(22 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atlanta – 22 July 2024
1. Cars driving on street
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Derek Hall, New York resident:
"I know there would be historical implications for having a black female president, the first female president, well, she wouldn’t be the first black president, but the first female president, there would be historical implications. But my strongest emotions for the election are just being anti-Donald J. Trump. Yes. That’s the biggest thing for me. Just not him."
3. Atlanta sign with map
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Hall, New York resident:
"Project 2025 as my biggest concern. You know, that’s. There’s no way we can tolerate that anymore. All that shenanigan, nonsense they’re trying to implement, going backwards type stuff. Yeah, we hope that doesn’t happen. People vote towards that not happening."
5. Cars driving on street
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atlanta – 21 July 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Johnny Bester, Atlanta resident:
"The endorsement that I saw with Kamala – I’m not a fan of that as well. I feel like a lot of us forgot that she was even in the office because she hasn’t been too vocal or she hasn’t been too visible."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atlanta – 22 July 2024
7. Cars and pedestrians
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Cynthia Pierre, Atlanta resident:
"I’m feeling a little bit confused because it is the first time that something like this that, you know, my time that I’ve ever seen happen. And also just a little bit scared because, just given the climate of where we are in the country and people’s attitudes towards anything that’s different from what they’re used to. It just makes me feel like the the race is…it’s kind of giving things to the Republican Party."
9. Cars driving on street
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Cynthia Pierre, Atlanta resident:
"I guess I’m just a little bit scared. So what things are going to be in the future, how things are going to unfold and just kind of feeling a little bit discouraged. I think that’s probably the best word to use."
11. Street with rainbow colored cross walks
STORYLINE:
Black voters expressed a mix of hope and worry Monday over Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race and the prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic nominee.
A key Democratic constituency, Black voters helped power Biden to victory in the 2020 primaries and ultimately to the White House, and they were among his most steadfast supporters, even as calls for him to quit grew.
But as much pride as some Black Americans feel about the possibility of Harris, who is of Black and Indian descent, becoming president, the upending of the race has some voters feeling nervous.
"I guess I’m just a little bit scared," said Atlanta resident Cynthia Pierre. "So what things are going to be in the future, how things are going to unfold and just kind of feeling a little bit discouraged."
Biden’s support of Harris and the immediate coalescing of other party leaders around her makes her the prohibitive favorite to replace him at the top of the presidential ticket. But in interviews in Atlanta, where voters helped flip Georgia for Democrats four years ago, some Black voters were nervous.
An AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll fielded prior to Biden’s announcement Sunday found about 6 in 10 Democrats believe Harris would do well as president. More broadly, among all adults, the poll showed skepticism of Harris, with only 3 in 10 Americans saying she would do well as president.
But Blacks were more likely to see Harris in a positive light.
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