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Symone Sanders

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first: 2020-06-17
most recent: 2020-06-17
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“All right, well, I want to get to you in a second, but I do want to finish up on the political stuff. Obviously, these protests have been around the treatment of African Americans, especially African men by police. But it's sort of the broader question about social justice. You were talking about economic justice. He has talked about nominating a woman for vice president. Is it almost a certainty at this point that he will be nominating an African-American woman?”
2020-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Symone Sanders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Criminal justice reform, we're only addressing part of the issue. We need economic justice, and we have to make sure that there's equity across the board to education, to opportunity to housing. He did an op-ed in USA today that spoke just to that. And I think that Donald Trump cannot thread that needle. Like there's a conversation about Donald Trump doing a big speech to calm the nation. No one believes that he is the man to calm the nation. It's just unbelievable. On contrast to that, Joe Biden, it is extremely not only believable, but voters have seen it with their own eyes. He has done it time and time again throughout this election cycle rising to that occasion. And I think that does that benefit us? Sure, but that doesn't mean we still don't have to actively communicate to voters about what it is Vice President Biden is for and what his plans are as president.”
2020-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Symone Sanders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look, I think that the Trump campaign, Donald Trump himself, has had a So now I do believe that who am I to assess the Trump campaign strategy? I don't know if there even is a full strategy. But I think in what he's doing around this tough guy, tough man attitude, whether it's I'm not wearing a mask because masks aren't manly or whether it's I am your law and order president, let me turn the military on American citizens, it's not working. It is in fact backfiring. And now we have a conversation where we are at a point in the United States where the large swaths of the American public are looking to have a conversation about reform and they're looking for solutions. And I think police reform is a conversation that many folks have been having for a number of years. Now the conversation has grown mainstream and it's not a conversation. It is a move to action. And as Vice President Biden has said, we need police reform right now and we need criminal justice reform. But if we only do police and”
2020-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Symone Sanders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So one of the themes, obviously, in these protests is police brutality. And it's been an interesting attempt by Trump trying to put the defund police onto Biden. So this is something that you all answered really quickly because it was, you know, there's these various attempts to try to, there was Joe Biden is addled. That didn't seem to stick as well. You guys have sort of been fending off attacks that haven't really hit a lot. Have you felt like this period of political campaigning has been good for Biden? Like Biden's in the basement seems to be working rather well, although he's been out of the basement, obviously, recently.”
2020-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Symone Sanders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What we've heard from folks that we talk to on the campaign trail, whether it's virtual or actual, what will Joe Biden do as president? And we are very laser focused on making sure we're communicating that.”
2020-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Symone Sanders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Some people say, but now his character and his temperament has directly affected the American people's lives. One could, not even one could argue the facts are laid bare because the Trump administration did not act in January or February to help mitigate the effects of the pandemic. We are now in a economic crisis on top of a public health crisis. We are officially in a recession. The Trump administration didn't act because Trump was concerned about the markets and his poll numbers, his temperament, his character that has him so self-centered is one could argue is the reason that we have found ourselves in this moment, the unrest. Donald Trump is concerned about, you know, how he looks projecting strength and not speaking to the pain that Americans are feeling. So I just think this is, we believe that this election will in fact be a referendum on Trump, but we also have to have a plan forward.”
2020-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Symone Sanders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Specific strategy to get us to 270. But I do think that the American people are responding to Trump's character. And in 2016, his character and how he would govern was just a theory, right? He's a bad person or he, you know, he's not empathetic. Some people feel he's a bad person. Some people say Donald Trump is very lovely. Who's to say? But he lacks empathy. He lacks.”
2020-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Symone Sanders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look, I think that, well, obviously, we didn't realize we would be campaigning in a general election during a pandemic and we would be at home, for lack of a better term and campaigning virtually. But I guess the way I'd answer that question is with this moment kind of what we're seeing in this moment and what it tells us is that Donald Trump has seemed unable to rise to the occasion. And it's not just this unrest. It is the pandemic. Today we put out a reopening, you know, Biden's reopening plan, like his pathway to reopen the economy safely. And we'll have a jobs plan and an economy piece coming up in the next week and a half or so. Donald Trump has been unable to do just that. He has not provided the American people a roadmap. And I think that's what people are seeing reflected in polling. Now, I believe polls don't vote and I don't care what the polls say. We still have to continue to do the work in the states and we have a state.”
2020-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Symone Sanders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, the pandemic is something you cannot predict, obviously. And you couldn't predict the reaction that Trump would have to, which is to say inaction. But the same thing with these recent protests, was it surprising for you, as you can't like, at this moment in time, you'd probably be fighting off a million attacks by Trump on Facebook and elsewhere. So we're going to get into that at the end, talking about digital. But this moment right now with these protests sort of following the pandemic and now the pandemic's kind of back. People are talking about these numbers going up rather substantively.”
2020-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Symone Sanders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Donald Trump standing at the podium again saying he's the president of law and order. He's an ally of peaceful protesters. Meanwhile, on a split screen, peaceful protesters were being gassed right outside of the White House, clearing away for his photo op. So I think what we've seen the day after that, you saw Joe Biden go to a podium in Philadelphia and speak directly, give a presidential address, speak directly to the American people, and understood that this moment that we're living through is not happening in a vacuum. It comes on top of more than 100,000 coronavirus deaths. So on top of more than 42 million people filing for unemployment, many of those deaths, many of those jobless are African-American and Latino in this country. So he has rightly, we feel like from the beginning of his candidacy, diagnosed this moment that we're in. And the soul of the nation rebuilding the backbone of the country and uniting the country is something we're going to continue.”
2020-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Symone Sanders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look, I think how we see this election and this race right now is a question of leadership. And I think what we've seen over the last, I mean, we would argue this entire primary process and now going into the general, but especially over the last week and a half, you've seen Vice President Biden step into and fill the role of leadership that Donald Trump has abdicated, whether that's when the Friday where the unrest was at the height in this country and Donald Trump went to the Rose Garden to give a speech and didn't even mention Minneapolis, George Floyd, or what was happening. But earlier that day, he had tweeted about when the looting starts to shooting starts and the juxtaposition of that was Vice President Biden coming out and giving a very, very powerful statement that spoke to the pain that many folks across this country were feeling, but also gave us a roadmap forward. Again, that following Monday, you saw”
2020-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Symone Sanders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT