The father of Jacob Blake told CNN on Friday that he's spoken to Democrat nominees Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., who he said "were so comforting," but he has yet to hear from President Donald Trump.
Jacob Blake Sr. told "New Day" on Friday that he spoke to Biden and Harris for about an hour over the phone, saying that "they were so comforting that you almost forgot how the situation was really playing out."
He said, "I talked to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for an hour on the phone, and when [Vice] President Biden was talking to me I mentioned a story to him about when I was eight years old. He said, 'That was you?' And I said, 'Yes, that was me.' And he said, ‘Well, that makes me old.' I said, ‘Well you said it, not me.'"
Blake said that the conversation was like "speaking to my uncle and one of my sisters," adding, "they didn't act like they were in a hurry to go anywhere."
He continued, referring to Biden as president and Harris as vice president: "I appreciate everything that they've done and everything that they're doing because they keep my son in mind, and President Biden kept telling me his own issues with his family, that he identifies with what I'm going through. I didn't have to keep telling him, he knew. It felt like he knew. ... Vice President Harris felt like they knew what was going on."
When asked about Trump, who did not mention Blake's son during his address to the Republican National Convention this week, Blake said he had not heard from the president.
"If I have to tell you I want you to do something and you don't want to do it, there's no need for me to mention it because then it's not coming from your heart," Blake said, in reference to Trump's address.
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