Happy friday. Its 4 00 in the east. And we head. Were counting down to a night of dualing rallies out there. Kamala harris and Tim Walz are heading to the Sun Belt for a rally in arizona. While the disgraced, fourtimes indicted expresident finally leaves maralago, where hes been holed up all week to head to the not known to be battle theground state of montana. Well talk about Split Screens around here, but this might be the ultimate political Split Screen News cycle. One side is executing political strategy through Battleground States, while the other has been mostly out of sight this week. Hanging out at maralago. One Side Offering powerful, infectious, joyful, warrior vibes. The other offering whatever they call Donald Trumps rambling, liefilled, divorced from Reality Message yesterday. To i say nothing of the glowing enthusiasm, Tonights Rally in arizona caps off a week of Rock Star receptions for the democratic ticket. Every Battleground State they have set foolt in from pennsylva
Good evening. Good evening and thank you for allowing me to take another week of vacation next week by jumping into the seat next weekend getting us through the week. It is always my pleasure, my friend. Viewers dont always love it, but i try to hold it together. Your team does an excellent job. It is always a pleasure to be with them. I am one of those viewers. I love it and all the rest of them do, too. Thank you. Donald trump announced today that he is flipflopping on the abc debate which he agreed to and then set i cant possibly debate because i am suing George Stephanopoulos and then he flipflopped today and said okay, i will debate Kamala Harris on abc. Typical Donald Trump at absolutely no comment from the reporters were allowed to throw questions at him today about how could you possibly flip flop like that . Well, it was 2016 All Over Again today. Donald trump spoke at his home in florida for over an hour and all of the Cable News networks including this one carried it live. J
Kamala harris will be a formidable contender. People are fired up. They are excited. 106 days to go. We can do it. She is primed and ready to take over as the leader of our country and she will be the one to keep Donald Trump out of office. John democratic lawmakers rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris after President Biden made the stunning decision over the weekend to end his candidacy and adores her to take the reins. The monumental shakeup all happening just 15 weeks before election day. Im John Roberts in washington. What a day it was yesterday. Sandra absolutely appeared 15 weeks. Here we go john. Good to be with you. I am Sandra Smith in New York and this is america reports. Heres the cover of the new York Post today. It says the end. You will remember it was his disastrous debate to performance that ultimately sent his Reelection Campaign into a downward spiral. He was forced to step aside after weeks of sustained pressure from his own party. John now its all lies and K
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Apparatus. Get walked through some polls, walked through some data. All of it, again, meant to be part of the reassuring process. We are now squarely in week two of this, though. There are senators who say they wish all this happened sooner. There are senators who badly want to be reassured. I think thats the thing here. Everyone wants to be reassured. Theyd like to come down on the point where they can say President Biden is the nominee. Were just not there yet. Significant day. The lunch with senators and top biden advisors, nato, and then the 5 30 p. M. News conference. Correspondent ali vaal tee, vitali, thank you so much. Thank you for getting up Way Too Early on this thursday morning. Morning joe starts right now. While congressional democrats are conflicted, we got a clear Message Today from our nations most powerful democratic leader, George Clooney. [ laughter ] george wrote a New York Times oped titled, i love Joe Biden. But we need a new nominee. Adding, we need a money guy,