Dana Bash Says Second Debate May Sway Younger Voters' Opinions

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Dana Bash says you'd better tune into Debate #2 next week ... 'cause it's going to matter a lot as the 2024 presidential election creeps closer -- especially to younger voters.

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00:00What's coming up on Tuesday, the reason I don't think it's as monumental as the one

00:07before is, we know Donald Trump, and I just don't think Trump's going to lose because

00:14we know who he is, we know what he does, it doesn't seem to move the needle, so it seems

00:20like this is not a two-sided thing as much as it is about Kamala Harris.

00:25Do you buy that?

00:26I do hear you on that everything about him is really baked in, but there are younger

00:32voters who don't remember 2016 and might not really be that familiar with 2020, or they

00:40just aren't paying as much attention, who think, well, wow, I had more money in my pocket

00:47until COVID and all kinds of things that they actually like about him without knowing maybe

00:53the full story of Donald Trump, the candidate, and Donald Trump, the president, which they

00:58might be able to get in a more fulsome way on a debate stage with Kamala Harris.

01:02I think it's going to be incredibly important.

01:06More important than the debate that you moderated back when it was Donald Trump against President

01:12Biden, which is more impactful?

01:15I think that they are both very important.

01:17The debate that we did in June was cataclysmic, obviously, for Joe Biden's campaign.

01:25Had that not happened the way it happened, Joe Biden would still be a candidate, and

01:31if they were continuing on the path they were on, Donald Trump would be heading potentially

01:35towards a landslide.

01:36The top goal is for those of us who are moderating to recede and the people who are on the stage

01:46to explain to voters, to show voters exactly what they would do and who they are.

01:53That definitely happened in the June debate, and I expect it'll happen again next week.

01:59Let's talk about the book.

02:00Yeah, let's talk about this book because I'd never heard about this gubernatorial election

02:04in Louisiana in 1872 that turned into almost a war.

02:11Back in 1872, it was during Reconstruction, the Civil War was just over, and it's all

02:19about race.

02:21When freedmen, newly freed black slaves, men only, women couldn't vote yet, could vote

02:28that they did, and they voted in—you always hear, you know, it's the first black representative

02:33of x since Reconstruction, and the reason why we hear that is because during Reconstruction

02:39there were so many black elected officials because of this right to vote and that they

02:46took advantage of, and it was before the whites in the South realized that the way to keep

02:51the black experience from being equal was to do it at the ballot box.

02:57The leaders on the Democratic side were stoking violence, and they were stoking their people

03:01to use guns, do whatever it took to make their point.

03:07And it happened in a very horrific way in Colfax.

03:11It was called the Colfax Massacre.

03:13150 black men were slaughtered in cold blood, and in order to try to find justice, they

03:20put it in the federal courts.

03:22It went all the way up to the Supreme Court, and what they were arguing was that these

03:26black men had their civil rights infringed upon.

03:31The Supreme Court said, it is not the job of the federal government to decide on civil

03:37rights.

03:38It's up to the states.

03:39And that was the Supreme Court rule in Crookshank that paved the way for Jim Crow laws in Louisiana

03:46and all over the South for a century, and it came from this election.

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