I melissa Murray Filling in for my friend ali velshi, who has the day off. In just a couple of days, Harris And Donald trump will finally meet Each Other in person for the first time. The two candidates have never even spoken to Each Other before. But on Tuesday Night they will go headtohead in a 90 Minute Debate in philadelphia. The debate will certainly highlight the campaigns, Contrasting Visions For The Future of america. And as you imagine, they are preparing for the upcoming meeting in very different ways. Harris has been in pittsburgh since thursday where shes doing Debate Prep with a little campaigning on the side. Yesterday the democratic nominee visited a local spiced or where she met with workers and patrons and bought seasonings but most of her time in pittsburgh has been spent inside a hotel where shes been huddled with a team of advisers hitting ready for tuesday. Harris hasnt participated in a debate since facing Mike Patton during the Vice President ial debate four year
Welcome to welcome to primetime weekend. I m rachel maddow. Let s get right to the week s top stories. The past 24 hours have been a microcosm of the race. Kamala harris and tim walz doing the standard campaign work for a major party candidate. They kept an even keel at the sitdown interview last night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there, honestly stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in masses of its own making including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting through it. The fallout continues from trumps a political photo op and campaign commercial on tiktok at arlington national cemetery at the beginning of the week where he gave the thumbs up over the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of this. He cut a video blaming their deaths on democrats. Now, his campaign is openly doing battle wi
I will see you tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. We will be back next saturday and sunday at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Prime weekend is next. Welcome to primetime weekend. I am rachel maddow. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. The past 24 hours have been kind of microcosm. Kamala harris and Tim Walz are doing the Stander Campaign Work for any major candidate, and even keel with a major interview Last Night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in misses of its own making, including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting from it. The fallout continues from trumps political fallout in Campaign Commercial on tiktok at the in Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week where he gave a thumbs up at the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of these, blaming the
Week when i had a little bit of a bug. I really appreciate it. You are welcome and the best news, you ve gotten better, so you have a great labor day weekend. Thanks, chris. You know, labor day weekend, it s finally here. The next three days are the time when americans everywhere try to get the most out of their summer. Maybe squeeze in one last cookout for beach trip before the weather gets colder and everything starts to taste like pumpkin spice. But in an election year like this one, labor day weekend also marks the moment when most americans really start to pay attention to the presidential race and for the campaigns this is a moment when every detail starts to matter. Vice president kamala harris and her running mate tim walz are coming off a two day bus tour through southern georgia. The first democratic campaign in that part of the state since 1992. Last night the vice president sat down for her first major interview since becoming her party s nominee. She defended the record of
Today and onehalf twist. Where does the former president released dan on abortion what he said, and what voters could make of it. Keeping them honest. Also tonight that vulgar post he spread online about sex acts. Kamala harris and hillary clinton, because running mate was asked about it and how he tried to explain it is causing fresh up. Later. All we re learning about the tragic killing of a star hockey player and his brother by a suspected drunk driver that very night for their sister s wedding good evening. Jim sciutto here sitting in for anderson, the former president will be speaking tonight at the moms for liberty convention here in washington that is the rightwing group which got its start pushing to restrict sex education topics in schools and banning books on gender and sexuality from school libraries. We begin though, keeping them honest with the not the former president has just tied himself into over abortion for the first time either, and potentially not without electoral