WATCH: Ameshia Cross Speaks On How The Support Of Black Women Will Affect The Presidential Election
Political Commentator & Democratic Strategist Ameshia Cross speaks about the support of black women and how it will affect the Presidential Race.
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00:00Speak to us a little bit about that, not only black women galvanizing, but knowing that
00:06black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party, just how, again, black women are saving
00:11the day.
00:12Black women are coming in and saying like, hey, there's a fight here and we're going
00:16to get behind that.
00:17Speak to a little bit about black women's role in delivering and moving this through.
00:22Well, black women are more than the backbone of the Democratic Party.
00:25They're the heart.
00:26They're the soul and they're the brainpower of the Democratic Party.
00:28And I think that that has to be recognized.
00:31It has no more been seen than what we saw in a matter of organizing yesterday.
00:37And I can't underscore that enough, because the moment that it hit Twitter, the moment
00:41that it hit social media, that the president was going to be stepping aside, that he was
00:46going to step aside and he had also thrown his support behind his vice president.
00:50Black women across the country united so quickly.
00:54It was like the Avengers coming together in states across this, across this great land.
00:58And they decided, hey, we're going to do this call, but we're not only going to do a call.
01:01We're going to fundraise.
01:02It mattered because one of the essential points that many of us have watched over the past
01:07few weeks in how several members of the House, the Senate, as well as some of the money class
01:12decided that they no longer wanted Joe Biden.
01:14One of the first things that they did was reach to turn off the spigot for fundraising.
01:19So black women said, you know what, we're going to prove to Democratic elites and the
01:23fundraising community that we can not only prove truth to power and canvassing and advocacy,
01:27but we can also bring our dollars to the table.
01:29So they have it.
01:31They have amassed that level of support in record time.
01:34In addition to pulling together people across battleground states, going into community
01:39of their people who had T-shirts printed with Harris on it today, who are riding on a train
01:44you see.
01:45They weren't ready.
01:46Today, I think that it really matters because we've seen them come out and be surrogates,
01:52be spokespeople.
01:53They rolled up their sleeves and they were ready immediately.
01:56As soon as you know, as quick as you can press send on a tweet.
02:00Black women were organized and ready to get the ground, hit the ground running in protection
02:03of our democracy.
02:04I think they've watched the anti-DEI policies.
02:07They've watched the attacks on black scholarships.
02:09They've watched the anti-CRT, the book bans.
02:12They've watched the removal of black history from our classrooms.
02:15They've watched our communities be targeted and they are ready and willing to fight against
02:20that.
02:21They are out here telling people from urban centers to rural areas, what that actually
02:27means for them and what is at stake up to and including eradication of things like access
02:34to doctors, access to healthcare.
02:36And we already know what the maternal mortality rates look like for black women in particular.
02:40We know what it looks like when you don't have access to women's reproductive rights.
02:44Those are things that have helped to galvanize black women, but it also brought them together
02:48in terms of their advocacy potential.
02:50And I think they're working to put the democratic party on notice to say that we will not be
02:54forgotten.
02:55These are some of the same black women who, what is it, 1,400, 1,500 signed onto a letter
02:59just a few days ago, reiterating their support of a Biden Harris ticket.
03:03And once Biden decided that he was going to pass the torch, they immediately aligned around
03:07a Harris ticket.
03:08We still don't know who that VP is going to be, but we do know what a black job is and
03:12a black job was vice president and a black job in 2024 is also going to be president.
03:17And I, I, on that point right there, you bring up a really important point, right?
03:21There has been a section of black men who have felt forgotten about by the democratic
03:25party and many who have, um, you know, push their allegiance behind a former president
03:30Trump.
03:31So speak to how this is also galvanizing black men, because we're seeing that not only excitement,
03:37but also that organizing taking place with them as well.