MSNBC RNC SPECIAL COVERAGE
7/17/24
9:23 PM
JOY REID: What I am hearing and the anger that I am hearing that's coming from them, is that to the point that you are making, given the stakes, and the stakes being democracy itself, the stakes being Project 2025, the stakes being a Trump presidency, which I think everyone agrees that African- Americans would be first in line to suffer, right? And so they understand the stakes- that here is a sense among the people that I have spoken to, including some senior members of that (Congressional Black) Caucus. That given that, there is a sense there is gamesmanship going on inside of this effort to remove President Biden from the ticket, and that that gamesmanship is heavily geared toward also pushing aside Kamala Harris, Vice President Harris. And there is a sense there is a lot of pressure coming from there-- some people are just calling it California at this point. Whether it's donors or whether it is members, whether it is whoever. This sense of huge pressure for the CBC, which has locked arms with President Biden, I think we can agree on that.
RACHEL MADDOW: Sure.
REID: They have been unwavering. They are sticking with him, you know, Claire McCaskill will tell you, to the very end. They are with him. But the huge pressure is coming without regard to the vice president.
