WANT TO
BE
AS
PROSPEROUS AND
WEALTH AS
THEIR
WHITE NEIGHBORS.
>> DAVID, WHAT D
O YOU
MAKE OF
THAT AND
HOW THAT
MESSAGE JIBES
WITH
WHAT WE KNOW TO BE
THE
ECONOMIC POLICY OF THE
CURRENT
PARTY?>> I THINK THE PARTY
HAS NOT
BEEN ABLE TO
TELL THE
COMPLICATED STORY ABOUT
RACE.
THE ONE NOTE
I THOUGHT
THAT HILT
IN THE
TIM SCOTT
REMARKS WERE,
AMERICA IS NOT
A RACIST
COUNTRY.
THAT'S TOO SIMPLE.
TULSA HAPPENED,
RACIAL TERRORISM
IN THE 1 90'S
HAPPENED, THE
WEALTH
GAP EXISTS
TO THIS
DAY.
REDLINE DISTRICTS.TELL
THE STORY
OF AMERICAN
HISTORY, IT'S A
COMPLICATED
STORY.IF YOU WANT TO BE A
PLAUSIBLE
PARTY YOU HAVE TO BE
ABLE TO
TELL A
COMPLICATED STORY.
I THINK
JOE BIDEN
IS ABLE TO
DO THAT.
I THINK
THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY, I
CAN'T THINK OF A
SINGLE
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE WHO
HAS BEEN ABLE TO TELL
THAT STORY
WELL.
BECAUSE THEY JUST WANT,
OH,
WE'RE NOT RACIST.
WE'RE NOT
RACIST.
THAT'S NOT
REALITY.
>> CAN THE ELECTORATE
DIGEST A
COMPLICATED STORY.
DO AMERICAN
VOTERS CARE ABOUT
NUANCE?
>> THEY DO
BUT AT
ITS CORE,
WHAT
POLITICS IS ABOUT WHAT A
VOTER
WANTS TO KNOW
IS WHAT
IS IT
GOING TO
D O FOR
ME?
WHY IS VOTING
FOR YOU
GOING T
O HELP
ME?
IT'S IN SOME
WAYS A
VERY A
TRANSACTIONAL EFFECT.
WHAT YOU
HEAR OVER AND
OVER
AGAIN FROM VOTERS,
ESPECIALLY
THOSE WHO ARE
IN PLACES
WHERE
THE ECONOMY
IS NOT
GREAT, WHAT
YOU HEAR
FROM VOTERS IN
THE
COMMUNITIES AND A LOT
OF
COMMUNITIES OF COLOR,
ARE
SAYING, OK, BUT
DEMOCRATS, WHAT
HAVE YOU
BEEN DOING FOR
US?
WE SEE YOU COMING
INTO OUR
COMMUNITIES AROUND ELECTION
TIME.
EVERY FOUR YEARS.
BUT WHERE IS
THE PAYOFF IN
TERMS
OF MY OWN
AND MY
FAMILY'S
SECURITY, SAFETY,
WHATEVER THE
CASE MAY
BE?
SO I THINK
THAT'S WHERE,
YES,
POLITICS IS
VERY MUCH,
IT'S -- YOU'RE GETTING A
BINARY CHOICE.
IT'S
HARD TO HAVE
NUANCE I
N THAT
CONVERSATION.
BUT IT IS
FAIR TO
ASK FOR
A
BROADER CONVERSATION TO BE
HAPPENING.
AMONG POLITICAL LEADERS.
WHICH IS
NOT WHAT
WE USUALLY
GET.
>> I THINK
THAT'S WHY
THERE'S
THIS INTENTIONALITY IN THE
MESSAGING AROUND COST
OF LIVING.
BECAUSE I
THINK MOST AMERICANS
DIGEST ECONOMIC POLICY,
THEY
DIGEST TAX
POLICY, AND
REGULATORY
POLICY, ALL THE
THINGS I LOVE,
THEY DIGEST THEM
IN TERMS
OF, WHAT'S
IT COST ME
TO
BUY MILK AND
EGGS AND ALL
THE
THINGS THAT
BYRON DONALD
TALKED
ABOUT?
IF YOU
LOOK AT
SURVEY RESEARCH,
WHEN
AMERICANS THINK ABOUT THE
STATE OF THE
ECONOMY THEY'RE NOT
THINKING ABOUT
G.D.P. GROWTH.
THEY'RE NOT
THINKING ABOUT
THE
UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBER.
THEY ARE
THINKING ABOUT, WHAT
DOES THIS
COST ME?
SO I THINK THERE'S
A MESSAGING
COMPONENT THAT
IS POTENTIALLY
VERY EFFECTIVE IN A CAMPAIGN.
NOW
THE REALITY
OF SOLVING
THE
COST OF
LIVING PROBLEM
IS
a very powerful motive, a very powerfultheme.
And that's why you're going to hear it
over and over again.>> And, and, and
to that point, we've been asking.
>> You're watching Republican National Convention
coverage from Milwaukee. I'm FredericaFreyberg.
We will stay with NewsHour coverage, but we
want to check in now with
"Here& Now" Senior political reporter Zach
Schultz, who comes to us fromMilwaukee, and
Zach , so day oneof
the Republican convention there in
Milwaukee certainly takes on heightened security
concerns. Has that been inevidence
? >> Yeah, we saw that alreadyyesterday
. I went to a prayervigil that was
kind of spontaneously popped up inresponse
to the shooting of Donald
Trump last Saturday. And I spoke to some
people who said they were not concerned at
all. They were absolutely happy andthought that
Milwaukee would be very safe to be in
because of that, because they knew that the
Secret Service and the amount
of police here would be in a large
presence. But on the other
side, there are some people that I
know that were planning to cometo
Milwaukee that scrapped those plans
over the weekend. Because of that, they just
didn't feel it was worth the risk or
that their people would feel safe andsecure
being here in the city.>> So with
the Wisconsin delegation, of course, proceededas
planned. And you heard fromsome important
players today among them to kick
things off, including state Republican Party
Chair Brian Schimming .>> I get a
lot of questions about the security situation
in Milwaukee because of whathappened
in Milwaukee,Wisconsin, right
now is the safest place on the face
of the planet.
is reassuring. Tobe sure.
We do know that there
were planned protests today,Monday. What can
you tell us about those and how how
those went down? Yeah>> Well, there was
there were a lot of protesters
here representing all different walksof life and
all different feelings on what issues they
were protesting. Republicans in the
RNC about. And there weresome pretty loud
counter-protesters to them,those that were
strong anti-abortion advocates withmegaphones shouting them
down. There was heavy police presencearound
them, but nothing got violent. And as far
as we know, there were no arrests related
to any of those protests because itreally does so
und as though people have
tried to kind of deal with the
assassination attempt and lower the
rhetoric .Absolutely. The word
here in Milwaukee is unity. That's whatall
the delegates and all theRepublicans are
preaching. They want to bring the Republican
Party together, and they're trying to put out
this message that they will take this moment
and move forward to unify boththeir
party and the country, andwe will see
if that happens andwhether that happens
in words and deeds will only be tested
down the line. But that isdefinitely the
message today. >> Indeed. Thank you Zach. We
look forward to talking with youtomorrow
night. We will be hereat the same
time tomorrow with the latest updates from day
two of the RNC in
Milwaukee on Friday. Join "Here& Now" at
seven for full coverage of theconvention and
what it means for HIM FOR A LONG
TIME.
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I SAID,
I THINK SOME
OF HIS
MOVE FROM
PRO-TRUMP
IS
OPPORTUNISTIC, SOMEWHAT
HE'S STILL SOMEWHAT
IT.
FAKING
IT, HE'LL
OPPOSES AID TO
UKRAINE.
THEN HE'LL
SAY, I
DON'T CARE
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PEOPLE IN
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