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Paid. When you say cnn this morning with Kasie Hunt next its wednesday, september 11, right now on cnn this Morning Donald Trump was fired by 81 Million people well, she got zero votes. And when she ran, she was the first one to leave because she failed Donald Trump, Kamala Harris Facetoface on the Debate Stage for the first and possibly final time will show you what happened and people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom, people dont leave my Rallies Trump takes the bait. Kamala harris, under the former president s skin, putting him on the defensive and then theres this superstar endorsement. How Taylor Swift support for harris because a problem for trump 5 00 a. M. On the East Coast are live look at Capitol Hill on this Wednesday Morning good morning after the big debate. Good morning, everyone. Im Kasie Hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us the morning after the debate feeling very different for Democrats Today than it was back in june, i spent all of Last Night and frankly, some time this morning corresponding with allies of the Vice President s campaign and they feel its just kind of putting it mildly. She did what she needed to do in the debate from the opening moments, Vice President harris seemed to be trying to go on offense. She went out of her way to shake Donald Trumps hand at the beginning, and she framed Donald Trumps answers this way im going to tell you on this debate tonight, youre going to hear from the same old tired playbook a bunch of lies canada sparred on issues that range from the economy, immigration, January 6, and then there was this contentious exchange over trumps Supreme Court, justice picks ending roe versus wade. See, now its not tied up in the federal government. I did a great service in doing it. It took courage to do it. And the Supreme Court had great courage in doing it. And i give tremendous credit to those six justices. They did exactly as he intended. And now in over 20 states, there are Trump Abortion bans which make It Criminal for a Doctor Or Nurse to provide Health Care in one state. It provides prison for life Trump Abortion bans that make no exception even for Rape And Incest Harriss Campaign felt that exchange was a particular High Point 0. 1 top paris adviser, david plaats, who also advised president obama, noted that theres a 40 Point Gap in undecided voters who are with harris in the point that she was making there as opposed to what Donald Trump was saying, each candidate also took moments Last Night to try to argue they would be the stronger leader when dealing with Vladimir Putin and the war in ukraine i know putin very well. I have a good relationship and they respect your president , okay. They respect me. They dont respect biden. How would you respect him that why . For what reason he hasnt even made a Phone Call in two years to put hasnt spoken anybody who would be sitting in kyiv with his eyes on the rest of europe . Starting with poland. And why dont you tell the 800,000 Polish Americans right here in pennsylvania how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor. And what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator who would eat you for lunch so then theres. The question of whether the biggest moment of Debate Night may have happened actually just after the debate concluded, Pop Superstar Taylor swift posting on instagram. She cited in part a womens right to control her own body she endorsed Kamala Harris and she signed the Letter Taylor swift, childless Cat Lady joining me now to discuss all this. Leah wright rigueur, cnn political Analyst And Historian Ron Brownstein, cnn political analyst, bakari sellers, also a cnn political Commentator And David polyansky, who is a republican strategist. Welcome to all of you. Thanks for certain off i feel like i just kind of went too bad after the day in fairness, so i appreciate you guys hanging in there with me Ron Brownstein, lets start with The Big Picture here. Because there were such High Stakes for Kamala Harris in this debate. She had not been its kind of foreign before she was facing someone who had been on this stage multiple full times. I have to say the democrats that i talked to are absolutely thrilled this morning. Is that your takeaway to what are you looking at . I think the only way that debate could have gone better for her would have been if it wasnt october 20. And not September 10 is not an inconsiderable point. You know, i felt after the first debate with biden that if not for bidens obvious deterioration we would have been talking about how much Donald Trumps capacity to deliver an argument to stay on point to craft a message had declined and thats what we saw tonight. I mean, the age contrast, the Energy Contrast that typically, you know, Last Night, yeah, i guess it was its still still are one you know, one of the key problems democrats have faced in this race is that Donald Trumps retrospective Job Approval Rating . Has been increasing to a point where it has been higher in many polls and it was at any point during his presidency. Now why is that . Its because voters i think have been judging him mostly through the lens of what they didnt like about biden, particularly inflation, what the debate did Last Night was remind Voters Everything else that comes with Donald Trump and just one last point, trump sounded like someone who is calling into a fox news show. I mean, he he has spent so much time speaking to his core audience, which is still a strength and hes going to turn out a lot of those people that he thought. I think he had lost the ability to talk to a broader audience defending the January 6 rioters, saying everybody wanted roe v. Wade to be overturned, claiming again that he won the election and the the peak of this insisting that in a very kind of Racist Argument that immigrants are eating peoples cats and dogs. It was all he look like someone who was coming out of a dark Movie Theater in Des Sunshine and squinting because he has spent so much time talking to this narrow universe. He really had nothing to say to a broader, it is now real quick i mean, the underlying realities are still there 60 of americans think they are not better off because of the policies of the biden administration when trump was able to get to that, its a reminder that those are going to be headwinds for harris, but she couldnt have done any more than she did less. Well, David Polyansky leah, i i want you to weigh in and obviously want everybody to weigh in on this. But david, i want id like you to defend it to address this point of the i got multiple notes from people say, wow, its like i think we have seen which candidate is entirely online because there were these all of these moments where trump was focused on issues that seem very in one corner of the universe. I, you know, i was talking to its anecdata. But when you get texts from all your Family Members who dont really pay attention to this stuff until big moment like this, theyre kind of like, what is this one . Is he talking about . I dont know fully, but look, i think Last Night All Of Us that have been a part of politics for most of our adult lives. Participated in debates, no one truism, which is if you end up sending their candidate to the Spin Room after the debate, you didnt win and Last Night, Donald Trump went to the Spin Room inexplicably and took questions from the press the Vice President went to a debate watch party. Its a pretty good sign of where they both though, the night ended up and, you know, in terms of the message, well look, she was incredibly wellprepared. Make no mistake. You could see that from the start. But i think the most important part of it where she was on offense from the minute sheet, not only the minute she started talking, but the minute she walked on stage, she walked across to former president trumps podium and made him shake her hand she was prepared, she was confident and she was on offense from the start. I think that played into his worst fears in terms of not only not being able to proactively drive his message put to your point, fall back to what hes comfortable with, which is more conservative media. I mean, i think from the very beginning, one of the things that Ron Brown run brought up was that those of us who watched Joe Biden versus Donald Trump realizes that Donald Trump gave the second worst Debate Performance in American History. The problem was that the person who gave the worst debate in American History was also one that stage. And so when you actually tell youve been free to say that 75 days makes a lot of difference. When you take Joe Biden out of that debate, you see someone who is not capable in that gave Kamala Harris a little a little bit of the confidence. Look, she was nervous the first 567 minutes, everybody saw it in she had the ability to bait him and counter punch him. And thats what i said this debate was going to be about. It reminded me so much of ryan Garcia Versus Devin haney, which was its a fight that happened maybe three months ago, going to have to fill me Devin Haney was supposed to be a jabber and a good puncher. And Ryan Garcia was a counterpuncher and Kamala Harris came out and she made it. She baited, she used a jab and then she counterpunch. She she counterpunch she was able to hit him, Pivot And Move to the american people Last Night you saw someone who was very prepared and you knew about 9 28. I think im marked at 9 28 was when this thing was over. Thats when she went into the rallies. When she started talking about his rallies, which for him is has been wasnt clear. It was going to be over at that point, you know, once he hes sort of people came back at her. Those of us around the orbit said, look, at that point, he was going to unravel. It was going to go downhill and she was going to be able to find a groove up into that point. It might have been even it might have been nip and tuck. He Abortion Answer was that was pretty strong though. She was strong, but he unraveled. Yeah. He unraveled on rallies. She gave a very sound answer on reproductive freedom, scoring on substance, but he was done for after she questioned the size of his well, it was twopronged. Right. Because on the one hand, she had to make a case for herself her own policies and she was put on comfortable footing when she was asked very at that mirror at the top of the debate about abortion. And we saw that some of that Nervousness Fade away when she did that. And we then as bakari points out, the other thing that she was clearly had spent a lot of time practicing was how to get under Donald Trumps skin. And the other thing that kept sticking out to me too was that she clearly had studied how to use the Split Screen to her own advantage. And weve seen times when that can cause problems for candidates. I mean, when Barack Obama debated Mitt Romney, the first time, it was the way he look kind of agitated in the box next to Mitt Romney that made it seem as though he was struggling. She was doing things like this. I mean, if if youve opened your social Media Feed this morning, that is what you are seeing. Yeah. And i think also one of the things that she did really quite effectively as she has this line that shes been repeating over and over on the campaign trail, which is that Donald Trump is a deeply unserious man who is a deeply unserious candidate, who has serious consequences for the american public those facial expressions that asteroids of the splitscreen was all about showing the nation just how unserious, but how dangerous he is. And i have to say she i actually think that were not giving her enough credit. She eviscerated him Last Night in ways that are going to are that i have not seen in 60 some odd years of modern american president ial debates one of the things that i think we are not used to is that were not used to seeing Donald Trump be beat. So mercilessly on stage, we are used to kind of Donald Trump who can get under peoples skin, who comes up with nicknames who really just dominates in bullies. This is the through line for the republican president ial primaries in 2016. And again in 2024 but what we saw with somebody like Kamala Harris is that she put him on the ship, put him on the defensive. She controlled the narrative from start to finish, and she did exactly what she was trying to do, which is she told the american people who she was but she set the narrative about who Donald Trump was and just how dangerous he was for democracy. One of the things that i was afraid of just as someone who wasnt in the room but talking to people in the room. I was afraid of the imagery of Donald Trump standing next to the Kamala Harris. And i will readily admit that because of the fact that shes about 54, maybe hes 6 four to 65 to 55, whatever he is but i just felt like that imagery was just going to be this personification of strength. The Fact Sheet went over there and own that at the very beginning. It just for people watching. I mean, for every woman in the room, i was talking to my wife and others who were just like, oh yeah, from the very beginning, she brought it. This is what we did deal with every day. We dont care about the fact that im 5, four in heels, you know, i have to jump over these high bars. She took it to him from the very beginning and i think that actually is something small. But for her, i think it actually set the tone, contrast it with biden walking out. It was a different debate before anybody spoke. Yeah, for sure. All right coming up next here on Cnn Morning Taylor swift labeling herself a childless Cat Lady and endorsing Kamala Harris. But her support play a key role with younger voters plus the Vice President s strategy of baiting trump into one of his favorites. Topics seemed to pay off for her. And then theres this Kamala Harris reminded voters that she is a Gun Owner a