Instant Reaction: Harris Accepts Historic Nomination

Vice President Kamala Harris just making history, accepting for the 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.760 first time as a woman of color, the Democratic nomination 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.559 for president. In a speech that ran almost forty minutes long. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.280 She introduced herself as the child of an Indian and 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.680 Black American, as a former prosecutor as a senator, but 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.000 also took aim at her opponent Donald Trump several times, 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.000 at one point saying Donald Trump is in many ways 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.280 an unserious man, but saying the consequences of putting Donald 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.240 Trump back in the White House are extremely serious. Kamala 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.360 Harris asked Americans to consider what would happen if we 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.199 give him power again, as she made the case in 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.000 the United Center here in Chicago on this final night 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:45.120 of the Democratic Convention, Joe that they should put her 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:46.440 in power instead. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.199 That's right, as we now see Kamala Harris on Bloomberg 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:53.000 TV with the second Gentleman, Doug M. Hoffspoke earlier this week, 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.880 standing by for the big balloon drop. Of course, Kaylee, 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.720 you're right, almost forty minutes at the podium and not 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.400 only a biographic cold tale here, but counterpunching on just 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.440 about every line of attack that we've heard from Donald 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.640 Trump and Republicans, aimed at Kamala Harris and her running 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.240 mate Tim Walls, also on the stage now as the 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.640 two couples get together here in showing the ticket that 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:18.520 has now become formalized in Chicago. She talked a lot 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.560 about Donald Trump, issue by issue, went through the border, 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.360 went through his character, went to Israel as well, where 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.680 she made some news, trying to appeal to both sides. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.080 As they now wave to the crowd, Kaylee. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.320 There are more than one hundred thousand red, white and 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:32.720 blue balloons that. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.880 Are set to drop on these delegates tonight. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.319 Which speaks to the festivities of the moment and again 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.480 historic moment that we are in and as we reflect 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.480 on the words we just heard from the Vice president 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.119 and Democratic nominee back with us now our political panel 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.840 Rick Davis, partner at Stoneport Capital and Jeanie Shanzano, Senior 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.680 Democracy Fellow with the Center for the Study of the 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.240 Presidency and Congress. And you obviously are still hearing people 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.920 going wild on the floor of the United Center, a 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.360 lot of energy in arena. As the balloons come down, 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.960 you can see them on This is not no no, indeed, 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.680 and we want to get thoughts now from Rick and Jeanie. Rick, you, 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.799 of course said that for much of this convention, over 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.800 the last several days, there hadn't been enough attacking Donald Trump. 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.800 She talked about him by an eight for most of 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.120 this speech. At one point she said, dictators are rooting 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.880 for Trump because they know Trump won't hold autocrats accountable 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.760 because he wants to be an autocrat himself. How did 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.280 she strike the balance to you of attacking Donald Trump 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:33.720 while also talking about herself. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.400 Yeah, look, I think this was a fair balance, right, 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.320 This was a sober speech. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.480 Last night. We heard Oprah give a joyful speech. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.320 This was sober night, and she definitely took it to 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.600 Donald Trump in a way. Frankly, no other person on 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.480 the stage and four nights did it. So I think 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.160 she sees this as a contest between Will's. She's ready 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.560 to take him on directly, and I would say she 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.400 took him on using his own words. She didn't quote 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.440 the twenty twenty five Project. She quoted Donald Trump over 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:08.560 and over again, deeming his positions unacceptable to the greater 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:09.480 part of America. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.680 And Donald Trump was I won't say live tweeting, but 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.560 live posting on his truth social platform. Genie you had 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.919 your eyes I guess on the OPO or the counterprogramming 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.200 during this. But as the Democrat at the table, how 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.720 did this strike you tonight? The tone of the balance 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.360 between introducing herself biography and actual policy. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.680 Yeah, I mean it was fascinating because there was an 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.320 abrupt shift from the biography where she talked about her 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.760 mother passed away in two thousand and nine, never saw 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.000 her daughter achieve everything she has and how much of 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.280 an impact she had on her life, all the way 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:45.000 into this issue issue by issue that you were just 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.240 talking to Rick about attack on what she says Donald 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.840 Trump is going to do to this nation, and she 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.960 pivoted from the watchword of the election so far weird 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.840 to say they are simply out of their minds when 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.680 it comes to reproductive rights. One of the many things 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.800 that if you look at truth social, that really drove 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.800 Donald Trump mad, and he had a very extended screen 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:09.119 on Truth Social about. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.160 That with Yeah, that's for sure. He's really busy tonight. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.160 Com up like all of us watching this, let's jump 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.240 into the balloon drop right now with Bloomberg's and Marie 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.680 hor Dern, who is somewhere on that floor at the 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:24.080 convention and Marie, oh, oh, it's. 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.160 Absolutely electric on this floor. I just spoke to set it. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.040 Majority Leader Chuck Schumer again following this speech, and he 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.000 said it was pitch perfect. I think one thing that's 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.560 very clear, Kamala Harris is able to come into this 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.920 race and close that gap. It's like a relief full 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:46.360 market rally at this convention. Remember this was really unthinkable 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.440 about a month ago. Looking through some of the policies though, 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.560 whether it was the economy, talk about the fact that 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.000 no one in the middle class will get a tax, race, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:59.000 reproductive rights, foreign policy, or the border. Well, you see, 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:03.279 Kamala Harris do is picking and choosing from the Biden 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.360 Harris campaign and administration that she was part of. And 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.360 I think the next few weeks, as we go into 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.600 that debate on September tenth, she's really gonna ask and 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.600 asked some hard questions for voters to really understand what 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.200 differentiates her from Joe Biden. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.360 All right, Bloomberg's and Marie Hordern on the floor, as 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.800 the balloons are bouncing around, thank you so much. Still 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.920 with us our political panel, Rick Davis and Jeanie Shanzano. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.400 At this point, we can basically declare Rick, the convention 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.080 and the party over. Kamala Harris now has to do 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.480 this final stretch of seventy five days to actually win 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.600 this thing. Did she improve her aunts with the speech tonight? 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.680 Or is this race still just as tight as it 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:43.960 was before she took the podium. 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.040 Yeah, Look, in a divided country the way it is, 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:47.600 the race is going to be tight all the way 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.400 to the end. Right, no one is going to really 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.760 gain a decisive advantage between now and election day. I 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.600 would say the convention writ hole, I think has improved 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.800 her chances of coming out of here continuing to have 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.600 the momentum remembers. Came into the into the convention with 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.680 a great head of a momentum. She was able to 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.120 take on the mantle of the change candidate while being 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:12.400 the vice president of an unpopular administration, And so I 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.680 don't think she's lost a bit of that. She has 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.960 established this speech as a change speech, even though it 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.880 mimicked as and Marie said, almost every policy of the 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:22.919 Biden administration. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.760 So right now she's getting away with it. We'll see 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:26.880 how long she can make that last. 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.760 Well, we've got another week here of summer that it's 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.240 on the Labor Day, Genie, and a presidential debate on 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:36.000 the tenth of September. With such a small time frame 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.680 here you've referred to it seventy five days left. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:39.840 Do these two. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:44.120 Candidates just get hotel rooms in Pennsylvania and Michigan for 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:45.400 the rest of this campaign? 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.719 They do, They are going to be living in those 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:52.360 swing states, particularly as you mentioned Pennsylvania and Michigan, Wisconsin, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.560 adding North Carolina. And you know, one small point to make. 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.479 We noticed she did not wear white today. Like many 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.240 of the women on the Flora and you guys were 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.720 talking about the history making that this is tonight, she 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.440 is not playing into that, at least with her dress today. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:13.400 She did not want to draw attention to her history 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.880 making as the first woman of color to get this 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.720 nomination in terms of wearing that suffragette white. She chose 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.320 to go another way. She also didn't lean in on 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.680 her role as vice president. A lot on prosecutor, not 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.480 a lot on VP, and not a lot on Joe Biden. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.320 Once again, think how many times we hear Donald Trump 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.440 versus Joe Biden in that speech. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.200 Oh true, Well, it's really something killy. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.560 As we watch these images now and a chance for 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.960 the Harris Walls campaign to soak up the energy along 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.720 with thousands of delegates who have made their way here 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.680 to Chicago. This is it the grand finale as we 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.840 have experienced together in the first draft of history on 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.920 Bloomberg TV and Radio. Now it's to the road show, 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.840 Yeah Kaylee, and the first debate between Donald Trump Kamala Harris. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.000 And of course she has promise that by the end 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.800 of the month of August she will be sitting down 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.880 for a big interview. Tonight we did see the Vice 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.560 president and Democratic nominee reading from a teleprompters right Answering 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.840 questions from the press for an interviewer might be the 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.080 next challenge ahead for her, in addition, of course, to 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.520 competing in the Swing States against Donald Trump as they 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.400 both try to claim the presidency in November. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.360 Well, we're going to be talking a lot, likely about 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.320 a convention bounce here as posters get into the field 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:26.320 starting tomorrow. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:27.960 That might be the next leg in this story. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.440 As we bring you daily coverage of this historic campaign 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.160 on Bloomberg TV and Radio. That does it for us 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.400 here in Chicago live at the twenty twenty four Democratic 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.040 National Convention. Thanks for spending the week with us with 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.240 Kaylee Lines. I'm Joe matthew on Bloomberg TV and Radio.