Welcome to the journal editorial report. After ducking the press for a month, vice president kamala harris gave her first interview with the campaign to cnn on thursday sitting down with tim walz in the battleground state in georgia where she defended herself from accusations she has flipflopped on key issues including fracking and immigration. My values have not changed. You mentioned the green new deal. I have always believed and i have worked on it that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the inflation reduction act. My value around what to do to secure the border, that value has not changed. I spent two terms as the attorney general of california prosecuting transnational, organizations, violations of american laws regarding the illegal passage of guns, drugs and human beings across the border. Paul: let s bring in dan heninger and bill mcgurn. Did you lear
Renewed this campaign contrast between prosecutor. This is a subplot that would be farfetched in most lyrical movies. One candidate, a law enforcement vet who locked up criminals. The other candidate, a convict in one state already, and also a defendant facing charges by the very doj that he would run if elected. Kamala harris invokes this on the campaign trail, and it was a theme at the dnc. I took on perpetrators of all kinds. So hear me when i say i know donald trump s type. For kamala, practicing law was always about protecting the vulnerable and giving the victims a voice. I can t wait to see her prosecute the case against donald trump on the debate stage. In the courtroom i stood proudly before a judge and i said five words. Kamala harris for the people. My entire career i have only had one client, the people. Harris s aides see that as an asset. Voters are turning back and want to know what you do as a prosecutor? what critics have questioned if there whole record is a good thin
Polling that come out, both the national polls and the swing state polls. Are generally telling the same story right now, they re telling a story that vice president kamala harris is doing significantly better against donald trump than president biden had been doing in his campaign. That is comparatively good news for the democrats. They are, apparently, better off now with harris as their candidate than they were before the switch from biden to harris. That said, in absolute terms, the polls, national polls, and the swing state polls, broadly speaking, don t really give either party a reason to celebrate right now. Vice president harris may be doing better than biden was against trump, but it doesn t mean that she is clearly winning against trump. It s basically a tie between the two candidates right now. And that produces all sorts of interesting dynamics to watch for, when it is this close, little differences between the candidates and their campaigns can make a very interesting not
Why they should do some research before going for the latest attack on vice president harris. And the zoo has come to town. But the real circus just showed up on trump transition team. I am ayman mohyeldin. Let us do it. The fivetime draft dodgerwants to paint his self as a veteran. Nobody has defended the veterans like i have taken the veterans. I will always honor our veterans. We will take care of our amazing veterans better than anybody. Former president donald trump s support for the military hit a new low this week. When he went to arlington national cemetery. To honor 13 soldiers who died during the 2021 afghanistan withdrawal. As we now know former president donald trump used his visit to get political filming and advertisement. Which he jabbed president joe biden with fallen troops in the backdrop. You can never assume why former president donald trump does what he does. But we do know that it leads to disgraceful moments like the one we saw which was of course another disgrac
Thank you. That is all in on this wednesday night. Alex wagner starts with Ayman Mohyeldin in for alex. Thanks so much for watching. Im Ayman Mohyeldin in for Alex Wagner and this is what it looks like when a candidate for president makes the most of a rainy day. Watch. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, im sorry its raining but weve had 12 years of trickle down. If you give me 12 minutes we can change this country. I am tired of seeing the american people kill themselves every day in the factory and the business, on the farm, and be punished for it, and if you will give us a chance, we will turn this country around. That was a soaking wet Bill Clinton during a drizzly Campaign Stop in 1992. Clinton of course was campaigning that day in the small town of albany, georgia. It was part of a multiday Bus Tour through Southern Georgia which the Campaign Called Bubbas for bill. It was notable at the time because Southern Georgia was known to be more rural and conservative