Harris-Walz Dep. Campaign Mgr On Black Outreach: "Obviously, We Have To Do More"

 

Today on ‘The Weekend,’ MSNBC co-hosts Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders Townsend spoke with Principal Deputy Campaign Manager of the Harris-Walz Campaign Quentin Fulks about concerns the campaign isn't doing enough Black outreach.

SANDERS TOWNSEND: "NBC News" has not independently confirmed this yet, but notice recently reported that there has been some consternation with the Harris-Walz campaign as it relates to spending with black vendors, black firms. They are -- reportedly, Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, expressed frustration on an August call with the manager of your campaign. Can you speak to this -- this frustration -- I mean, people are saying in these articles and in strategists that I've talked to that there is a concern that black voters are critical to this election, yet black vendors are not being a part -- a key part of telling their stories. And the money, the record money that has been being brought in is not equitably being spent.
 
FULKS: Yeah, well, thank you for letting me address this question. I mean, President Johnson had that conversation with me directly. Look, obviously African American voters are extremely important. There is no way that we can win this election, get to 270 electoral votes, win any state without turning out African American voters and also persuading them.
 
We saw a mass consolidation of African American voters to Vice President Harris when she became the top of the ticket, but that is by no mean that we take those voters for granted. And so we have been working to make sure that we are putting more resources into black-owned media outlets to tell the message to black voters. We have black vendors on our campaign who are creating the content that we are pushing out.
 
Obviously, we have to do more. This is a margin of error race. It is a tight race. A lot is at stake. Again, I know, and I read the article myself, because it's important to me that we get this right.

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