Kamala Harris can ‘pick up the pieces’ after Joe Biden’s missteps: Yahoo News Reporter Marquise Francis

Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Amanda Terkel, Yahoo News Editor-in-Chief Dan Klaidman, and Yahoo News National Reporter Marquise Francis discuss what the mood is among minority and black voters ahead of the 2020 election.

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MARQUISE FRANCIS: I think Kamala is honestly what Joe Biden needed. A lot of people have had conversations about Joe's age and we also know he has, I believe, a speech impediment. But when you look at Kamala and her debate style, I mean, she gets right through the teeth of things. I think she held her own when it came to VP Pence.

And we cannot discount what it means, the fact that we have an HBCU alum on this national ticket. HBCUs have been the pride and joy for a lot of Black America for so long. Before Black people could go to any school in the country, they had to go to our own schools.

And they have-- so they continue to be a part of just the Black community and the Black experience, whether that be fraternities and sororities-- and once again, Kamala Harris being a part of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sorority Incorporated, and they are a huge international organization full of hundreds of thousands of women. So they're able to mobilize.

And honestly, once again, with the snafus that Joe Biden seems to have almost seemingly every few weeks, Kamala seems to be the person there to kind of pick up the pieces in many ways.

And I have to also point out that that video you showed. When we think about even COVID-19, obviously, we're in this international, this worldwide pandemic, and we see the crowds that President Trump has versus Biden, having this campaign rally where there's car socially distancing, you hear cars honking in the background.

And we know that COVID-19 disproportionately affects the Black community. I think it goes a long way in showing where they are-- you know, our potential President for 2020, where their head is about how they care about the Black community.