CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2019: on Civil Rights


Cory Booker: Don't give a damn about the politics: racism is racism

I will defend anybody Republican or Democrat who is attacked because of their color of their skin, because of their religion, because of their ethnicity. That's just who I am. I don't give a damn about the politics of it. Racism is racism. I don't care about politics. I care about my nation. This is not who we are. This is the greatness of our country.
Source: CBS Face the Nation interviews in 2019 Jul 21, 2019

Kamala Harris: We cannot be ignorant of history of race in this country

Q: Biden referred to segregationist senators who might have called someone like him who was younger "son;" they might've called a black man, "boy." [In later debates, Harris took Biden to task for working with those segregationist senators, and on racial issues regarding school busing]. What do you think?

HARRIS: We cannot be ignorant of the history of race in this country. Certainly anyone who is a leader should not be. That is a very loaded term, loaded with a history that includes extreme racism, violence, discrimination, prejudice, you name it. All of that it's a very loaded term. And I think it is very important that we who are leaders, or profess to be leaders, that we choose our words carefully understanding the significance and the power of our word.

Source: CBS Face the Nation 2019 interview series Jun 23, 2019

Doug Jones: We should be encouraging voting, not making it harder

It's a political power grab right now where people are trying to gerrymander districts, where people are trying to prevent the right to vote, [to prevent giving] them free access to the vote. We need to be expanding the voter rolls and trying to get people to the vote. We need to be pushing the percentage of Americans up who want to vote on Election Day and instead we seem to be working and the powers that be seem to be constricting that. And I think we've got to change that.
Source: CBS Face the Nation 2019 interview Mar 3, 2019

  • The above quotations are from CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2019
    (Margaret Brennan interviewing candidates for 2019-20 races).
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2020 Presidential contenders on Civil Rights:
  Democrats running for President:
Sen.Michael Bennet (D-CO)
V.P.Joe Biden (D-DE)
Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I-NYC)
Gov.Steve Bullock (D-MT)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-IN)
Sen.Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Secy.Julian Castro (D-TX)
Gov.Lincoln Chafee (L-RI)
Rep.John Delaney (D-MD)
Rep.Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)
Sen.Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Gov.Deval Patrick (D-MA)
Sen.Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
CEO Tom Steyer (D-CA)
Sen.Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Marianne Williamson (D-CA)
CEO Andrew Yang (D-NY)

2020 Third Party Candidates:
Rep.Justin Amash (L-MI)
CEO Don Blankenship (C-WV)
Gov.Lincoln Chafee (L-RI)
Howie Hawkins (G-NY)
Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Howard Schultz(I-WA)
Gov.Jesse Ventura (I-MN) 		Republicans running for President:
Sen.Ted Cruz(R-TX)
Gov.Larry Hogan (R-MD)
Gov.John Kasich(R-OH)
V.P.Mike Pence(R-IN)
Gov.Mark Sanford (R-SC)
Pres.Donald Trump(R-NY)
Rep.Joe Walsh (R-IL)
Gov.Bill Weld(R-MA & L-NY)

2020 Withdrawn Democratic Candidates:
Sen.Stacey Abrams (D-GA)
Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NYC)
Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Sen.Mike Gravel (D-AK)
Sen.Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Gov.John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Gov.Jay Inslee (D-WA)
Mayor Wayne Messam (D-FL)
Rep.Seth Moulton (D-MA)
Rep.Beto O`Rourke (D-TX)
Rep.Tim Ryan (D-CA)
Adm.Joe Sestak (D-PA)
Rep.Eric Swalwell (D-CA)
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