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We want to take a closer look at the history made yesterday already shaping up to be historymaking election during a pandemic after all, during an economic crisis after all, and with people in the streets fighting for racial equality, senator harris was born to immigrant parents from india and jamaica, the first woman of color, the first Asian American. Only the fourth woman period to be on a major Party President ial ticket. Were pleased to welcome our good friend, president ial historian michael beschloss. Michael, talk about the orthodoxy that this choice and this ticket will now overturn. Well, in a way theres sort of an orthodox side to it because youve got biden from tiny delaware in the east, harris from large california in the west, shes 22 years younger, so theres little bit of traditional ticket balancing but that is trivial to the history this ticket is making. 50 years from today, well say this was probably the wave of the future, the way of president ial tickets and Vice President s on those tickets will look much more this way than they did most for early American History. Were already seeing how her bio just her makeup, who she is, and her resume is proving difficult for the republicans to kind of pigeonhole and criticize, do they call her an ultraliberal, with other people allegedly she was too aggressive of a prosecutor and too close to the police during her time in Law Enforcement and the like, its that kind of problem. And if theyre flailing like that, that means theyre losing, they really dont know how to sort of come at her and one of the reasons why joe biden chose her, but another important part of this when she was chosen yesterday the number of people who said, this is so american, god bless america, this is exactly the american dream, to immigrants, her parents from y jamaica and india, come to the United States, their daughter could be Vice President of the United States, it took centuries for this kind of thing to happen. Michael, i imagine many of the books behind you reference the period in American History where we had socalled front por campaigns for president , none of the big crowds, of course, people forget there was no lock tronnic means of projecting the human voice until really just decades ago in our history, talk about how weve reverted to another time in the 1800s . When you were talking earlier, when you were talking about how this campaign has changed, 1896, William Mckinley of ohio in canton was running against will jam Jennings Brian and he got this idea, the idea was my opponent is really good speaker and im terrible, mckinley, so they decided to try to disguise this by inventing the front porch campaign, mckinley would greet visiting delegations on front porch, he won the election. As we think about this campaign is going to be about this fall, so little like many campaigns, i think there may be a future that we have in which at least for not only this campaign but maybe the next one and a few after that well not expect president ial candidates to go traveling around, being in big crowds where they could get sick. And michael, while zoom and our Electronic Media give you reach, this will be interesting because this will take away from the news media and writers of history one form of measurement and that is what are the crowds like on the road, tell us about how the crowds, tell us about the enthusiasm level, just this last cycle, we had reporters at our News Organization trying to phone in from the road and say, i dont know what im seeing, but you guys ought to listen up these trump rallies, these trump crowds are massive, and some of the clinton crowds were not and the excitement level was kind of a tell or a lack thereof. Michael, this takes away a whole measure of campaign. It allows a candidate to basically give speeches and control his atmosphere a lot more, harkening back to 1968 where Richard Nixons handlers for some reason he might not be the most captivating candidate who would ever run for president and so, you know, it seems unusual now, then, it was the extraordinary thing of trying to run a campaign that was largely on television, preselected panelists, all orchestrated by a man named roger ailes. Michael beschloss, full of historic references. Thank you for being part of our coverage. As we await our first glimpse of this democratic ticket. Another break for us. The first member of congress to endorse senator Kamala Harris and her president ial run and we await the start of this event featuring the democratic ticket for the very first time, joe biden and Kamala Harris, together in wilmington, delaware. Our coverage continues right after this. Verage continues rigt after this t, youre unstoppable. 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To our viewers let us set the scene, our cameras are only now able to set up and set the shot you see the podium with the tell prompter and the flags behind it. This is a High School Stage in wilmington, delaware. Because its important atmospherically that whole region, for that matter the whole new york tristate area has been buffeted, continues to be buffeted by really severe weather, thunderstorms of the summer variety, that are just kind of hanging around, so it has delayed everything. Reminder all of the news media for these days have to get temperature checked and only a limited number are allowed inside events like this. Not to do weather here, but you see the new jersey, delaware area, where these so storms like popcorn are springing up with the afternoon heating and not going anywhere. So hopefully it wont interfere with our electronic signal. Lets bring in congresswoman stac stacey plasick. Congresswoman, too long since our last conversation, good to see you. Lets get right to an uncomfortable topic, there was Campaign Malpractice on the democratic side in 2016, pollster Cornell Belcher touched on it earlier and will again, the democrats know the mistakes they made, they know about the excitement gap looking back at it in the rearview mirror, investigators and historians will tell us whether or not Donald Trumps victory was entirely fair and square, but tell us how this ticket this time around with this electorate will endeavor to avoid the mistakes of the past. Well im glad i mentioned the touchy atmospherics along the east coast right before the congresswoman congresswoman, youre back, can you start again, you froze because all thats flying around in the air between you and me. Please go ahead. Okay, i just want to correct i wasnt the first member of congress to endorse her but were some of her strongest endorsers, lot of mistakes that were made in that last election cycle and i believe we have learned from it. One of the things that we have learned i believe is the importance of our base, the importance of getting out the vote, the importance of not taking people for granted. The importance of sending out a clear message and i believe that Vice President joe biden has sent a clear message to all americans not only through his candidacy but by naming Kamala Harris as his running mate. I think this sends a signal to so Many Americans as to what hes about, hes inclusive, hes a statesman, hes ready to take on the task of running this country with someone whos like himself an ambitious person, someone who has, you know, fought with him on the campaign trail, but hes risen above that to recognize were one family and were all in this together to set this country back on its track. Congresswoman, forgive the error. Labeled an early and enthusiastic backer of Kamala Harris. Thank you. One of the things sure, go ahead. One of the things that was a big mistake that we have to be careful of in this election is the russian interference. Lets remember when Kamala Harris was running for president she was targeted more than any other candidate by the russians, and what they did target her on, her record as a prosecutor, and giving disinformation and lies to americans, particularly black americans about what that record was, they have painted her to something that shes not. They cant give any specifics about it, a discussion that she put a lot of black people in jail, when in in fact she focused on childrens civil rights, she created one of the leading programs to direct young people after they were arrested into training and counsel selling instead of jail. So we need to be careful and really recognize the influence of the russians. I know that shes aware of that as a member of the Intelligence Committee in the senate. Well, is that im guessing that a major source of frustration for you, we know the russians are back in the game again this time, its clear and rolling, continuing danger. Is that something youre going to devote yourself to just continue to raise your voice on and remind these people, the russians did it once, they can do it again. I think that the House Democrats are fighting that. We know that our president does not want to have any fingers pointed at the russians and particularly at vladimir putin, but we are going to remind americans, were going to holiday social media accountable. Whether thats twitter or facebook or others, and expose what is going on and the influence that they have over the American People. As well as fighting Voter Suppression and ensuring that americans can vote for their choice for president. Having agreed to refer to her as an early and enthusiastic endorser of Kamala Harris, our thanks. Great to see congresswoman stacy plask back on our broadcast. Thanks very much for your time and for making the points that you did. Lets bring our original panel back in us. Peter baker, former congresswoman, donna edwards. Pollster, Cornell Belcher. Cornell, the conversation, as all of them do, eventually, returns back to you. Lets talk about the Campaign Malpractice that weap witnessedn 2016. 2020 hindsight rules are in effect, of course, and how in your view this ticket at least addresses some of that. Look, not only the dropoffs in turnout, which steve showed earlier, but when youve got 828 to 7 of africanamericans under 30 who are part of that core group of voters who help expand the electorate for president obama voting third party, you know, hillarys margins of being off of a obamas margins are almost exactly in the percentages of those Younger Voters who have voted third party and we know from the primaries upward that biden was having some problems with energizing that younger vote. Brian, that younger vote was critical to barack obama getting to his first majority and second majority. 11 of our electorate in 2018 were newer voters who were not participating in that process before. And part of our conversation on the obama compare before he even announced, weve got to build a movement to expand the electorate, because the electorate looks like the old electorate, we dont have a shot and if you look at obamas abilities to expand that electorate and win backtoback majorities, it was built on bringing more people into the process, more sbers people in the process. I think the ticket today has a better choice of doing that, because younger people and younger people of color see a ticket that is reflective of them and their values. Donna edwards, i have to say, people are still in awe at what we witnessed and you and i were together for a lot of that coverage in South Carolina. The act of one member of congress, happens to be named clyburn and happens to be a powerful political name in that state. The sheer political power of one man to turn around the hopes and dreams of joe biden and really was the first blue brick in that wall that the former Vice President was able to build from the north, to the west, and to the south from there i remember that night and i think that what you saw also is kind of a strengthening of the resolve of black and brown voters behind joe biden and i would go even further and figure out the way this ticket is important, the biden harris ticket is the way to galvanize the bedrock of the Democratic Party, which is galvanizing black women voters. And, you know, you add on then Younger Voters and some of these other constituencies, but i think that what you will see are black women who are volunteering, theyre giving, theyre working their communities, theyre dragging their young people to the polling places and to fill out ballots and put them in the mail. And i think what jim clyburn, the whip did, jim clyburn did was he sent a signal to voters in South Carolina to line up behind joe biden and then voters in other states followed exactly what South Carolina did. Peter baker, im sitting here listening to congresswoman plaskett realizing on behalf of all of us in the news media the ongoing roll that russia is playing in this election. She very usefully reminded us all for a minimal social media investment, the trouble they caused, the brief Harris Campaign for president , with misinformation and feints, i dont think American Social media consumers are yet educated in what to look for. Any of us, all of us, what to look for and what this misinformation looks like in realtime, because it is out there, its a clear and present danger. Well, it is, exactly right. And the United StatesIntelligence Agency said just last week that russia is still trying to meddle in the fall election, as we are speaking. And in fact, in favor of president trump. And the same intelligence reports that other nations are looking at possibly doing the same, so we need to be careful, not just to focus on the russians, but to keep an eye out for others, as well. They specifically cited china, which while not doing what russia is doing right now, they said, is considering doing Something Like that, could do Something Like that, in their case, they would be against president trump, according to these intelligence agencies. But its a reminder that our election is, in fact, fragile and vulnerable to outside intervention and its incumbent not just on the government to protect us, but on the media to do our best to sort through this stuff and on voters themselves to Pay Attention to where information is coming from and to keep a skeptical eye until they feel like its been confirmed. Reporter were much obliged to have this panel along with us for the ride, as we monitor wilmington, delaware, as we can only guess the local flag dealer is very happy they came to work today. Were awaiting the very First Campaign event as a duo, joe biden and Kamala Harris. Live coverage coming back after the break. Eak. T . Is it because people love filling out forms . Maybe they like checking with their supervisor to see how much Vacation Time they have. Or sending corporate their expense reports. Ill let you in on a little secret. They dont. By empowering employees to manage their own tasks, paycom frees you to focus on the business of business. To learn more, visit paycom. Com its 4 00 in the east. Im Chris Jansing in for Nicole Wallace and we are just minutes away from the big event. Joe biden and Kamala Harris together for the first time as running mates. An event set to in