Immigration record and the administration s botched withdrawal from afghanistan. Now, the trump campaign previewed as much this week, essentially indicating that the former president would pursue those lines of attack against harris on the debate stage and presented with that. Harris aides and allies expected the vice president is going to paint trump as unserious and essentially describe his policies as unpopular. All of this to essentially avoid taking the bait. That includes one of those labels that the former president often uses. For harris calling her the border czar. Of course, the vice president was not tasked with border security, instead tapped to address root causes of migration. But she will be presenting that case on the debate stage today. All of this, anderson, really boils down to harris flipping the script here and using trump s own words and actions against him. All right. Thanks very much. We ll check in a little bit later. David axelrod, you have been with the presi
That voters generally prefer government experience for the job of running the government which does make sense. That is why it is pretty common to attack a candidate by going after their experience and qualifications. Here is the special report about something that really matters and you may hear about at the debate next weekend into the election. President biden spent his life in government and everybody knows that. When democrats began to look at kamala harris as his replacement, republicans rushed to question her competence in government experience and let me remind you that donald trump put out the word that she was too inexperienced. And from there the headlines came out that she was unqualified and some said she was the most unqualified candidate around and you can see the reports hitting this and the basic maga attack here is on experience. And then some of them mix it in with the claim that she wasn t only inexperienced but somehow only rising as a kind of an experienced unqual
That was 2002 so people are incredibly excited right now and they know they are going to get to see history happen this weekend. Okay, got to go, that is a wrap for me on this edition of Alex Witt reports, up next, The Beat weekend. Welcome to The Beat weekend, lets get right into the headlines. Most people think you dont want a rookie piloting your plane, voters, and we can show this across history, generally prefer people with some Governing Experience for the job of running the entire government, which makes sense. And that is why it is pretty common to attack a candidate going after their experience and qualifications. So, here is our Special Report about something that really matters and you might hear about in the debate next week and over the next two months. President biden spent his life in government, just so everybody knows that. When democrats began eyeing harris as his replacement, republicans rushed to question her competence. Let me remind you, Donald Trump put out the w
Welcome to The Beat, im ari melber. But we begin with Breaking News in politics. Former republican Vice President and Defense Secretary Dick cheney is backing Kamala Harris. That marks one of her most high Ranking Republican endorsements in this campaign probably the most iconic. Dick cheney is an Arch Conservative Hawk and a gop icon, a fixture running republican administrations as chief of Staff And War policy as Defense Sect and Vice President and during 9 11 and the wars in afghanistan and iraq. Those were stints that made him a Fire Brand Folk hero on the right and loathed by most prominent washington democrats. And indeed this news right now tonight would have been unheard ever 10 or 15 years ago and cheney is far from a never trumper. He endorsed Donald Trump in 2018. This also completes the Cheney Family unusual evolution and it did not come during the actual four years of trumps presidency, his governing priorities and his mistakes, it came over whether were a democracy or a C
Its all so new and exciting. Its all so exciting. Scramble the circuits. Youll have msnbc punched up but youll be seeing abc. A nice thing. A nice way to let everybody see it. Yeah, im only lightly joking, but youre doing a Public Service announcement, reminding everyone while yes, there are all these companies and competitors this is one night where all of the usual competitors agree to simulcast the same thing because its for civics. In service of our democracy and i think a nod to how important this election is. Amen. Well put. Thank you. Have a great show. See you soon. Our thanks to Nicolle Wallace for the handoff. Welcome to The Beat. Our top story is the Harris Campaign on offense with this new ad Hammering Trump for project 2025. Well show you some of that ad in a moment. It reenforced the attack the Campaign Hit nightly at the convention which is trying to take what is now politically seen as widely a very toxic project 2025 and tie it to trump. Brand him with it. Link him to