New york. Nine weeks to go until election day, folks. Nine weeks until today and one Week Today to what may be the only President Ial debate to transpire between donald Trump And Vice president Kamala Harris. And then, of course, the start of the socalled final sprint to election day, which finds two President Ial diameter rickly opposed, polar opposite camps. She wants to turn the page on a dark and dysfunctional past decade in politics, her campaign has been met with obama levels of enthusiasm among voters, her rallies drawing massive recordbreaking crowds, her campaign enlisting an army of volunteers, racking up endorsements from all across the political spectrum, as politico reports today, quote, the Vice President has flipped the enthusiasm gap, the Money Gap and the Polling Gap in her favor in the six weeks since she replaced president Joe Biden as the democratic nominee. Now, the other person on the menu behind Door Number two, a candidate who is unable to land on an effective line of attack, who has resorted to personal smears and misagonistic attacks, and a man who thinks his rants are, as you sees it, bursts of rhetorical brilliance. He calls it the weave and not the deranged tirades of a man who is a friend of this show, is in the last stage of his political life. He finds himself embroiled in one disqualifying moment after another. The latest political stunt that shows nothing but Disrespect And Disdain for veterans and their families. Voters views of trump are so toxic that his campaign has to admit that. Theyve reportedly given up and even trying to revamp trumps image at all. Its not one of their goals. Washington post reports this, with little proof of improving trumps standing, trumps advisers see the only option is damaging hers. Kamala harris. Its in that context that we have to cover these next 60 days, right . Its in that context that the campaigns are preparing for the next debate a week from tonight. Or, rather, only One Campaign is preparing for the debate, Donald Trumps. Telling nbc news, unlike Kamala Harris he has a command of the issues, end quote. Team harris, on the other hand, is reportedly buckling down for full mock Debate Preparation and prep. While Harris Team is preparing to talk about a variety of topics, the campaign very much views the optics of the debate as critically important. To that end, the source said, harris and her team are focusing on homing in on how to needle trump, to rattle him. In that sense, the source said it will be less about substance and more about showcasing harris as a woman who isnt scared, who wont cower, standing up to trump and holding him accountable. Its something shes prepared for her entire political career. Our democratic party, unfortunately, is not the party that is of, by and for the people. It is a party that has been and continues to be influenced by the foreign Policy Establishment in washington represented by Hillary Clinton. Thank you. Senator harris, any response . Oh, sure. I think its unfortunate we have someone on the stage who is attempting to be the democratic nominee for President Of The United States who during the Obama Administration spent four years full time on Fox News criticizing President Obama, who has spent full time thats ridiculous. Spent full time criticizing people on this stage as affiliated with the democratic party when Donald Trump was elected, not even sworn in, Buddied Up To Steve Bannon to get a meeting with Donald Trump in the trump tower. Fails to call a War Criminal by what he is as a War Criminal, and then spends full time during the course of this campaign, again, criticizing the democratic party. Susan, this is important. I want to add mr. Vice president , im speaking. I have im speaking. You have 50 more seconds and then well give the Vice President a chance thank you. I want to ask the american people, how calm are you when you were panicked about where youre going to get your next roll of Toilet Paper . How calm were you when your kids were sent home from school and you didnt know when they could go back . Critical next debate as the next big event in an historic and, frankly, unpredictable 2024 Election Campaign Season is where we begin today with some of our most favorite reporters and friends. Former senator, cohost of how to win 2024 podcast claire mccaskill, host of the upcoming podcast in sync with Alexei Mackanin and publisher of the bullwork, Sara Longwork is here. Her group has a brandnew multimillion Dollar Ad Campaign out. It is absolutely smoking. Well show it to you in a couple of minutes. But i want to start with you, claire mccaskill. On the state of the race and what your thoughts are about how we cover these next 60 days. I think its really important that we not cover trump on what he calls Kamala Harris. Because his only Campaign Strategy appears to be to denigrate her, disrespect her, along with hosts of other people, including women in this country. I really think she has figured out something really important. That is deprive this guy of oxygen. Dont engage. If he wants to get out on the Campaign Trail and talk about his tax plan, if he wants to talk about what he is proposing for this country and he says it with any shred of truth, then he should be covered like a President Ial candidate. Otherwise, he should just stay in his Golf Cart eating cheese burgers. I think thats where his campaign wants him because he isnt even campaigning this week. I think they figured out, we cant shut him up, so lets shut him in and make sure he stays on the golf course. And, you know, covering the fact that hes not working at this, covering the fact that hes lying is very important. But acting as if theres some false equivalency between what Kamala Harris is campaigning on and about and what trump is campaigning on and about doesnt serve this country well. Claire, as we head into this week before the debate, what your thoughts about what birch about what will be contrasted before the american people . You and i have had a lot of these conversations on and off tv. I think its important that we sort of show how we grapple with them. Ive spent i said this to someone today. I spent nine years orienting myself, especially after the Dominion Trial and we saw the Inner Workings of Fox News, what they were doing was obviously operating as an arm of the trump candidacy. If they showed trump, i didnt think we should. Ive had strong views about platforming him. When they shut him down and the minute he talks about Wind And Gas and whatever else hes blurting out, i wonder if we should be showing people that. What are your thoughts about the most basic Coverage Decisions we make over the next 60 days . I think its hard. I do think its hard. Fox has been cutting him off because hes gotten boring. He loses his crowd about 60 minutes in, even though the most diehards start wandering away because whatever he calls it, and, frankly, allowing him to call it the weave is so silly. Its not oratory, its crazy town. They start wandering away after a while because its boring. His Act Sara has said this, i think, very effectively. And im stealing a little bit of her stuff here. We all are at this point. His whole act has become very tired. And i think fox is cutting away because its boring. We should not cover him when hes doing nothing but spewing lies. We should not platform that. If he wants to come on and do an interview, i think that would be one thing. If he wants to talk about policy, that would be another thing. But it is it is very hard decision when a major Political Party has nominated this guy. There has to be coverage, but i think we have to be careful how we do it because we promote something that is not really in the countrys best interest if we treat him like hes a normal candidate, because hes not. One of the heartening things about all of your data and research and, i, do, find myself quoting you on and off tv, is that the voters see it. They see him as not having any interest in their lives. They are aware of his criminal record. The Character Stuff has caught up with him without ever uttering the word character. And i wonder what your thoughts are about these final 60 days. Let me make a robust case for platforming trump. In this moment look, he is the nominee of the Republican Party. And i think in some ways Thats Case alone. But ill tell you, i think its really important that voters see trump often unfiltered because heres a thing i know from doing Focus Groups every single week, maybe multiple Focus Groups for over the last mou many, many years, which is the more voters see of Donald Trump, the less they like him. When Donald Trump is less visible, his Approval Ratings go up. When he is more visible, his Approval Ratings go down. We want the american people to see him in his rambling, insane glory. The fact is, kicking him off twitter and shunting him over to truth social has essentially protected a lot of its protected trump and its kept a lot of voters from seeing i mean, if you were to take a spin through truth social, sometimes people grab one or two Screen Shots and they report on them, but if you just were to look at it as an average voter, you would say these are the ramblings of a deranged lunatic and america needs to know when theyre getting when they elect Donald Trump. When i listen to voters, theres a little trump amnesia. When trump says, were you better off four years ago . The answer is, no, we were stuck in our houses because you mismanaged a pandemic and lied to everybody about what was actually going on. I mean, people have to see what they would get with a second term of trump, which is somebody who is now going into 2024 much older, much less tethered to reality, much less good at articulating his positions on things. So, i say let Trump Cook and let the american people see him because the more they see him, the less they like it. To that point, he is let me just let me do what sarah is suggesting. Let me show you some of his Greatest Hits in debate moments. Its just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is want in charge of the law in our country. Because youd be in jail. We need to put more money into Social Security trust fund. Thats part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy. My social Security Payroll Contribution will go up, as will donalds, assuming he Cant Figure out how to get out of it, but what we want to do is to replenish such a nasty woman. You want to call them give me a name. Give me a name. What rue proud boys proud boys. Stand back and stand by. To sarahs point, hes not gotten better at that. And, i mean, we could have done that for 20 minutes. There was talking about blood coming out of megyn kellys eyes and other places. Theres telling the extremists to stand back and stand by, which they did, to tragic consequence on January 6th. And this may be the only debate. So, all eyes will be on Donald Trump a week from tonight. Yeah, and those clips are a great example, while not comprehensive, as you mentioned, of why he and his team are insisting that the microphone should remain muted. They know he cannot control himself on his own and that his normal behavior is that of an erratic person who is willing to not just say something to interrupt or counteract the other Persons Point but to denigrate them and to make fun of them or belittle them oftentimes. I think its likely we will hear some sort of sexist or racist attack against the Vice President at this debate. You remember the mabj conference. Trump couldnt even handle a black female reporter asking him a question about his own words without having a meltdown. I think we will see almost the exact same situation, just by way of having a strong black woman standing next to him, going Toe To toe with him, and not showing shes afraid of him and his socalled locker room talk. You know, claire, someone said to me today that the most Damage Harris does to trump is ignoring him. That her answer to Dana Bash in the interview about his racist attacks on her, saying, same old playbook, next question, is the Thing And Trump said the same thing. His nephew said the worst nine days of his life are the worst nine days of Kamala Harris candidacy when there wasnt any room in the News Cycle for his bizarre rants and ravings. How do deploy that on a Debate Stage . First of all, she has to do what she does very well. That is pivot and punch. She is a you know, i have to giggle whenever anybody says she needs a script. You know, if youve done courtroom prosecuting, if youve actually looked a jury in the eye and been responsible proving a case Beyond A Reasonable Doubt to put somebody in prison and remove their liberty in this world, then you have to think on your feet because theres no script. You dont know what witnesses are going to say. You dont know when objections are going to be made. She knows how to think on her feet. She knows how to pivot and punch. Shes going to need to use her sense of humor so people do get this sense that while shes strong and tough, she also can be selfdeprecating and she can have joy in her heart at the same time and be easy to live with for four days in your living room. Thats the kind of balance she has to walk. Im confident she can do it. Im confident she can get under his skin because she can be dismissive of him. She knows how to do that. Ive watched her do it in Hearing Times on many, many times on committees weve served on together. Sarah, do you think i think you can ask Brett Kavanaugh or Bill Barr or Jeff Sessions how she did questioning them without a script. I mean, is that a model for parts of the debate . What do you think they should deploy next Tuesday Night . Look, i would like to make a case for substance. I saw that quote that you played kind of at the leadin about how shes going to focus on getting under her skin. If i were her, look, this is your chance to really introduce yourself to the american people. They still dont have a Firm Grasp on who she is. And so i think its really important that she is strong talking about policy. People want to know what she stands for because the thing about rattling trump, trump will rattle himself. Being on the stage with her will cause him to be undone. She doesnt need to do anything to get under his skin. She is under his skin. I mean, this is a guy who i think Cant Figure out how to deal with her. So, if i were her, i would focus on showing that you have a strong command of the substance and let trump do what he did in his debate like he did with biden in 2020 where he just howled at the moon like a lunatic. Ill tell you, i remember doing Focus Groups after that. That was the time that voters said, you know what, this guys out of his mind. And i think thats who trump is. So, shes got to show people that she is shes ready to be commander in chief and this guy is just a crazy man barking from the sidelines. Youre right, to the degree of where the most effort goes in, trump does a lot of that work for her. I have A Million more questions to put to you. When we come back, ill show you the latest Campaign Messages from sarahs group. Its a huge multimillion Dollar Ad Campaign of Reformed Extrump voters talking about why they changed their minds. Well talk to her about how her group intends to change more minds with nine weeks to go. The fight against Abortion Bans in our country. Why it is not and should not be a womens issue. How more men are feeling comfortable speaking out and working to make it a valid issue and a Voting Issue this november. Well talk with the founder of a group doing just that and leading the charge. Later in the broadcast, Donald Trump bringing back all the hits for his third run at the presidency. 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