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  Speaker 1: BIN News this hour. I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up, a
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  Speaker 1: civil and labor rights hero bids us farewell. A black
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  Speaker 1: Democratic candidate for governor responds to remarks by his opponent,
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  Speaker 1: calling them disqualifying.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's pretty likely. Well, no, that's a
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  Speaker 2: bit much. Let's not say pretty likely. It is likely.
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  Speaker 1: We look at Aaron Ford's chances of becoming the first
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  Speaker 1: black governor of Nevada. But first, here's BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 3: Former President Barack Obama is firing back at Republicans upset
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  Speaker 3: over his Cheesecake Factory joke about White House renovations.
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  Speaker 2: I heard the.
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  Speaker 3: President was not happy when I joked over the weekend
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  Speaker 3: that he's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein
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  Speaker 3: opened a Cheesecake Factory. Speaking in Georgia Wednesday, Obama accused
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  Speaker 3: the administration of overreacting, saying they mobilized a government response
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  Speaker 3: to a joke. The NAACP is challenging North Carolina's voter
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  Speaker 3: ID law ahead of the midterms. Attorneys argued Wednesday that
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  Speaker 3: the law discriminates against Black and minority voters. The organization
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  Speaker 3: wants the case returned to a lower court to present
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  Speaker 3: more evidence, while supporters say voter ID requirements help prevent fraud.
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  Speaker 3: And New York Governor Kathy Hochul and rapper Nicki Minaj
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  Speaker 3: are exchanging insults on social media. Minaj, a Trump supporter,
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  Speaker 3: called Hochul an evil woman who would face God's wrath.
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  Speaker 3: Hochul fired back, telling Minaj to get offline and stop
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  Speaker 3: attending Trump rallies, saying they're poisoning her mind. I'm Amber
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  Speaker 3: Payton with BIN News Now. Back to you, Andrea.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Amber. Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta is dead
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  Speaker 1: at the age of 96. She was a central figure
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  Speaker 1: in the farmworker labor movement, co-founding the National Farm Workers
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  Speaker 1: Association with Cesar Chavez. Months before her death, she publicly
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  Speaker 1: accused Chavez of sexual abuse, Huerta saying Chavez abused her
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  Speaker 1: in the 1960s during their time in the California labor movement.
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  Speaker 1: She said she stayed silent out of fear that exposing
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  Speaker 1: the truth would hurt the farmworker movement. Chavez died in 1993.
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  Speaker 1: Sexual abuse allegations that surfaced against him earlier this year
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  Speaker 1: led to the removal of his name from several public landmarks.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Ford, the black Democratic candidate for governor in Nevada,
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  Speaker 1: says a remark that his opponent recently made is disqualifying.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Griot, during a meeting with U.S. veterans,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Lombardo said that during his career in law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: he has marginalized other communities. Lombardo explaining that when you
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  Speaker 1: have two feet into whatever you're doing in your life,
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  Speaker 1: You tend to marginalize other communities. In a statement, Ford
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  Speaker 1: said Joe Lombardo's disdain for the people who elected him
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  Speaker 1: to serve is disqualifying. Every Nevada family deserves to feel
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  Speaker 1: safe in their neighborhood and to know officers will treat
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  Speaker 1: them fairly. A recent poll showed Ford neck and neck
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  Speaker 1: in his race with Lombardo, who is seeking re-election. If
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  Speaker 1: Ford were to win, he would become the first black
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  Speaker 1: governor in that state. BIN's Doug Davis has lived in
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  Speaker 1: Nevada and spoke with me yesterday about Ford's chances of
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  Speaker 1: pulling off a victory.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a tight one. Nevada has a
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  Speaker 2: pretty small black population like most states in the West.
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  Speaker 2: He's acted as a state's attorney general for nearly eight years.
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  Speaker 2: He's You know, he does get out in the black community.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen him several times when I was there speaking
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  Speaker 2: at the community events and black tie events, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Black people know who he is, right? He's more of
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  Speaker 2: a corporate guy, Democrat, very reserved, you know, not really,
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  Speaker 2: let's say, outgoing, which is, you know, what can kind
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  Speaker 2: of move the needle in big time politics. But black voters,
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  Speaker 2: they are behind him for the most part. He's mainly
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  Speaker 2: running on affordability. You know, Las Vegas, pretty tough working
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  Speaker 2: class city. you know, service-oriented town. And Nevada is home
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  Speaker 2: to about, I think, 370,000 plus Black people. That's 11%
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  Speaker 2: of the population, something like that. So it's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: decent number. The majority of Black people are primarily Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: And they, I think, 84% voted for Biden in 2020.
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  Speaker 2: But for Kamala Harris, that number dropped down to 82%.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, Harris lost Nevada. So It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a close race.
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  Speaker 1: Bort currently serves as the state's attorney general and is
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  Speaker 1: the first Black person elected to that office. Doug will
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  Speaker 1: have more on key races out in the West in
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  Speaker 1: our special Election Day program. It airs at 7 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: next Tuesday. This is BIN News This Hour. Be sure
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  Speaker 1: to follow us wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Andrea
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  Speaker 1: Coleman on the Black Information Network, home of Black News First.