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I'm erin erin burnett on this monday, outfront tonight cognitively challenged the race for the white house, hitting yet another new low tonight as for tonight, it's a new low trump lobbying these words and harris hours after calling her mentally impaired and mentally disabled mentally impaired, said but lying, kamala harris honestly i believe she was born that way there's something wrong kamala and i just don't know what it is, but there is definitely something missing and you know what everybody knows it. Maybe you think about it only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country well, hopefully all americans can agree that this sort of rhetoric is beneath what politicians should be saying as gop senate candidate larry hogan put it and, i think that's insulting not only to the vice president, but to people that actually do have mental disabilities the truth is, though, of course, that trump has long gone low when it comes to the topic of intelligence. In fact, the topic of intelligence is one he cares a lot about. In fact, he returns to it again and again. He's a deranged, that dumb guy is at dumb son of a but he's one of the dumbest human beings ever foolish man is foolish, fool, just stupid person, very stupid, very low iq. It really a low iq. One of the dumbest people i've ever met dm dumbest person at the senate, the dumbest president we've ever had so like i said, i mean, that's it's a recurring thing. Though, the words you heard there aren't quite the same as mentally impaired, a mentally disabled, those are new for trump and the words come as his campaign is under pressure tonight, j. D vance tonight, arriving with his family in new york you see that video there. The only vice presidential debate will take place in new york tomorrow night. Tim walz is actually expected to arrive tomorrow. So coming in on the day of moments ago, we got our first look at the debate stage. And today trump is setting expectations high for vance i think jd is going to do grade is a very smart guy, has done a great job. People like him a lot against tampon i think i don't think i've ever been joseph. He's not qualified i'm obviously not qualified is quite tame compared to cognitive cognitively challenged. I'm sorry, i'm mentally disabled. Trump, apparently trying to raise the bar for walz everyone is here with me now i want to begin with our reporter, isaac dovere start with you on some of the new reporting, isaac that i know you're getting on what walz is doing to prepare for tomorrow night because i just mentioned your reporting, he's actually coming in tomorrow, not getting the night of rest in new york maybe wants to be in his own bed tonight, coming in tomorrow, j. D. Vance is in new york with his family what are you hearing? well, the walz campaign apparatus has been locked in debate prep in michigan for the last couple of days. They've had mock debates, have had pete buttigieg in there playing j. D. Vance. He showed up in a red tie to be sort of in character, did not grow out the beard. But one of the things that they are working on is how walz will look on camera. He's been very concerned about this debate from the moment that he was in the vetting interview with kamala harris back in august. He said, i'm not a good debate, just a, you know, and he has continued to be nervous about this as i reported, over the weekend, but they are trying to say to him, think about how you look on camera when you're not answering the question. The reactions that you had of course, go back to the harris debate when she kept going like this, all of those reactions were big part of what it was and you think about biden's reactions to trump in their june debate. One of the problems that biden had as he often looked like he was surprised are not really paying attention in his answers another thing that they're working on, erin, i can tell you is that there has been a lot of focus on walz's record as governor, which has been attacked for some of the positions, especially socially liberal things that he's done laws that he signed in hand. We'll be talking a lot about things that he's done things that he did in congress, for example, voting for the affordable care act, voting to repeal, don't ask, don't tell what she said is one of the most important votes he ever took or the work you did in the veterans affairs committee. So that's where we're going to see some of this as well as the focus on health care. Of course, comes from rose the stakes are both higher and lower. I mean, the vp is not going to be setting policy for the administration, but nonetheless, both of these vp candidates have gotten an incredible amount of focus given the unprecedented nature of this race. Sure. I looked at the stakes are high. I mean, this is presidential politics, but i think it's been one thing that's been missing from the conversation here, which is just the degree to which governor walz is actually uniquely suited. For this medium in this current age of presidential politics, i'm sorry, this is not an oxford union debate. This statistics, the facts, this and that they are secondary to the trust building exercise that is any law school debate is not. And so i actually think j. D. Vance that's his going in there with this unique disadvantage because he what he is best at our esoteric 90 minute podcast, where he can engage in some niche academic discourse. What governor walz is very good at is speaking directly to the american people in clear, plainspoken manner that addresses michael table issues. And so i'm excited for you. A lot, margaret, and first i just want to say, i mean case in point, this is not a policy election. The major thing we remember from the first debate, they're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs. Not a policy point, right now. So i do think i do think you're right. I actually think the contrast will not i mean, i suspect a jd who is incredibly polished at delivering on television and delivering an argument and litigating an argument and we can all expect what he will do. Senator vance, in terms of trying to cast walz as the perfect pairing for the san francisco leftwing progressive, liberal that kamala is i think the best thing walz could do is just be himself because the contrast of him as an ordinary guy. Yeah reveals itself in the unplanned moments of the debate. And i think the contrast between sort of a trolling, impish senator who is a bomb thrower versus sort of a older more statesmanlike governor of a state. I could there will probably be a breakthrough moment where that contrast to drake and walton. And of course vance's 20 years younger. I mean, when we talk about the ages and harris is 20 years later younger than trump, shermichael, margaret brought up dogs, so i just will say you know, it's like i laugh, but then i'm like, i don't think anybody's happy that we're here and some sentences then run the cats. But now we're talking dogs because walz and his dog scout sat down for an interview. These are the types of interview walz is done, right? he's talked about gutters, he's done things that have really reached out to people that haven't been this sort of injury indepth policy interview. So he did an interview with the creator of we wait dogs ever, which is a social media account. And this is real, this happened. And let me play a clip. Join you on your watch love to have you do you think having scout has made you a better leader in some ways well, i think it starts, i think having a having a dog or pets makes you a better human he counts on me, he's he's loyal. He aides unconditional love and i think because of that, that just sense of empathy that you'd like to see an all leaders. You hope you have it already, but it certainly gets magnified. He's counting on you shermichael, is that if that wall shows up, right? that is just that's about a human connection, right? that's not policy. That's nothing that's about a human connection and love for something anyone can create, can connect to. Is that going to be a problem for j. D vance if that if that's the walz who shows up tomorrow i mean, look i take max's point. People like governor walz, his popularity is pretty great but at the end of the day, we're not voting for the vice president of our senior high school class or our of our college class were voting for someone who could potentially have to step in and serve as president if something happens to the president, were voting for someone one who's going to be given a portfolio by the president to handle some very serious and important issues to the interests of this country. I don't necessarily need to like you, i want to know if you can do the darn job and can you do it well and can you produce results and when governor walz has asked very serious questions about well, what is the harriswalz a plan are position? to tackle ukraine and the russian issue, is the governor aware of the donbass region and ukraine, what's the strategy there is the governor capable of talking about what an effective strategy should be to tackling issues with china are the issues with israel and hamas and now iran, i'm not exactly sure, but i would hope american people would, despite whatever personal affection they may have for the governor, would be serious about these issues. What we're voting for serious people here and liking someone only gets you so far. I'm going to say, okay, this is totally it no political way at all. But congressman rose, it does seem to me that generally these kinds of contests are, are actually all about popularity now, i mean, not always, but often, it's about who do you want to have a beer with? who do you like, who you connect? i mean, it's presidential elections have to a certain degree always been about vibes. And this is odd because it's very rare when you have a republican strategist waxing poetically about how likable the other side is. So this is a difficult situation for j. D. Vance, but there's another challenge that j. D. Vance has, which is that he has only spent one to two years in government and prior to that, he was a fake venture capitalist and an author and tv. I'm not he wasn't even a tv person. I'm not sure exactly what he did but he has very limited credentials to actually be the president united states. This notion that he will be any barack obama. I mean, i mean, you know, we what people's resumes i don't think we we've seen someone with this limited government experience other than of course donald trump, and we see how that worked out. So the idea that somehow j. D vance will be able to go on the offensive about expertise in the public sector is completely false. He will be on the defensive when it comes to who has the harder bar, higher bar. I think i think i think governor walz faults both of them have to do no harm because trump has such a low ceiling and high floor. I think j. D. Vance, if you were to have an abysmal performance, would would not hurt donald trump as much as waltz's miserable performance would hurt kamala. I mean, he really does because hamas is not defined yet to most people. And by the way, i mean, we do this every day. Most people aren't tuned in yet, folks and so i think a really terrible performance on behalf of governor walz would would help kamala issue to finds herself and presents herself to the american people. I think the stakes are higher. So isaac, i want to go back to what i played a few moments ago was trump calling harris cognitively challenged on social media, which is just the latest in what he said in the past few days about her intelligence. Here are a few examples joe biden became mentally impaired kamala was born that way never you think? think about it only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country. There's something wrong with kamala and i just don't know what his but there is definitely something missing. She is a stupid person, stupid person isaac from your reporting and the harris campaign do they plan to respond to these attacks? do they think that they are landing on fertile ground in any way? or are they going to ignore it? they are largely going to ignore it. If not completely the way that they have responded officially is by saying trump going into these attacks shows that he's got nothing else to offer to voters. They also one of her spokesman said earlier today, it's part of trump's insult comedy tour. But beyond that, when they really talk about how while this might affect voters to the extent that does he say, look, this is the kind of rhetoric and that kind of behavior out of trump that even republican voters tend to say they hate. And especially when you're looking at those voters who are people who voted for donald trump in 2016 and for joe biden in 2020. And who are undecided now we especially among women to hear him saying she's stupid, she's mentally impaired. This is a turnoff and it's the sort of thing that they hope will, if anything, just get be another thing in the bloodstream to turn voters against mr. Michael what do you say when you mean nikki haley said the same thing is to stop stop with this, right? that we just heard. Got former governor hogan and senate candidate from maryland what what do you how do you respond to this? and is there any world in which you say, okay, as a republican, i'm okay with trump saying this sort of thing. I really strategically the question becomes, if you are not performing as well as you need what a certain percent of the population, especially a critical group of the women as in women, what should a candidate do to change those dynamics down? the former president has a very, very slight advantage with white women, but the vice president has improved the point of margins of president biden. If you're seeing some real competition there, and i'm looking at a place like pennsylvania where some of those suburban women are going to be fundamental to whomever for ultimately wins as state, there. My advice for the former president is, is this the best critique of the vice president and the policies thus far are the policies if she were to win, that will move some of those voters to your side. I think the answer i