BLACK WOMEN HAVING A HISTORY OF PLAYING A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN ELECTIONS.

ORGANIZERS AND VOTERS HAVE ALREADY STARTED RALLYING BEHIND KAMALA HARRIS'S CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT.

MORE THAN 40,000 BLACK WOMEN JOINED A ZOOM CALL WITH ANOTHER 50,000 STREAMING ON OTHER PLATFORMS THIS PAST SUNDAY TO EXPRESS THEIR SUPPORT.

SPECTATORS ANTICIPATE THIS NUMBER GROW AS THE ELECTION MOVES FORWARD.

JOINING US NOW WITH MORE OUR FELICIA DAVIS, BLAKELY, THE CEO OF PRIMO CENTER, NICOLE ROBINSON, THE CEO OF YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO AND SANTANA JACKSON, THE HOST OF THE SANTEE TO JACKSON SHOW.

I FEEL LIKE WE'RE INFORMATION.

LADIES, WELCOME.

THANKS FOR JOINING LET'S START WITH YOU, PLEASE.

WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS WHEN YOU HEARD THE VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS WAS RUNNING TO BECOME PRESIDENT HEARS I TO IMMEDIATE REACTIONS.

I WAS OBVIOUSLY VERY EXCITED AT THE OPPORTUNITY TO ELECT A WOMAN AS THE LEADER OF THE UNITED STATES.

BUT I ALSO HAD A LITTLE BIT OF TREPIDATION BECAUSE OF THE HISTORY OF OF PRESIDENT'S TRUMP'S CAMPAIGNS AND THE MASSAGE OR AND JUST BLATANT RACISM.

AND I THOUGHT, OH, MY GOSH, WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH GAUNTLET AND THE SHORT TIME WITH THE AMOUNT OF OF OF ANIMUS.

THEY'RE GOING TO THROW VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS'S CAMPAIGN.

DO YOU FEEL THAT SHE HAS THE FULL SUPPORT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BEHIND HER?

IF IF IF IF SHE DIDN'T SUNDAY?

I HOPE SHE DOES NOW AND I REALLY REALLY FEEL THAT THIS IS OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PARTY TO BE UNIFIED, TAKING A VACATION GOING ON OTHER PLACES, BUT REALLY TALK ABOUT BECAUSE AS A BLACK WOMAN WHO, YOU KNOW, PROFESSIONAL AND THE WORKFORCE.

I'VE NEVER FELT FULLY SUPPORTED AT ANY POINT IN MY CAREER.

THIS IS THE MOMENT THAT WE NEED EVERYONE TO FULLY SUPPORT HER CANDIDACY.

REALLY, AND TO BE ABLE TO SEE HER BE VICTORIOUS.

IT'S TO CONSEQUENTIAL.

NICOLE, OBVIOUSLY HISTORICAL MOMENT FOR VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS FOR THE COUNTRY.

HOW DO YOU THINK HER ENTRANCE INTO THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE WILL IMPACT VOTERS AND A LOT OF REALLY POSITIVE WAYS.

I'M ACTUALLY SITTING IN OPTIMISM STILL RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GALVANIZED A SEGMENT OF VOTERS WHO HAVE BEEN LOOKING AWAY.

THEY HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION.

THEY WERE ENGAGED.

AND NOW I THINK THAT'S A YOUNGER SEGMENT OF VOTERS IN GATE.

THERE WAS A POLL THAT CAME OUT.

24 TO 48 HOURS AFTER COUNCIL'S ANNOUNCEMENT AND THERE'S A 5% CHOP AND VOTERS 18 TO 35 WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE ELECTION AND THEN THE COALS FOCUS GROUP OF IN TURN THEY ARE INTERESTED.

I ACTUALLY TOOK A FEW TO LAUNCH YESTERDAY AND ASKED THEM FOR THEY WERE REGISTERED TO VOTE AND THEY WERE EXCITED ABOUT TALKING ABOUT THE ISSUES.

THE OTHER THING I WOULD SAY HAVING KAMALA IN THE RACE, NO MATTER IF YOU'RE A DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN, LIBERTARIAN, WHATEVER YOU BELIEVE THAT HOME OF THE RACE CHANGE.

SO WE SHOULD GO FROM TALKING ABOUT HOW OLD PEOPLE ARE.

BUT ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT IS CHILDCARE AFFORDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE IS THEIR PAY EQUITY?

DO WE HAVE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTS FOR FAMILIES.

CAUSE KIDS ARE HANGING ON A STRING FROM 5 TO 85.

WE'RE NOT PAST WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PANDEMIC.

SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT I'M EXCITED ABOUT.

LET'S GET TO THE ISSUES THAT WOMEN AND FAMILIES CARE ABOUT WAS ALSO THE CHANCE THAT AGE GETS REVERSED, RIGHT?

KIND OF FLIPS IT TO WHERE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PRESIDENT LOOKING BUT BECAUSE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT PRESIDENT BIDEN'S AGE.

BUT NOW I FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FEW YEARS YOUNGER THAN DAN PRESIDENT BIDEN, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS THE DEMOCRATS USE THAT AGE.

HIS AGE AGAINST IT WAS ALWAYS I MEAN, THE FACT IS WE WERE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT HEALTH.

AND SO THAT'S OFF THE TABLE.

CERTAINLY MY PRAYERS GO TO THAT FAMILY BECAUSE IT'S IT'S A STRUGGLE HE'S GIVEN 50 YEARS OF HIS LIFE TO PUBLIC SERVICE.

BUT THIS IS A WONDERFUL MOMENT.

I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT SHIRLEY CHISHOLM AND FANNIE LOU HAMER AND AMELIA BOYNTON, SO MANY PEOPLE SAYING.

AND SO WE NEED GREAT GRANDMOTHER, COULDN'T READ OR WRITE WHAT SHE'D BE SAYING.

BUT I'M ALSO MINDFUL ALL OF US ARE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION TO WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE HEARING AT THE TABLE.

YOU KNOW, INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CANNOT TRUMP.

COLLECTIVE.

ADVANCEMENT.

BLACK WOMEN MAKE $0.69 ON THE DOLLAR.

WE JUST FINISHED BLACK YOU CAN PAY DAY 7 MONTHS.

IT TAKES EXTRA TO MAKE WHAT A WHITE MAN OF SIMILAR SKILLS CREDENTIALS MAKES.

IT IS A GREAT MOMENT.

AT THE SAME TIME.

I THINK WE NEED TO BE ENGAGED ABOUT WHAT WE NEED COLLECTIVELY BECAUSE, YOU WE WE CAN'T HAVE ME MAKE IT AND WE FALL BEHIND.

AND SO I THINK THAT THAT'S A CONVERSATION THAT I'M ALSO HEARING ON MY RADIO SHOW.

BUT IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE LOCKED UP AND YOU CAN HEAR THAT YOU'RE GOING TO THE GOP ATTACKER AS A PROSECUTOR, EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS DOING JOB BUT I THINK SHE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A DO-OVER AND SAY, LOOK, THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT WE SHOULD HAVE DONE BETTER.

BUT THIS IS WHERE THE SYSTEM IS.

AND SO WE CAN MAKE SOME CHANGES AND I THINK WE CAN HELP.

WE'RE GOING TO HELP HER TO DO THAT.

HELP OR HELP US.

AND YOU ACTUALLY YOU ACTUALLY KNOW HER.

HOW DO YOU THINK HOWARD UNIVERSITY WRONGS HER AFTER THE BUT, YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU THINK SHE WILL BE ANYTHING SHE CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT TODAY IN 2024?

HOW DO YOU THINK SHE WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM THE CANDIDATE FOR WHEN SHE RAN BEFORE ACCEPT THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION?

HOW IS THIS COUPLE HERE IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT ONE FOR NEEDS.

SHE'S BEEN SEASONED BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SHE HAD A TOUGH TIME COMING UP, THE GATE IN 2019 2020.

IT'S A VERY DIFFERENT GAME.

SHE'S A DIFFERENT PERSON.

ANYONE WHO SAYS IF YOU GO THROUGH SOMETHING LIKE THIS YOU HAVEN'T CHANGE, NO, NO, NO, YOU HAVE TO CHANGE BECAUSE SHE IS NEXT TO THE PERSON HAD THE NUCLEAR CODES.

SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT SHE KNOWS NOW I FROM I KNOW FROM WITH HER AND WITH HER STAFF SHE KEEPS HER FINGERS ON THE PULSE OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY, WHICH IS WHAT SHE KNOWS.

SHE HAS TO DO.

YOU'VE GOT TO BLACK PEOPLE LEFT OVER INDEX IN TERMS OF VOTE IN ORDER FOR BLACK CANDIDATES WHO CROSSOVER EVENT TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

SHE UNDERSTANDS THAT.

SHE ALSO UNDERSTANDS THE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE.

SHE'S WORKED AT EVERY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT.

AND I AM JUST.

I JUST LIKE TO BE EXCITED ABOUT THIS MOMENT.

FULLY SHOULD.

SO I READ ARTICLE OVER THE WEEKEND SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT SO MANY DEMOCRATIC ELECTED OFFICIALS IMMEDIATELY, GAVIN GALVANIZE AROUND HER TO THE POINT WHERE SHE PRETTY MUCH HAS THE DELEGATES THAT SHE NEEDS TO DO TO WIN THE NOMINATION, THAT THAT ACTUALLY DID HEARD A SERVICE THAT IT LOOKS A LITTLE BIT LIKE A BACKROOM DEAL IT DIDN'T.

IT ALSO DIDN'T PUT HER THROUGH THE PACES THAT A PRIMARY WOULD PUT HER THROUGH THAT SHARPENS CANDIDATE GOING INTO THE GENERAL ELECTION.

WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, I I THINK THE LEADERS WERE RIGHT TO SUPPORT OR IMMEDIATELY.

I THINK IN THE WEEKS FOLLOWING THE DEBATE PERFORMANCE OF PRESIDENT BIDEN THERE WAS A LOT AND AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

THERE WAS A LOT OF CHATTER AROUND FIT AND IT WAS A LITTLE BIT OF THIS DIVISIVE.

AND SO I THINK IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT.

THIS IS NOT A CORONATION.

SHE'S BEEN PUT THROUGH THE PACES ALL OF THE ELECTED OFFICE SAYS SHE'S HAD BEFORE AS A PROSECUTOR AS VICE PRESIDENT FOR THIS, YOU KNOW, FRONT DURING THIS TERM.

SO I IT'S THAT METAL.

I MEAN, RIGHT?

I THINK SHE'S PROVING HER METTLE.

AND IN THAT INSTANCE, NICOLE, WE'VE GOT ABOUT 45 SECONDS LEFT.

YOU KNOW, OVER THE YEARS WE'VE SEEN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BLACK WOMEN WHEN IT COMES TO THE ELECTIONS.

TWENTY-TWENTY 93% OF BLACK WOMEN VOTED FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN.

WHAT ROLE THE BLACK WOMEN PLAY THIS TIME WHEN ONE OF US IS AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET?

WELL, SOME PEOPLE SAY WE SAY THE COUNTRY THE LAST ELECTION THAT IS A LITTLE BIT OF TRUTH TO THAT.

BUT I THINK THAT THERE ARE SO MANY BLACK WOMEN IN OUR COMMUNITY WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE YWCA, THEY'RE ORGANIZERS THERE BLOCK THEIR IN THEIR SCHOOL PARENT COUNCIL.

AND THESE ARE THE SAME WOMEN WHO WANT TO TALK ABOUT ISSUES THAT CHILD CARE, THE HEALTH CARE, AH, ABORTION, REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AND HEALTH CARE.

THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT ALL THOSE THINGS AND NOW THEY'RE GOING TO BE EXCITED AND THEY'RE GOING TO MOBILIZE.

AND I THINK IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ANY CANDIDATE TO STEP UP.

AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT JUST REALLY BRING THOSE ISSUES TO THE FOREFRONT.

AND WANT TO BE AT THAT TABLE WAS LIKE WE'VE GOT