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
I am katie feng and for alex. The 2020 presidential election was one of the closest races we ve ever experienced in this country although george w. Bush won the election, it was al gore who won the popular vote that your. When you start to slice and dice the electorate into different voting groups, that race starts to look weightless tight. Check this out. In 2000, george w bush dramatically outperformed his opponent among white evangelical voters, winning 68% among that group. In 2024 he increased that support by 10 points. Evangelical support for the republican presidential candidate remained relatively steady for the next two elections and then look what happened in 2016. Donald trump won the support of 81% of white evangelical voters. Trumps ability to supercharge the evangelical vote has largely been attributed to the reason he was able to win the presidency the first time he ran. Without a strong evangelical turnout, it becomes much more difficult for donald trump to chart a repe
Week when i had a little bit of a bug. I really appreciate it. You are welcome and the best news, you ve gotten better, so you have a great labor day weekend. Thanks, chris. You know, labor day weekend, it s finally here. The next three days are the time when americans everywhere try to get the most out of their summer. Maybe squeeze in one last cookout for beach trip before the weather gets colder and everything starts to taste like pumpkin spice. But in an election year like this one, labor day weekend also marks the moment when most americans really start to pay attention to the presidential race and for the campaigns this is a moment when every detail starts to matter. Vice president kamala harris and her running mate tim walz are coming off a two day bus tour through southern georgia. The first democratic campaign in that part of the state since 1992. Last night the vice president sat down for her first major interview since becoming her party s nominee. She defended the record of
Straight from the source and i, donald trump doing damage control as he has slammed not only from the left, but also by some on the right over his shifting positions on abortion and ivf. He has been all over them map in just the last 24 hours also was kamala harris refuse to distance herself too much from president biden s positions in that cnn exclusive interview, the city vp is now seen by voters as just as much of a change candidate as her opponent, or to go inside those surprising numbers and a former miss teen usa contestant now firing back at trump running mate j. D. Vance, who is refusing to apologize for using an embarrassing old clip of her clip, you probably remember to mock his opponent. It s a moment that once made that pageant contestant contemplate suicide i m pamela brown in for kaitlan collins, and this is the source right now on a busy friday night, donald trump is addressing the conservative moms for liberty group in washington, dc. And of course, we are monitoring ev
He ran in 2016, he understood that overturning roe v wade was a core conservative priority. So he agreed to put that list of judgeses out before the election. Who were conservative. I am going to give a list of either five or ten judges s tha i will picick to show. You may not trust me on this issue, but here s what i would do if i was president, i will guarantee that those are going to be first judges that t i put up foror a nomomination. If i win, thahat tells meme that. . Yes, i can trust you with my vote because on the issues that matter most to me i can tetell that thehese people e are going hopefully rule as we would want them to again, both hourlong episodes of the whole story with anderson cooper airs monday on labor day, starting at 8:00 p. M. Eastern time the news continues right here on cnn our front next, breaking news, trump. Now says he will vote to back florida s sixweek abortion ban. It is a major about face from his stance on the issue, just 24 hours ago and harris ton