{"id":2336928,"date":"2024-09-04T20:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T00:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charlamagne-tha-god-worries-harris-doesnt-like-to-explain-herself-needs-to-answer-questions-from-black-people-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T20:49:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T00:49:26","slug":"charlamagne-tha-god-worries-harris-doesnt-like-to-explain-herself-needs-to-answer-questions-from-black-people-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charlamagne-tha-god-worries-harris-doesnt-like-to-explain-herself-needs-to-answer-questions-from-black-people-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlamagne tha God worries Harris \u2018doesn\u2019t like\u2019 to explain herself: \u2018Needs to answer questions from black people\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcharlamagne-tha-god-worries-harris-doesnt-like-to-explain-herself-needs-to-answer-questions-from-black-people-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2336928&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Charlamagne tha God\u2063 expressed both support and\u200c concern for\u2064 Vice President Kamala Harris as she embarks on her campaign against former President Donald Trump. He highlighted their complicated history, noting that although he initially backed \u200cher in 2019, he feels the Biden-Harris administration has not met the expectations of\u200b the\u2062 Black community. In a recent interview, Charlamagne urged Harris\u2063 to engage more with African\u2063 American voters and criticized her\u200d for having conducted only one media interview since announcing her candidacy. He \u2063emphasized the importance of her addressing questions directly from \u200dBlack constituents to strengthen her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Charlamagne acknowledged that \u2062while it would be beneficial for\u200c Harris to defeat Trump, her limited\u200b media presence, especially in comparison to Trump\u2019s outreach, could be detrimental. He advised her to utilize Black media effectively and to clarify her policy positions, particularly as she prepares for her\u2062 upcoming debate against Trump. Charlamagne&#8217;s feedback underscores the need for\u2062 Harris to connect more deeply with voters and to communicate \u2063her \u200bplatform clearly,\u200b contrasting the criticisms aimed at her campaign&#8217;s perceived lack of policy detail.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Charlamagne tha God worries Harris &lsquo;doesn&rsquo;t like&rsquo; to explain herself: &lsquo;Needs to answer questions from black people&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1746023\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Charlamagne tha God held praise and warnings for Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> as she wages a media-light campaign against former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The maverick radio personality&rsquo;s rocky relationship with Harris has long been conducted in the public domain. Charlamagne stumped with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a> on the campaign trail in 2019 but four years later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/01\/02\/biden-charlamagne-tha-god-00132784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>complained<\/a> to <em>Politico<\/em> he felt the Biden-Harris administration hadn&rsquo;t followed through on promises to the black community.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Charlamagne tha God accepts the award for Best Multicultural Podcast during the 2019 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards at the iHeartRadio Theater on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, in Burbank, California. (Photo by Richard Shotwell\/Invision\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nonetheless, the prominent radio host threw his weight behind Harris during a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/09\/04\/kamala-harris-charlamagne-tha-god-election-00177305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>interview<\/a> with the outlet this week, even as he continued to push her to make crucial changes to her campaign and pressured the Democratic Party to do a better job of listening to African American voters, long considered safe votes for the Left.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Charlamagne declared it would be &ldquo;a good thing&rdquo; if Harris beats Trump this fall, he criticized her for only conducting one media interview since she announced her candidacy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She definitely needs to answer questions from black people, you know? We saw her sit down with [CNN&rsquo;s] Dana Bash last [week] and it was cool. I think it was a little bit overhyped, but it&rsquo;s because she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">hasn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t sat down and done a lot of interviews,&rdquo; he commented.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harris&rsquo;s sitdown with the network last week came over a month after she announced she would seek the Democratic nomination to replace President Joe Biden.&nbsp;For weeks before she agreed to the appearance, Harris faced fire for not giving traditional media interviews, a move which she defended by saying she was delivering her message to voters at rallies and events across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carson-points-out-that-every-democratic-plan-has-backfired-in-trumps-favor-as-seen-in-the-bible-2\/\" title=\"Carson points out that every Democratic plan has backfired in Trump&#039;s favor, as seen in the Bible\">vice president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s defense of her media-light strategy hasn&rsquo;t convinced Charlamagne. He complained that Trump is outperforming her in media interactions and outreach to the black community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One thing that Donald Trump is able to do that I give him a lot of credit for: He talks to so many people,&rdquo; the radio host admitted. &ldquo;So what the vice president needs to do is she needs to go out there. Talk to a lot of people and really utilize black media. So when people have these questions about her record and about what it is that she&rsquo;s done, they can go right there and look it up.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charlamagne&rsquo;s push for Harris to explain her policy positions to voters comes as she gears up for her first debate against Trump next week in Philadephia. Although the vice president has faced criticism for running a campaign relatively light on policy details, in recent days, she has announced positions on fracking and immigration that are more moderate than her progressive stances during her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-not-to-judge-anti-pipeline-activist-dismissed-pedophilia-allegation-against-colleague\/\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019m Not to Judge\u2019: Anti-Pipeline Activist Dismissed Pedophilia Allegation Against Colleague\">failed 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">presidential campaign<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign has denounced her policies as &ldquo;flip flops.&rdquo; It has also labeled her recently unveiled price-gouging proposal, which is to the left of President Joe Biden&rsquo;s economic agenda, as &ldquo;communist.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One thing that the vice president seems like she doesn&rsquo;t like to do is explain herself,&rdquo; Charlamagne worried ahead of Harris&rsquo;s debut standoff against Trump on Sept. 10. &ldquo;She needs to look at it as &lsquo;I&rsquo;m not explaining this to you, Trump.&rsquo; More like &lsquo;I&rsquo;m setting the record straight,&rsquo;&rdquo; the radio personality advised.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While he praised Harris for showing her &ldquo;true, authentic self&rdquo; on the campaign trail, he said, &ldquo;There are a lot [of] black people who feel like we&rsquo;ve overdelivered for Democrats.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And Democrats, historically, they&rsquo;ve underdelivered for us,&rdquo; Charlamagne continued as he declared that &ldquo;Democrats have always been the party of cowards, especially in recent times when it comes to Donald Trump.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the Democratic Party as a whole, they really do have to continue to answer to America, but they really have to answer to black voters,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charlamagne&rsquo;s warning to the Harris campaign comes as Trump has gained ground with black voters. The former president captured 18% of African American support nationwide, according to an <em>Economist<\/em>-YouGov <a href=\"https:\/\/d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net\/documents\/econTabReport_HIwtch9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>poll <\/a>released this month. During roughly the same point of his presidential campaign in 2012, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2012\/08\/poll-0-percent-of-blacks-for-romney-080015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">held<\/a>&nbsp;0% of black support nationally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1746023\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1746023\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlamagne tha God expresses concern that Vice President Kamala Harris may be reluctant to explain her positions, stating she needs to address questions from the Black community. In a recent interview, he offered both praise and caution regarding her media-light campaign against former President Donald Trump. Charlamagne&#8217;s complicated history with Harris dates back to their interaction on the campaign trail in 2019, where he later voiced disappointment over the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s failure to fulfill commitments to Black voters.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his criticisms, Charlamagne supported Harris in this week&#8217;s discussion but urged her to make significant changes in her approach and emphasized the need for the Democratic Party to better engage with African American voters\u2014traditionally seen as reliable supporters of the Left. He noted that while it would be beneficial for Harris to defeat Trump in the upcoming election, she has only participated in one media interview since announcing her candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Charlamagne remarked on how Trump&#8217;s extensive outreach contrasts with Harris&#8217;s limited media presence. He suggested that she should actively engage with more people and utilize Black media platforms so voters can easily access information about her record and policies. As she prepares for a debate against Trump next week, he highlighted concerns about her reluctance to clarify her policy positions amidst criticism of running a campaign lacking detailed proposals.<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging some positive aspects of Harris\u2019s authenticity on the campaign trail, Charlamagne pointed out that many Black voters feel they have consistently supported Democrats without receiving adequate returns on their investment. He characterized Democrats as historically cowardly when facing challenges from Trump and stressed that they must answer not only to America at large but specifically address issues important to Black constituents.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come at a time when Trump appears to be gaining traction among Black voters; recent polling indicates an increase in support for him compared to previous Republican candidates during similar stages of their campaigns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2336929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Charlamagne.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40138,35517,32438,32171,32076],"class_list":["post-2336928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-black-issues","tag-charlamagne-tha-god","tag-kamala-harris","tag-political-commentary","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Charlamagne.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}