Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Kamala Harris and the Democrats

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The “Breakfast Club” co-host talks with David Remnick about Black voters, his recent interview with the Vice-President, and why the Democratic Party needs a lot more “Bulworth.”

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0:00.0	Listen to support it, WNYC Studios.
0:11.4	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker.
0:17.0	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:21.0	I'm David Ramnick.
0:22.0	In these final days of the presidential campaign, Vice President
0:27.0	Harris has been getting in front of voters as much as she possibly can. And not just
0:31.5	on 60 Minutes and Fox News, she's talked to Howard Stern, she's been considering
0:36.1	Joe Rogan's podcast, all shows that are heavily weighted toward male listeners.
0:42.2	And given the polls showing shaky support among black men,
0:45.8	one god she absolutely had to talk to
0:48.4	was Leonard McElvy, much better known
0:51.3	as Charlemagne the God. Charlemagne the God.
0:54.0	Yeah, you guys really are like the hip-hop early morning, late night.
0:57.0	I am blessed, black, and highly favored.
0:58.0	Happy to be here, man, another day to serve our beautiful listeners.
1:02.0	Absolutely. Absolutely.
1:03.9	Charlemagne co-host The Breakfast Club,
1:06.0	which is syndicated on I-Heart radio.
1:08.3	He's interviewed political figures from Harris, Hillary Clinton,
1:11.4	and Joe Biden, to Lara Trump, who's the co-chair of the
1:14.7	RNC.
1:16.2	Breakfast Club recorded the interview with Kamala Harris as a live town hall conversation,
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