6 things we learned this year
Politico6 things we learned this year What up, Recast fam! Now for today’s agenda: Six takeaways on race in America from this past election cycle Joe Biden commutes the sentences of nearly every prisoner on death row And we honor the passing of a baseball great, Rickey Henderson Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris at the debate on Sept. 10, 2024. Trump even mocked Harris’ biracial identity, saying she only “recently turned Black” and fueling attacks about her being a “DEI hire.” Harris refused to engage on the identity question, and Democrats couldn’t effectively defend against the culture war threatening the party on multiple fronts. “Asking voters of color to protect a set of systems that don’t always work for them … just isn’t working anymore.” Her organization’s exit poll of the seven battleground states found that Black, Latino and Asian American and Pacific Islander voters who broke for Trump were far more motivated by the economy than saving democracy. “I think the Democratic Party’s reliance on the Obama playbook reflects a failure to adapt to a very different political and social landscape,” Joe Paul of Black Men Vote told The Recast.
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