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thursday, august 22, right now on cnn this morning say it with me. >> we're not going back tim walz headlines night three of the dnc rallying democrats with personal stories of his middle america roots plus kamala harris speaks tonight in historic fashion as she will be the first black woman and first asian american to lead a major party ticket. and let us not forget who assaulted democracy on january 6 he did democrats put trump's role in the january 6 insurrection under the microscope at the democratic national convention and then let us choose common sense over none since oprah winfrey delivers her call to independent and undecided voters to back kamala harris

all right. it is just after 5:00 a.m. here in chicago, illinois, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. a live look at the united center right here in chicago. of course, the home of the democratic national convention. it is quiet now, but a big night tonight. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt it's wonderful to have you with us the fourth and final day of the dnc begins kamala harris prepares to make history on that stage behind me and become the first woman of color to accept a major party's presidential nomination it's been a pretty continue as party here in chicago last night, musicians, john legend and sheila e performing a tribute to prince they were just two of the many

celebrities who appeared to help introduce tim walz former players from the high school, where he wants coached, not celebrities were onstage as he was formally nominated and walz introduced to himself last night to americans on his biggest stage yet with personal stories, including his family's experience with infertility it took when an a.i. years, but we had access to fertility treatments in one our daughter was born we named our hope goss and gwen, you are my entire world. and i love you i have to, say i mean, what an emotional moment there that was walz, his son gous crying, shouting. >> that's my dad. his sister, hope was they're also crying. and those signs in the crowd, they read coach walz you know,

you might not know it, but i haven't given a lot of big speeches like this but i have given a lot of pep talks so let, me let me finish with this team we're down a field goal but we're on offense and we've got the ball. were driving down the field. we got 76 days. that's nothing. there'll be time to sleep when your dad we're going to leave it on the field. and as the next president of the united states, always says, when we fight fight fight fight to god and now of course, all eyes turn to kamala harris, who in just hours will formally accept her, party's nomination for the

presidency. >> we'll have to see if there's any surprises in store for tonight's program. we had one last night let us choose loyalty to the constitution over loyalty to any individual let us choose the sweet promise of tomorrow over the bitter returned to yesterday let us choose on. >> honor. and let us choose joe let's all choose kamala chicago certainly wonder why they didn't save her for the introduction for last for tonight. but anyway, joining me now to discuss kate bedingfield, cnn political commentator, former biden white house communications director of bakari sellers, also cnn political commentator and former south carolina state rep shermichael singleton, republican strategist, cnn political commentator, and mark mckinnon, former adviser to

george w bush and john mccain. of course, the created their of the circus on showtime is here. thank you all for being here. i have to say that moment with tim walz's sun. can we put gous backup? i mean, it i feel like it really stole the show last night and it said so many things about about tim walz, about his family in this moment, this if for those who don't know, he struggles with disabilities, has been struggled with nonverbal autism it just really, really moving i've teared up every time i've seen a clip, i tear up thinking about the clip i mean it's i mean, talking right now but i'm watching it. >> i it's fair that's so relatable. >> i mean, how many people in america have challenges of some nature? almost all of them do. and it's just so relatable on it's so authentic. yes. >> that's the i mean, like if

you've first of all, if you aren't moved by that i don't know. you got a heart of stone. i mean, if politics aside like that's it, man, like family in that way is just unbelievable but it is also, it is about authenticity and i think we saw that from walz all night last night. i mean, i think we saw that in the speech he delivered. we have a seaside in the setup, the students talking about him and authenticity is is one of the most important pieces of successful indication and i just think, i just say quickly though the frustration with washington, the disaffection, the disillusionment, some of it is because people feel like the system doesn't work for them. and some of it is because they feel like so many people in washington are phony yeah. and i think that what walz can get was able to what we saw him do last night and what he's going to i think continue to on this campaign is just connecting people in a real, when i got the job as doing the media for bush in 2001st excited than petrified because it was such a responsibility. i went back and studied media for presidential campaigns, going back to the advent of television in

different things happened over time. there pollutions are things that work and didn't. >> and i just got to a point where people were so cynical of anything political because they know there's a first amendment, you can say whatever you want, it doesn't have to be true politicians are paying for it. >> so the coin of the realm really to break through that as authenticity, right? and i'm telling you in all my experience, i have never seen anything as authentic as that speech live that's not wow, that is a reasonable thing why he got chosen. i mean, i think to go back to one of the what an affirmation of that choice. i mean, she had to kind of go out on a limb on that, right. i'm excited waltz got him excited but no, i think that kamala harris, his first choice was to choose her vice president of the united states or first consequential choice. >> and i think the people are seeing eye to i told what everybody frankly, governor walz was my fourth choice. yeah. like mark, kelly and josh shapiro, pete buttigieg, all before i like to yes, it was an abundance of riches. but i think you see why he was chosen

as that authenticity. that's my dad is probably going to be like the number one line that sticks out from all the speeches and it wasn't a speech like guts is an american hero right now. >> i mean, don't you just hope that your kid looks at you? yes. yeah. i mean, i think i'm hey parents every every child. >> i mean, yes, that was that is the goal, man. that is winning. that is i mean, given tissue everything else aside because that is winning and he has never used a teleprompter before that's not believe that the two things i don't do well. >> and when he was going through this process, he said, i've never use a teleprompter before somebody is going to have to teach me and i don't debate well, this winds up that if he did he did his thing last night and i think that when people see that and i was concerned because you have a high like we had on tuesday night with barak and michelle

obama, you know, to the greater, greater there are pieces of oratory you'll ever see. you know, how do you follow that up as a party, right? how do you how do you not have a night that's a dud and governor walz, he came through i got to stop you from john legend, please don't want to say district strategically speaking. >> moments like that as republicans attempt to define harris and walz is most just americans according to data, don't really know who they are. when you have these types of moments, i was sort of cemented in crystallized visually for maybe the few folks in the middle who are kind of undecided on the fence at humanize as a person it's relatable. and so when you're trying to draw that contrast, if you can, if you can make some type of an emotional attachment smith an empathetic attachment to figure it really makes it more difficult to negatively draw a contrast hundred percent person. so i just wanted to draw that assessment there. you're absolutely correct. i think i think both of you guys on that's how didn't say well, this morning are very correct in the analytical way that you have to approach you, how you, how you draw these contrasts

the flip side of this is that democrats have done a hell of a job of framing j.d. vance and molding him into this individual who poses some level of authenticity. and i don't know if it's fair and i don't know j.d. vance, but who do you want come to thanksgiving? >> j.d. vance, tim walz, i think, you know, i hate this question but if it's a question that's asked all the time, i think the american public today, if you asked 80% of them, like, do you want to have a beer with j.d. vance or do you want to have a beer with tim walz? i think he wins that now. >> i don't know where you end up on policy, but a lot of elections are won on that v word that i hate to talk about. but it's one own vile. >> again thousand we did the focus groups and voters lined up nine out of ten on key issues with four. and we said who you want to have a beer with 100%? a fair test is important and i would say it's a testament to walz and harris campaign. >> the harris-walz campaign, because republicans did try to come out of the gate pretty

tough on tim walz mean they tried to the question is military service? i mean, it wasn't it was not for lack of trying. but, you know, walz really was able to navigate that effectively. >> and it's going to be a lot harder now. well, they're still trying to do it too. >> i will say mark when i was on set last night with chris wallace, he made this point saying that like the degree and the ways in which they're trying to go after tim walz, mean this letter that came out from military members in congress questioning his service, et cetera. show that they're worried about him? yeah. >> yeah. yeah. yeah. exactly. if if you want to know where they feel vulnerable, just look where the attacks are common. >> yeah. and we've talked about beer. i also wonder if we should have a glass that, you know, who do you want to have a glass of wine with, right? because like let's look at what oprah speaking of jd the vance had to say because the thing that has broken through even to oprah winfrey, which tells you where her viewers may be on this is of course, the childless cat ladies reference watch we don't have the childless go at here it's coming. >> i'm told it's coming

patient's case. >> patients, at least mike pence was polite j.d. >> vance is one of those guys thanks. if you don't live the life that he has in mind for you, then you don't count senator when i deployed to afghanistan, i didn't have kids done many of the men and women who went outside the wire with me didn't have kids either, but let me tell you, our commitment to the future of this country was pretty physical okay. >> so our control room was up late last night. sorry. >> we don't have that, but oprah did talk about the childless cat, ladies situation with j.d. >> vance, which just i mean, it shows you how far that has broken through with people, like not everything does right. like plr. >> in many cases, not paying attention, but it seems like for a lot of people think the one thing about j.d. vance, they know that he said that. >> yeah, absolutely. because it's i mean, look, first of all, it's something he said. i mean, it's his words which is

usually helps a line of criticism get more traction when you can just point to, this is what the person said, and you don't have to just take the word of whoever's trying to make the argument. that it's what they meant. i mean, he said it and it's also it's just it is such a divisive thing to say. it's like it is almost, it's unnecessarily rude and divisive impersonal. and i think that that it tells you a lot about both certainly how he views policy as it relates to women, but also just the kind of person he is just a natural thing to say. and so i think that's also why it's gotten so much traction. >> that's why 50% of the american population that he's attacking you. yes, second 50% of the american population then you have kamala, who's worked at mcdonald's and it's one and eight people in america, they've worked at mcdonald's one in eight people in today i looked it up technically, we need more people to work at chick-fil-a because their services immaculate, but that's i was going to say

though that this i've been watching the way that republicans have been approaching the harris-walz ticket. >> and it's i don't want to use the word weird, but it's fast. it's fascinating because they literally have launched more. it's in walz. and they have it kamala harris they have attacked tim walz more than they've attack kamala harris ics point, they're worried and i don't i don't i don't necessarily understand that the attacks against commonly harris and more like spaghetti eddie against a wall, they're all over the place. they led by their lead by donald trump. but the attacks against governor walz are like these letters that precise, they have ads, they have people coming out and saying this and that. and the third, and i just it it's interesting to see because his approval rating is still so much higher than jd vance's shermichael. >> why do you think that is? >> i mean, look, i think that republicans do have to focus on the vice president i think the ethnic she's woman ethnicity

rather she's woman. i think that does make it a little more difficult. i mean, i think a lot of voters have been skeptical of the gop for quite some time on the issue excuse of race. and so i think that may be a part of how do we go after this candidate without that appearance. and i think republicans would be smart to be aware and cognizant of that. but i will say this on the issues and places like bucks county, erie, pennsylvania alizarin county, those voters, there are worried about cost of goods they're worried about how much it costs to put food on the table, gas in the tank, and all of those things are up over 20% of republicans can stick to that message and continued to remind voters in states such as pennsylvania, where there are now more registered rs and ds for the first time required some time, then i think this race will continue to be competitive of leading up to november. >> well, that's such a riff, i would say that it's such a reflection of how completely donald trump has co-opted the republican party, because to your point, i mean, there is an economic attack line of attack to make against know i would

refute it. we could go back and effort on it all day. right. but there is a substantive critique that you could make that you could argue would be effective. but donald trump is incapable of doing that because he sees a woman, he sees a person of color, any short-circuits. and the only thing he can do is go to this hatefulness and vitriol and you watch the republican party just follow him blindly and it's such an indictment of him, obviously. but of other republicans to donald trump last night, mark said quote, they always say, sir, please stick to policy. don't get personal and yet they're getting personal all-night long. these people, he says talking about the dnc, do i still have to stick to policy? yeah. really did not like the obamas. oh, i'm sorry. he said i hate them. i hit commoners. i hate i hate i hate, i hate all so dark. >> the thing that i've been really impressed with kate, i mentioned your take on this. >> the real challenge for harris is, how does she separate from biden? i mean, that's that's certainly a line of the republican attack in

time with voters want change, your kind of the incumbent. and so they had, i think they're doing amazing job. she's doing amazing job of you know, sort of patented on the back, but saying we're going a different way. the freedom agenda of separating from the pure democracy agenda, the joy yeah, component. i mean, she has really crafted her own message. yeah, without without dumping the boss, which has been very artful, i think i got marc is i referencing is this reporting from marc caputo who quoted a confidant. it it's quoted someone who says a trump confidant who says trump says, quote, this is just the way i am. i hate my opponent. i hate my opponent. hillary joke, kamala, it doesn't matter. i just hate them. and to another adviser, trump was blunt about taking on harris. i'm going to be mean i mean, but we're seeing time and again, people are over it. they don't want that. he had this kind of shock and all value in 2016 where he came on the scene and it sort of it you know, democrats were arguing it was hateful and divisive and awful then, but it felt different and i think that

was part of what was appealing to some people remember he but he also, let's, let's be clear. he also won very narrowly in 2016 i just i think people are over it. >> they're tired of it and i think kind of too mark's point, what harris is doing so effectively is presenting this forward-looking message. she's been in the white house for four years. she has accomplishments, talk about and she's managing to frame the race though as one of hope possibility change, which is typically a harder argument for an incumbent to make, and she's nailing it because people said hunter isn't make that argument when gasoline is up, 51% groceries, 22% eggs, 47% electricity, 30, 32%. how do you make that argument? the forward-looking america, when people were looking at these prices and realize i have less money in my pocket. >> i would argue because she has been really effective about telling people who she's fighting for and arguing who donald trump is fighting but they're not going to have about a half years though kate, those issues still persist, which should be the republican message.

>> that's person who is, running against yeah all right coming up here on cnn this morning, bill clinton makes his 13th dnc appearance delivering a speech he reworked in just days to try to match the convention's energy plus both for oprah winfrey with her pitch for a vital group of voters in november that democrats hope to win over. and this as the dnc comes to a close, harris will give the most important speech of her life as she lays out her vision for the future of the nation bad behavior should result in a consequence well, we will make sure he does face the consequence at the ballot box. >> tonight. cnn is live from chicago as vice president kamala harris delivers her acceptance speech on the dnc's final night. jake tapper and anderson cooper leads cnn's special live coverage. the democratic national convention tonight at seven on cnn and streaming on bat. why do nfl players chooses? remember

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cheers for the phrase in closing. let's flash forward to this year's dnc, former president clinton delivered his 13th speech, joe convention audience. he reportedly tore it up and started over on monday after he heard the first day of the convention and wanted to strike a happier and more joyful town. >> so happy when she actually enters the white house is president because she won't break my record as the president who spent the most time at mcdonald's he also. had some jabs aimed at donald trump now let's cut to the chase i am too old to gild the lily two days ago, i turned 78, the oldest man and my family for generation and the only

personal vanity i want to assert his arms, still younger than donald trump mark mckinnon what a pro not only was a really, you know, obviously successful president and candidate, he's a good political strategy. i mean, he's this guy on and i think the democrats owe so much to him in terms of the direction of the party when he kind of recentered with a new democratic party. i think i think the harris-walz campaign should look to those lessons. think about the sister soldier moment and make sure that european and he really had such a touch for middle america, right? >> listen i've. been echoing this a lot last night for people who may not know was i don't want to say an audition because you don't have somebody who was the 42nd president of the united states in audition, but we hadn't heard from bill clinton in a very long period of time. and the question was, does he still have it? because there are many of us who were talking to the people around kamala here harris and we're saying that the big dog we want

to, we want to bring them off the porch. we want to send them out there to pennsylvania wisconsin and put them on put him on a bus with josh shapiro and you know, have him in all these diners and stuff and that's what he wants to do. i mean, bill clinton wants to do those things and i think that this this is like his, one of his last two rods and i think it's so cool because of bill clinton and joe biden. and of course barack and michelle. but if bill clinton and joe biden can help usher in the first female president of the united states of america that says a lot for our party. and, you know, because hilary has done a lot of work in early, has done a lot of work and fannie lou, they've done a lot of work and ella baker. and when did a man gun help us chip away at this dam glass and so now that they're chipping away at the glass with them, i think that it's pretty cool if we can finally break it. what democrats have to realize though is we're still underdogs even today. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think he we saw in last night he delivers such an important message because he connects

with people who have, who became part of the democratic coalition in the 90s under bill clinton, who some who have moved toward was all move toward trump in 2016 as kind of, you know, as our politics is realigned and he showed last night that he really, he can't and really still connect with those folks and that he has a good sense of a message that works. and so i think it was to bakari's point, it's it's you see, everybody in the democratic in the democratic church standing up and singing the same hymn. >> way to sightings. well speaking of hymns, do we think that bill clinton can still do them? ocarina? right now we're an excuse to play this soundbite are literally weeks is it in there? >> i'm told? yes. yes. >> there it is i still do them ocarina guys up on this video tell me please tell me there are gnats. >> i think i remember the micro and all i could do the micro enough i could definitely still do them ocarina there it is.

>> now it's going to be stuck in my head all day mark mckinnon way does that hillary down there doing it? >> yeah. yeah. >> there she is. there she is. okay. i'm glad we moved on from this anyway, nine days may mark mckinnon, jay, our friend jmart wrote, i wrote this about, you know, to bakari's point about clinton quote, it's time to take the big doc off the porch and let him run. bill clinton should return to the campaign trail this fall duty does best articulate to americans why they should vote for democrats. >> i think this is sort of an all hands on deck party right now and they're like the tent is big, bringing them in and, you know, he's he's a hall of fame first ballot. bring him in because i think to your point, bakari, you know, he wants part of his legacy to be i mean, he wish it were hillary. yeah. >> great. if it's kamala and then he wants to be part of that. i mean, he's always been and about the history and making history and so he wanted he wants there's there's a question mark that i want to answer affirmatively there i love se cupp and she asked the question, she said, is there is there a voter out there who

does who does bill clinton talk to? >> and i'm like, there are people in this country over 60-years-old who still adorbs bill clinton. and i know he comes with a certain level of baggage or whatever that was. >> that was the harris people are worried about the quote-unquote baggage. no, i don't think worry about any of that is all hands on deck, which i'm a symbol the avengers. >> and also just say this, let me, let me just, let me be very superficial form of it. >> he's old. >> brooklyn is all i want to live that long one day. he looks old and i think that when people realize that donald trump is literally the oldest man, like you talked about george bush, bill clinton serve two terms. he's younger than donald trump, barack obama served two terms. he's younger then donald trump, the only president that is older than donald trump is jimmy carter. think about the fact that 82-years-old will donald trump's still be able to do the job is a fundamental question that republicans have their answer. >> all right coming up next after the break, democratic congresswoman chrissy houlahan joins us live what she thinks

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democrats leaning in to governor tim walz's military service record with testimonials last night from those who served with him despite accusations from republicans that he misled americans about his military record, walls and several other veteran democrats nevertheless touted their military service throughout dnc speeches and tried to you use it to push back against the republican critics everybody has a responsibility to contribute. >> for me. >> it was serving in the army national guard i joined up two days after my 17th birthday and i proudly wore our nation's uniform for 24 years. >> i joined the army when i was 17. in fact, i was too young to sign the paperwork i had to ask my mom is on the paperwork for me because i don't have bone spurs when i deployed to afghanistan, i didn't have kids done many of the men and women who went outside the wire with me didn't have kids either,

but let me tell you, our commitment to the future of this country was pretty physical joining us now is democratic congresswoman chrissy houlahan of pennsylvania, who herself is an air force veteran congresswoman. thank you so much for being here and you for having me so there has been this push against the vice presidential nominee, tim walz around his military service that republicans have tried to keep, keep going weighing even as democrats have tried to dispense with it. the most recent was this letter from 50 veterans in the gop conference in the house. they say until you admit you lied to them, there's no way you can be trusted to serve as vice president. can you just put in context for us and give us your view as a veteran yourself of what tim walz said about his own record and whether you feel there's anything there there is no there there and it's really disappointing that anybody who has served in uniform would malign another person who has done the same because so few of us in this

country actually do put on the uniform. it's i think supposed to be around 1% of us. and it is a commitment of service no matter what you do, whatever you job description is, you're still in uniform and you're still of service and i think it's of horned literally 1.2 malign a fellow veteran. i think it's also an indication generate genuinely of what they think is your strength. when i started running for congress, having never run for any office before, what tammy duckworth actually told me was, think of the things that you're most proud of, and those are the things that they're going to go after. and so i think that this is an indication that they're running scared. >> do you think how do you view the number of attacks on the weight of their continuing to attack? walz sometimes it seems to me and we were talking about this a little bit on the panel more aggressively than they're going after the top of the ticket in kamala harris, what does that say about tim walz is potential strength for the democratic ticket?

>> i do think they're running scared and i do think that they're kind of on their heels because i think that they're surprised at how rapidly the democratic party and independents and reasonable republicans have coalesced around this ticket. and so i think that they don't know what to do with themselves. and so they're kind of going out the tried-and-trued true success stories which have, have historically been after the vulnerabilities they perceive, such as military service. >> let's talk a little bit. about your home district which happens to be where i grew up as well. chester county really the heart of pennsylvania, the philadelphia suburbs, right? john king likes to talk about it a lot. i have seen the map of chester county several times in our coverage this week this is the entire election could come down to pennsylvania yeah. right? certainly the republicans are treating it as such. >> how do you think, what kind of job has the harris-walz ticket done so far in appealing to those voters, which strands from this convention do you think are going to resonate the most there?

>> and what are the challenges that you faced so i do come from chester county and live there for about 30 years so years. >> and i think that what my message has been for the last five or six years since the election of president, former president trump has been the resonating a message of this convention, which is civility and decency in a restoration of pride. and joyfulness. and i think that that's literally been the message that i've tried to lead with for the last five or six years. so the focus of chester county and berks county. my district is roughly 40 404020. democrats, republicans, and independents and yet we have been successful in electing a democrat for the first time in 163 years, because i hope that the message is a positive one. it's one if unity, it's one of pragmatism and practicality. and it's also one which i think you've seen here at the convention, which is one of hope and forward-looking happiness mark mckinnon, your question? yeah congressman josh shapiro, your

governor is obviously very popular in pennsylvania and a lot of very polite political people like me thought that that was would have been the best pick is there a fall off? >> i mean, what what's the what's the shapiro factor that he's not on the ticket and can waltzed make up for that. >> sure. i think, you know, pennsylvanians are enormous fans of governor shapiro. i am an enormous fan of governor shapiro and he would have been a very strong pick, but they had an embarrassing it's men of riches in terms of the number of people that they could have picked up at the second on the ticket. and i think walz's an amazing pick as well. he's he's a veteran as we've talked about in as well. he's an educator. i am as well. he kind of hits and ticks a lot of the things that people are looking for hope optimism, humor and pragmatist his them, he had served in a district similar to mine, which is a district as an i understand it, there was read for 100 and something years as well. so the parallels are kind of eerie in that way. and i think that it's a great pick. >> i think it was going to be a pretty strong surrogate. >> and clearly, he's come out

swinging. shapiro from the minute that that selection was made got the chance to be in the audience at the, at the rally and he was enthusiastic about that alarms woman what a second follow-up first of all, thanks for your service. i'm curious to get your thoughts on. there are several counties in your state where the number of new registered republican voters have increased. i was just reading something from pittsburgh, carole fair, i think yesterday that was stating the number of republicans that have requested absentee ballots as also at an all time high, what are your thoughts on that in terms of the implication for the state so hey, we are the underdogs still, and i think it's really important for democrats and those of us who would like to not see the return of former president trump to recognize that we have a lot of work to do. >> i hope that's a message that we're taking away from this convention. we should take nothing for granted. we cannot take anything for granted. the numbers are sometimes not there for us in the sense of raw numbers. but i'm a democrat serving in a district that's 404020, and i've been

successful in my election and reelection because i hope that i'm speaking to everyone and serving everyone. that's my job republicans are going after while china's military record because they've done that before. >> and chris lacivita is run that campaign. did the swift boats for veterans against john kerry so they know this playbook is there, is there any vulnerability there on the stolen valor notion? it's notion that he said that he carried weapons of war and battle, that the campaign has come out and said that was a misstatement. but is that is there something problematic there at all? yeah. that's nothing that does he need to address them. >> actually think that we hopefully are turning a page on the way that we treat each other in campaigning, even as well. you know, i think it's tired. i think we've seen this play before and veteran cl about a generally just the notion of attacking somebody's record is not being perfect or exactly what you said. i think that that's kind of what part of the issue is is i think it's an old tried and failed

attempt, and i think that veterans see it for that. and i think that i know that i and my father, who is also so veteran former republican see right through those kinds of attacks chrissy houlahan, thank you very much for spending deals to stick around here as we continue our conversation. let's turn now to this despite fading poll numbers, that core support behind nader's candidacy is making some liberal democrats unhappy. >> there's a political reality here, which is that his candidacy could draw enough votes in certain key states from al gore to give the entire election to george w bush well, that was robert f. kennedy jr. 24 years ago, sounding the alarm about third-party candidate ralph nader, who played a role of spoiler in a presidential election. sound familiar. >> new reporting into cnn shows the independent candidate, robert f. >> kennedy jr. this time getting ready to end his campaign for the presidency this year, the announcement could happen as soon as friday.

it may include an endorsement for donald trump. he is in talks with the trump campaign to possibly gain a role in a second administration where kennedy's voters go may have an impact in swing states, one famous independent voter made a surprise his appearance at the dnc last night with this plea i'm calling on all you independence and all you undecided you know, this is true you know, i'm telling you the truth that values and character matter. >> most of all, you know, this is true, that decency and respect are on the ballot in 2020 for we only have a minute here. but congresswoman, where do you think? what do you think the impact of rfk is decision here could be this guy clearly is just shopping around for the

best offer because he's got to throw in the towel and it's kind of pretty disgusting and i don't know what the overall impact will be. in pennsylvania as an example, i definitely see some folks who were supporters of his. i just don't know which way they're going to go. clearly, he's leaning towards trump, but that's literally because he, thinks he's going to get the right deal from that. it's clear he's also looked for a similar deal from the harris campaign to and that's kind of disingenuous and i don't think that will resonate with my vote. voters. certainly interesting. >> i think it's important to note that part of the reason we're seeing this happen is because since kamala harris has gone to the top of the ticket, his support has dropped. i mean, people, voters who were potentially looking at just some 30 option because they were the double haters who didn't want to see trump or biden his share of the vote has dramatically declined. that's part of why he's doing this. i. think it's. a sign of a good sign for democrats because it shows that some that's some slice of those independent voters or people who were looking for a third-party option, or moving harris. >> all right. coming up next

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things have gone really, really well for her tonight, the vice president is going to be called on to deliver the most important speech of her lifetime. >> democrats are ready to embrace someone who has evolved and grown as a candidate. she is a more seasoned and polished but candidate and she is set to accept the nomination and wrap up the convention tonight. perhaps we'll hear something like this. >> just yesterday when he was asked if he has any regrets about ending roe v. wade donald trump donald trump without even a moment's hesitation, you would think you'd reflect on it for a second said, no no regrets we will make sure he does face the consequence in that op at the ballot box so run against the clock but quickly, what does harris need to do tonight? so i'm actually so glad we set this up with the 2019 club because what i wanted to say is more than policy, more than message in many ways, i am eager to see her with the

confidence that she has put on display over this last month. >> i'm eager to see her deliver a speech that feels like it meets the moment. it's a huge task. it's a gargantuan when task, but i think she's up for it and i'm interested to see tonight one of the unique things is that i believe nikki haley was right. i know it's early in the morning. i can't believe i said that the first party that kind of got rid of that older candidate was going to be the party that won. and i think tonight is the first night that either party in 20 some odd years here's can say we're turning the page like it's turning the page from people we love the obamas, the clintons. we're just kind of turning the page for fresh and family and i'm excited for this moment. i was there with their back then and she deserves this day like this is the battle of definitions, the person attempting to be defined is the vice president republicans are spending a lot of money to define her. >> this is her opportunity to tell her story. this is our opportunity to let the majority of americans are saying, you know, i don't quite know who she is, where she stands. it's your time to reach out to those

voters and tell them this is who i am, and this is what a potential america could look like if you were to vote for me. >> i was with george bush, said his inaugural, which is almost 25 years ago. he's younger than donald trump today so that is the turn the page component is so important and people are so anxious for change but the joy components made, but so is strength, the most important perception that voters have a candidate for president as a perception of strength that's why biden had a problem because of his age primarily. but the thing about about harris is she's got the joyful component down. you combine that with strength, happy with where that's a hell of a combo. >> all right, thanks to all of you for joining us this morning and thanks to all of you for being with us as well. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn news central is up next from right here in chicago tonight. cnn is live from chicago as vice president kamala harris delivers his acceptance speech on the dnc's final night. jake tapper and anderson cooper lead cnn special live coverage the democratic national convention tonight at seven on cnn and streaming on backs.

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