Mehdi: “What is at stake here in this election for you?”
@johnlegend: “I believe our democracy is at stake.”
Nov 3, 2020 · 1:19 AM UTC
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Republicans "don't believe in democracy," @JohnLegend tells Mehdi. "I feel like they're an entire party that knows they're on the losing end of any number of issues... they've decided that democracy is disposable."
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"He's been racist throughout his life," @johnlegend says of Trump. "This guy is trying to use racial issues... as a cudgel against Joe Biden." He adds that Biden has work to do on racial issues, but he expects that Biden will be "frankly, less racist than Donald Trump."
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.@JohnLegend says the fight for criminal justice reform doesn't end with this election, even if Trump is voted out: There's local and state work to be done. And not only that: "We have to hold Joe Biden and Kamala Harris accountable when we get them into office."
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"It's powerful" to see that America might get its first Black, South Asian vice president in Kamala Harris, says @JohnLegend: "It’s not policy change, it’s not the revolution we need" to end misogyny, "but it is a step, and it’s something, I think, we should all celebrate."
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