Hills house. The designers that get your Heart Racing had inside a prices new every theyll be gone in a Flash Designer sales at up to 70 or so of gilt. Com today hey, and inside politics refusing a Rematch Donald Trump says hes done with debates. Now, this is a candidate who is known for his love of cameras and huge audiences. So why is he turning down tens of millions of viewers plus, were halfway there. Jim harris, maybe pumping up the Bon Jovi today as they pass the Midway Point of their hyper speed campaign, we have new reporting on their strategy as multiple top advisers say, if the election were next week, Donald Trump would win and democrats are trying to win North Carolina and it feels a little bit like Charlie Brown trying to kick a football, but they think this is the year. It may be able to turn the Tar Heel State blue. Ill talk up to the republican tasked with stopping that push. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics this week. Voters saw Kamala Harris and Donald Trump faced off in their first debate. And now its looking like it may. Also be their last Donald Trump and i had our first debate it to the voters to have another debate done two debates and because they were successful, there will be no third debate. Later this hour we will hear from Donald Trump and he is expected to speak to reporters at his Golf Club near Los Angeles. My colleagues are there and ready to ask questions if they are given that opportunity, were going to bring it to you live in the meantime, lets go straight to cnns kristen holmes, who is waiting for that opportunity. Kristen, what are you hearing from Team Trump i mean, this News Conference interesting, it well, look, dana, we just dont know but when it comes to Donald Trump, they said, were going to do a Press Conference last week in New York for he talked for over 60 minutes and then never took questions now what is on Donald Trumps mind . What do we expect to hear in those 30 minutes . Likely what weve been hearing for the last 48 plus hours first, which is the fact that Donald Trump is trying to relitigate the debates he has been talking about It Line by line in front of now, more favorable crowds. He was talking to yesterday in tucson attacking the moderators going after the debate saying that it was fair, but also trying to claim that he won at the exact same time. We expect to hear that today. We also expect to hear him doubling down on these debunked rumors coming the out of a springfield, ohio at something that he has stayed on on Social Media despite the fact that the city of springfield has denied these accounts and the mayor even saying but we need help, not hate, but it is something that his campaign is clearly latching onto. They believe immigration is a key issue for them and around that fearmongering he seems to be how they are going to hammer that issue home. So whether or not he takes questions as that of course is our big question will be waiting to ask him as he takes that stage today, but we just dont know what Donald Trump will do. Theres nothing on the agenda and as we know, dana, when Theres Nothing on the agenda tends to be whatever comes to mind for Donald Trump. You certainly know of what you speak. A kristen, thank you so much. Appreciate that. We will get back to you and lets bring in a terrific group of reporters here. Kadia goba of semaphore. Molly ball of the wall street journal, Heidi Przybyla of politico, and cnns Isaac Dovere, happy friday to me everybody that was a Deep SighFriday The 13th it is i was trying to put that out of my mind, but but why not so im wondering what you are what sort of whats your takeaway of . Just quickly . The debate over the debates and it sounds like there isnt going to be another debate. Yeah, its funny the night of the Spin Room, the light of the debate, we kind of wrote this piece where all the republicans were saying, yeah, we should, he should debate, he should debate again, including his own team and then he just came out in the Spin Room and kind of threw water on it and kind of said, well, well see it was very clear at that point that there was not going to be another debate and then yes, he comes out and says it is the best outcome for democrats or for the campaign for the Kamala Harris campaign because its essentially admits some kind of defeat to suggest that he doesnt need to do this again, i want you to listen, mali to something that a persuadable Trump Voter in a Focus Group said about this very lets start off with what she needs to do to move you. I think she needs more welldefined policy. I think she needs like a trump is clear on what he wants to do. I feel like hes articulated over and over again on immigration, on on taxes, on those types of things. I need that from her i feel like shes been vague. What does Trump Need to do to hold onto you be needs to be able to debate. I mean, he needs to do what harris did yesterday and and Act President ial and come in with facts. And that arent lies and i believe to be a little bit more mature, i guess, of a leader. I want to come back to the first voter who talked about the desire to hear more from Kamala Harris on policy. But that second voter, again, this is a Trump Voter who could be persuaded to vote for Kamala Harris. Yeah, i think thats really interesting because we found this with some of the undecided voters that we spoke to as well they felt like even some of them who, most of them believe that Kamala Harris won the debate, but that wasnt enough for them because they still felt like they wanted more information about her so she proved she can win a debate that is, thats a different bar for many voters than it do they get my vote, right . They see that as sort of a discreet skill. And yes, if they had questions about her intelligence, if they had questions about her ability to be quote, unquote president ial, they may have felt that she checked that box, but theres a lot of them who still feel like they want more Information Shan and so the Harris Campaign is looking for different ways to fill in those blanks and get that information to the people who feel like thats what they need to be persuaded so i agree with you. I think the fact that trump is talking about this and when in loser terms because, because theres a lot of questions about does he really mean it when he says hes not going to debate again, or is this a Negotiating Tactic . But the fact that hes said that only a loser would want to debate again, sort of tells you where his head is that i think lets talk about springfield, ohio the people of springfield, ohio, i should say, are theyve really been bearing the brunt of this conspiracy that has been floated by their senator, j. D vance is running for Vice President. And of course the president , the former president of the United States from the Debate Stage. Today, two Elementary Schools were evacuated based on information received by the police and this is because of these baseless claims that haitian migrants are stealing and eating pets i want you to listen to what Pete Buttigieg told Kaitlan Collins about this geese you know, where the geese are in the park, in the leg. And even walking off with their pets. My dogs been taken. My dogs for so this is going only happen these people are the worst. This is a strategy and theres even more to it than demonizing immigrants although thats obviously part of what hes doing this is a strategy to get us talking about the latest crazy thing that he did, Whatever Urban Legend he amplifies right now, its about people eating cats thats or gas or whatever because he cannot afford for us to be talking about his record actually numbers to backup what he says. We know its a strategy because were seeing similar claims like this about immigrants, for instance, that congo is pushing emptying its prisoners up through the Southern Border that the venezuelans are doing that. And as long as people are talking about that, theyre not talking when i say theres numbers of back it up, theres polling that came out that showed when Swing Voters were presented simply with the facts of the economic plans of Kamala Harris harris versus Donald Trump overwhelmingly, they supported the Harris Plan or what we know about the Harris Plan. So there are facts to backup what hes what hes saying there. And this is something that trump has done and hes done it in every campaign, which is to play into peoples existing biases, into the worst instincts of Human Nature that we are. His audiences and certain cases are predisposed to want to believe these things. I know this. My colleague was on a plane the other day and she said she saw a woman, very nice lady, who pulled up the video and said, look, you Cant Trust the media. This is how i know that this is true, that peoples pets are being eaten because i saw it in this video on youtube. And thats where we are. Yeah. And i take your point. I mean, this is his original playbook that he keeps going back to Donald Trump but i do feel like this time things are different. The Playing Field is different because those are the people who he probably already has. And people who are not so sure about him because now theyre being reminded of this crazy Conspiracy Stuff that he talks about are being reminded of this crazy Conspiracy Stuff when all they want to do perhaps is remember that they could afford their groceries. It works for his base my clarifying. Yeah. I know. But like current they already going out . Yeah. I think its important to think about the people who are watching the debate on tuesday night, who are not us, the political world who are not online, as we all are and heard without any context Donald Trump say, and theyre eating dogs and that was from nowhere, right . So yes, it is a false story. It is a madeup story. It has at least a ribbon of racism running through it. If not more than a ribbon but it is also just a strange thing that he is talking about and wonder how viewers respond to that when they see somebody say something that sounds made up is made up is weird and i dont say that in the tim walz way. Its a strange thing if people are eating pets, what does he talking about and i will tell you that at least from the harris Harris Campaigns numbers that they were looking at on this when they do those dial groups, they have people twisting the dial one way or the other thing that they found was the worst moment for Donald Trump was that thats really interesting i wanted change subjects for a second and talk about something that is going on out there with Doug Emhoff. And specifically, there is an outside group, a pack that is running an ad that may seem on its face like its rah, rah. Lets support Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff because it would be historymaking, not just because of her, but because he would be the first first jewish first spouse. Watch this and well explain what it really means on the other End Dwayne Collman lot will be her husband and top adviser, Doug Emhoff who would be the first jewish president ial spouse ever, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff off making history, standing up for whats right supporting israel now, i want to ask you about this because you are from dearborn, michigan. This is being run in michigan where the republicans are trying to make mischief and try to play this, not because theyre trying to appeal to people and say please support Doug Emhoff because of this wonderful history but that he would be the first jewish for spouse. But to the very large, perhaps Arab AmericanVote And Electorate to say, do you really want this guy in the White House . We have a massive Middle Eastern population in dearborn, probably the biggest and the entire country. And it is already primed in that there are a lot of Arab Americans who are upset about bidens handling of the war in israel they are primed in the sense that they tend to be kind of culturally conservative. Thats like the history and a lot of them were republicans before the iraq war, after the war, after trumps muslim loan ban. Not so much. All you have to do is get them to stay home. Its not about necessarily winning the votes over for trump. But if you get them to stay home go back to 2016, for instance, one of the last stops Hillary Clinton made on her campaign was michigan because they thought they had it. But then the numbers went sideways. It wasnt necessarily Arab Americans that time, but we do know is that it can be very fluid. And so this is extremely strategic and as isaac said, if this is what theyre doing now, just wait for the next few weeks in terms of targeting that population, which they obviously feel. And we can yeah, and we cant know exactly who it is but there are links to a man named Cable Hobbs who served as the treasurer for a Super Pac for ron desantis. So this is obviously coming from the republican side of the ledger and trying to you know, cause some confusion. But i just think its pretty gross. But its not its not just about israel. They are trying to play on antisemitism yeah, look, theres a thread that connects that to what we were talking about with stuff out of springfield. There are real policy issues here about whats going on in gaza. There are real policy issues about immigration and thats not what this is being litigated on. Hate and fear yeah, very true. Dont go anywhere because there is a quiet confidence. But its going to be a grind that is how one aide described the mood Inside Harris headquarters. We have new reporting from isaac here on what they see as their path to 270 dont go anywhere for Have I Got News For You are pretty odd yeah. 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