Good morning. It is saturday, september 14. Im Alicia Menendez with Symone Sanderstownsend and michael steele. The postdebate lift in fullest fact as the Harriswalz Campaign goes on offense across the country. How harris is making the impression. In the meantime, the Ex President Cannot Stop Spreading Lies and conspiracies. It is having a realworld impact on refugees. Democratic congressman Joe Neguse joins the table. Grab your coffee, settle in. Welcome to The Weekend. Election day is just 52 days away. The time to reach voters is now. This Week Alabama became the first state to send out absentee ballots. This coming monday, in person early voting kicks off in pennsylvania. Vice president Kamala Harris kicked her new Way Forward tour in North Carolina with stops in pennsylvania yesterday. You know, in the midst of this moment where there are people trying to divide us as a nation, trying to make people feel small, these are moments that remind All Of Us that we are all in this togethe
Week. Lets get to some of the conversations you might have missed. Lets talk about the debate. In your latest piece you write quote, the most important thing i saw Kamala Harris who was pre blocking, not debunking, was waiting for someone to lie, and hit back with the truth. It is not working politics as much as you would hope it would in saturated lies, but free bunking is explain to people how they are being, or better yet will be related, what the motive is, how the con works, how the lie will be crafted and will function, and for extra credit, who benefits from it and how. In the age of trump, too any of his appointments have been debunked and no prebunked. And she said it at the outset, she said, let me say, you will hear a whole bunch of lies. And as he rolled them out, she explained why they were lies. We have talked about one of the most interesting stories about the ascension of Kamala Harris at the top of this ticket is that she has brought with her a lot of new thinking that
Right now i am in washington for the Congressional Black Caucus legislative conference while the Harris And Trump campaigns are fanned out over the Battleground States as the president ial campaign enters into its next phase after this weeks debate. Vice president harris running mate, governor Tim Walz is making the stop in Superior Wisconsin as we speak. Trumps vp pick, j. D. Vance, was in North Carolina earlier today. In the meantime in springfield, ohio, members of the haitian community are scheduled to hold an Emergency Meeting at this hour after their small town was thrust into the national spotlight. It was at the debate on Tuesday Night. While more than 67 Million americans tuned into the night, trump claimed without evidence that migrants were eating the towns cats and dogs, repeating races rumors amplified by his rightwing followers, including right Wing Influencer lower Laura Loomer who has been traveling the trump for days. As a result haitian parents are fearing their child
Good morning. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern. 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin this busy hour with a 2024 race for the white house, with both candidates hitting the trail after tuesdays critical debate. Today, former President Trump is out west at his Golf Course in Los Angeles County to fundraise before hosting a rally in Las Vegas tonight. Hes also set to hold what his campaign is calling a Press Conference in the next hour. The Harris Walz Campaign is also stepping up its Ground Game with the Vice President back in Battleground Pennsylvania today. Her running mate, governor tim walz is making stops in michigan and wisconsin. It marks a major push by both campaigns after this Weeks Showdown on the Debate Stage. Vice president is already calling for another debate, while trump appears less inclined. I believe we owe it to another debate. Right . We owe it to the voters. Because heres the thing, in this election, whats at stake could not be more important. So because we have
Questions, well jump in. Plus Kamala Harris leaving for pennsylvania where her Campaign Plans to pinpoint critical slivers of the electorate including Polish American voters. Will that be the key to winning the biggest prize on the Swing State board. And russia accused half a dozen british diplomats of Spying And Sabotage and kicked them out of the country just as President Biden is about to meet with them at the White House. What does the timing of all it tell us. We start with Donald Trumps unfounded claims about migrant crime and new details showing a national Neonazi Group had a Hand In helping spread the claims all the way to the former president. Despite being told those stories are baseless and false, Donald Trump kept repeating them, at the debate and at a rally and when a reporter asked him where he got that information well thats come from stories and television and some of the pets, i dont know, Cats Dogs or both, but some of the pets were taken by the migrants. And it is a