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MSNBCW The Beat With Ari Melber October 28, 2020

Want you to see it, we think its important and its coming up in a few minutes. Now having said that, new data about the state of the race running out for President Trump to change things as joe biden is making leads in the early vote and mail vote and were seeing leads in state polling and hes leading in the spending to reach voters in this key suggest ita biden sweep. Hes up five points in wisconsin. Trump needs to replicate from 16. Biden up in michigan another midwestern state. More striking, in typically red georgia, biden up five points. These leads are beyond the margin of error but only barely. Pollsters see them as real but slim leads. Those are fund mentals. For the rallies on the ground, donald trump finding his visit to omaha is backfiring hundreds of trump fans stranded outside freezing temperatures after the rally all because the campaign messed up unable to use planned buses to get those maga fans back to their warm cars. This is no joke. Authorities found 30 people needed medical attention, seven went to hospitals with hypothermia. Trump talked how cold it was during the event and biden said this is more than a mistake, its an illustration of trumpism. Im standing here freezing. Im all up here and that wind is blowing. Hundreds of people including old americans and children were stranded in subzero freezing temperatures for hours. He gets his photo op and gets out. He leaves everyone else to suffer the consequence of his failure to make a responsible plan. Lets get right to it. Were joined by david plouffe, Barack Obamas 2008 Campaign Manager and juanita. Good to see you both. Juanita, what do you see in that allegory or illustration of trumpism, no shade, no joking but actually putting those voters, those citizens in some medical atenl atentative need. There is no shade that needs to be cast but the evidence is clear. Trump does not care. He swooped in for the photo op like hes done for the entirety of the campaign and leaves you literally out in the cold. Thats representative of the way he has not handled this pandemic and not handled this economic recession or work to meet the needs of American People who have rent due yet again in a few days. So trump and the voters left out there is truly concerning because not only did you subject yourself to to herbal tpotentia contracting covid but potentially being in hype theota conditions. Make sense of it, ari, because it doesnt to me. I hear that. Juanita is someone we rely on for straightforward, real an analys analysis. David is someone we rely on for knowing how campaigns work. I dont want to kick off the show with a big compliment, but are you ready . Sure. We dont know if youre the best in the business, thats opinion but you are the person in the business who had the last democratic victories, and who has the blueprint for what biden wants to do, which is in a sense rebuild or grow the obama biden coalition. So now that were just six days out, i showed some numbers. What you see as positive or replicating the collision, which would be a win or what as a Campaign Manager might still concern you right now . Well, i appreciate the compliment, ari. Bobby kennedy is the best Campaign Manager of all time. That will stand the test of time. Biden has many, many pathways to 270 electoral votes. Thats where you want to be this close to election day. Hes got a bunch of states in the sun belt. Hes got arizona. Hes got, obviously, the upper midwest and the good thing if youre the Biden Campaign, those numbers have stayed steady. Its not like you had a couple of weeks where georgia or texas or iowa looked close and then things restore to the natural order. Hes got real chances in all these states. What were seeing in the early vote, what would still concern me is early vote looks very good so far in terms of democratic turnout. Younger voters turning out. Firsttime voters turning out and frequent voters turning out but that has to continue through the early Voting Period and the big question is do we hit our numbers on election day . Youre going to be nervous until you see real votes getting unpacked. These numbers in georgia i think in texas, you see texas is judged to be the hardest state to turn out tragically. Its also got the strongest turnout in the entire country because something is happening in texas, georgia, i think you see good turnout in florida but florida is always close. From an Electoral College standpoint, these are like your children if youre a Campaign Manager. You love them equally and want them to come home to you but joe bidens campaign can win if a bunch do not come home. He does not have to run the table. It seems now david, if these are your children does that make florida your punk rocker kid, you still love and still want to be part of the family . Because florida can be weirder. It is. I always florida was always my favorite Battle Ground. I love them all. Its a back breaker. If they lose florida, the math is close to impossible and obviously, texas would be a new intern in that discussion. It is a back breaker. Florida is complicated. Its big, its messy. Its expensive. The numbers are there for any democrat to win and we see how close its been really over a generation. So i think joe bidens strength in florida with Senior Citizens and in arizona in particular are the two reasons right now he has to be a sliegght favorite. I feel like the Voter Suppression voters are experiencing whether its long lines or a single ballot drop box in an entire county like we seen in texas. Thats the other thing were keeping an eye on and the signals from the Biden Campaign are take nothing for granted because david is right, they have to sustain themself but be able to safely cast their vote. Were still in a pandemic and turnout day on election day will be revealing. When you see wisconsin, michigan and georgia all with real leads for biden, what does that tell you about the kind of night he can have . Meaning he could then what, lose florida and take p. A. And be fine . Yeah, well, here is michigan has basically, trump has given up in michigan. And wisconsin over the last 60 days has trended more and more towards biden, and obviously, thats the state of all the Battle Ground states thats having the worst covid outbreak. So trumps rallies are really like contributions to the Biden Campaign. If he wins those two states, you know, hes on his way to the presidency. You have pennsylvania, arizona, you have florida, North Carolina in the next year but then youve got georgias numbers are not that different than what youre seeing in arizona, and thats the important thing here is that hes now got eight or nine states that are firmly in play. You might even argue ten. And we see trump is getting out spending all of them and listen, trump is threatening hell do five or six events a day. I mean, i hope he does 500 a day not for the people he gets sick. Hes literally causing people to get sick or die but the images are so damaging to his candidacy this week and when youre behind in a race and every visit you do hurts you, and every interview you do hurts you, whats left . The problem for trump is there is no bag of tricks here to get him out of the deficit he finds himself in but im really excited to see Kamala Harris going to texas. Biden is going g ting to georg. You dont want to take the other states for granted. Ari, listen, this may get really close and maybe biden goes north of 270 if he wins. Thereto is a 350 plus electoral votes and that will be the difference between a couple points nationally between one or the other. Juanita briefly, Kamala Harris in texas is not a head fake. Its not wasting her time. Neither she nor joe biden is interested in wasting her time. To davids point its a home stretch indicator that would be a different kind of night, they must think that texas is still in play. They define it as Battle Ground. Yeah, switching into the tossup column yesterday. Texas is absolutely in play and similar to georgia, the reason why those states are in play right now is the back breaking work that Community Groups and women of color are doing on the ground to organize over the past four years and make sure those states have the structures to even yield even the possibility of a biden win. Yeah. Juanita and david bluff two great experts. The iconic director ava makes her beat debut but right now we turn to the final special report of this election, whats at stake, confronting trumps hate and what i think is the most important thing Everyone Needs to know about this race when were back in 30 seconds. Needs to know about this race when were back in 30 seconds. [sfx typing sound] [sfx typing sound] [sfx typing sound] we are in the home stretch of this president ial campaign and there are arguments what the big issues should be, both have been tackling race. Americas deepest conflict that occupied every president including the recent breakthrough of the first black president. Freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries. An African American has broken the barrier as old as the republ republic. Race is an issue that i believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We are now in the process of defeating the radical left, the marks, the an anarchists, the agitators, the looters. History has thrust one more urgent task on us, will we be the generation that finally wipes out the stain of racism from our National Character . Americas racial challenge is a huge issue in the trump era. Now that may sound obvious buttist actualbut i its a long ways from the misplaced talk around 2008 that somehow obamas election alone marked an end to racial discrimination. Racial discrimination or racism is basically over in this country. People talk about were post Racial Society as if Barack Obamas election now means racism is over. Americans once hopeful after electing the first African American president , the issue of race would be a thing of the past. I think that racism is going to fade into the remote past. Wrong. American racism does not fade on its own or dissipate after a few breakthroughs, even big ones. Systemic racism wouldnt end in one night. To understand racism is syste c systemically embedded in laws and economy and yes, in our brains, is to understand that it endures by default unless its explicitly uprooted and reformed. That may be why in this trump era, amidst racism and the comfort for White Supremacists and proud boys, amidst this the incident that truly broke through that captured the imagination was not strictly about words or southern statutes. It was about action, a government killing an unarmed black american, a slow lengthy execution of a life, a life legally and morally innocent. A life that pleaded to breathe but was executed in broad daylight before a crowd over an excruciating eight minutes and 46 seconds, it was the taking of that black life, a black life that mattered, and the now fill mi familiar disturbing video. I cant breathe. Your knee is in my neck. I cant breathe. Get up and get in the car, man. I will. Get up and get in the car. I will. I cant move. The horrific footage showing the officer kneeling on George Floyds neck for several minutes, minutes more after he passed out grinding out that killing, sparking a movement, protests rippling across 2,000 cities this year, some lasted for months. Pressure that led to some changes in policy and personnel including a rare murder charge for the officer, but the protests did not halt routine incidents like this. Officers shooting this man seven times in the back as he walked away unarmed. Didnt stop things like the First Responder Breonna Taylor whom police shot to death in the middle of the night in her own apartment this year. This year forced americans to face realities and see theyre not about some kind of rare exception or just bad apples. Americans reminded this year of other lives that mattered, other innocent black people killed. Walter scott shot to death in the back. Mcelder mcdonald 17 and shot to death with 16 Police Bullets and freddie gray tossed into a van where he died of a neck injury and garner in an erie precursor to the george floyd video that upset so Many Americans. Lynnwood Lambert Police handcuffed and drove to a hospital where he was supposed to get medical care and denied that by police who used tasers 20 times. He died in police custody. Each story about each life may breakthrough than the numbers but here in the news well show the same story. Police kill about 1,000 people a year. The rate continuing at the same pace this year, 804 killings so far. Its the same pace for charges. Before 2016, police could go years in a row without a single murder conviction despite thousands of killings. Thats ticked up slightly in just these killings caught on tape. One officer convicted per year over the past five years in research by phillip stinson. As some americans rush to over estimate how obamas victory might end racism, this year it would be the wrong lesson to assume the scrutiny is curbing the actual deployment of systemic racism. That drove the protests. But numerically, Police Brutality is actually the smallest part of systemic racism. Yes, all those videos that you just saw there about the sliver of the Justice System that just deals with arrests, the first part of any Police Interaction but the majority of the economic and Racial Injustice exists elsewhere. So for example, in america, did you know that most of the people in our jails are innocent . That sounds weird, right . Under the cash bail system if youre rich, youre innocent until Proven Guilty and you prepare for trial at home. If youre not, youre innocent until Proven Guilty but stuck in jail until trial because you cant pay bail. Well, being in jail, those people in our jails are awaiting trial. 90 cant afford bail. The system discrime nates against black americans. Those are numbers. Here is a person. 28yearold sandra bland was pulled over for not using a turn signal, then arrested, then jailed on a 5,000 bond that she couldnt afford. She later died in jail bringing extra scrutiny to her case, but most americans cannot afford these bonds. And the over policing of black americans means they run into this cash problem more often. Thats just bail. Then there is the trial itself. Americans see crime shows where everyone gets their day in court but thats fiction. Most cases never go to trial like that. And you can see why tonight, legally innocent defendants held in jail where they lose their jobs if they have them, no money for bail or a good lawyer. They face huge pressure to plea and most take the deals. Thats unfair to the poor and tilted by race because prosecutors prosecutors and judges sentence them for more time for the same crime especially drug crimes. So black americans remain imprisoned at five times the rate. So those Police Brutality videos are important this year but the most visible shocking part of this much wider system, which is harder to catch on video. Harder to swiftly expose all its cruel catch 22s and raw deals. Now, the iconic film maker documentary 13th shows how slavery is the foundation for mass incarceration. Its with the nixon era and the law and order period when crime begins to stand in for race. The Prison Industrial Complex relies historically on the inheritances of slavery. And in that nixon era, those white house aides for nixon admitted they saw the war on drugs as a way to get the public to associate blacks with heroin to criminalize them and disrupt those communities. From her to the scholar Michelle Alexander to james baldwin, many emphasized these are not new systems. They continue old ones. We are still governed by the slave codes. Now, when i say a slave rebellion, i mean that what is called the Civil Rights Movement was really inter recollection. Everything i told you is a brief tour of racism and criminal justice, which itself is one slice of systemic racism in america. For that i want to go through a top ten list. Number ten, the American Dream of owning a home, most White Americans do. Compared to a minority of black americans. T most whites graduate college, most black americans dont and the racial wealth gap persists apart from education bringing us to White American households with a High School Diploma make 100,000 a year, ten times the wealth of black households with the same exact education. It gets worse. 7 in 10 americans today, i should say 7 on our list of 10, if youre a white person with only a High School Degree in america today, youre going to make more than a black american with a bachelors degree. So when you hear that people should just pull themselves up and get an education and get to work, remember, race kicks in to block fair pay for that progress regardless. Here is another example of how bringing us to number six, statistically Many Employers prefer to hire a white form early convicted criminal over a black app cant with no record and stokes inequities like five, the recession hits everyone but black am docommu

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