Burnett outfront starts, right now outfront next, the breaking news, the harris campaign announcing a massive fundraising haul, more than double humbling trump's as attack dog, walz and vance hold dueling rallies tonight breaking news of the investigation to the deadly georgia school shooting at this hour, a source is telling cnn cnn that the alleged gunman's father told investigators that he bought the gun as a gift for his son months after sun was investigated for a school shooting, breath plus a cnn exclusive, who was cruelty on display video of executions at the hands of ruthless russian soldiers. Let's go outfront and good evening. I'm erin burnett, the breaking news tonight. Kamala harris with jaw dropping fundraising numbers, just coming out cnn is reporting that harris more than doubled what trump raised in august we know that trump raised $130 million. So just to state the obvious, that means harris did better than $260 million in just one month and that is a sign of what we have seen. Of course, in polling the enthusiasm around her campaign. Clearly very much alive and well, six weeks after she rose to the top top of the ticket. Tonight, her running mate, tim walz and j. D. Vance, trump's running mate are holding dueling rallies, as i mentioned in crucial swing states, tim walz is in pennsylvania right now, dead heat in the latest cnn poll, j. D. Vance wrapping up his remarks in arizona, where trump is marginally ahead in our poll, both on the attack now, i'm going to quote, which i think is a brilliant quote by your great governor josh shapiro. He often says, and i hear him say this whenever donald trump's talking about america, he talking america he does not believe in the promise of america, and he continues to put this country down whether it's our veterans or working people continues could do it. And you know why he does it. You know why he does that because he can only think of himself all right so those are the lines walz's using and vance for his part is going after harris's campaign message the democratic national convention was all about joy and i thought to myself, what does kamala harris have? to be especially joyful about? she's been the vice president for threeandahalf years, americans can't afford groceries. Americans can't afford to buy a home and as for harris herself, she is in pennsylvania in pittsburgh for debate prep. While trump today delivered what they had billed as a major economic speech at the economic club of new york it's a crucial place to give such an address. The president though, did veer off topic a number of times at one point going to the whole topic of harris, he says tried to put him in jail. Here's what he said. She and her party are censoring speech, weaponizing the justice system, and trying to throw their political opponents me, in jail it hasn't happened i didn't do that to crooked hillary. I said that would be a terrible thing, wouldn't it putting the wife of the president of the united states? jail, but they view it differently, i guess nowadays, but that's okay they always have to remember that two can play the game obviously, not even unveiled as a threat. There, trump though for years of course, has been the one threatening to put a pin on a political opponents by name in jail hillary clinton has to go to jail. Ok, chest to go to jail, lock her up is right for what she's done. They should lock her up. You should lock them up lock up the block a pillar lock her up, of course, was the regular can you all remember at trump's rallies as for harris, this is what her response was when supporters chanted lock him up well, you know what? the courts are going to handle that and we will handle november even, mckend is outfront live. She's in pittsburgh, whereas i mentioned harris is right now and full debate mood prepping. So even what more are you learning about this massive fundraising haul that the harris team brought in? they saved for just the month of august well, erin, that fundraising report is due september 20th, so not before long. We will know exactly how much that number is. But a source telling cnn that it is quite substantial. And to give you a sense of where the campaign is spending their money. A lot of it is on ads ads like one that again, airing today in the battleground state of georgia targeting black voters, talking about the conservative blueprint project 2025, warning voters about the further erosion of reproductive rights and the possible elimination of the department of education. But the vice president is here in pennsylvania but to get critical time, critical facetime with voters ahead of the debate, i've been speaking to voters here in pittsburgh, and they have their head on a swivel to see if they ultimately spot the vice president. Many of them that i spoke to at the university of pittsburgh and near the campus told me that a number of issues are top of mind for them as we head towards november, including the economy, including lgbtq rights, including reproductive rights. And i'll end with this, erin i spoke to one young man and he is from new york. He just moved to pennsylvania for brands school at carnegie mellon. And he told me that he changed his his voter registration to be able to vote in this critical state. And he told me, listen pennsylvania is a state that could go either way and i want my vote to have an impact aaron. Well you know, people who live in states that are all red or all blue, it's an incredible opportunity when they move to a state where we're their vote can truly move the needle. Thank you much, eva. Alright, so everyone here with me. I said, i wanted to rid the fundraising, but first just, you know, when you see walz and you see vance on stage and they're both being sent to these crucial swing states, pennsylvania excuse me arizona favorability numbers though, aren't the same. You've got walz as doing better 40 to 31 vance's at 32, 44. I mean, you know, usually wouldn't actually say 42 is great, but it's a hell of a lot better than 31. Absolutely. I mean, what does this mean? i think for two candidates? sorry, looking to expand their map, that's where the vp could have marginal differences. We know that people usually vote at the top of the ticket are usually voting for a spate of issues are what the kind of lead nominee is saying. But we know that they were chosen as this as points of expanding their base. Harris chose walz with a specific idea to underscore normality, to underscore kind of sense a pitch to the middle of the country vance was chosen, i think not for reasons to expand the map overall a double down of ideology kind of furtherance of a maga viewpoint, a frankly, a hardiness from the trump campaign who fraught, who thought that they were on course for victory. And it was picked when biden was the rival ad that rnc where if there was republican confidence that they were going to win this race. We have seen vance slip further and further into that unfavorability zone. And i think even more so than that triggering specifically important groups of voters that was childless cat lady comments are not just a oneoff, right example of someone who spent so much time and that masculinity maga, ecosystem. And that turns gauff a crucial group that i think he's going to have to win over, come to cover mentioning cats and dogs. They're actually relevant to this conversation. Margaret, in the sense that vance did bring his fans emily and he has been trying to humanize himself in that way to the rally he brought his family, they've been with him over the past few days. Here's some of what he said we brought the whole crew to arizona. I got my lovely wife, usha usha, where they were they but we we brought our three kids there, 74 and tune. We even brought our dog you say, i mean, if you really wanted to connect with people and kind of breakthrough, he would have said i brought both my cats i mean, but, it does just show right that he's putting everything going but also in a sense that it is correct j. D. Vance was not picked because the trump campaign thought they would win the popular vote. And when the electoral college i mean, trump's strategy has actually never been to win broadly and to have a broad bipartisan coalition that has always been to get just enough votes to win the electoral college. That's, that was the strategy and 16, that was a strategy in 20. And that's a strategy again. So jd vance's lack of popularity was just never are popularity or likability or frankly authenticity was never part of the calculus and i would just say to centrist republicans are center right people who, who are trying so hard to become comfortable with trump. Again, even though they're not and they know better that thing they tell themselves and the they look in the mirror as they say, he'll be ok. If you surrounds himself with the right people but he couldn't even pick a vice president candidate as somebody to be on the ticket with him, who engender is confidence or could do the job and they know that and then max wait, voters at least small donors see this is reflected in the fundraising we just saw. So yesterday, $130 million from trump, they were saying, i believe if i remember the wire correctly, 98% of it was coming from small donors, right? harris is coming out and i don't know the exact number. I don't know the breakdown, but more than double the overall hall. Yeah. The problem shoot if you raise $300 million, its really virtually impossible to accomplish that with large it's donors, but that, that is a small donor fee and at this point, the fundraising is yes, a metric for your ammunition to get your message out in a campaign. But at this point, it is also a metric for enthusiasm because many of the people who are doing those small dollar donations, they're also knocking on doors they're also talking to their neighbors. Then there's this constant effort over these 60 days of who has that energy and what we've seen over prior presidential elections is the statistic that matters more than anything, is enthusiasm in this highly polarized country that we live in, that, that is really good kind of thousands more mean, it's exponentially more in terms of just people volunteering for the harris campaign versus trump campaign. Said it is interesting though that now both, each candidate is trying to talk about their support that they have from the other side of the aisle there has been as to the extent you want to say that's trying to reach across the aisle or not. Here's what vance said about that. Just a couple minutes ago we've got people like nikki haley, and brian kemp, and we've also got rfk jr. And tulsi gabbard. You know why? common sits down for harris? liz cheney announcing her backing of harris last night so does does that matter? i mean, i'm not talking about the messenger i'm talking about the reality that he is correct. Nikki hit those people are behind trump, liz cheney is now bind harris. Does that move any votes? i think it speaks to the change in coalitions that are true for both parties. Donald trump is not trying to put together a george w bush's or mitt romney's or whoever insert previous republican of the past coalition is not even trying to put together his 2016 coalition he thinks that he can build together a more multiracial working class base, but also bringing the republican party together in the end, we know that brian kemp, nikki haley, those are people he has targeted personally. There has been a lot of infighting in the republican party round, unity around trump for the past year. His bet, this is where you see this with evangelicals also on abortion rights is that they will come back to him in the end from a sense of negative polarization are antidemocratic this, while he expands himself to the middle, we haven't seen him be the best messenger for that, but that's clearly the strategy on the democratic side. They have a consistent story. They've been telling about reaching out to maybe your non maga republicans. We saw worked for them in the midterms and we see kind of harris and walz making a concerted effort in india see you to be for independence, to be for the middle of the base. Because if there's a warning sign for harris right now, is that she certainly made up the enthusiasm gap among our base, to put her in the game that biden was frankly, it's completely out of but we haven't fully seen the independence the swing, the kind of middle of the road to be able to expand those margins. In particular, swingstates, that's what she our task is now she's shored up the base, but she has to reach out to the side and i think her policy message has been geared to that doug emhoff, his campaign for her. You see vance's family on the trail, walz, his family has been on the trail trump's been kind of along margaret, in terms of that money or we haven't heard much from today. She did release a black and white to promote her new memoir so let me play some of that video. Great writing his memoir has been a deeply personal and reflective journey for me as a private person who has often been the subject of public scrutiny and misrepresentations i feel a responsibility i think to clarify the facts i believe it is important to share my perspective. The truth who is the audience for that? i don't know what the next modeling agency that might pick her up after they lose the election. I mean, look, i'm so sorry. But like i just that makes my head explode because that is i watched the whole lot and i went to melania trump. Com. You can do it too. Here's what's on melania trump. Com. You can go buy the book. You can buy melania jewelry. You can buy melania collectibles. You can buy a millennia christmas ornaments. You can learn a little bit about a charitable organization that helps foster care scholarships, which i'm sure does has the intention of doing good work. I don't know if it actually does good work because it trump 501c3 tend to not be as effect efficacious as other nonprofits in this country. So all it does is a scream commoditization of money of the presidency and of<