Nina Turner Hits Out at Obama for Accusing Black Men of Insufficiently Supporting Harris: ‘For Him to Single Out Black Men Is Wrong’

TURNER: They need to appeal to the needs of the voters. And so, when I was a delegate for President Obama in both of his elections in Ohio, right now the Vice President is down 11 points in Ohio. Even though I fully expect President Trump to take Ohio, as he did twice, but to be down 11 points compared to President Biden, that is a problem. But this other issue I want to bring up is a problem too. Why are black men being lectured to? Why are black men being belittled in ways that no other voting group? Now, a lot of love for former President Obama, but for him to single out black men is wrong. And some of the black men that I have talked to have their reasons why they want to vote a different way. And even if some of us may not like that, we have to respect it. So, unless president Barack Obama is going to go out and lecture every other group of men from other identity groups, my message for Democrats is, don’t bring it here to black men who, by and large, don’t vote much differently from black women. And as a politician, we should be trying to get all voters to vote. And, hopefully, there are a few good men out there who do care about the stripping away of some of women’s bodily autonomy. But this is wrong for President Obama. It is a wrong course for the Harris-Walz campaign to lay at the feet of black men when they have their reasons. In 2020, the vice president was labeled a cop, as we know.”
PHILLIP: “But do you think — sorry to interrupt you, Nina, but do you think he’s right, that one of the reasons is because they don’t like the idea of a woman in the White House?”
TURNER: “It might be some — listen, black men are socialized in the same society as any other man. So, yes, is misogyny maybe a part of it? But, again, is President Obama and is the Harris-Walz campaign going to lecture other male groups in the same way that they’re lecturing black men? I don’t think so.”
PHILLIP: “This is not just about — it’s not just about Pennsylvania. It’s not just about men. It sounds like there’s a concern that there’s a broad problem for Vice President Harris with the blue wall. It’s basically, according to the poll of polls, no clear leader, a tied race essentially in all three of these battleground states.”