The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Tonight, the final sprint to Election Day, the first mail in ballots go out this week as the Trump Campaign plans to ramp up attacks on Vice President harris. Why some republicans want him to stop the personal insults. Plus, where the polling stands just nine weeks out in this tight race. We have experts standing by. DemocratS Put reproductive Freedom Front and center in florida. What voters there are saying about it is the 11th Hour gets underway on this Tuesday Night. Good evening. Once again, i am Stephanie Ruhle. It is great to be back with you because we are now just 63 days away from the Election Day , but just three days away from the first ballots going out. North carolina starts sending out mailin ballots this friday and early voting in the crucial State Of Pennsylvania starts in less than two weeks and right now, political insiders are using words like dogfight to describe the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump. Recent polls show harris with a narrow lead on trunk nationally, and the race is even tighter in key Battleground States, the ones that decided all her polls are showing a virtual tie in many of them. At thiS Point, republicans are going all in on one strategy, to bring down harris instead of trying to prove their Candidates Likability with voters and remember, that key debate is one week away from tonight. My colleague has a closer look at where the race stands. Reporter tonight, the final stretch of the 2024 president ial race is underway. Vice president harris is set to return to Panel Pennsylvania on thursday campaigning with President Biden there just yesterday. Donald trump is trying to pull us backward including back to a time before workers have the freedom to organize. Reporter former President Trump will be in the State Tomorrow after holding a rally there just days ago, blasting harris for changing her position and now opposing a fracking band, a Key Industry in pennsylvania. The people of pennsylvania are smart. Hmmm reporter later in the week he will head to wisconsin in North Carolina. The first General Election ballots will be mailed out this friday and a razor thin race. She has a backbone like a ramrod. She has a moral compass of a saint. This woman knows what shes doing. Today the former president of the trail but on the attack. I dont know how people can vote for somebody that is destroying our country. The inflation, the bad economy but to me and away the worst is what theyve allowed to happen near our border. The next major milestone in the race, next weeks debased debate. The Harris Campaign Official tells her she will continue Debate Prep in pittsburgh while former congresswoman Too Gabbard is helping Trump Sharpen Policy Attacks but Tonight Harris Team is still calling for a change to the rules. During the last debated a request by the Biden Campaign mics were muted to prevent interruptions. Now, the Harris Team wants the mikes unmuted at all times. Its going to be a show but lets get smarter now with the help of our leadoff panel. Ive been out for weeks, ive got to get educated. Susan gloster is here. Dave weitzel joins us and aaron haynes, editor at large and msnbc political contributor. People are Plugging In post Labor Day. I am one of those people. We are two months out and it seems more and more likely that this is going to be very close until The End. What can you tell us . We are all Plugging In, but the good news, as you said, is that it is a short sprint to the finish line. In many ways this will be the shortest general Election Campaign any of us can remember. American campaigns of been getting longer and longer but because of this years unprecedented event in the summer at least it will be a short campaign. The truth is that the map is still the map and democrats have changed their candidate, but what they have not really changed is the battleground. They have brought some states back in the play that looked distant for Joe Biden but they were states he won in 2020 and now essentially we are looking at the same six or seven competitive states that are the competitive states in 2020. Those are the states that are going to decide it once again. Im really struck by the fact that the polls essentially have not changed very much since The End of the convention. Right now harris is leading trump as the previous two democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton or leading trump at Labor Day but they ended up finishing the race with a much tighter margin than the margin that they had on Labor Day so i think that is why everyone is anticipating its going to be another too close to call finish for the selection. Dave, what are you saying across the country both in the president ial race but also the race for control of congress . Yes. Im in North Carolina right now for the race for governor is not the race for congress but it looks quite a lot like 2022 with the addition of trump voters to turn out so we have not seen any deterioration in the democratic position since harris joined the ticket certainly and you are seeing the world organizing for trump in reaching out to voters who are not engaged in 2020, maybe were never engaged before podcasting, things like that. He has never run against a candidate who is able to draw enormous crowds. It actually has not been an issue for him before. [ inaudible ] hes also got an opponent who is gotten more popular since entering the race. The Vice President has favorable ratings and you do see that if you go around the country where people were funding for Joe Biden but were not engaged there, democratic enthusiasm has turned around. Donald trump is not really talking policy or plans. I came back thinking, lets go headtohead and show her platform versus his but really, he has spent the last two weeks just going after her trying to drag down vp harris. What do you make of the way she and her campaign have dealt with the attack so far and how its going over with voters, undecided voters specifically . I think what we have seen is Vice President harris brushing those attacks aside and dismissing them as a distraction while she continues to lay out her vision for middleclass americans and also continues to draw a contrast between herself and former President Trump. Even though this is a short campaign season, she is still trying to introduce herself to the american people but this is also a very long election season. There is no such thing anymore. Its just Election Day. As you said, those early ballots are going out, so she is out there. She has this reproductive Freedom Bus Tour happening in florida this week as she gets ready to go into this debate or she continues to make the case against Donald Trump but his campaign certainly wishes he would be speaking to issues like immigration which we know is an issue that americans care about, like the economy, like fracking which is an issue to voters in places like pennsylvania and yet that is not what he is talking about. Hes continuing to go to thiS Playbook of Racist And Misogynist tropes that frankly are not really lending on Vice President harris because she simply not entertaining them. Lets talk about the debate. What is this fight theyre having about open mics versus closed mics . This is a good example of be careful what you wish for. I think the Biden Campaign found out, to their Detriment Back in june, that actually providing guardrails for trump that were enforced is not necessarily a good thing if your goal in the campaign is to show Donald Trump unhinged and then dont provide the means of locking him in. That is what happened. The Harris Campaign, learning from that biden experience in june is now saying let Donald Trump, if he wants to make a fool of himself on national television lets make sure he can go ahead and do that and i think they are banking on the idea that Donald Trump cannot control himself, that Donald Trump will come across as mean, nasty, berating and even possibly outofcontrol in the way many people think he was in the first debate with Joe Biden back in 2020 so that is the argument they are having right now and more broadly, it speaks to probably the mindset of harris and her campaign going into this important debate next week which is that they need to somehow make sure that it is Donald Trump and his behavior and his fitness for office that somehow is the center of attention in this debate. Joe biden of course was at the center of attention in the first debate and it ended up taking his campaign but now they want the scrutiny to be on trump in his fitness for office and i think she will be focused on doing that, not just with the rules on the microphones, but how can she poke and prod at Donald Trump in the effort to show him to voters is out of control . I do expect that is what you will see from the Vice President in the debate. The former president went on a Podcast Today and spoke about what he considers to be his debating prowess. Watching this bit. Ive done a lot of debating. [ inaudible ] my first debate was the rosie odonnell debate, the famous rosie odonnell debate. But ive done well with debates. I mean, i became president. What are your thoughts on his assessment of his debating skills, aaron . I think he has been somebody who has had success or at least come across as the victor in previous debates and i think that Vice President harris is certainly remembering the 2016 debate when he was literally stalking Hillary Clinton on stage and she even described that behavior as weird even then, right . But i think what we have seen Playing Out, especially on Social Media is the Vice President clearly getting under former President Trumps skin as he has been posting on prosocial about her anything for them, if that is a dynamic voters can see Playing Out in real time on a Debate Stage then that is a victory, as well as whatever points that she can get across in terms of the policy she iS Planning to implement should she be elected president but in terms of the tactics that he has used in prior debates its unclear if our weather is going to be able to be successful against Vice President harris in that setting because up to thiS Point he really has not figured out a strategy for how to deal with her as an opponent. Dave, it may be a very short sprint but it is not stopping at the candidate from spending. Both sides are spit set to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the next few weeks. Does any of that change votes in Ad Spending . Its good to be saying this because from the Trunk Campaign from related attacks the republican messaging has been about crimes, the names of victims of crimes blamed on Kamala Harris policies as District Attorney or the Border Policy of the biden administration. Democratic messaging is entirely about spending and inflation. They are really talking past each other when they have the money to go on the air and another child here is that democrats are vastly outspending republicans in a couple of states. North carolina right now, and wisconsin you can see republicans have made a large bet on pennsylvania with that kind of messaging. This is messaging that worked in the state before. It almost worked against Joe Biden who had Closer Richard and Kamala Harris does but its actually true on the ground. The Conversation Trump House is a podcaster may change from day to day. He may veer into whatever topic is on his mind, reminisce about 2016. All money is going into advertising trying to drive down impressions of harris before voters take a good look at him. People there actually telling you . You are in North Carolina and we know what the candidates and their campaigns are saying on the airwaves. What are voters telling you . There actually is some joy [ inaudible ] but really talked to democrats two months ago, talk to them today confirming that democrats are unenthusiastic On Biden and enthusiastic on harris. People are also essentially worried about trump coming back in the office. Again talked to a sample of voters who were out to hear a democrat very worried about rights banishing, very worried about lgbt rights banishing, abortion been banned in North Carolina where theres a conservative candidate for governor who has said he wants to shorten a 12 Week Band and with republicans ive talked to Voters Today [ inaudible ] the last election that communism could be on the way [ inaudible ] and that she might be radically leftwing and drive the country into a depression. Ive heard thiS Previous cycles with republican voters but it was such a calm her mood a month ago when they were confident Joe Biden was going to be a nominee and a lot more panic ive heard in Panic And Fear [ inaudible ] immediately of harris wins for republicans. None of that panic is rooted in truth. These are Conspiracy Theories being pushed by far right groups, none of which has any connection to the truth. And there are some specific things that conservative voters ive talked to, yes, they worry that it will happen because theyve heard about it happening somewhere else. Whether that is connected to reality [ inaudible ] Donald Trump was talking about gender policies in schools, Gender Visibility and schools and what he was framing is that kids go to school and come home with a gender operation. Thats not what is happening and that is an example of the fear i do hear from republicans on the Ground Organizing and what is motivating them to come out. They really thought the election was going away, that they felt confident about is going toward someone they do not do very well in Kamala Harris. In many ways they are often very false [ inaudible ] spreading about the Vice President today on Social Media that i saw before the story. By the time i saw the been debunking it had been shared by 1 Million times for there is a lot of disinformation. The Trunk Campaign is again when a House Money focusing officially on her actual record on crime, expanding her role in various criminal policies to blame basically all crime on her but under the surface i am detecting more worries about harris that are not based in reality. Well, perhaps those republican voters should be most worried about the republican campaigns that are lying to them. Susan, dave, aaron. Thank you for starting us off tonight. Before we go to break, i want to check in on trump media stop. I was not here last week but i was watching it. Dj t, trumps Media Company closed the day down more than 7 . Zooming out of it, it is down more than 60 over the last three months. At one Point Today the stock dipped below 18 for the first time since it began publicly trading. We are now of course just weeks away from Donald Trump being able to cash in on his nearly 59 stake in the company, the company that essentially does nothing but provide a blank slate for him to Social Media post, the agreement to hold off on selling will expire later this month as the president ial race is in its final stages. As of today, Donald Trump stock, despite it being down 60 , is currently worth more than 2 billion, so many people to consider this to be the most extraordinary workaround of a Campaign Contribution to one Donald Trump and if you sell it and you take a loss, guess what. You can write it off. And it was not just a bad day for dj tea. It was a rough day across the dow, the nasdaq and the S P all having the worst day in nearly a month. Wall street will be keeping a very close eye on the new jobs report coming out friday morning. We will be watching that, as well as trump Media Stock Everyday here because we want you to know what is really going on. 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