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But that can do that. i believe that kamala harris can build that coalition. elizabeth warren has been showing signs that she can build a coalition of diverse set of communities, and we dont have to rely on those midwestern white trump/obama switch voters. >> what do i know this fight? i know whats behind this fight. i know it is and i understand it. let me ask you. the historic nature of barack obama running in 08 and 12 was so dramatic, i can understand why people of color who dont normally vo...

Face a vigorous primary, especially with so many people in the democratic party telling bernie sanders to hold his fire. he did for the most part. >> i think the 08 primaries were as much as tougher. >> sure. >> he dropped the e-mail question. >> he did, but we can get -- thats more of the fall of the press than hillary or bernie. >> was unresolved. >> without going into that, again -- what about her e-mails? this is the argument -- i know theres a lot of democrats who hate the democrats fightin...

Cant dodge it when its not. >> laura: president obama had a lot of deportation so the conclusion is that obama was too conservative for this democratic party. >> its a tough sell in the democrat party and thats why biden is 20 points up. biden has to be careful here. the party, me and others -- its easy for us to dismiss this entire field as completely wacko, but the one guy that is not necessarily in that category is plus 20 over the rest. so i think its important for the party to focus in on j...

History of the black voters from 1976 to 2020. people can read it at our website. lets start with the turnout because we were just talking about how fascinating this is. in 2004, 60% african-american turnout in general elections. it goes up for president obama in 2008, 2012, comes back down in 2016. so what are you expecting and projecting for 2020? >> this one of the big open questions that i think the election could swing on in 2020. that turnout pattern youre looking at right there, 08 and 12...

Vote that determines the outcome of this election. >> well, let me talk turkey with you for just one second. it seems one reason the vote went down although up in the city because you had an african american president running in 12 and 08. and in 16 you didnt. do the democrats have to put someone of color on the ticket next year? >> well, i dont know if thats the case. i thought the democrats need to get to the city and talk to the voters. that did not happen in destroy. that didnt happen in mil...

Turnout. it goes up for president obama in 2008, 2012, comes back down in 2016. so what do you expect and project for 2020? >> i think this is a question that the election could swing on. that turnout pattern right there, that is barack obama, first black president, and look at the black turnout in the general election there. and you think about the difference between 08 and 12, extremely high black turnout, two democratic victories. 2004, lower turnout, narrow democratic loss. 2016, lower black...

Important constituency on the democratic side and also just in terms of that turnout question youre raising that jeremy was just speaking to there in the general election what you see here is the past four general elections this is the black turnout in the november election. and what you see is a spike here in 2008, in 2012, black turnout reached about two-thirds. barack obama on the ballot in both those races, won both of those races and then 2004, 2016, races that democrats narrowly lost and l...

Obama won in 08, won in 2012. 2004, john kerry narrowly last to george w. bush, when hillary clinton narrowly lost to donald trump, the numbers are lower. black turnout went up, democrats won twice, it went down, democrats lost narrowly. we talk about these trump tweets. will that motivate trumps base? you hear that discussion. another way of looking at that discussion, though, is how much attention trumps tweets, is it also going to be something that creates a backlash among black voters that c...

No one has won the nomination without winning the black vote. generally, you see the margins have been overwhelming. thats something to keep in mind as we turn toward 2020. could be the largest share of black vote ever in a presidential race. we talk about south carolina, that critical early primary where more than 60% of the electorate is african-american. >> extrapolate that and try to move it to the big picture of the general elections, give us that perspective, how the african-american vote ...

Past him in certain respects. >> it is a competition, right, so they do have to compete but to go back to biden for a moment, what you just described sounds like hillary clinton in 2008 when the clintons felt entitled to the black vote, and seemed quite offended that this young black candidate named barack obama was seeming to challenge them for it, and they made a lot of mistakes because of feeling that kind of offense. is biden teetering on beating hillary clinton in 08? >> yes, in the sense t...