joining us tonight. you can follow me on facebook, instagram and twitter and tiktok. i m jake tapper. our coverage continues with the strong laura coates and the mighty alisyn camerota, as i head off on this thirsty thursday to do what i do best, sit at the kitchen table and drink. i know you saw. well laura, i think we re gonna have to really step it up with the superlatives. one time i carried you and now you re strong. i don t need a superlative. i don t need hype girls, i m good. he s just young. have fun with your bourbon, we will see you later. good to see you ladies. and we re keeping the conversation going tonight, good evening everybody i m laura coates in washington, d. c.. and i m alisyn camerota in new york. this is cnn tonight. we re here with our panelists across the political spectrum. one team here with me and the other team, the right one, in washington, d. c. here with me. and after we get started to look at two key states that people have been
Hit herschel walker as good as he could ve. he sort of pivoted away from his own policy of abortions instead of saying who knows what you did, we know that you have an absentee father. we know you have not been around for at least three of your children? i think to be completely real, a lot of us were saying and watching say more. he was definitely taking the higher ground, michelle obama approach. this is a pastor, he was being very respectful. but by not being, direct it made it seem as if herschel walker was more authentic or genuine, more than advocates in this way, even though he hasn t said much about his policies or what he is really going to do. i don t think the window is closed, but i do think that gap that we saw at the debate had to initiate some sort of action after it. i think to your point, reverend warnock is more comfortable being a positive messenger so when the campaign puts out ads, it s not necessarily the rhetoric lambasting someone is just standing six feet a