Michigan group chief tells CBS ‘a whole lot of Black males aren’t into the Harris marketing campaign’

A bunch of Michigan group leaders advised CBS Information’ Ed O’Keefe that Black males don’t wish to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, citing frustrations about how Harris’ candidacy would make a distinction of their lives. 

“Vice President Harris used that radio interview to defend herself in opposition to accusations she’s doing this outreach now simply due to political timing. And group leaders we spoke to right here in Detroit say the Harris marketing campaign nonetheless has a whole lot of work to do,” O’Keefe stated, noting Harris’ interview with radio host Charlamagne Tha God. 

The vice chairman advised Charlamagne that what she was speaking about was “not new,” and it was “not for the sake of profitable this election.”

“Lots of Black males aren’t into the Harris marketing campaign, and I believe this could have been completed awhile in the past,” one Black group chief stated.

KAMALA HARRIS DISMISSES CONCERNS SHE’S LOSING SUPPORT FROM BLACK MEN: ‘NOT MY EXPERIENCE’

A group chief in Michigan advised CBS Information {that a} “lot of Black males” aren’t into the Harris marketing campaign. (Screenshot/CBS)

“We’ve got tens of hundreds of individuals that don’t intend to vote and don’t give a rattling about Kamala, Trump, or anybody else as a result of they don’t see how this marketing campaign, this candidacy makes one little bit of distinction of their lives,” one other stated. 

O’Keefe additionally requested the group in the event that they believed Harris would win in November. 

Many of the group stated that Harris would pull it off, however that it will be shut.

“I believe it is contact and go proper now. I see shades of the Hillary Clinton marketing campaign with the vanity of a Democratic Social gathering out of contact with the voters,” one of many leaders stated.

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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion at East Carolina College, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Greenville, N.C. (AP Picture/David Yeazell)

Harris recommended she was open to reparations throughout her interview with Charlamagne. 

“I’m working to be a president for all Individuals. That being stated, I do have clear eyes in regards to the disparities that exist and the context wherein they exist, which means historical past, to your level. So my agenda, effectively, to begin with, on the purpose of reparations, it must be studied. There is not any query about that. And I have been very clear about that place when it comes to my quick plan,” Harris answered.

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Her city corridor with Charlamagne got here simply days after former President Barack Obama, in feedback that went viral, admonished Black male voters for a scarcity of enthusiasm in help of Harris. Polls point out Trump is making positive factors with Black males, who’re historically a few of the Democratic Social gathering’s most dependable supporters.

Fox Information’ Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.