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HARRIS PLEDGES MARIJUANA REFORM, DEFENDS RECORD IN CHARLAMAGNE INTERVIEW

By Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt
October 16, 20249:15 PM GMT+2Updated 3 days ago
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 * Harris pledges to decriminalize marijuana if elected
 * Harris questioned on past prosecution record by Charlamagne tha God
 * Harris to appear next on Fox News, maybe Joe Rogan

DETROIT, Oct 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris
defended her record as a prosecutor, pledged to decriminalize marijuana and push
for police reform as she aimed to shore up support among Black men in an
interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God on Tuesday.
Charlamagne, a Black comedian and author who hosts radio program "The Breakfast
Club," is known for his blunt interviews of celebrities.
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Although he is a Harris supporter, he has been critical of her and President Joe
Biden in the past and called Democrats "cowards" for ineffectively prosecuting a
case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
In one of his first questions he asked Harris to address a rumor that she
disproportionately locked up Black men over her more than a dozen years as San
Francisco's district attorney.
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"It's just simply not true," Harris said, adding she was described as "one of
the most progressive prosecutors" on marijuana cases. She said as president she
would work to decriminalize marijuana because she knew how the laws have hurt
certain populations, especially Black men.
Some polls show that fewer Black men support Harris than they did Biden in the
2020 election.
Her campaign and allies including Barack Obama are working to win them back in
Michigan and other battleground states that will be decided by a thin margin.

Harris said one of the biggest challenges she faces is misinformation from the
Trump team aimed at Black voters. "They are trying to scare people away because
they know they otherwise have nothing to run on," she said.
Asked about how she would curb police brutality and murders of Black men, Harris
said she would work to pass the George Floyd Policing Act, which stalled in
Congress in 2021.
Charlamagne countered that Harris probably could not get the votes, a reference
to the sharply divided U.S. Congress, and asked why she should push on that.

"I don't subscribe to that approach," Harris said, adding that it took a lot of
work to pass voting rights and other acts through Congress and that she would
help elect legislators who would support it.
She declined to answer directly whether she thought Attorney General Merrick
Garland should have put Trump in prison for his role in the attack on the U.S.
Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Item 1 of 3 Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris
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[1/3]Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to
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Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, U.S., October 16, 2024. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool
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"I think that the court should handle that," she said. "I'm going to handle
November."
Audience callers said they feared that the U.S. election might not be free and
fair or that Trump would try to spark another Jan. 6-style event.
Harris avoided calling those fears unfounded, and instead accused Trump of
failing to stand up for the Constitution. "This man is weak and he is unfit,"
she said.
She also listed her economic proposals aimed at Black men, and other policies
aimed at small-business owners and lowering drug prices.


FOX, ROGAN NEXT?

On Wednesday, Harris will be interviewed on Fox News, the conservative-leaning
network that paid a $787 million settlement in 2023 to a voting machine company
that sued it over false claims by some Fox hosts of vote-rigging in the 2020
presidential election.
She is also weighing joining the podcaster Joe Rogan, whose show reaches
millions of men across the political spectrum, and who has joked that a "puppet
master" was behind Harris' strong debate performance against Trump.
The effort reflects increasing anxiety within Democratic circles about Harris'
waning momentum in the handful of decisive election states and fears that her
under-performance with men, and Black men in particular, could doom her bid for
the White House.
Over a quarter of young Black men say they would support Trump in the election
race, according to a September poll by the NAACP, the nation's largest civil
rights organization. Biden received about 80% of the Black male vote in 2020.
Harris' lead over Trump has narrowed in recent days, several polls show. Her
lead held steady at 3 points in the latest national Reuters/Ipsos poll and other
battleground state polls show the two in a dead heat.
Harris has been on a media blitz, speaking with friendly hosts from comedy
shows, talk shows and podcasts.
During her fifth trip to the Detroit area since launching her campaign in July,
Harris also promoted a set of recently unveiled policy proposals aimed at Black
men, including forgivable small business loans and access to a new legal
recreational marijuana industry.
If elected, Harris would be the first woman and first person of Asian descent to
hold the office, as well as the second Black president.

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Reporting by Jeff Mason in Detroit and Trevor Hunnicutt in Washington; Editing
by Heather Timmons, David Gregorio, Matthew Lewis and Lincoln Feast.

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presidencies of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the presidential
campaigns of Biden, Trump, Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. He served as
president of the White House Correspondents’ Association in 2016-2017, leading
the press corps in advocating for press freedom in the early days of the Trump
administration. His and the WHCA's work was recognized with Deutsche Welle's
"Freedom of Speech Award." Jeff has asked pointed questions of domestic and
foreign leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's
Kim Jong Un. He is a winner of the WHCA's “Excellence in Presidential News
Coverage Under Deadline Pressure" award and co-winner of the Association for
Business Journalists' "Breaking News" award. Jeff began his career in Frankfurt,
Germany as a business reporter before being posted to Brussels, Belgium, where
he covered the European Union. Jeff appears regularly on television and radio
and teaches political journalism at Georgetown University. He is a graduate of
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a former Fulbright
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