Charlamagne says Harris needs to answer questions from voters: Black people shouldn't have to 'just settle'

Radio host Charlamagne Tha God scolded a rapper who claimed Vice President Harris didn't owe Black voters an explanation of her policies, arguing it was "absolutely" wrong to tell Black people to "settle" for the Democratic candidate.

"I don't understand Plies or any Black person for that matter, telling Black people to ‘just settle.’ 'Just accept whatever the candidate is giving you. Don't ask questions, just vote. They don't have to explain anything to us.' No," Charlamagne said on Monday's "The Breakfast Club.

Charlamagne was responding to a profanity-laced rant the rapper known as Plies posted online on Sunday about Black men supporting former President Trump in the election. Plies slammed these voters for criticizing Harris' record in office and argued Harris didn't need to answer questions about her policies. 

"Stop asking" a "Black woman to explain theirself to you, or explain theirself to y'all," the rapper chided. "Y'all cool with a White man not explaining himself" he continued, appearing to reference Trump.

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"Plies is absolutely, positively wrong," Charlamagne responded on his podcast and radio show the next day. "If people are asking questions, that's great."

"I don't even know why Plies is making this a Black woman vs. Black men thing. This isn't about Black men and Black women. It's about elected officials and potential voters," he continued. 

"The whole point of the campaign season is for candidates to go out there and explain to the American people why they should be the one in charge of this country. Votes are earned, not given. And they are earned by you going out there and explaining yourself."

The vice president has faced criticism for avoiding the press since she launched her presidential campaign. She has not done any sit-down interviews or held any formal press conferences in the past 36 days.

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Charlamagne argued that Harris is under more scrutiny about her policies because she became the Democratic nominee so late in the election cycle and because she is running for the highest office in the country. 

"By the way, she knows that. This isn't the vice president's first rodeo," he said of explaining her record as attorney general and as a senator.

"Plies is a billion percent wrong," he stated again. Answering questions to voters is "the whole point of campaigning," he added.

During the Democratic National Convention last week, Charlamagne defended Harris for avoiding the press for now, arguing she was on the ground meeting voters and she'd get to interviews by the end of the month.

"I think what she's been doing has worked because you know what she's been doing is hitting the ground," he said.

"She'll get to interviews after the DNC. But, you know, this week I think she got – she's got bigger fish to fry, like going out there tomorrow and knocking a home run speech out the park," he continued.

Other media figures have celebrated Harris' strategy of not taking interviews.

Last week, several pundits and news anchors from CNN and CBS floated the idea that Harris could rely on Democratic enthusiasm to win over voters rather than lay out detailed policies. 

Fox News' Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.

Trump sets intense pace with campaign events as questions swirl about Harris' policy positions

With both major party national nominating conventions now in the books, the 2024 edition of the race for the White House enters the final sprint, and former President Donald Trump is picking up the pace.

Last week, as the Democrats held their convention in Chicago, Trump stopped in five of the seven crucial battleground states that will likely determine whether he or Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidential election.

"We're more than happy to go out and give specific messages to specific communities, which is what Donald Trump did last week, culminating with the big rally in Arizona. We'll do the same thing this week," Trump campaign senior adviser Corey Lewandowski told Fox News.

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Trump on Monday afternoon will be in Detroit to address the National Guard Association of the United States’ 146th General Conference & Exhibition. 

Later in the week, he returns to Michigan, as well as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, to hold campaign events. Trump's running mate - Sen. JD Vance of Ohio - stumps in Michigan on Tuesday.

The three states make up what is known as the Democrats' blue wall, which the party reliably won in presidential elections for a quarter-century before Trump narrowly carried all three states in 2016 en route to winning the White House.

However, four years later, in 2020, President Biden won back all three by razor-thin margins to defeat Trump and claim the presidency.

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Harris has been riding a wave of energy and enthusiasm – both in polling and in fundraising – since replacing Biden at the top of the Democrats' 2024 ticket five weeks ago. 

The Harris campaign announced on Sunday that they have hauled in over $540 million in fundraising since the vice president replaced Biden at the top of the Democrats' 2024 ticket. 

They highlighted that $82 million of that haul came in during last week's convention "thanks to a surge of grassroots donations," and that the hour after Harris' Thursday night nomination acceptance speech was the best hour of fundraising since she became a presidential candidate.

Trump's political team expects that momentum to continue - for now - in the wake of last week's Democratic national nominating convention.

"Post-DNC we will likely see another small (albeit temporary) bounce for Harris in the public polls. Post-Convention bounces are a phenomenon that happens after most party conventions," Trump campaign pollsters Tony Fabrizio and Travis Tunis wrote late last week in a strategy memo.

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Besides the increased campaign stops, Trump is getting ready to sit down for more media interviews, and after a long absence, is regularly posting on X.

Additionally, while he will still hold large rallies - as he did in Arizona - campaign officials tell Fox News to expect Trump to take part in more smaller events and meet-and-greets that focus on the economy and the border - two top issues where they believe Harris is vulnerable.

The campaign is also planning to use Democrat turned independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a top Trump surrogate.

Kennedy, the longtime environmental activist and high-profile vaccine skeptic who is the scion of the nation's most storied political dynasty, on Friday suspended his campaign, endorsed Trump, and later teamed up with the former president at the rally in Arizona.

"Bobby's going to be on the campaign trail," Lewandowski said Sunday in an interview on "Fox and Friends." "He's now going to have the opportunity to be on the road telling the American people exactly what he's witnessed first hand, what he's seen first hand."

Lewandowski predicted that "now that he's [Kennedy] with the Trump campaign, that's going to be a special opportunity for more people to come join us in our path to victory."

However, Trump will not have the campaign trail to himself this week. 

Harris and her running mate - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz - kick off a bus tour in battleground Georgia on Wednesday, with the vice president holding a rally in Savannah on Thursday evening.

Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.