And 51 days to go until the election, a new poll shows a still tight race with the Vice President at 52 of likely voters while the former president stands at 46 . Now the issues, the Vice Th president leads on abortion, healthcare, and protecting democracy. While trump leads on immigration, the economy and inflation. Supporters from both sides talking about the economy on g the Sunday Talk shows. Look, i think hes always better off talking about the issues that really impacted american, and i think the economy is always the most important thing these things are the things i think are the Bread And Butter that he should be talking about. She should talk about strengthening Social Security, lowering prices by having more competition. I think shes got a very compelling economic agenda. Meanwhile, gop Vice President ial nominee Jd Vance on a number of sunday shows doubling down on the baseless claims of migrants eating Pets S in his Home State of ohio amid threats to the community. First o
X and tiktok. Thank you so much for joining me today. First of all, was going on a short hiatus. Im taking two weeks off to go enjoy the warmth of other suns. Ill see you back here saturday, october 5th. Smerconish is up next they or wont day im Michael Smerconish in new York City today, ballots are now being cast in alabama, were 52 days away from the final day of voting. But whether there will be another debate remains in doubt. Tuesday night in philadelphia ended with a nearly unanimous decision, but no Knockout Blow before it began, i said Donald Trump needed to exhibit discipline and Kamala Harris needed to show depth she met her mark. He missed his. I locked in my own assessment of the debate Via X just prior to delivery of closing statements before i might be swayed by anybody elses spin. Among my points, that trumps claims about migrants eating pets and abortions being performed at nine months would be a fact checkers dream, but not decisive. I wrote this, she won the debate bu
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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
And fleeing. That will do it on this edition of Alex Witt reports. See again tomorrow. Up next, The Beat weekend. Welcome to the b weekend. Let us get right into the headline. Campaign boiled down to two big factors. The message, which takes endless repetition from the candidate, the surrogates, the ads. All the millions of dollars spent repeating the message. That is one part of the campaign but you might have heard some of the lines are variations on them from harris and her allies before. The other part is momentum. What we are seeing this week, they might have been seemingly logical Tuesday Night and even Wednesday Morning as it sunk in that room had a terrible Debate And Harris had a good one. It was only built in the last few days and harris doing, as i mentioned, a new television interview. She is ditching the Debate Performance and the perception of that performance, not really close, not one of our pole arise contested things where republicans and democrats see the economy dif