Just as the PBS NewsHour can't stand the idea of a journalist from the conservative media doing the Friday "Week in Review," the Friday night journalist roundtable Washington Week can't imagine putting on a Fox News journalist to share reporting insights from the week. But woke anchor Yamiche Alcindor is perfectly happy to put on her fellow MSNBC pundit Errin Haines, an editor at the newish non-profit journalism outlet The 19th.
This is named of course for the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
Yet the left-wing outlet felt compelled to render "on account of sex" as “regardless of gender" on its "About" page. Sorry, Justice Ginsberg! 19th stories dwell upon voting rights and race which aim to “empower…women, women of color and the LGBTQ+ community.”
This Friday, Haines held up the far-left flank of the show against some admittedly stiff competitors from the New York Times and Washington Post.
Alcindor invited Haines in part to talk about Vice President Kamala Harris, who is a potential presidential candidate or even president if Biden declines to run for a second term at age 82. New York Times reporter Peter Baker said Harris "could be a liability to the ticket," but they're trying to "reboot" her. So Alcindor cued Haines up: “Errin, jump in here. I know you obviously have been covering the vice president very closely.”
Haines was the first reporter to sit down with Harris after her vice presidential nomination. (Haines clearly believes in the power of “lived experience.”)
Haines told Alcindor: …
I did see [Harris] during the midterms as a really strong surrogate, frankly, on the issue of abortion and really tying that to voting rights, tying it to the erosion of rights for many Americans in a way that resonated with key coalitions -- women, people of color, LGBTQ people -- who really see the stakes of our politics right now as existential for a lot of them. And so for her to carry that message in the midterms in a way that felt effective for a lot of those voters I think is something that you’re going to see continue. You know, again, she was out in Atlanta, where you know Raphael Warnock was just re-elected to the Senate in 2022, in those midterms, and shoring up black voters. You know, they didn't get voting rights legislation. Those folks are going to need to be shored up for 2024, again, to put together the kind of coalition that the Biden-Harris administration is going to need to win.
What "erosion of rights" is she talking about? It's "existential" to end abortion rights -- like that's not "existential" for the unborn. It's weird to say voting rights is an "existential" issue as Warnock won re-election in Georgia with very strong voter turnout.
On MSNBC, Haines previously chided “white women” for not dutifully voting Democrat and for having chosen “gender over party -- it often makes this country less free and less fair for everybody.”
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