could speak all afternoon about the person that i am standing on this stage. >> harris and joe biden appeared together at an event for the first time since his exit from the 2024 race ahead of harris, his first major economic address set for today since she became the president presidential nominee. plus just three days away from the democratic party's biggest stage where kamala harris will officially accept the nomination to lead the ticket and then a pollster, well-respected by republicans, frank luntz is here to talk about the bolton enthusiasm for kamala harris that he sees changing the race all. >> right 6:00 a.m. here in washington live. look at the white house on this friday morning. we made it. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you

republican presidential nominees stood next to a table of groceries including ketchup, bacon, coffee, and a certain cereal the unions are real. >> wow, school lunches up 65%. how can a family afford that? but look at this over here. what a nice job i think i'm going to take some of them back to my cottage and have a lot of phone like the cheerios, i haven't seen cheerios at a longtime i'm going to take them back standing in front of his bedminster golf club in new jersey. the former president repeated his now common false claims about inflation, immigration, and the results of the 2020 election as well as his legal cases. and when asked about calls from his fellow republicans to focus on policy instead of making personal attacks against harris. here's how he answered a very angry at her that she'd weaponize the justice system against me and other people very angry at her i think i'm entitled to

personal attacks. i don't have a lot of respect for i don't have a lot of respect for her intelligence to whether the personal attacks are good or bad. i mean, she's certainly attacks me personally. she actually called me weird. is weird. it was just a sound bite. and she called jd and i weird. he's not weird he's now cleared trump's remarks, coming just hours after joe biden and kamala harris made their first joint appearance since the president exited the 2024 race. >> but two walking out to bruce springsteen's, we take care of our own before promoting the administration's new agreement to lower the price of ten top selling prescription drugs used by medicare now medicare can use that power to go toe to toe with big pharma and negotiate lower drug prices thank you. joe that welcome from a

friendly crowd for a man who decision to step aside has polls show dramatically improved democrats chances of keeping the white house in november. >> harris didn't mention in trump. but for president biden, personal insults we're not off the table and not a single republican voted for this bill, period now won the entire congress reason i say that is not to make a political point about them if they've gotten lesson, but guess what? but they want to the guy we're running against, his name donald dump for donald whatever happened to when they go low, we go high joining me now to discuss elliot williams, cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor annie linskey, reporter for the wall street journal, mike dubke, former white house communications director for president trump, and karen finney, cnn political

commentator, former senior adviser for hillary clinton's presidential campaign. >> welcome to all of you. thank you so much for being here. >> so elliot we did see president former president trump on message yesterday on inflation and that he was standing surrounded by these groceries. he did talk about it. however, the event also went on and on and was filled with well beyond what beyond that, the personal insults saying he's entitled to make these personal attacks at clearly, it was designed to inject him into a new cycle that otherwise likely would have focused on president biden kamala harris what did you see in that event and how it played out yesterday i think i continued lack of discipline from the former president in many respects, a lot of the conditions in this election ought to be around or favor the former president. >> looking at where the economy is, where voters sentiment is how people feel in america right now, when he has gimmies like this to just stand there

and talk about the economy where a few minutes he can't resist the personal attacks that many people four around the country seem to be tired of at this point. and so i think you'd use the term unforced error or i heard it at one point in the program, but i think that's what you're seeing again, mike dubke mean, where do you come down on on this because there's clearly this tug of war going on between in some ways, it's trump's own campaign, right? i mean, they are trying hi to you, flash to the price of milk in 1992 and how that became a central thing, right? like you standing there with maxwell house and folgers and cheerios and all the things that yes. are way more expensive, like people are expensive inflation is a huge issue, right? >> to be focused on. but this reminds me of a job interview when you're interviewing somebody and you oh my gosh, this is the right candidate for this job in the first 45 minutes of that interview. and then they keep talking, keep going on. >> that's that's actually three, john. >> i'd ever done it and then you get to the point of all,

maybe not. >> so i think if the press i'm going to join when all of the other allies of the president to say, let's focus on the biden-harris back a history here, because that's a winning message for the american people. and when you get into the personal attacks, i understand why he feels like he can go there he just doesn't need to go there. >> can we just take a pause? so this was supposed to be about middle-class people on the struggle with of everyday americans in front of a country club that very few americans can actually afford to be at and with all the groceries there, the thing i kept thinking was has he ever been in the grocery store? when was the last time i can tell you if vice president harris actually goes to the safe safeway on wisconsin? probably not so much anymore now that she's at the top of the ticket. but people would see her. >> there was sort of surprised. she doesn't use instacart came through security right she

actually likes to walk down. >> i know she's that's that's just how she does are shopping because she cooked sunday meals. so my point is just she grew up middle-class. she understands from a personal experience, what people are facing and for donald trump, it has to be in a notebook that he reads but no one is reading out. my colleague, greg abbott, just wrote this wonderful, wonderful column pointing out that whatever grocery store donald trump is going to, they are really ripping him off. he's taking that like the price of bacon has gone up by 70% yes, the price of bacon has gone up, but it's not by 70% and donald trump is saying that he's paying $5 a gallon for gas. well, guess what? the price of gas is actually about $3 a gallon. so far that takes just being a journalist here as day. the facts are facts hello, campaigns exaggerate. people certainly are fine. >> she is being ripped off by his bushy slightly. >> i'm going to take issue with

that because the cost of everyday goods has gone up. >> i haven't come back down, but not 70. >> when you look, actually, there are starting to go back down meeting cnbc last night and they were showing a number of things that are starting. >> they are not backing down. >> where are they? we're prior to biden-harris taking over the administer administration. well, the women have seen record inflation and while it has calmed down, the american middle class is paying vastly more now for everyday goods and they did before if that is a fact i'm just being so we can he can't divorce that fact from the other fact that we had a global pandemic and that impacted supply chains. then russia in eau on my finished, then russia invades ukraine. both of those facts have also impacted and the million dollars that this administration injected into the economy, which was that people go off the cliff. he had already put 1.1, 0.2

administrations started at was 1.2, and then you have the biden-harris administration coming in with an extra two. >> guess what, when you flood the market with money, it has inflationary aspect what? >> what is the difference in your view between biden and the way voters view him in the economy. and harris, because we are seeing those numbers change harris their campaign took heart from an ft poll that showed them basically even her a little bit ahead the pbs poll, we can put up the difference. it's not huge, but clearly voters trust her a little bit more on the economy than they did. joe biden, it's within the margin of error instead of outside the margin of error why is that? >> why, why in your view, do voters think that she's better at this as much as you will continue to hear me. another republicans say biden harris-biden, harris-biden harris, or if they don't shame on them, they really should the biden administration had hid this vice president for three-and-a-half years yes,

they did. i mean, if we really if we're talking about if we're having this conversation prior to june 21 in that first debate there was not a lot that the biden administration gave the vice president to do she is a she is not. i don't want to say she's an empty book to the american people. there are certain things that they know about her, but she has the ability now and this is a great advantage of hers through been through the announcement and the vice presidential pick. and now we're going to have for days of love in chicago the american people are being introduced to her for the first time. i explained, i explained those numbers to a great extent by the fact that she has benefited from the fact that the biden administration didn't utilize the vice premier president very often in the first three-and-a-half years ago, you talked to the reporters who covered her. they would agree with me that that's a misstatement because the people who covered her were on the road all the time with her as she traveled across the country talking about the biden-harris administration,

once she could once she didn't have to in washington to break tag i just just to frame it as a question to you, where other than dick cheney, would that not be the case for any vice president i couldn't i couldn't answer that. >> i think you're absolutely right. >> right. i mean, i am not saying that this is not trying to relegate this standing trial absolutely. and she benefits from it. >> i'm i'm actually saying yeah, there is a lot of benefit that she is accruing. you've asked me about the numbers. i think those numbers are because the american people are finally they don't paint her with the same biden-harris brush that they shouldn't say that. >> i'm republicans were focusing all of their attacks on joe biden, right? >> and so there is an impact of that. and i think that's what you see in the numbers, is that bidenomics, the biden economy. thank you, joe. i mean, there were all of these. there's all of this messaging that was absolutely know, focused completely on joe biden. and now that he's not there anymore see that harris did not she was not painted by that brush by the republic. >> i mean, i'm at the point

where we need to have a laundry list of all the reasons why a 100 day campaign benefits kamala harris ordinary political parties he's gonna do this in the future but again, england, it's what is it like six weeks alone, why they didn't even have six weeks yeah. >> i mean, it would be it would be great for my general health a lot more time unlike other things, but rationally speaking, there's no reason why candidates need to run for office for two years. >> and this is not what i love america and how we do things here, but it just doesn't need very competitive. >> cannot ask people to put them those people. >> i know down i mean all right, coming up next here on cnn this morning, president biden debuting a major new agreement on drug pricing, how that might affect the race for the white house. >> plus michael smerconish joins us live to talk j.d. vance, tim walz, upcoming veep he debate and would have gone who's really think of the new trump versus harris contests?

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and we can't forget how then vice president biden described that landmark health care legislation seven years earlier now, 14 years later, biden is still championing the affordable care act and still going after republicans for trying to reverse it. folks, there's more my predecessor and his maga friends in congress try to repeal the affordable care act, which is a different obamacare tried to repeal it over 50 times we stopped along the way. i make the affordable care act even stronger president biden and vice president harris announcing a major new agreement to lower the cost of ten popular drugs commonly used by medicare patients i'm going to keep the affordable care act unless we can do something much better, we'll keep it. >> it stinks, it's not good. if we could do something better, we're going to do something with it all right, it

also comes at a critical moment in the presidential elections, something that trump seems to recognize based on the rhetoric from his own speech. >> she yesterday we believe deeply every senior no nation should be able to live with security, stability, and dignity and so in the united states of america, no senior should have to choose between either filling their prescription or paying their rent all right, the panel's here. >> i'm actually want to play again what donald trump said in asheville, because i think it's extraordinarily interesting and seems to suggest a major shift on the part of republicans. let's watch it one more time. >> i'm going to keep the affordable care act unless we can do something much better, we'll keep it. it stinks, it's not good. if we could do something better, we're going to do something with it i mean, wow, mike this is what people have been telling republicans they should do the whole time, right? >> like you need to have a replacement plan if you're going to get rid of this but now he's saying we're going to

keep it. >> i what i heard him say is we're going to come up with a better replacement plan. what did you hear that's what i'm saying. like he's finally listening or were going to unless we find him better replacement. >> but all i keep pretty well. hold on. that's a big flip-flop for donald trump to say we're going to keep the affordable care act. i wish you would have to say obama care would just tell him from the inside out. but basically neutralizes this significant line of attack that democrats have been able to rely on for a long time. >> you know, the problem with this is that i don't think the majority of american people healthcare is an issue that democrats crowds tend to pull better in terms of who do you trust? i don't think the majority of american people will trust that he means it, given how many times republicans have tried to repeal it or replace it with something that would be awful. so he's going to have to say, since we're all into like let's talk about policy, let's say our policy plans. great. let's hear from him specifically. are you

specifically saying you're going to keep it or specifically when you're going to do instead. >> yeah. well, still going to say just take this off the table. >> i mean, it's nice bit about his campaign as it's we've had this argument over and over and over again and it's kind of nice that this piece at least looks in this a short period of time, will be a debate that doesn't have to be rehashed i feel like i've been covering the affordable care act for the entirety of my political journalism career. >> all right, straight ahead here on cnn this morning, a typhoon is barreling toward japan with winds north of 100 miles an hour and it's basically tokyo on high alert class, another massive zoom we call for the harris campaign. this time featuring jewish women voicing their support for the vice president well, it's been said that jewish women are known to speak out and tell you what they think. >> and i'm one of them i'm so tired of hearing trump put down america five good things.

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news for you. for me or saturday, september 14th at nine on cnn cnn news central next now the kamala harris is at the top of the ticket, all of a sudden, energy is exploding around the dnc as one organizer put it before it was going to be awake. now, it's going to be mardi gras yeah. yep. >> it's good to be mardi gras. just don't ask chuck schumer how he got all those beads democrats. >> preparing for an exciting dnc next week, boosted by a flurry of new polls that reveal a close race and a sharp 39 points spike in enthusiasm among democratic voters since president biden's exit from the race last month. and for some voters who once had no plans

for voting for joe biden-harris they say represents an alternative in a once stale race seeing harris is like gives me an actual option. >> it's more of an issue with donald trump. and the options that are now available. i would not have voted for joe biden. >> i switched because perez is a breath of fresh air, totally different brent from what we have seen so far, its newness and change that is needed all right, joining me now is the person who conducted that focus group. >> the very well respected pollster and communication strategist, frank once frank, i'm so grateful to have you. i maybe shouldn't admit this publicly, but i was once in some of your focus groups as a student at george washington university today, so i have been a longtime admirer of viewers, and i'm very grateful to have you here and i know this enthusiasm is something that you have really focused in on as kind of these central change to the race that we have seen here. what did you learn from these voters in this particular group? and what else should we be watching here

well, first i need to apologize because if you are in my focus groups, as soon as gw, i must have been my yelling face voters to tell me the truth, to speak up and speak out. now i think i had to do it in a much more quiet and respectful fashion. >> you never scared me. it was all good i even scare you. >> i'm still i'm sure i was improper accept my allergies and matter most and that intensity is number one because that means a joule get your polling numbers. it's one thing to support a candidate it's another thing to take the time and go out and vote for that candidate after the republican convention, donald trump was going to convert every supporter into a voter and it was very questionable whether joe biden would be able to do the same now with harris on the top of the ticket, she is converting more supporters and to actual voters than even trump. that significant second

is that the voter pool has changed younger women who are opting out because they did not want to vote for someone 80-years-old are now absolutely excited and energized about this year and the focus group. and they can't wait to participate. and that's going to have an impact. not there's something presidential race, but on senate races as well as more traditional democrats, comfortable. and third, they really want to know where harris stand. this is the one place where she may still be week on issues like inflation and immigration donald trump's still has the advantage if he ran an issue-based campaign, he can win if they want an attribute based campaign. >> she went it seems strange that trump is only talking about attributes, not focus on the issues just why she's going to make economic speech today. frank, we saw that event from trump yesterday, where his campaign was clearly setting him up to do exactly what you're talking about, right? he was next to groceries that

have clearly risen in cost, but instead, he was saying things like, i'm entitled to attack kamala harris. how do you think in your experience how voters reacted to moments like that from trump expected, but it doesn't mean that they appreciate it and they're going to vote for they've known donald trump since 2015. they've not known vice president harris she can be defined, which is what trump is trying to do the problem is, where's the campaign is focused on substance? and where she's changed your point of view, trump is focused on insults. if i advising image, i'm not i would look him straight me eye and say, sure. you need to shut up. you need to stop behaving like a petulant child and start focusing on what the american people want in a way that they want to hear it. look, if it lsu every time you had me on, you'll stop having me on and you stop listening. trump doesn't understand that. people have to tell him the truth because at this point,

she's gotten her convention bounds before the convention. and i think harris could have a five or six point lead coming out of that convention if donald trump continues to behave the way that he has frank, do you think there's anything they could take kamala harris down kind of off of this high because i mean my experience covering campaigns can pay every campaign has tough moments, right? >> they all do it's, it's inevitable and the question is, how do you handle them when they come? this is a campaign attempt to pull together really quickly. clearly, they're not necessarily, and they haven't faced something like that before. but that said it is such a compressed time period. i mean, do you see a coming back down to earth? and if so, how well it's going to be in the debate september 10, it's going to meet the debate around the world. loved the issue right now is donald trump reminds women of their first husband there has first husband, divorce lawyer. its, he's got a problem in how he attacks and how he presents himself. and i assume that his

campaign is telling him this for her. she's got to show that she's got the answers that she has the solutions, and she's not extreme this is the one thing i hear my focus groups. a real concern that her politics, she's in california she did not even make it to the very first caucus she participated in the debates and did not do well. so voters are asking themselves, what's behind the arra, what's behind the persona? they liked the persona. they don't know the details. and the next 80 days that's exactly what you'll have to provide. are they centrist or they mainstream or are they extra? that's your challenge? >> yeah, really interesting, frank, before i let you go, i also want to ask you about speaking of how voters perceive extreme situations are views or not you ask these voters about j.d vance, who has had something of a rocky rollout in the wake of his selection at the republican national convention. i want to play a little bit of what some of these voters had to say to you and ask you about take a look

when he chose j.d vance, it kind of pushed me over to having an open mind i switched because j.d. vance scares the heck out to me. and the job is just a little bit too old did j.d. >> vance the selection of j.d. vance hurt trump's nomination i went knew at the time the things that he had said in the past, he is a mini donald trump prepared to say anything and everything to kevin to get an emotional reaction. is debate is october purse. and the challenge for him versus criminal law, that governor walker, it's going to be a good even though he's north midwesterner and then she's going to have to find some way to differentiate themselves without being negative. i really want to emphasize and other interviews coming to an end that the public is frustrated and angry about the

personal attacks, wants a different approach going forward. just because it worked in 2016, does not mean it will work in 2020 it really, really very interesting perspective, frank, i'm so grateful to have you. i do hope that you'll come back and join us again soon. thank you all right. >> now this donald trump looking to make inroads with jewish voters with another event combating anti-semitism the event featured megadonor, miriam adelson at trump's private golf club in new jersey. the former president's remarks included false claims about his opponent, kamala harris the toxic poison of antisemitism. now courses through the veins of radical democrat party and instead of expunging this hatred, kamala harris is pandering to it. he wouldn't even meet bibi, wouldn't talk to him all right. >> that last part, not true if vice president harris did meet with israeli prime minister when he with the israeli prime minister when he was in dc last

month, the thing i want to send kind of zero in on here is the what was really going on here, mike, and andy, i'm interested in your take on this too, which is at the new york times had reported over the weekend and that there were angry text messages sent to miriam adelson, who is a critical part of the republican kind of financial landscape of her late husband, sheldon adelson kind of created this universe and he especially focuses on israel. israel, jewish causes in the republican party they had previously said that these angry text messages were sent. they complained that the people running mrs. adelson's super pac, which was at the time on the air with $80 million a week of ads helping trump the text said that the officials running the super pac were rhinos republicans in name only, and that they basically dishonored sheldon adelson's name. i mean, it seems like he's trying to fix that with this event. right. did he do that? >> well, i think there's only

one person that knows if he fixed it with this event again, this is kind of where we were talking about earlier in the program the fixating on the people rather than the message. i think misses the point. so if the $18 million a week was delivering a message that was working, i don't there who's delivering it you know, that it should be which are focused on message shot messenger. >> that's where the idea of has sending insulting text messages your largest donor, i'm not quite sure what you're what the strategy is behind that. i mean you know, this is not the first time there's had to be some sort of clean up between adelson and this ticket, the washington post reported about text messages that vance had sent to a, as republican troll that were insulting to mr. adults and it was really, you know, yet again, there was a little bit of a makeup calling. >> this is a mega supporter of israel who understands and is supportive of trump because she believes that he is going to be better for israel than the vice president that's the bottom line. that's all that needs to be conveyed.

>> no need to be made not at her. i suppose in your view okay. when cnn this morning continues, michael smerconish joins us live because it's friday. >> we're going to get his thoughts on the two vp picks and how they're working out so far plus the current sitting president meeting with an actor who played a president on tv there's a promise that i ask everyone who works here to make never doubt that a small group of thoughtful and committed citizens can change the world you know why it's the only thing that ever has cnn is live from chicago as democrats unite to offer their support to a new nominee and her running mate fellow cnn for complete coverage, the democratic national convention monday at seven on cnn and streaming on bat. >> no water john, we will hold

town for long-lasting arthritis pain relief she grew up in a middle-class home. >> she was the daughter of a working mom, and she worked at mcdonald's while she got her degree kamala harris knows what it's like to be middle-class is why she's determined to lower health care costs and make housing more affordable donald trump has no plan to help the middle-class just more tax cuts for billionaires. been president is about who you fight for it. and she's fighting for people like you and kamala harris. >> and i approve this message. >> the tempur-pedic breeze make sleep fuel cool. so no more sweating all night or blasting the air conditioning because the temper breeze feels up to ten degrees cooler all night long, don't miss our biggest sale of the year with savings up to $700 it wasn't unselect adjustable mattress sets. >> i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if your age 50 to 85

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martin sheen at the white house. sheen, of course. and this one's for the millennials played president jeb bartlett in the nbc show, the west wing. it is unclear why she was there, but speaking to reporters, he called biden one of his heroes four suspects were arrested in the killing of former general hospital star johnny wactor. wactor was shot and killed in los angeles in may during an apparent catalytic catalytic converter theft three of the suspects, all 18, were booked on suspicion of murder five people have been charged in the 2023 death of actor matthew perry. it includes two doctors perry's live in assistant and a person referred to by authorities as the ketamine queen the friends star drowned at his pacific palisades home last october. his death was attributed to the acute effects of ketamine elliott. this is like a devastatingly sad story this dot one of these doctors the investigators, red text

messages calling him a moron because of all of this ketamine that he was taking the defense that they seem to be out there with. is that eventually he became so addicted to the ketamine that he had been prescribed, that he started getting in on the street and then ultimately that was what killed him but it really is a portrait of people who are, were just taking advantage of someone in a really horrible situation a few things, it's not just calling him a moron. >> the line from the, from the text message was i wonder how much this moron will pay. and the great tragedy and it all is that he did, matthew perry did have treatment for ketamine from a physician at regulated doses and under the law, you have to have a defibrillator there and other things to make sure that if somebody has an incident that the doctor can treat them, he wasn't getting enough and then went off-label in effect and went to these unscrupulous folks, even the ketamine queen quote, unquote, hold her. attorneys pushed back

on the use of that term, but went off label to these folks. who provided him with a tremendous amount of ketamine sort of a tranquilizer amount of the drug. and facing, now they face up, one of them faces up to life in prison for this, given the seriousness of how much they put in his body. yeah. >> really, really sad and horrible his family has said, they look forward to seeing justice play out. >> all right let's turn back to happier topics. >> the 2024 campaign they have white guy tacos and manet's tune out. >> what do you doing? >> much ground beef and cheese that's okay. >> yeah. put any flavoring i know. >> here's the deal know they said to be careful and let her know this that black pepper is the top of the spice level in minnesota, you know okay, we're going to come back around to that with our panel in a second, kamala harris and tim walz leaning into the minnesota governor is midwestern dad vibes in a new video last night as the two seek to frame their campaign as the underdog walz

though, is facing fresh criticism over how he wants portrayed a dui charge that he received nearly 30 years ago. >> cnn's kfile reports that as a two 2006 congressional candidate, walz's campaign repeatedly made misleading statements about this incident, including telling the press that he had not been drinking that night, claiming that his failed field sobriety test was due to a misunderstanding related to hearing loss from his time in the national guard. and it walz was allowed to drive himself to jail that night, none of which was true with us now, on this friday, cnn political commentator michael smerconish she is the host of cnn's smerconish, michael, thrilled to have you as always. let's dig in here to these questions about the running mates and what we are learning here about tim walz and what he's saying and he clearly he's getting this this is his first real vet on a national stage. and some of it's not standing up to scrutiny. it seems to me so i thought the dui issue was a

really significant and serious issue. >> i know that republicans have spent a lot of time talking about the alleged stolen valor. my own opinion for what it's worth having studied the facts is that there's no there there walz spoke sloppily, should not have represented a role that he had as having been a permanent role when it wasn't. but the dui story is is indefensible kasie, you and i know a thing or two about congressional campaigns. they're very small, they're very tight. there's usually like a paid campaign manager and a paid spokesperson and that's it. so the idea that this came from his spokesperson and it didn't come from him. i don't buy it. and the idea they tried to lay it off on a hearing disability from the national guard service through the spokesperson, while denying things that the kfile investigation proved to be inaccurate, i think is a real issue for him in the end, it's going to be about the top of the ticket but to me, the dui is bigger than the stolen valor allegation, not because of the drinking but because of the

lie. >> how do you think the harris campaign should be dealing with this right now? >> full-on and it makes me wonder whether in the vetting process maybe this is as a result of the expedited nature of her ascendancy as the candidate. but it makes me wonder how much they really knew about it. i'm sure they knew of the dea wi but it makes me wonder whether they were aware of all the underlying facts to the extent that the kfile is very interesting. so let's touch on j.d vance then briefly because he actually has significantly higher unpopularity numbers, unfavorable numbers than tim walz seems two, i don't know if this is a reflection of just his his rollout and how people have have perceived him since then, or if this came into play beforehand. but what do you make of how he has been received? because we were talking to frank luntz earlier in the show. and there were a number of voters who had switched from trump to harris or at least they had switched to voting for harris, who

mentioned j.d vance as one of their issues so i guess not as many red hillbilly elegy or watch the movie as i anticipated because i thought he entered the whole process ahead of the curve, having some type of a narrative or definition that was favorable instead, it's the catch that lady comment that is probably top of mind for those americans who are aware of j.d. >> vance. so they've done a terrible job enrolling him out. and maybe the trump campaign, as i assumed, thought, americans knew that narrative and would view him more favorably. >> yeah. >> so michael, before i let you go, let's talk for a second about donald trump, who has conducted a series of media events over the course of the last few days has gotten a lot of advice from republicans about how he shouldn't be doing some of the things that he's doing. what is your view of all of that? >> he's intent on a campaign of self-immolation. i don't get it. he's all about motivation and not persuasion. anybody remember the days when you

tried to persuade undecided voters instead of just rallying your base when he refers to the vice president as a bum, as crazy as stupid, or as a lunatic? he's pitching to the base and he's not winning your old neighborhood in the philly burbs nor mine. i don't get it all this narrow casting everybody knows he has a ceiling. what is it? 45, 46%. and when you don't have an effective third party candidate and we don't in this race than he really tapped out and yes i don't understand why he's not more concerned about reaching suburban women obstacles remain for kamala harris to be sure because she's not yet been battle tested, but i don't understand his visceral angry reaction from trump when he said yesterday, i'm entitled to personal attacks. what's he talking about? i don't understand. but look, he's defied all logic in the past and maybe this will work. i just don't see it we'll have to we're about to find out if

there is a very compressed short election periods. i'm michael smerconish, always so grateful for your perspective. cnn, alright, thank you. >> don't forget to tune in tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. for smerconish, it's right here on cnn we are now of course, just three days away from the start of the democratic national convention, democrats politico's across the board heading to chicago to roll out kamala harris's at presidential nomination after the whirlwind past several weeks, upended the race for the white house president joe biden, who just a month ago was planning to accept the nomination him self is instead going to speak on the first night of the convention. here's our friend and senior cnn senior political commentator, david axelrod, describing what that moment could be for democrats well, i think emotionally for the people in the room, it's going to be very important. there's a lot of there's a lot of love and affection and appreciation for joe biden, and there's great appreciation for the difficult decision that he made yes, he expected to be speaking

on the fourth night and he expected it to be his convention and, it's not going to be. but in making the decision he made, he breathed new life into the democratic campaign alright, panel is back. >> i actually can we go back to the the, tacos to, i want to talk about you know, what it kind of plays into, you know, we're seeing a completely different dynamic from what we would have seen. i mean, can you imagine the sort of the way the democrats had approached it when biden was at the top of the ticket, it would have felt a little bit more like a funeral. i think the convention or it could have certainly that was the vibe i was picking up from a lot of people who worked inside the party when i was talking to them as he was trying to make this decision. instead, it is set to be this celebration of these two two taco eating this connection doesn't work, but yeah, you take my point, karen? that it is it is it is very changed

situation. >> it is. i mean, look, there was a plan initially to use the convention as a celebration because actually people are excited to be back together because we couldn't be together in 2020 and i know there's a lot of people i'm looking forward to seeing then i didn't get to see four years ago. so that was going to be part of it and talking about joe biden story. but it has shifted in that now it's an opportunity this amazing ark of history where you have president biden speaking, you will have hillary clinton speaking, you will have baraka bama's speaking in terms of passing the torch you know, i think that we have to acknowledge that barak obama's candidacy, hillary clinton's candidacy the and the presidency obviously brock obama, i hope to lead to this moment that gives us a kamala harris as vice president and i, and people are excited and lastly, i'll just say is what we're seeing on the ground and

in the data that i'm looking at there, yes, there's a portion of the electorate. they're just don't like donald trump. but there is genuine excitement about kamala harris, and that is going and i keep saying the democrats be joyful because we are in at the time, could they, could they not get biden to speak on sunday because they tried to move them as far away from that last night as they possibly could. i guess he said no this sunday you got to kick off. the no. i think if they actually wanted to pay the respect that you just talked about, they put them on wednesday or you give him own night? >> i give him his money every convention. >> monday is the night that she put out the people you have to put out now and then get down the line. you go to thursday about how we're and that's why i guess look at it. well, i will i guess sunday was off the table. >> i was hoping to give one of you know, we're approaching 7:00 a.m. very quickly. >> thanks to all of you for being here this morning. >> i really appreciate it.

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