WATCH: Ameshia Cross Speaks On How The Support Of Black Women Will Affect The Presidential Election

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Political Commentator &amp; 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.

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