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This month. Joining me now in washington is dan bolz, the chief correspondent at the Washington Post and we once again pleased to have him here again. Dan thank you. Charlie 60 days and counting. Dan 60 days and counting down. Charlie the first week after labor day. Dan its an interesting week. The polls look tighter than in august. We had the first semiencounter with the two candidates. Charlie not together. Dan a preview, but not really, they werent on the stage at the same time. Its a different dynamic. The race after labor day, as much as become before, things become engaged in a different way. We have seen Hillary Clinton out much more talking to the press that she hasnt been done. Charlie on the plane and elsewhere taking questions. Dan so she is more accessible than she has been. She was getting criticized for that. Donald trump is trying to stay scripted and with teleprompters. Charlie is he better on the campaign trail with what he has to do . Dan i think he is. Its a function
Dan bolz, the chief correspondent at the Washington Post and we once again pleased to have him here again. Dan thank you. Charlie 60 days and counting. Dan 60 days and counting down. Charlie the first week after labor day. Dan its an interesting week. The polls look tighter than in august. We had the first semiencounter with the two candidates. And as you say charlie not together. Dan a preview, but not really, they werent on the stage at the same time. So, it will be a quite different dynamic. But the race after labor day, as much as become before, things become engaged in a different way. We have seen Hillary Clinton out much more talking to the press that she hasnt been done. Charlie not a fullfledged press conference, but on the plane and elsewhere taking questions. Dan so she is more accessible than she has been. She was getting criticized for that. Donald trump is trying to stay scripted and with teleprompters. Charlie is he better on the campaign trail with what he has to do . D
This month. Joining me now in washington is dan, the chief correspondent at the Washington Post and we once again pleased to have him here again, dan thank you. Charlie 60 days and counting. Dan 60 days and counting down. Charlie the first week after labor day. Dan its an interesting week. The polls look tighter than in august. We had the first semiencounter with the two candidates. Charlie not together. Dan a preview, but not really, they werent on the stage at the same time. Its a different dynamic. The race after labor day, as much as become before, things become engaged in a different way. We have seen Hillary Clinton out much more talking to the press that she hasnt been done. Charlie on the plane and elsewhere taking questions. Dan so she is more accessible than she has been. She was getting criticized for that. Donald trump is trying to stay scripted. Charlie is he better on the campaign trail with what he has to do . Dan i think he is. Its a function of the new team that he bro
Friendly. Backslapper. That is not his style. He is direct and he will tell you what he feels and what he thinks but he is going to do it on his terms about what he wants to say and how he wants to say it. It is very important, he is a very precise man. This was a precision race that he ran. You guys wrote an article back in november. One of the things you have any is that he could have spent as much as 50 million . He was preparing for that and by the end of it, with the outside groups, and probably exceeded that on the republican side. There was a republican outside group, kentuckians for strong leadership, which ended up pummeling the airwaves with attack ads against Alison Grimes, the democrat, and matt bevin, the republican. What that allowed mcconnell to do was run a very a series of very focused ads that highlighted the Positive Side of Mitch Mcconnell. This is a guy who had a lousy Approval Rating back home, low 40s to high 30s for much of the campaign, and you realize you need