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Jim Clyburn

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  1. “Yes, it was. Yeah, it worries me a whole lot. The last conversation I had with John Lewis before he left Washington to go home for what we knew was going to be his eventuality. We talked about this. We talked about Black Lives Matter movement, and we were so pleased with the fact that it had broken through the last survey I saw said that, what, 60% of the American, 70%, over 70% of American people support the Black Lives Matter movement. And John and I felt that they had broken through in such a way that beyond what we ever did back in the 1960s. And we were both fearful of that phrase, defund the police and what they could do to Black Lives Matter. And we created it to burn baby burn back in the 1960s. So I fear for that. Watch it. That young man. Take seven shots to the back. Not from down the street.”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “That you've never felt the need to ask forgiveness. And you tell me that you are a fundamentalist Christian and here's a guy who's never felt the need. We all have sinned and fallen short. And we ask for forgiveness. But here's a guy who says, I've never felt the need to be forgiven for anything. So we aren't going to let people miss that going into this election. You don't know which side of the Bible is up. A problem”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Words are great, but deeds or greater. And I think it's Trump's deeds. And those of us who are going to be sharing with the voting public going forward, his own words. I plan to use these words as we go forward in this campaign. So no, I don't think he got covered at all. I hope my Democratic colleagues will tick stock of that. And it's not just last night. You know, I'm having some hard time. I have three daughters. And when I look at a president looking into camera, referring to an African American woman who actually was on his staff at one time and referring to her as a dog, I can't get off of that. And I don't understand how any black person can get over that. You know, I can't understand how anybody in the faith community can tolerate, I could see somebody repenting. But when you do things and you don't repent and you say.”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “The men in the Social Security Act for Medicare and Medicaid. You can look at everybody goes back to the 65 Voting Rights Act, but I'm looking at the Higher Education Act. I looked at elementary secondary education act. There's just a plethora of things that came into being. There was a Democrat, a Southern Democrat. Lyndon Johnson was from Texas and he gave us the Great Society programs that are still with us today. Head start is still there. And though the Voting Rights Act has been gutted by justices that are Trump's lacking. How can you say that Democrats take blacks for granted? People just ignore 1965. But you can't ignore it. And that went right now through 1968 with the fair housing law that Trump is now trying to turn the clock back on the fair housing law that came to us in 1968 before Richard Nixon was elected.”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Quite a few other congressional black caucus members voted for. And so Tim Scott is a bit off base with that, but it's working for a lot of people and it's working within the Democratic primary. It was working as well. So I don't blame him for using it. I will say this, though. If you say that Democratic blacks for granted, I will take you back to 1964, 1965, the Great Society Programs that the Republicans keep saying failed. Well, they did not fail. 1965, look at what Lyndon, the lawson Johnson sign, the legislation he signed into law back in 1965. You can start with...”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “What people miss is that so much that was in that crime bare violence against women, the assault weapons man, community policing. These things were very popular with us and they went away when New Gintras came along. And so there were some very possibly the drug courts that went away. And so nobody talks about what really contributed to mass incarceration. It was those safeguards that were in the legislation when New Guinea took over in November of 1994. And all those things went away. And so I don't back away from the fact that I voted for that crime bill. Bernice Sanders voted for that.”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “At a gathering, a town hall meeting in Atlantic Beach, South Carolina, a black town with a black mayor. And I came out against mandatory minimums. Mandatory minimum sentences not created in the 1994 crime bill. There were, I think, the 1986 crime bill. And that came out against that. And I almost got run out of the place. I mean, these people were so incensed over the drug activity in their communities. They didn't want to hear that from me. And so that's why you saw a lot of the Congressional Black Caucus members voting for that 94 crime bill because of their experiences back with their constituents. And so...”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Well, my message is very clear. I think that we ought to be instructed by history. I think that when you really deal with things just on an emotional level, you have to take into account as what contributes to your emotions. The fact of the matter is in 1992 when I was running for Congress, I for the first time, receive my worst treatment”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “And that's what made me move as emotionally as I did with my endorsement. When she said that she needed to hear it and the community needed to hear from me. And I talked to a few people before I left Columbia that evening. And sure enough, they were waiting to hear something from me. And so I did what I did the way I did it because I think the South Carolinians in the Democratic primary who was waiting on somebody to validate Joe Biden. They wanted to vote for him, but they did not want to vote for him if he did not have validation. So I may take credit for it, but I'm not deserving of it. It's the people of South Sudan.”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “It is, it is. But, you know, I was following my heart, my late wife was just such a big fan of Joe and Jill. And before she passed away, we talked about it a whole lot. And then the Friday before the South Carolina debate, an elderly sitting on the front pew of a church that I went to for a funeral service of my longtime accountant. And she called me over to her. She said to me, and she says, I need to know who you are voting for in this primary. And if you don't want anybody to hear you, just lean down and whisper in my ear. And I did. But when I did that, The look, she snapped her head back and I saw this look in her eyes, her facial expression. And she said to me, I needed to hear that in this community needs to hear from you.”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “When Tim went after Joe as much as he did, I've been saying a lot of people shop when I called Joe Biden and adopted son of South Carolina. Joe Biden spent more time in South Carolina than any other place outside of Delaware. And so I'm not surprised that it did so well. I was a little bit, I was pleased, a little bit surprised that he had a 29 vote. 49 percentage”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Yes, it did. I was a little bit taken aback. I did not, I was not surprised that he would be pro-Trump. I was a little bit surprised that he was so anti-Biden. The fact of the matter is when you look at the voting patterns here in South Carolina, the February 29th primary Everybody expected Joe to do well among African American voters, not quite as well as he did. I don't think I'd expect it that. And everybody who looked back Miss something, and that is, and it was around Charleston where you saw white voters, independent voters, voting in the Democratic primary that are not voting in the Democratic Primary in a long time. Those numbers were very surprising to me. And so I was a little bit taken aback when...”

    2020-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 402 — Rep. Jim Clyburn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source