>> This election is close everyone knows that.

>> The race is heating up for the oval office.

>> NARRATOR: On the eve of an historic election.

A deeply divided country.

>> The clock is ticking for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to try to win those voters over.

>> NARRATOR: Over the past four years, a team of filmmakers across the United States documented the views and experiences of Americans.

From the earliest days of the pandemic.

>> I love you so much.

>> NARRATOR: To a summer of protest.

>> We are the free people of America >> As long as they catch one dirty cop at a time, I’m happy.

One at a time.

>> NARRATOR: And economic woes.

>> We tried putting in for the small business loan, unfortunately, we weren’t approved.

>> NARRATOR: The hopes and fears about the last election.

And the current one.

>> The next few years might be rough.

There's going to be ups and downs.

>> There's so much division and polarization.

>> NARRATOR: Now, a FRONTLINE special presentation: American Voices 2024 ♪ ♪ >> How can I love America?

I can't-- I don't think I can love America.

I can't put that into words.

>> We don't know when it's gonna pass.

>> I feel a revolution coming.

It's getting closer every day.

>> I have learnt to love being alone.

♪ ♪ >> NARRATOR: These are the voices of Americans... ♪ ♪ >> People are getting angrier and angrier.

>> I want to be in charge of my own life!

>> NARRATOR: ...gathered from across a divided nation.

>> We're just going too far in opposite directions.

>> NARRATOR: In this film, Americans reflect on the past four tumultuous years.

>> Can you clap twice?

>> This ain't the American dream I thought about when I was in middle school.

>> I wish there wasn't as much hate in this world as what we have.

>> Absolutely doubted the integrity of the final count.

>> I don't have enough faith in any of 'em.

>> NARRATOR: A pastor, a barber, a pair of activists, a mother, a retiree, the owners of a nail salon, and of a construction company, and a flower shop, a doctor and a patient.

♪ ♪ Their stories begin in March 2020, as COVID was spreading and the country was shutting down.

>> CDC says there are now more than 4,200 cases of coronavirus.

>> In Iowa, Governor Kim Reynolds has recommended... >> Mass gatherings are restricted to less than ten people.

Senior citizen centers and adult day cares... >> "Whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour "be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

"All the people, the nations, and the languages fell down "and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up."

(bible slams shut) My name is Cary Gordon.

I'm the senior pastor of Cornerstone World Outreach in Sioux City, Iowa.

How do I water-baptize someone in a virtual service?

How do I bury the dead?

How do I have a wedding?

How are people supposed to have me lay my hands upon them and anoint them with oil and pray over them to be healed in the midst of a pandemic when I'm told that I can't have physical contact?

♪ ♪ Last Sunday morning, I drove past Menards.

Menards is a lumberyard.

Hundreds of cars.

And only a quarter-mile away, my church, in contrast, I know, is empty, because they've said, "The church is not essential."

"The church is not essential."

In a time of crisis, with imminent death and a pandemic, the church is not essential, but Menards can stay open.

Someone might need to buy a screwdriver.

It's offensive.

>> New numbers show the damage coronavirus has inflicted upon Oregon's economy.

266,000 Oregonians are without a job.

>> Unemployment is at a record high in Oregon.

>> People are spooked because of COVID.

They're scared to death of this thing, and nobody wants to die going out the house getting a haircut.

♪ ♪ My name is Bryant Moore.

I'm a barber from Portland, Oregon.

♪ ♪ The bills keep stacking up, with no money coming in.

Scared to look at the bills from our business, 'cause we can't pay.

So I'll survive by just doing what I have to do to make it, man, you know, it's...

If I would go to a senior's house or go to a bus stop, I couldn't do anything else-- I had to make do.

>> So I'm having a get-together at my house.

So I escaped, came here.

I gotta get my hair done.

He got to get his money.

Gonna go back looking fly.

>> My business is one of those things where it makes you feel good.

Which we really all need to be feeling good right now.

(chuckles): You know?

It's just a common human thing that you...

It's human to make people feel good.

>> Oh, yeah, gold for a queen.

That part.

>> I'm hopeful.

This may be the right thing to stop all this fighting among each other.

You know, Democrat, Republican, independent, Black, white, yellow, whatever.

So this might be the right thing.

Because what I've been seeing is, folks been sticking together.

It doesn't matter what color they are.

I mean, seeing it in person.

>> ♪ Back and forth, and in and out ♪ ♪ And back and forth again ♪ ♪ For we are strong people, and we will come out of this ♪ ♪ And be on top again ♪ I do believe.

>> The coronavirus pandemic is putting an end to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history.

>> We are going into a global recession.

>> Entire parts of the U.S. economy are at a complete standstill.

>> People are afraid to go out.

People are afraid even to call and have something delivered.

It's just a total different... >> Half the businesses are broke or they're out of business.

>> When I started my flower shop, I started with two used cooler boxes and a piece of plyboard across the top of the boxes in our yard.

That's how I started.

Do you need a receipt?

>> Um, sure, 'cause I... >> Thank you so much.

Keep me posted on that wedding.

>> I will for sure.

>> All right-- bye-bye!

>> Bye!

>> I've been here in this one probably 24 years, in this one spot, so I'm kind of a staple here.

But it's kind of sad to only see this many orders on my board.

Because normally should be about 50 to 60 orders on my board for Easter.

And I have one, two, three... (quietly): ...four, five... (aloud): Six.

So I better do a pray dance tonight.

(chuckles) Oh, I don't know.

It is what it is.

It is what it is.

Okay, it's done.

>> Which one's this?

>> This is your last one to Auburn.

>> Where's Sharon's?

>> I haven't done it yet, but it's too early to take hers.

>> Oh, I thought you said I was gonna take it now.

>> No, uh-uh.

>> I didn't see you had this one out here.

>> My husband does my deliveries as much as he can do.

We're just a two-man team just trying to survive.

>> We got married when we were 18.

We dated in high school.

From the first time we met, we were each other's best friends, because everybody knows Rosie.

She's a pretty special woman.

I personally have a problem with a mask at times.

Because of my congestive heart failure, there's times I'm fighting for air.

Hello, delivery for Pat.

"But you don't want to wear a mask because it's not going to save you."

Well, no, it's not going to save you, but you might save somebody else's life.

>> Governor Ralph Northam and his COVID-19 response team... >> ...see another spike in cases... >> ...repeal the state's stay-at-home order.

>> Social distancing guidelines are going to be with us... >> My immune system is weakened.

So I have learnt to love being alone.

I have learnt to be pretty darn comfortable.

♪ ♪ (humming) Oh, Lord, technology.

Just not my thing.

My name is Carran Lewis.

I live in North Chesterfield, Virginia.

(tablet chirps) Yeah, good morning, Second Baptist.

Praise the Lord, everybody.

I drive close to an hour from my home to church.

I got a heavy foot, but if I followed the law, it would be clearly an hour drive.

>> Welcome to the Second Baptist Church of South Richmond, a caring and sharing church bringing you the word of God.

>> I have enjoyed the comfort of waking up and listening to it online.

>> We're now going to have a virtual musical selection from the masked choir.

>> I miss the environment of the building.

But that is what it is, a building, because the people, we are the church.

The physical human beings are the church.

>> What's going on in the White House, or the State House, or the mayor's house oftentimes is not based on... >> I've still helped people, even in this virus.

I've picked up groceries for a couple of friends, older people that could not go out, didn't have the means to go out.

And they know my number.

>> Our seniors, amen, because of COVID-19, should not be out and about like some of us are.

>> That's right.

That's part of what God wants you to do.

You know, just help people.

(singing along): ♪ For all you've done ♪ ♪ For me ♪ This is the part that's scary.

I think some people are getting too comfortable being at home watching the service.

♪ They all belong to you ♪ ♪ Thank you, Jesus ♪ ♪ For blessing me ♪ >> President Trump appears to be stoking unrest in states around the U.S. where... >> Long-term damage from a shuttered economy... >> ...public signs urging leaders to re-open Utah.

>> You can't do one-size-fits-all.

You can't shut everybody in.

You can't make healthy people wear masks.

Oh, that's looking nice.

You look so happy about it.

I am Amy Garner, and I am a mom of six kids.

Okay, where did you want the bow?

We say, like, the economy, sometimes we just think of finances as a whole of society, but instead, I see my brother, whose business was going down.

That triggered the stress, which triggered his health issues, which triggered his mental health issues, and he was gone in 60 days.

Three years ago, he took his life.

This is my brother Brian.

Yeah.

(sighs) I wanted to save other families from going through what we went through.

(voice cracking): Sorry.

So that's why I became so passionate about not shutting things down, letting people choose.

>> Are we sheep or are we people?

>> People!

>> Let's go to work!

>> That doesn't mean that we don't believe there are people at extra risk, or that we don't love them or accept their concerns.

I'm, like, mine says, "My, our definition," oh, "Your definition of essential is not the same as mine."

So, I'm, like, they really are missing out on the hardworking people who can't earn money for their family, like, I think the rate of suicide is going to go way higher.

You take away people's connections, their hobbies, their friends, their worship, their work, and everyone's gonna be depressed!

And I am so blessed to have a family of children and a husband.

What about the people who don't?

It's heartbreaking.

>> Small business is the lifeblood of this country, and we cannot kill it any longer.

We are open for business today!

>> This is my first rally, so I'm really happy to be here with all of you guys, all of you patriots, all of you activists!

>> I really hope people will let go of what we're stuck in, what we're stressed out about right now, and take into consideration the long-term impact of what's going on.

>> ♪ God bless America ♪ ♪ My home sweet home ♪ (cheering and applauding) >> Mr. Trump is now insisting the states have to step up their testing.

>> Fewer than one percent of all Texans have been tested.

>> Testing will be a big factor in making sure Texans are healthy enough to fully reopen the economy.

>> Clearly, we're in the middle of a pandemic, and we're suffering much worse than we would have had we had a competent, science-based head of state.

My name is Dr. Christine Edy Mann.

I am a family practice doctor in Cedar Park.

When the COVID-19 pandemic started, we were left without any guidance.

Individual clinics like mine, doctors like me, weren't really given any information about how to manage the pandemic, and so we kind of all had to make it up on the fly.

We didn't know the processes that we needed to use to be able to manage patients as they came in.

It takes between one and three days to get a result.

Sorry.

>> (coughing) >> I'm one of the COVID-19 testers at my workplace.

This is a deep nasal swab-- it's very uncomfortable.

Pull your mask down.

I think you've had this before, so you know what's coming.

We didn't have equipment, we didn't have test kits, and it was very stressful.

This is annoying me.

It was just a mess for months and months and months.

♪ ♪ >> The number of deaths in the United States has now reached a stunning 50,000.

>> ...had at least one underlying health issue... >> A new effort to keep Chicagoans safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

>> In early April was when I started feeling lightheaded, dizzy, um, I was coughing.

I lost my sense of taste and smell.

Because I have an underlying condition, I thought my symptoms were related to that.

You're wearing your mask wrong.

You have to cover your nose.

My name is Mayra Ramirez.

I am 28 years old.

(chuckling) One day I woke up, I was so weak, I just fell over.

(breathing deeply and rapidly) >> Give me your arm.

>> Everything was, like, dark.

And I remember calling out for my boyfriend, I was, like, "George, George," like, and he would, like, run and, like, help me, and I was, like, "Okay, I really need to go to the emergency room."

So they, like, immediately, like, put me in a room, didn't even ask me my name or anything.

(devices beeping) I remember a doctor came in and told me that, "We're pretty sure we're gonna have to intubate you.

Do you have someone that can make medical decisions for you?"

Then, um...

It's just kind of a blur, what happened after I got intubated.

♪ ♪ (devices beeping) >> The day they told us that Mayra, um, it was her last day, we're all on the trampoline, just... My mom was crying, um, my sisters, all my aunts were there, they were crying.

They didn't know what to do.

And we were just planning, um, to go pick up a corpse.

I was trying to avoid it.

>> I love you so much.

Uh-oh.

>> (chuckles) ♪ ♪ >> Medical people are wonderful people, they're heroes.

But they're not omniscient.

And they make mistakes and they contradict one another.

Everyone's going to die at some point.

As a Christian, we believe that we're set free from the fear of death.

>> Do you have any hand sanitizer?

>> We do.

>> We're spiritual beings and we require fellowship.

>> It's a beautiful day!

>> I know, it's gorgeous!

>> If it's okay to take a risk and go to stores, I think it's okay to take a risk and go to church.

>> 99.6.

>> Whew!

(exhales) >> Phew!

>> Try to keep families together, okay?

(people talking in background) >> Welcome back into the church building!

(congregation cheers and applauds) (chuckles): Whoo-hoo!

(congregation cheering and applauding) Praise the Lord!

We're going to teach you a new song this morning as we re-enter the church-- you can stand with us.

(piano playing) ♪ Oh, Christ be magnified ♪ ♪ Just let his prayers arise ♪ ♪ Christ be magnified in me, yeah ♪ Hallelujah!

I said, "Hallelujah!"

(people talking in background) >> The attempted arrest was caught on camera.

The video of last night's confrontation shows a white police officer with his knee pinning down the neck... >> His name was George Floyd.

He's on video saying, "Please, please, I can't breathe," as a Minneapolis police officer... >> We're just, like, "Man, this is crazy.

"We're already fighting a common terror, which is COVID, and now this now?"

You know?

People were just pissed off, like, this is just ridiculous-- how can you kill this man?

>> No justice, no peace, prosecute the police!

>> The outrage began with a video showing an officer kneeling on Floyd's neck.

>> Many people have gathered in front of the third precinct... >> Sitting here in front of officers who are complicit in the murder of George Floyd.

>> Thousands packed the area... >> ...protesting the death of George Floyd.

>> How many times have we watched police officers murder people?

(crowd cheering) >> You're numb to it after so many of them.

It's been happening for so long.

>> Don't shoot!

>> Hands up!

>> Don't shoot!

>> But then it's a little different, you're, like, "Wow, that just happened right here on 38th."

The fact that it happened in my neighborhood was what really pulled me into it.

(people talking and yelling in background) People are getting angrier, and angrier, and angrier, and then hold up.

We have a whole bunch of police with helmets right in front of us.

(glass shattering) >> Crowds of protesters facing off with officers in riot gear.

(weapons firing) >> (exclaims) (weapons firing) >> My friend!

My friend!

>> (chanting): I can't breathe!

>> ...protest turned violent last night.

>> Overnight protests left parts of downtown in ruins.

>> Multiple fires were set, windows smashed, and stores looted.

>> As far as volunteering efforts go, so far, you're our go-to volunteer coordinator, right?

>> Yeah.

>> So we really have to get her engaged with... >> Them.

>> Them.

My name is Tayo Daniel.

I'm from South Minneapolis, Minnesota, co-founder of 10K.

You know, we were listening to the news, and the narrative that they were spreading was, like, "Oh, these looters and rioters, people from Minneapolis, just burning down their own city," and all that kind of stuff, and I was, like, man...

I'm from here and I know everybody that lives here.

We're not like that.

So a lot of guys from the neighborhood had decided to get together and create the 10K Foundation.

And we want to show that we can have a peaceful protest.

>> 10K is about, it's about mobilizing 10,000 people and the power in that, the sovereignty in being able to mobilize 10,000 people.

I'm Royce White, I grew up here in the Twin Cities.

I was an athlete, was drafted to the NBA back in 2013, and had a huge fight with the NBA regarding mental health policy.

You know, when all the protests broke out, my first thought was, I'm headed down there.

I'm not gonna claim to have a crystal ball as to what's gonna happen-- I really have no clue.

I'm just going off of pure opinion.

The four officers were arrested, and, temporarily, that's enough justice until we wait and see what happens with the court process.

I know people are still very unhappy.

They're not in the uproar that they were in, obviously, when the city was burning down, or even a few days ago, when we marched.

Every day we get away from it, our energy's gonna go down a little bit.

I think it's spiking up in other places around the country.

I want the goal of this march to, to be, how can we re-grab some of that energy?

♪ ♪ >> The reason why we're here is because the history has been misconstrued, because every Fourth of July, I used to go out and party, and I used to just really scream independence.

Not realizing that my ancestors with the same color skin as mine were not independent.

They were in chains, they were being whipped, they were being tortured.

People, the time is right now.

>> It's right now!

>> Can everybody say that one time?

On the count of three, say, "The time is now."

One, two, three!

>> The time is now!

>> Say it again!

>> The time is now!

>> Louder!

>> The time is now!

>> The time is right now.

♪ ♪ >> Look, we did our best to think through how the protests would put people at risk for COVID-19 transmission.

But, at the end of the day, there's no way that we could allow the state to tell us, "Hey, we're going to kill Black men out on the streets, "and, and also, stay in your house, because we also... You know, because of COVID-19."

♪ ♪ When you think about the historical context of Black men, Black people in this country in general, we have no reason to trust the state.

In general, when we wake up in the morning, there's no good reason for us to have any faith in the state.

And maybe in times where there needs to be a trust, it falls through.

Yeah, maybe Black people should have more trust in the state when it comes to COVID-19, but it's a tough sell.

>> The reason why we're doing this silent march is because when you take a moment of silence, you're taking a moment of silence for the dead.

For the Eric Garners, for the Breonna Taylors, for the George Floyds.

>> Hey, it is what it is-- this is a war.

This is a war.

And so the only other option is to, you know, board up in your house and wait for the next George Floyd to be murdered.

I mean, that's just the reality.

♪ ♪ >> Protesters have been on the streets of Richmond for several weeks now.

>> The one-time capital of the Confederacy is in the throes of change as statues commemorating Confederate leaders come down... >> I am grateful to this generation of Black youth and white youth that are not rioting, they're protesting, and they're smart, and they're doing it right.

I'm going in from over here.

I decided one Sunday, I said, you know what, I'm stepping out on faith-- I'm going down to see what it's about.

>> Black Lives Matter!

>> I kept seeing it on the news, and I just did not believe the way media was portraying it, that it was that bad.

>> ...understand you are a spirit being that lives in a body.

Your body will die, but the soul endures.

>> Understand, I'm 63-- I'm deadly afraid of COVID, but it's worth it to come out and show my support.

>> Black Lives Matter, may all lives matter.

I'mma stand for something.

>> I met some terrific people, had great conversations with people.

(laughing) The diversity is what makes me feel good about it.

The Black and the whites are coming out here.

And long as they catch one dirty cop at a time... >> Yeah.

>> ...one dirty racist, dirty politician, dirty lawyer, I'm happy-- one at a time.

'Cause this is 400 years of this (bleep).

(people talking in background) >> We are out here to end systematic racism.

We're out here to defund the police.

>> I grew up in rural Virginia.

The closest town was Bowling Green.

There were some whites that we talked with, but I didn't play with any.

It was no white kids up the street that I played with or anything, they didn't do-- we didn't do that in my era.

(drums playing, people laughing) That's where I grew up as a child.

Yeah.

I'm at the monument right now, as we speak.

Having big fun, man.

(fireworks crackling, whistling) Each experience I had out here has been different.

>> We will never allow an angry mob to tear down our statues, erase our history.

>> I come early and I leave before it gets too late.

>> (shouting indistinctly) >> One evening, I didn't understand what was happening when I saw, like, 14 police cars coming up in front of the area.

(crowd shouting) And I just begged them to allow me to go to my car and leave.

I just want to go home, please.

I just want to go home.

My car's (indistinct)... (people shouting in background) >> You can go wait in your car.

We'll be out of here in just a second.

We'll be out of here in just a second.

You can go wait in your car.

>> (speaking softly) >> And they were very kind.

They even helped me get out and I was gone.

♪ ♪ Caucasian people, white people, that I have known for years are very decent people on the surface.

I don't understand why they can't see what we're seeing.

All I can do is just shake my head.

♪ ♪ >> Another intense night here in the city of Richmond as protesters took to the streets... >> A peaceful protest in Virginia also turned violent on Saturday night.

People in Richmond marched during... >> I don't think our country could be any more divided than we are right now.

The country is, is horribly divided right now, and, and more divided than we ever have been.

And for what?

For what gain?

My name is Mark Curtis.

I'm a father of four young kids.

I'm also a business owner.

I own a construction company.

I'm a huge rights activist.

I believe in our constitution.

I believe in the way our constitution was intended to be read and not interpreted.

If anybody had told us this was gonna end up happening, nobody would have believed it.

>> No-- like I say, racism is out there.

That's what it is.

(bleep), I got more Black friends than I could ever imagine.

I got one Black friend, and I specifically tell people that that's my brother.

(both laughing) And we talk about it all the time.

It's ridiculous, man.

>> People that are doing all this are just out just to wreck stuff.

>> My same buddy that I call my brother, he said it, too.

He said, "Man, it's crazy," because they say it's a Black Lives Matter thing, but yet they're going in and destroying old Black people's businesses that live in Richmond.

>> Yeah.

>> You know what I mean?

>> I don't know how everything got so race-oriented all of a sudden, here within the past year, honestly.

Um, that, that kind of blows my mind.

♪ ♪ So as far as the platform or the cause that the Black Lives Matter rallies are for, I think raising awareness for police brutality, sure.

If you want to focus on any aspect of it that could have a positive effect on the American people, you could bring up that one aspect of it.

But it doesn't just happen to Black folks.

Happens to white folks, happens to Asian folks.

It happens across all walks of life, no matter what color you are, no matter what race you are.

>> Are we jumping?

>> We all need to work together in a common cause to defend our freedoms.

Not to fight against each other and empower more regulation against us.

(people talking in background) >> Two crises have converged: protests over the death of George Floyd and the pandemic, U.S. death toll now topping 104,000, the most in any country... >> Right now we have a situation where Black Americans die out of proportion to any kind of parameter that you can think of.

>> All lives do matter, but they won't until Black lives matter first.

(crowd cheering, applauding) Sometimes when you have specific type of community that's hurting, it is okay to focus on them for a little while until things get better.

And then when they do get better, then all lives will matter.

(crowd cheers and applauds) >> When the George Floyd murder occurred, it was in the middle of this pandemic.

And so, for me as a healthcare provider, I really felt that it was my responsibility to not expose myself to the potential for getting the disease and spreading it on to my patients.

(crowd chanting) But I was happy that so many people were coming out of their homes and out of their workplaces to be involved in those protests.

>> Black Lives Matter!

>> We were there, you know, in in solidarity.

We have a very long history of systemic racism in this country that persists today.

You have to look at the lives that are most at risk in our country, the ones that are being lost out of proportion to every other category of American.

>> Black Lives Matter!

>> Black Lives Matter!

>> Protests turned violent after demonstrators clashed with Oakland police officers.

There is significant property damage to businesses in the downtown area of Oakland after these protests last night.

>> My understanding is, it's actually a good movement, in my opinion, but there's just a bunch of other protesters, a small percentage of it, that are...

They're giving it a bad name.

♪ ♪ My name is Jason Tolentino and I own a nail salon.

>> Well, actually, I'm the one who wanted to open a shop.

My name is Jaime, I'm from Vietnam.

>> No way!

>> Oh, no!

>> Really?!

>> Oh!

>> It's all closed.

>> I told myself, before I'm 30, I will own something.

So when I'm 28, just take all the money for our wedding, just to go buy a shop and start a business.

(hinges squeak) >> We've been open for about three years, and so far, everything's great.

Besides this, of course.

The pandemic has taken a huge toll.

We're just trying to get by doing whatever we can to survive.

Then now when we have this going on, which made it even worse.

It's mainly just for insurance purposes, if it did get vandalized or looted.

It's not fair for someone like me, who's trying to make this community better, and next thing you know, someone just takes it away and ruins the whole business itself.

There is the racism in America.

And, at the moment, I think it's just getting worse.

African Americans, they just want to not be harassed by the law.

There's nothing wrong with protesting.

You can protest all you want-- we live in America.

But when you start vandalizing small businesses, that part is wrong.

♪ ♪ >> Now, amidst all this chaos and turmoil in the country right now, it could be easy to forget that we are still in a pandemic.

>> One of the first known American COVID-19 survivors to receive a double lung transplant is now recovering.

28-year-old Mayra Ramirez received the lung transplant at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.

>> When I first woke up from my lung transplant, I was a vegetable-- I couldn't move a finger, I couldn't, you know, I could barely wiggle my toes.

I couldn't talk.

I was in a lot of pain, I was uncomfortable.

I was, like, really disoriented at the time.

I felt like I had only been there for, like, three days or so.

And I didn't realize that I was intubated, sedated for six weeks.

(crowd shouting, firecracker booms and crackles) (firecracker explodes and crackles) The TV would be on, and, you know, they would talk about all these riots that were happening, and George Floyd, and protests.

And I was, like, "Can I just go back to being sedated?"

Like, "Can I wake up when this is over?"

The world was so ugly.

Literally, cities are burning.

I, I just couldn't take it.

>> The radical Dems are pushing as many left-wing activists and anarchists as they can into the streets of America.

I understand the president is on the phone now.

>> Well, maybe the point of great success, you know... >> My feelings with the Black Lives Matter is, all lives matter.

Not just Black, not pink, white, or purple.

It's not just one race.

I think it's wrong, basically, what the officer did.

I think he should pay a price for what he did.

But I look back in history.

I had a great-great-grandfather that helped with the slaves.

He helped run the Underground Railroad.

He was ambushed by white people who felt the slaves should stay slaves.

So, you know, when they sit there and say every white person is racist or bad, I'm not racist, I'm not bad.

I'm a human being.

I respect them.

I expect to be respected back.

>> George Floyd's name is on a list now, a very long list, a centuries-old history... >> People told me that these protests had become about more than George Floyd.

That they're about this long history of police brutality.

>> All you have to do is look at history.

If you flip the pages back from history, it speaks for itself.

>> There is another vigil for George Floyd that is getting underway right now at Peninsula Park.

>> I just keep seeing African American people get killed by cops all across the nation... >> Justice!

>> ...and nothing's happening.

>> No peace!

>> You look at American history, and it's ugly.

(crowd cheers and applauds) People are hurt, people are tired of... We're tired of being tired.

>> They're sworn to protect this country... >> When I look at history, we protest.

Nothing changed.

We protest now.

Nothing's really changing.

And that's hurtful.

>> From day one, America has been based off of the subjugation of Black and Indigenous people.

(crowd cheers and applauds) >> Yes!

Yes!

Speak it, sister!

How can I love America?

I can't-- I don't think I can love America.

America hasn't loved me, that's for damn sure.

>> Power to the people!

>> Power to the people!

>> Power to the people!

>> Black Power!

>> Black Power!

>> Black Power!

>> Black Power!

>> All power to the people!

>> Power to the people!

>> All power to the people!

>> All power to the people!

The fight is real.

But it's always been here.

Now it's to the surface in 2020.

Now where do we go from here?

>> You need to get off your damn phones and recording (bleep) and (bleep) start getting active!

(crowd cheers and applauds) >> Millions of people all across America are casting their votes on who they want to lead the country for the next... >> It has been a campaign year unlike any other.

>> More than 90 million ballots have been cast... >> Record-breaking early voting continues.

Massive early vote total includes more than seven million Californians who have already returned their mail-in ballots.

>> I wish there wasn't as much hate in this world as what we have.

I don't care if you're a Dem, I don't care if you're Republican, I don't care if you're in the middle.

There's so much hate.

I hope President Trump wins.

Vice President Biden, I feel, is-- and I hate to say the age thing, because he's probably my age, maybe?

Or am I his?

I don't know how old he is.

Um...

I think he's too old.

I think he's too feeble in his mind.

I just wish it was over.

Yay!

(chuckling) >> Illinois election officials reporting seeing early voting numbers they have not seen in prior elections.

>> Recovery is pretty slow and really hard.

I have someone else's lungs, and be like a slap in the face if I didn't try my hardest.

>> You're here to vote?

>> Mm-hmm.

>> Okay, so you're going to go through the revolving doors.

>> I avoid going anywhere.

So I requested the mail-in ballot, but it never arrived.

Hi.

>> Hello.

>> Um, Mayra Ramirez.

I saw one person who, like, didn't have their mask on properly, and that upset me a little bit.

My number-one topic of interest during this election is, you know, healthcare reform.

I think this is the first time that during an election that we've actually expected, like, riots and violence and protests.

Regardless of how the results go, I think we're all still expecting it.

♪ ♪ >> So far, this election is on track to set a record.

>> California's top election official assuring folks there are safe ways to vote during a pandemic.

All ballots will be protected.

>> All right, everything's... >> Did I put my name here?

>> No!

You gotta sign... (sighs): Jeez, well, I got no pen.

Now we gotta walk back again.

You have a pen?

You gotta put your address...

It literally says on the top it's gonna invalidate it if you don't sign it.

>> Whoa!

(both laughing) >> Um, I would rather not say who I voted for.

I just want everything to come back to normal.

That's all.

That's all I'm praying for, really.

People will be surprised, but I don't want to say who I voted for.

>> I just vote for myself or I vote for the lady.

No, I vote for the lady!

>> You voted for that lady.

>> I don't know who... >> We don't know her name.

>> I don't know who she is, but it seemed like she's the only lady, so I vote for the lady.

>> (chuckles) >> I vote for the woman!

>> Well, you have a right to do that.

♪ ♪ >> It's been a while since I voted, you know, due to my situation.

Here at the polling station.

I'm here with my dad, the O.G.

I made a lot of bad decision when I was younger.

Getting in fights, had an assault charge, things like that.

Trying to do the right thing.

It's never too late to do the right thing, that's for sure.

I made a vow to myself that I'll never do nothing illegal again.

You know, I'll never go to jail again.

I need to register.

>> Do you have an I.D.

with... >> So I just felt privileged to be able to get out and vote.

>> Here's your ballot.

>> There are a lot of people that are not allowed to vote or can't vote, so it's important that the people who have the privilege of voting take that step and make that initiative.

>> The polls in Iowa are open until 9:00 tonight for anyone who chooses to vote in person.

Across the state, there are about 1,200 locations.

>> Gonna have to put this on now.

You're supposed to find people that represent you.

Donald Trump cannot represent me.

He does not represent my beliefs.

Of course, I can't vote for Joe Biden for the very same reason.

>> Thank you for voting.

>> Everything was recorded.

Thank you very much.

I will sleep good tonight, because someday, as a Christian, I believe Christ will return and all wrongs will be righted and justice will prevail.

And my job is to keep speaking the truth as a minister.

>> Big race, big electoral vote fight tonight, too early to call.

>> We will be getting some results, actually, we think, this hour from Kentucky, from Indiana, all the polls not closed there, but some... >> I'm equally excited and nervous.

I've been thinking about how, four years ago, I didn't think I was going to make it four years.

Joe Biden was not my first choice.

My first choice was Kamala Harris, who, thankfully, is the vice presidential candidate, soon to be vice president.

>> In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts... >> Yay!

Joe Biden wins Massachusetts!

>> ...Joe Biden the projected winner tonight.

>> My gut is telling me Biden's gonna win.

But I'm so nervous about the possibility of a contested election.

But I think that it's unlikely.

I think that we're going to have a good win tonight.

>> We are still in the thick of a very heated contest.

>> Right, it is closer than the Democrats wanted it to be.

It is closer than any Democrat is comfortable with right now.

We'll have to wait and see how that comes in.

>> I anticipate some very uneasy people on either or both sides angry about not getting their way.

(percussion playing, people singing in background) Whoever wins, which I hope it is not Trump, we should come together.

>> Ain't no power like the power of the people, 'cause the power of the people don't stop!

>> This week I felt kind of, like, a sigh of relief, like, I was feeling, like, things are changing, things are shifting in, in a different direction.

>> Ain't no power like the power of the people, 'cause the power of the people don't stop!

>> Ain't no power like the power of the people... >> You know, it was, it was an invigorating space to see a lot of people that not necessarily look like me, but wanted the same types of things that I want in America.

>> Vice President Joe Biden will win Pennsylvania and Nevada, putting him over the 270... >> Across the country, pro-Trump protesters gathering at state capitols, echoing the president that the election was stolen.

(engine revving loudly, crowd cheering) (tires squeal) >> Because I was really just so sick of politics, I wanted to write in "Jesus."

(laughs) But that doesn't do anything.

So, I was surprised, I felt prompted to vote for Trump.

>> We are very much in a spiritual battle right now.

We are invoking Christ, because Christ is the way, and Christ is the only way that we're going to triumph over evil.

(crowd cheers and applauds) We have tried time and time again to try... >> I really hope representatives will get the voice of the people, and that there will be a middle ground.

Biden probably can't accomplish everything he wants, but a part of me feels devastated, because I feel like it's taking society in a completely different direction.

>> "Stand by, stand down."

No, we're not standing down.

We're here, we're gonna stand, we're gonna stand fast.

We're gonna wait for orders.

>> Cheers and celebrations in the streets of Minneapolis.

>> Celebrations by Joe Biden supporters have been going on all day, including here in the metro.

(horns honking) >> Hey!

I'm just excited that overall, that more people got involved in the voting process.

Because that way, we're going to be able to hold these elected officials more accountable.

(horns honking) So I think a lot of people are going to be looking at Joe Biden like, "Okay, you were talking that talk.

Now you're gonna walk the walk."

What do you guys think of the election?

>> Oh, yeah!

>> We're good.

We're good.

>> I was relieved to the point where it's, like, "Okay, this step has been handled.

Now, what's the next step?"

You know, it's not over, this is just the beginning.

(horns honking) That's just one man.

The president doesn't make the world a better place, the people make the world a better place.

The people living in it.

(car horns honking) >> So let's talk about what exactly happened and what this vote says about the country.

Joe Biden got a record number of votes.

>> We have half the nation that believes that we had an unfair election.

We have another half of the nation that thinks everything is just great and wonderful.

I hope it's wrong, but I see too many comments by too many people, I feel a revolution coming.

It's getting closer every day.

Somebody is going to be dumb enough to fire the first shot.

And we're gonna have some serious problems.

I hope I'm wrong.

>> I hope you're wrong, too.

>> And I hope I'm not here to see it.

♪ ♪ >> I'm ready for your (indistinct)... >> Okay, I'll be right there.

I think the immediate future holds turmoil and fear and concern about where we go next.

We are ready to do some COVID testing now.

I actually fear that people are going to say, "Whew, Joe Biden won, we're done, we can go back to doing and living our normal lives."

All right, this is a nasal swab.

Both sides of your nose.

Anyone who thinks that the election getting called is the end of the work that needs to be done is mistaken.

And we'll have results for you within 24 hours.

♪ ♪ >> I have no regrets about voting for the Libertarian candidate.

I'm tired of people voting for the lesser of two evils.

You know, voting Democrat because it's not Trump.

Or voting Republican because it's not Biden.

Wouldn't've really mattered who got in office, I feel like they're one and the same.

I think our culture is going to stay divided.

The division that has been created here recently is, is something that we've regressed to that's going to take generations to recover.

I think our culture is going to be horribly scarred by this.

And I don't know what it's going to be blamed on in the end, or how it's going to be spun, but I think our culture in a whole has gone down a deep, deep, dark hole.

♪ ♪ >> Whoo-hoo!

President Biden!

Yay!

That was for you.

We have a president.

♪ Let there be peace on Earth ♪ ♪ And let it begin with me ♪ He can't fix this mess overnight.

He can't fix it in a week, a month.

But it's over.

Thank goodness, it's over.

♪ Let peace begin with me ♪ ♪ Let this be the moment now ♪ But now we worry about what's going to happen next.

Let there be peace.

(crickets chirping) (crowd shouting, glass breaking) >> Stop the steal!

Stop the steal!

>> Thousands of supporters of President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol Building... >> We need backup.

>> The will of the people has been heard.

(crowd cheering) >> ...that a federal grand jury has voted to indict the former president.

>> ...second impeachment trial is set to start tomorrow.

>> ...Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts.

>> The state of Virginia... >> ...bringing down the symbols of a hateful past... >> ...General Robert E. Lee... >> ...horrific mass shooting at an elementary school.

>> Mass shootings are becoming as American as apple pie.

♪ ♪ >> Roe vs. Wade is overruled.

>> Thousands of people today turned out to take a stand for abortion rights.

>> ...the end of 472 days of COVID restrictions.

>> ...warning, however, that the virus is here to stay.

♪ ♪ >> Rising costs and recession fears... >> ...small businesses struggling to stay afloat... >> A bus filled with migrants... >> Dropped off outside the Vice President's D.C. residence.

>> Donald Trump will be running for president again in 2024.

Protests against Israel's war in Gaza continue... >> It's another wedge in America's political divide.

>> (chanting): Guilty, guilty!

>> Shots have apparently been fired.

(crowd exclaims) >> ...failed assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump.

>> President Biden takes himself out of the run for the White House.

>> I accept your nomination... >> Kamala Harris became the first woman of color to accept the presidential nomination.

♪ ♪ >> A lot of negative things happening.

>> Tough times right now with all that's going on in the world.

>> Am I hopeful or optimistic?

It all depends on who wins the election.

>> I don't think the country has improved in the last four years.

It's become more divided than ever.

There's a saying in a lot of Black Baptist churches: "A church is nothing but a hospital for the sick."

It, it revives you.

It's your vitamins to give you the strength to make it one more week.

Good to be in the house of the Lord one more time.

(congregation clapping) >> Amen.

>> I missed everyone last weekend.

That old COVID hit me, and put me down for a few days, so the love I have for everybody, I wasn't coming last Sunday, because I was afraid if anybody got sick, I gave it to them.

(chuckles) And so, I feel great now.

I've been diagnosed with diabetes, so I'm down 49 pounds now.

I work with the election now, local and presidential.

Now we're gonna have announcements.

My life has improved because I got off of my you-know-what and went to work.

That's why my life has improved.

>> ♪ Welcome to the Mount Oni ♪ >> The little improvements that I get is from my blood, sweat, and tears.

>> ♪ We welcome you ♪ ♪ To Mount Oni ♪ (congregation applauding and exclaiming) ♪ ♪ >> My faith in the government has grown further and further apart.

I honestly have withdrawn myself from paying as much attention to our politics and policies and things that are trying to be pushed through government just because I'm sick of it.

Honestly, I'm sick of it.

I don't have enough faith in any of 'em to do what they say or to support my values or the beliefs of others that are going to be beneficial to myself or my family.

Yep, you got 66.

All right, keep going.

>> 99.

>> Yep.

>> Like your whole belt, just because it looks floppy.

Scoot this thing around.

Hudson, we got to get pictures with you this morning.

It's your first time wearing it.

How do you feel?

>> Good.

(mumbles) >> He's taller than you.

>> Stop!

>> Yeah, because he's wearing heels.

>> He's wearing heels.

>> I know, these belts... >> I know, I know, it's aggravating.

>> (laughs) >> Will you just take the photo?

>> He is so much taller.

>> (laughs) >> One, two, three.

>> (laughs) >> You're so much shorter, Mark.

>> That's awesome.

There's a bit of inner turmoil with Hudson being in the JROTC program, as well as my distrust in the government.

I love the values that he's going to learn going through this program, as well as the values that he could be taught in the military.

I think he wants to follow in the footsteps of people who've done great things for our country, for our freedoms.

I very much worry that he has great potential of being in the military and being pulled into a endless war that cost American lives, cost billions of American dollars, and to what gain?

(engine humming) ♪ ♪ >> Maybe some of you guys know me, some of you don't.

I'm Tayo Daniel, I'm one of the founders of this organization, Smart North.

When I was growing up, I didn't have access to all these different types of cool technology and things like that.

I learned it, you know, more recently than ever.

So, I just keep thinking to myself, like, what if I would've learned this stuff when I was younger, right?

Where could I be?

(talking in background) I kind of wanted to get away from all that political stuff.

Especially when there's so much division and polarization.

And it, it affects us all, I mean, especially people at the bottom the most.

>> The purpose of all this is that we're trying to figure out what are the things in the neighborhood, what do we have within this community, within this neighborhood, that's worth putting on a map?

>> The system will chew you up and spit you out, especially being a Black man.

If you're not confident in yourself and if you're not self-determined as a young Black man, this system will eat you up alive.

She's in the VR space right now, doing her thing.

>> Yeah, I can't see anything in the real world right now.

>> Whether that means getting extra training and figuring out your talents and your skills and how to apply that to a business you want to start, or towards a career that you want to walk down that path.

Who are the people that you're hanging out with?

And the most important of all is, how can you add value to your community?

Once you figure that out, it doesn't matter who's in office, you're always going to be successful, because you yourself are valuable, and you're adding value to your community.

Kataya won these Nike Dunks.

So give her a round of applause.

(others applauding) Here you go.

(animals bleating, birds chirping) ♪ ♪ (exclaiming, talking in background) >> In 2021, my family moved 1,000 miles away, to the country.

To northwest Missouri.

>> Hey, can we play the game?

>> Jump, Erica!

>> The splash... >> (blowing out) You're just chilling?

>> Mm-hmm.

>> It looks like you figured it out.

>> (laughs) >> One of the biggest reasons we moved out here is the freedom to choose to do what we want without affecting others.

Did you girls see the yellow coming up on these trees?

>> Yep.

>> Can't wait till it's fall.

>> It's also yellow... >> It is fall.

Doesn't it feel like fall?

Living out here, it does allow me to check out when I want, and not be bombarded by all the noise that's in the city of the billboards and the signs and people knocking on your door about candidates.

So it's not like I want to check out and be disconnected and not involved or even apathetic.

But it is nice to constantly not have higher blood pressure and be completely occupied all the time.

Hi.

We still need to live life.

So I do like going out and petting a goat and forgetting the cares of the world now and then.

Why are you trying to eat my hand?

♪ ♪ >> Hard work pays off.

Promotions, promotions, promotions.

♪ ♪ Well, I've worked seven days a week for 14 years.

Independent business.

♪ ♪ During our pandemic, I was losing it.

I was coming unglued because the future was very grim.

I had to just keep myself motivated to be positive.

When you look at the past four years up to this present, has our America gotten better?

You decide, because I know it hasn't been better.

I pay my bill for my chair, it's a weekly bill.

Booth rent.

Just accumulated a sciatic nerve in my back.

Usually when you get in this industry of barbering, you... You do it until you can't do it anymore.

How you been?

>> Good.

>> It's hard on your back, it's hard on your knees.

But I just find so much joy in making people smile.

(razor buzzing) >> Portland, Portland was good to me, man, I... You know?

>> Mm-hmm.

>> I paid my due.

>> Right.

>> And all that (bleep).

I paid more taxes than Trump paid up here, man.

>> (laughs): So where's that tax money go to?

>> I guess the city.

>> City?

Okay.

>> And the city, you know, supposed to keep the roads repaired and... >> Well, the roads ain't been repaired around here.

(bleep), so many potholes and stuff around here.

>> Yep.

>> I love the barbershop.

We get all those great old stories, and there's no filter when you communicate, because what, what goes on at the barbershop stays at the barbershop.

>> Yep.

>> And then they go out there and just go fight the world again.

>> Thank you, have a good day.

>> Thank you.

>> All right, thank you.

>> ♪ You are worthy of our praise ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ >> ♪ Hallelujah ♪ >> ♪ I said Hallelujah ♪ >> ♪ Hallelujah ♪ >> ♪ God is good ♪ Hallelujah.

Welcome to Homecoming.

(congregation cheers) Shake hands with somebody.

Homecoming is our biggest event that we have as a church every year.

The constitution limits government.

It tells government what they cannot do.

And if you're a utopian Marxist, that's a problem, because government ought to be able to do everything.

We bring all the leaders together from around the nation and talk about what we're all facing.

>> Don't diminish the voice that you have.

Don't be overwhelmed in your thinking.

We give our voice, God gives it the amplifier.

>> And we come together once a year for that fellowship.

Helping each other, getting an education, and learning how to do things and how to approach the new obstacles that we're dealing with now.

Where does the jurisdiction of the state end and my self-government begin, and who gets to draw that line?

>> We're going to talk about a girl today who had a backbone to fight: Esther.

>> Our instinct is just "leave me alone."

"I just want to be left alone, I want to raise my children.

"I want to live in my home, I want to be a Christian.

"I want to be able to attend my church, "and I don't want the government to interfere "with anything that I'm doing.

Just leave me alone."

The philosophy of "leave me alone" ironically requires that we not leave the government alone.

That's the reality.

>> Use the voice that God has given you in whatever measure, and it does make a difference to call, to write... >> So a Christian living in modern America does not have an option to not be involved in politics, because politics has invaded our jurisdiction and forced itself upon us.

♪ ♪ >> (inaudible) 2020, it was more of a blur.

Before 2020, we knew our customers.

You know, we had our regulars.

But after COVID, it's like we, we had this whole new set of different customers, who were, like, new.

>> One thing that is harder to find employees.

>> She is right on that one-- we can't find good people.

>> We can't find anyone at all.

Nobody want to work.

>> And it's also not about the pay.

No one's just applying.

(both laugh) >> Yes.

>> That is the thing, like, we don't... You know, even for them to come in or even respond to an ad.

>> Is it nice?

>> See, that's crazy.

That's crazy to me.

A lot of the problems that I've seen here is, it's not the actual business that the person's running, it's more the crime.

We got broken into.

Some guy, he broke the window, stole a credit card machine, and left.

That was it, and caused, like...

I think it was, like, $2,500 worth of damage, and all he stole was the credit card machine.

But it was just a hassle.

>> In a big surprise, delegates overwhelmingly endorsed Royce White.

>> White won the party's endorsement for Senate and supports former President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement.

>> White has quickly become a controversial figure.

>> White considers longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as close friends of his.

>> ♪ O'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ And the home of the brave ♪ (crowd cheers and applauds) >> Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

All right, good.

Good, good morning, good afternoon.

It's good to see everybody out here.

It's always good to see some, some Trump supporters.

I'm one myself, yep.

(crowd cheering) If I win, I'll be the youngest United States senator in the Senate, and I'll be the first one born in the 1990s.

We don't like socialists, we don't like communists, we don't like Marxists.

It's an unacceptable and incompatible form of government and ideology.

The mainstream media says, "Royce White represents "a dangerous evolution and movement of the Republican Party nationally."

So a lot of people who just read those headlines would think, "Yeah, I mean, you know, Royce has nothing important to say or nothing of value to say."

You know, "Even though we love Black men, "we want to protect them, their lives matter, but this Black man doesn't have anything important to say."

>> These are patriots here, man.

>> I love it, I love it.

>> ...drinking beer, rock and roll music, and cooking food.

>> I love it, I love it.

>> That's America right there, man.

>> That's right.

♪ ♪ >> The destination is on your left.

Arrived.

>> (softly): Okay.

So yeah, see, you can see right across here all the Trump signs.

Block walking involves going and knocking on doors and talking face-to-face with people.

And not a lot of people want to do it, because it can be uncomfortable.

That, and it's been 100 degrees in Texas.

Okay, so that way, I gotta go down a couple of houses, and start down there.

But I decided that that is my role, that I need to be the one doing that hard work.

Hi, I'm Christine.

I'm with the Williamson County Democratic Party out talking to voters today.

>> Uh-huh.

>> Are you planning on voting for Kamala Harris and Colin Allred all the way down the ticket?

>> Yes, I am.

>> All right, perfect.

The fall of Roe v. Wade was devastating.

We already had very restricted access to abortion care in Texas.

(doorbell rings) When the ban came down, everyone was scrambling to try and decide what to do to help women who were going to be in trouble.

>> Hi there-- is your mom here?

>> Yup.

>> Thanks.

♪ ♪ >> We're just eight weeks away from election day... >> Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will face off on the debate stage... >> ...polling suggests this race is as close as ever.

>> The stakes here are incredibly high.

>> Should, can I move this couch over here?

Donald Trump and Kamala are about to debate each other.

My cousin brought a bunch of food.

Dude, can I make this table right here?

>> And I really learned this from my dad, you know?

My dad didn't never hold a meeting and not have food.

Because really, that's African culture.

(doorbell rings) >> Hello!

Hello!

Hi!

>> How are you doing?

>> Good, how are you?

>> I'm all right.

>> Straight up beef, yeah.

(television playing) >> Here, hold it.

>> Kamala Harris is doing better than President Trump with Latino voters... >> Hazel said that Kennedy should dress up like Trump, and then they would let him on stage.

>> (chuckles): That's a good idea, Hazel.

Hurry up, because I want y'all to be a part of this.

Hudson, you realize that the next time there's a presidential election, you'll be 18 years old, and you'll be voting.

>> Here it comes.

>> Oh, dear.

>> Get ready to be annoyed.

In my opinion, presidential debates don't determine who's going to be the next president.

I already know that I'm not going to be able to support major parties on the ticket.

So I kind of just endure the political process.

>> My plan is to give a $50,000 tax deduction to startup small businesses, knowing they are part of the backbone of America's economy.

>> So we're giving away more money.

>> $6,000 credit, $50,000 small business credit.

>> When do I get that $50,000 credit for having a small business?

>> Never.

>> Why don't you ask her that question?

>> Why don't you answer the question?

>> That's the problem, because under Roe v. Wade, you could, you could do abortions in the seventh month, the eighth month, the ninth month, and probably after birth!

>> Why is he such a liar?

>> Just look at the governor, former governor of Virginia.

>> People start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.

>> (laughing): That's rich for her to say that.

>> Because people leave her rallies early?

>> The only reason they show up to hers is because of the concerts.

>> They're eating the dogs, the people that came in.

>> (laughing) >> This is wild business.

>> They're eating the pets of the people that live there.

>> Now, that's bull(bleep).

(all laughing) >> What the hell?

>> She's destroying this country.

>> I just can't believe he said the thing about the dogs.

(chuckling): They're eating dogs.

I don't know what to believe, honestly, on that one.

>> How would you deport 11 million undocumented immigrants?

>> Whew, that'd be brilliant.

>> I know you believe that amount is much higher.

>> I think every American would agree with me on this, that we should control what's happening in the border.

That, I think that's a big thing.

>> Take us through this, what does this look like?

>> You know, my auntie, she's, has her paperwork.

Like, my mom's sister.

She waited 18 years already.

>> She's still not here.

>> We all have the same dreams and aspirations and want a president who invests in those, not in hate and division.

>> See, I disagree with that-- we don't, though.

>> We don't what?

>> We don't have the same aspirations and dreams.

>> Who doesn't?

>> All American people.

>> No, I'm saying, what I think she's saying is that... >> Okay, I disagree.

>> ...you could find people in every race that have the same dreams and aspirations.

>> But that's not what she's saying.

She says, "We all."

Not, "There are some in every group."

"We all," and I'm saying we all don't.

>> We can't sit there and look at Republican or Democratic, we got to look at ourselves.

>> Agreed.

>> And be, like, what are we doing in our community, in our internal community?

>> Agreed.

>> And support those people who are starting a Block Builders Foundation... >> Agreed, absolutely!

>> ...a Smart North, and all that kind of stuff.

And then from there... >> And fight for them.

>> Yeah, and fight for them.

>> Right.

>> Right, so... >> Whichever color.

>> Whichever color.

Yeah, I agree with that.

>> Absolutely, absolutely.

>> Well, I know for the last four years, nothing's changed-- it's gotten downhill.

>> And who was running the show?

>> It's still been downhill-- it's the lesser of both evils.

I would rather, I would rather have her as president than him.

We know what he's going to do.

>> You just said it, I'm glad you said it on record.

You've been downhill for the last four years.

>> Look, look, we're listening to your guy.

>> No, she was in the White House.

>> She wasn't president.

>> She was part of the whole cabinet.

>> I said, "She wasn't president."

>> Thank you for watching here in the U.S. and all over the world, and from all of us here... >> I hope the world wasn't watching.

>> (chuckles) ♪ ♪ >> What?

>> Must you?

>> Must I what?

>> Make it all obvious out in here?

You folded flags just fine back in your office.

>> I usually fold them in here.

>> Uh-huh.

When I look at the choices that I feel Kamala versus Trump would make... >> How about we... (indistinct) >> ...I do feel like the choices Trump would make are more aligned with the hope that I have of America, the hope that I have in my children's future living in this country.

That's why I am leaning more towards Trump.

♪ ♪ >> Hello!

How are you?

>> I'm good, how are you?

>> On a scale of one to ten, how likely are you to vote?

>> Ten.

>> Perfect.

The idea that we have the opportunity to elect a progressive Black woman as the first female president in the United States is a dream come true for me.

Lion Heart Drive, here we go.

I'm really hopeful that in five years from now, we will have reversed this... (doorbell rings) ...and create a constitutional right that is not ambiguous that gives women a right to abortion.

I've already taken days off after the election, because I want to be able to mourn or celebrate, whichever way it goes.

(knocks) (dog barking) ♪ ♪ (people talking in background) >> I'mma walk straight through the crowd.

Yeah.

Running for U.S. Senate.

>> Are you really?

>> Royce White, yup.

>> Good luck, man.

>> Everything's at stake in this election.

Nice to meet you.

Freedom.

The idea of America, what it is, fundamentally.

>> Go, Vikings, huh?

>> Yes, sir, go, Vikings.

>> Go, Vikes!

>> Go, Vikings, yes, sir.

>> I don't know who you are.

>> I'm running for U.S. Senate.

Vikings doing well, beautiful day-- can't complain.

Running as an America First or MAGA candidate supporting Donald Trump has not caused me any significant change in my personal relationships.

What's your name?

>> Christine.

>> Nice to meet you.

>> Nice to meet you, too!

>> Enjoy the game, enjoy the game.

In fact, if anything, I've found out how many people agree with some of the things that I otherwise wouldn't have known that they thought.

Hello!

Hello!

>> Hi, Royce!

How're you doing, man?

>> Royce White.

>> Good luck!

>> Nice to meet you, man-- thank you, enjoy the game, man!

How're you doing?

>> So this is the community garden.

I'm a firm believer of funding and community centers, so usually politicians that align with that, I'm all for it, because it takes a village to raise a child.

So a lot of my politics are more about, how do we help the youth?

>> Our green beans, I don't think, are coming, are gonna come in.

>> This is the green beans right here, right?

Oh, here go some tomatoes, over here.

I'd also like to see a Black woman become president, too, you know?

(chuckles): I'd like to see that milestone, too.

(children calling in distance) >> Father, we just love you.

We thank you for the fellowship that we have, for all of these godly men and women that are leading in their communities.

Here's the thing-- I can't vote in good conscience for Donald Trump, and I can't vote in good conscience for Kamala Harris.

So what am I going to do?

I'll probably pick a third-party candidate, probably won't win, but at least I will have stayed true to what I believe.

You know, tough times are coming.

Tough times are coming.

The next few years might be rough.

There's going to be ups and downs.

There's going to be turmoil.

But he will hold me fast.

>> Amen.

>> And he will hold you fast.

And if we get a chance, we'll hold each other fast.

Glory to God.

>> Overall, I've had a good life in Portland.

My old neighborhood, very gentrified.

There was a house right here.

And now it's a square building.

As I get older, I wonder about the American dream, and from rags to riches.

I haven't seen anybody in my neighborhood come from rags to riches.

(phone ringing out) >> Your call has been forwarded to voicemail.

(voicemail beeps) >> This is Grandpa.

I was wondering if I could get to see my grandbaby for a little bit today.

Please call me back.

Thank you.

What does America have in store for my grandkids and my great-grand?

Ready?

>> No!

>> Let's stay up!

Then down.

>> (squealing) >> Up, down, up.

Keep going!

Ah, ah, ah!

Kamala Harris has been there.

She's a minority woman and she's been in the trenches with her own people.

And all we need to do is go out there and vote.

You know I love you?

>> No!

>> You don't know I love you?

>> (giggles) >> That's a secret?

Like, nobody knows?

You want to go on the swing or what?

♪ ♪ >> It's not going to be long before you're going to be voting.

People should not let the outcome of this election rule their life.

I should hope that we can find the good in whoever does win.

I should hope that we can have civil conversation over the things that we don't agree with and continue living life.

Accept it, move on.

>> I do believe the statue of Robert E. Lee was sitting right here in this area.

And it's gone now, so...

I'm glad.

Too many ancestors of mine put their lives on the line for me to have the right to vote.

My mother personally, Marion Bryant Lewis, when we became of age, she took us to say, "You will be registered and you will vote.

"I will not tell you who to vote for, "but you do your homework and learn and make a decision.

'Cause you're going to the polls the next election."

Looking back on 2020, when they were burning and tearing down things, I have a few pictures specifically, where a young man is painting the sidewalk, and he was a Caucasian young man, and he was painting on the sidewalk "Black Lives Matter."

So I think our future youth, I think they made a big impact.

What matters is that you go out there and make your voice be heard, and voting is one way you do that.

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