Clinton Courts African-American Votes in S.C.
HARLOW: Hillary Clinton heavily courting young African-American female voters right now in South Carolina. This in final days before Saturday's Democratic primary there. She is addressing the oldest black sorority in the country. Listen.</s>CLINTON: I've been traveling around our country speaking about how we can knock down barriers, all the barriers, that hold including the barrier of systemic racism. I've emphasized that any view of black America that focuses exclusively as the press sometimes has a tendency to do on crime or poverty or other challenges is really missing the big picture. It's missing this event. It's missing the rise of the African-American middle class. It's missing the vibrancy of the black church. And it's definitely missing the power, strength, and sacredness of black sisterhood.</s>HARLOW: Let's talk about all of this with Jay Newton- Small, Washington correspondent for "Time," and also the author of a brand-new book, "Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works." I love that title. Congratulations on the book. Let's get to the numbers here. You saw Clinton lose 82 percent of the young female vote in New Hampshire to Sanders. He got 82 percent of the young female vote there. You just wrote this article in "Time," perfect timing, titled, "The Speech Hillary Clinton Should Give to Young Women." You just heard a minute of it. What's your reaction? Is this the way you want to hear her speaking if you are a Clinton supporter?</s>JAY NEWTON-SMALL, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, TIME & AUTHOR: Certainly, there is a distinction between African-American young women and Millennials in general. In general, Hillary polls incredibly well with African-Americans of any age, whether Millennials or older. She is, indeed, talking a little bit about, you know, what I mentioned in the article for "Time." And that is talking about sisterhood, talking a little bit about her history. She was talking earlier on, about her roots from the community and the women she has known and the activism she has done. That's what I have always argued she needs to do. Most Millennial women weren't alive when she was first lady. Most Millennial women don't remember that women couldn't wear pants in the workforce or it was frowned upon until she wore pants as the first lady in the White House. Just to talk about her experiences and connect the dots about why she would represent them better and why she would be a good president to represent them rather that dictating to them, you should vote for me because I'm a woman.</s>HARLOW: There is a famous statement about women's rights that Hillary Clinton made back in 1995. It was in Beijing, and it's very short, to the point, but it has stuck with her throughout. Let's play that.</s>CLINTON: Women's rights are human rights, once and for all.</s>HARLOW: One of the key points that you make is that Millennials don't remember living through that. If they did, they were very young. And that's the crux of the problem as you see it for her.</s>NEWTON-SMALL: As I was writing my book I was teaching a class at Harvard University where I had Millennials. None of them didn't know about this speech. What they don't understand is how ground breaking that statement was at that time and how much things have changed since then.</s>HARLOW: One of the things that you also write about is what you call this sort of unsung successes of the third wave of feminism. And you call that the Quiet Revolution. What is that? And how can she better tap into it?</s>NEWTON-SMALL: So the Quiet Revolution is really the revolution of the last 30 years where women have permeated the work force, increasingly. So my book looks at how we're getting to critical mass, a sort of a tipping point between 20 and 30 percent of any institution, how women really begin to change the way things are done. And if you look at this Quiet Revolution over the last 30 years where women have come into the workforce more and more, as we get to the tipping point, you hear their voices more strongly. I think you see that with Millennial women today. You have Taylor Swift saying, I want recognition for my work, and you better reward me for it, and Jennifer Lawrence demanding equal play. That Quiet Revolution is bursting into a not-so-Quiet Revolution anymore.</s>HARLOW: Yeah.</s>NEWTON-SMALL: So there is this movement that Hillary and all this energy that she could tap, she could easily say I've been at the forefront of this for 30 years, you just don't know this. She never makes the connections doesn't make the connection and draw the dots.</s>HARLOW: Jay, thank you so much for pointing that out. I appreciate you being on. Congrats on your new book. You should read her top "Time" column on this. As we do, Jay, let's listen in to more of Hillary Clinton speaking live in South Carolina.</s>CLINTON: -- if we don't exercise the right to vote. There is a lot at stake in this election. I think it's one of the most consequential that we've had in time. All you have to do is listen to the other side. They want to turn back all of our rights, women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, voting rights. They want to just turn the clock back. Go back to a time that most of us were glad to see in the rearview mirror. We can't let that happen. But we have to do more than just stop bad things from happening. We have to make good things happen, too. We have to make those jobs and those rising incomes the centerpiece of economic growth. We've got to break down all the barriers that stand in the way of any American fulfilling his or her God-given potential. We need to reassert --</s>HARLOW: Hillary Clinton speaking there live in South Carolina. We'll continue to monitor. Coming up next, much more on our breaking news, the battle to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. CNN now getting word that the White House is vetting a Republican, a Republican, to possibly nominate to potentially fill that seat. Much more on that. 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