the course of years it has changed."
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"The men became people of color, Black people, brown people came into the room and women came into the room," she continued. "I worked for the vice president and to watch her concede the election to someone who is not nearly as qualified as her but someone whom millions of people voted for, it was like I felt like the sentiment in that Erica L. Green and Maya King New York Times piece [ For Black Women, ‘America Has Revealed to Us Her True Self’] that you put up on the screen, I felt that."
"It is like America, it kind of feels like a rejection in some sense, but also I think the positivity that I brought a couple blocks over, several other people did vote for her," she added. "Millions of people voted for her, she got like 70 million of votes, people voted for her. But it still wasn't enough to watch not just on our network but others, if I am going to be honest, people the days after the election say it is time to stop putting up women and black people. I am like, I need a minute, but I am happy to be here today."
Former RNC chair and current "The Weekend" co-host Michael Steele chimed in, "That last part is just stupid. Anyone out there saying that needs to check themselves because women and Black and brown people are the ones who have ascended in terms of our economy, politics, culture et cetera."
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