welcome back to the weekend, 100 days folks, the urgency is palpable for democrats. with only 100 days left until the election, the dnc is working overtime to recalibrate its convention now that vice president harris is almost certain to be the party's nominee and the candidate at the top of the ticket is also changing landscape for down ballot races because every seat in the house of representatives and 34 seats in the senate are up for grabs in november. a special coverage of the 100

days milestone, let's see how the leaders of the democratic party's crucial campaign arms are working and how that's coming together to turn washington dear i say it, blue? joining us now committee chairman jamie harrison. the chairman is in the house, i'm so happy to see him. congressional campaign chair suzan delbene, thank you so much for being here and senatorial campaign chair terry peters. >> we love to see it and lisa and i joke that michael misses beating up on democrats. so it's great that he got to read that script. mr. chairman, we will start with you, jamie german, obviously yesterday was the deadline for anyone else to file if they intended to run

for president because joe biden had stepped down off the ticket. did anyone else put in before the filing deadline yesterday? >> there were inquiring minds but let me just say this, kamala harris is the presumptive nominee. she is getting overwhelming support in terms of signatures and we see the excitement that her campaign is bringing not only to the democratic party but to the country. i mean when you think about it, we've had black women for kamala harris, lack of men for kamala harris, latino communities, white women for, harris and tomorrow there's a white dude -- white dudes for kamala harris. i've never seen this type of organizing in all of politics. she's raised over $200 million. 100,000+ volunteers and the dnc is benefiting greatly.

so our vice president is the presumptive nominee and we will have the official vote on august 1st, and folks, who have inquired, they have until july 30th to get their 300 signatures. >> it's good, it's good. talking about that energy, it's palpable, and it's important for the d triple c to generate that. the general view is democrats pretty much have the upper hand in the house, we will talk about the senate in a moment. we've heard about the project 2025 effort of the trump campaign. we learned this morning that the dccc is putting out information to make that part of the narrative as well. talk about what that strategy looks like and how it's playing out?

>> we will hold the house republicans accountable for their chaos and dysfunction and we are not even going into session this week because they can't govern. we will hold them accountable for that and the positions they taken. they want to put in place nationwide abortion ban and they want to cut social security and medicare and they want to make it difficult for middle-class families and increase costs for middle-class families and that's project 2025 right there. so we have incredible candidates across the country, we have incumbents running for reelection in tough districts, they are doing incredible job, we have been running ahead of republicans this entire cycle because we have great candidates and people want to see government work. and the republicans can't govern, they are taken over by the marjorie taylor greene's and the most extreme members of their party and we are in a strong position, we know when we get our message out that we win.

so that is our focus. we've got a lot of races, this is an important time so we really need for more seats to take back the majority of the house and have speaker jeffries and that's what we are focused on and we are in a strong position. >> senator peters you are equally bullish, you have an op- ed and you say you've never been more confident in democrats odds to hold the center. i want to hear why that is and why you think republican senate candidates have had such a difficult time nationalizing their races? >> well i'm very optimistic about our chances but everyone needs to know these will still be very close races in the battleground states so we need support from folks out there,

voluntary, contributing, we still have a long road ahead but i'm very optimistic as i said in the op-ed, it's really about candidate quality and that's why we continue to see senate candidates doing really well against the republican opponents. we have the right on a lot of the issues and you see a lot of these republican candidates, they are flawed and oftentimes deeply flawed so when you put that contrast against each other, it puts us in a very good position. but we will have to work hard at the thing about our senate race, it's our battleground states, so having a strong senate campaign also helps, vice president harris and her race for the presidency, we will be helping each other to get across the finish line and as you know, a majority in the senate is essential when it comes to helping a president harris when it comes to all of her appointments, they need advice and consent. and let's not forget the judiciary. we need one that believes in the rule of law and that's why we have to ring back our

incumbents and we have pickup opportunities as well but it's essential for governing and it's important to support harris, which is why we are all in and last cycle, folks didn't think we could do it. people said gary, you've got a tough road and we made history, we held the majority and picked up the seat, first time since 1934 and we will do it again. we will hold this majority and make sure that kamala harris has a great team in washington to have the positive change that she is so passionate about and that we are so passionate about. >> chairman to chairman, this is our corner. this is the two of us talking. between with the congresswoman and the senator just said, i just want to read something to you that i think it's fascinating. tallahassee democrat regarding the election in 2024, with nearly 30% of florida voters

not affiliated with other parties, democrats believe that if they deployed an army of grassroots volunteers to make phone calls, knock on doors and engage public displays of support, they can flip the state of florida in november. that's how much the landscape has changed in just 30 days in this race. talk to us about, as you are looking at deploying our resources, are you looking at a strategy that will have republicans fight on turf that they shouldn't have to fight on? as well as you know, defending and aggressively going after spaces where, you know you've got some stuff you got to defend as well, you know that but when you hear talk like this, that kind of talks to the change in the landscape on the ground . democrats in states like florida, georgia, for

example, north carolina . talk about that. >> well you all know, i am -- for 3 1/2 years and i give joe biden and kamala harris credit for this. they have leaned into investing in the infrastructure by the democratic party. part of how we beat back the red wave is we built an infrastructure to equip them and to coordinate with her sister communities at the dccc and the dsc to equip the governors to the able to have that grassroots operation, to win the close election. we've got an amazing chair in nikki freda, this weekend in the villages and you know the villages, it is a ruby red, there are 500 golf course seniors riding around, and they are white, riding around and probably voted for trump

previously supporting kamala harris. i mean, i am seeing stuff that i've never seen before. we have now in this country, we have over 1100 staff across the country in our battleground states. we have over 200 offices across the battleground states. we are supporting also through a red state program states that are not battleground but we believe we can make inroads there. this is an energy on the ground that i have not seen since barack obama in 2008 and i'm telling folks, don't sleep on florida, don't sleep on north carolina because we are going to have the boots on the ground to win one of those tight, close elections. >> it's the same thing i said to the party in 2010, don't sleep on these states. don't sleep on these races because despite what folks around washington may say everything, who typically don't know how to do campaign, they

don't know much with what you have to do. that's how you ever a red wave and that's how you win in 2010. >> it sounds like what senator peters was speaking to, i know the strategy for house and senate races is still to localize those races but you all are hoping to benefit from the enthusiasm and congresswoman, the fundraising from the house democrats arm specifically is remarkable. the dccc outraised the counterpart by $7 million last quarter and more than a dozen nonincumbent democrats meaning not already in office, brought in more than $1 million from april through june. what will you do with the cash advantage? >> we are playing the races all across the country.

they are talking about different states. we have opportunities in alabama and louisiana and iowa, where we are on the ground and can flip seats to help us take back the majority. so, we need to make sure we have resources in every district, not only to combat the disinformation and attacks that will come against candidates but also to be on offense and make sure we can remind folks what republicans stand for. remind them about project 2025 and the policies they want to put in place. and make sure that folks know we have authentic candidates who actually will come to washington to govern. people want to see governess work and we have folks who are not interested in governing, they are more interested to hear about what donald trump once them to do. or dressing up like them and following him around. that's the state we are in. we need to use those resources. we know that when people hear our message, we win. >> senator peters i want to pick up on symone's question as

it relates to the u.s. senate and the necessity to localize some of these races, candidates like senators tester and brown, they do need to distinguish themselves from the national party brand. so i wonder how you could give them space to do that well also tying them to the legislative accompaniments of the biden administration? >> it is absolutely essential that we do it in the states. when we talk about battleground states, our battleground is also our states that are not battleground for the president. the state of montana is not likely to be in play but john tester is a strong candidate. he's running against a highly flawed opponent and he knows how to win races, the same with sherrod brown in ohio. he knows how to win, he is authentic. and it is about localizing these races. we understand that's tougher to

do but the way i look at it and the way i talk to candidates and the way that sherrod and john operate, they operate not as a senator or congressperson, they are running like they are the mayor of the town, what is it locally that's important to the people of that community and when people realize that both of them fight for montana and fight for ohio, and that's what they put at the top of the list, they are able to connect with folks in a meaningful way and it is about a ground campaign. talking about the ground and doing it in tough turf, that is what we did the last cycle and for the first time in dccc history, we invested more money on the ground then we did on television and media and i knew all of these would be battleground states and i don't think one extra tv commercial or five extra tv commercials when you are being bombarded by tv commercials at the end of the campaign matters. it's about knocking on doors, having people talk to their neighbors and neighbors talking

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not the obama coalition and the harris coalition will certainly be different than the biden coalition. can you talk to us about the dynamics and the demographics of that group as you see it, what are the voters that she needs to pull together to get over the finish line? >> she will get a blend of all of that. we are seeing organizing and circles that we normally don't see for democratic candidates. and that's the type of energy that kamala harris and her campaign, the -- they are already seeing that. white women in particular, we know black women always turn out for the democratic campaign and it's at the strongest numbers. we've seen black men, also galvanized and energized, and one of the things you always worry about and you saw it in

the 2016 race was, you know, whether or not any of the misogynistic aspects of life will creep into their but what we are seeing, with men, and particularly young man is they are galvanized by kamala harris, so i think she's going to have the best of both worlds, bringing together the biden coalition and the obama coalition to create her own lane and coalition of groups, and folks, there is something special about this campaign and i can't wait to see where we go in november. >> senator peters, right before we came back on i said god bless gary peters but i just don't know about the senate and your fellow chairs were quick to remind me that if anybody could pull it out, it is you and you all have the right candidates in these places talking about sherrod black chestnut brown in ohio and john tester, and now at the top of the ticket, the energy, they are in a good position.

are there any places where you are more concerned than not? i think when the story is written and if democrats hold or even expand seats in the senate, someone will need to canonize you, sir, because that is a feat. okay? >> well, we are concerned about every race, you have to be constantly working and just sticking to your plan, put the nose to the grind stone and do and do it clearly, you mentioned sherrod brown, finding those voters, the enthusiasm, i was at a candidates kickoff yesterday here in michigan, the

enthusiasm was great, there were a number of young folks that had never volunteered on a campaign that showed up and in fact, in michigan, just in one week, we had double the number of volunteer sign up for our campaign and we are seeing that in all of the states but we have to be that focused in places like montana and ohio but we have pickups, we have texas, florida, which has already been mentioned, we have great candidates there and we are seeing them in the margin of error, these are candidates that are working hard and they will need resources but all of our states, certainly the battleground states, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania but we've got or arizona and nevada, the states will be critical and we need the resources to deploy them and that's why we have our website defend the senate online, folks go there, they can help us and make sure we are allocating money, and i will say with my other two chairs, we talk

regularly as well, we don't have an unlimited amount of money and we are trying to focus on the places that will be the most important to make sure that we win, it's a coordinate effort like we haven't had before. i'm very excited. >> that is the truth of any political game plan, you know, the resources you have available to execute the strategy particularly in key spaces and places, it becomes very important. but what really pushes that process, is the other side, and the elements that they bring into the conversation. and i want to put on the table, for all three chairs because i really would like to get a sense from you on how the house and the senate races deal with what i'm about to bring up and certainly the national german. you have trump in minnesota last night, speaking about what democrats do and as part of the ongoing narrative, i call it

the honking of america when it comes to our elections but let's listen to mr. trump in minnesota last night talking about what democrats do. >> if they don't cheat, we win this state easily. they cheat, they have no shame, do you understand that, you crooked people, the most crooked. they cheat, they cheated in the last election and they will cheat in this election but we are going to get them. >> so, i'll start with you, congresswoman, you've got house races, the house is there and then you have this conversation with the country from a former president saying that your party cheats. if we lose it's because you cheated. if we lose, senator, it's because you cheated, chairman, if we lose, it's because you cheated. how do you address that with your members, going into this battle this fall?

>> the contrast couldn't be more clear. this is about our rights, our freedoms, our democracy and our future and we highlight that first of all because we talk about our democracy and voting rights and you know, donald trump said folks are going to have to vote again after this election, too, that tells you where they are at so we need to make sure that we are reminding folks what republicans stand for. they want to take away our rights and our freedoms, they want to undermine our democracy and we will talk about what that means, project 2025, because when we talk to folks and we have that discussion with them and we talk about candidates and we talk about the things that people care about, addressing affordability, standing up for

reproductive freedom, they absolutely are with us. so they are going to do that, they have nothing else to say so that's what they will say and we will be there every step of the way, talking about what's at stake and talking about the issues that matter to people in terms of making a difference for our country and making a difference for families and moving us forward. >> senator peters? >> well, donald trump is basically a sore loser, and he's going to lose again and he's going to want to blame something else but it's completely irresponsible. we know elections are free and fair and we saw that last time, no evidence whatsoever of widespread fraud, it is simply a lie. we've got to remind the american people of that and we have to let the american people know, by even questioning an election as to whether or not it's free or if there is a direct attack on our democracy. if you attempt to delegitimize the very foundation of the democracy which where people can go to the polls, have their voice heard and make sure the direction of the country goes the way that the majority of the american people want it to go, if you delegitimize that,

you are attacking the core foundation of what has always made this country great. so we need to call donald trump out and call out all the other candidates who just repeat that live for their own selfish interests and bring people together and be united, that's why kamala harris is a great candidate for the presidency because she is about uniting folks and when this country is united, we can accomplish anything. and this election is going to be one of the most important elections that we've ever been in, we've got to win and we've got to win big. >> chairman, we have a few seconds left. >> was in the sky is a chicken, he scared to debate the vice president of the united states, he's a master of projection because he's projecting what they are actually doing. it's maga, secretaries of states that are purging voters from the voting rolls, it's maga secretaries of state that are making it harder for people to vote in the country. and so he is going to lose in november like he lost in 2020, and i will send him a nice gift to say i'm sorry mr. trump, you are going back to mar-a-lago,

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in november. it's clear some republicans want to vote for anyone but trump but as an next guest lays out, her ability to win their votes will hinge on how she defines herself. sarah longwell is the publisher of the bulwark. >> it's good to have sarah back at the table because given the way this whole thing, i mean you think about the last four weeks -- >> stressful. >> where we started the month and when we are ending the month. i want to get your take on this, what are you now hearing from republicans like curtis, who are now probably reevaluating the situation between trump and now harris, and what does she have to do to define herself to them because a lot of the picture has been painted beforehand by trump and other republicans in a negative

way but she has a little bit of a clean slate that she can work with as well. >> it's interesting because the persuadable group of voters were what we called the double haters, people who did not want to vote for trump and they didn't want to vote for biden but the thing was, and i probably said this on the show, they really didn't hate trump, but they really -- they really did hate trump but they really didn't hate biden, they just thought that he was old. i've asked about harris for years, on the swing voters, and their big complaint, they had a negative impression but it was an impression based on the fact that they said, what does she do, i feel like she's invisible. some of this is the thankless work of being vice president, people were worried about her outshining biden, i don't know what it was but the voters feel

like they don't know her and didn't see her but for a long time it sounded like that means they don't like her but then you realize actually what they are saying is, show me, let me see it. so right now she has the opportunity to reintroduce herself to the voters and i think for a lot of these double haters, i think this first week has been, well, she has been defined by republican super cuts of her laughing, looking awkward but she feels comfortable in her own skin now. i think her first week out has been really strong. so voters are giving her a fresh look. they will evaluate her on the terms that she presents right now. and i think if she keeps doing what she's doing, there's a lot of upside. i don't think we are anywhere near what we could be on the upside. >> alecia, the point that sarah makes is something i often, people don't know what the vice president does, name the last

vice president, you don't know what they did every day, probably did cheney, but that's another conversation. it is not your job to be out front on a number of the issues. but she has been working and people just don't know about it. so this is a critical time for her to reintroduce herself and assert what her narrative will be because on the other side of the aisle, trump and republicans will try to paint her as you know, a san francisco liberal, a border czar, they want to merrily define her because they know the door is open for some definition for people. >> sarah, if you were the one who was getting to shape what that reintroduction would be, how would you reintroduce the vice president? >> i will say look i'm a center- right, i was a republican

before trump showed up so obviously i have a certain bias but the people she's got to win over, in places like pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, there's a lot of old white people in those states, i would like to see her pivot to the center and she doesn't have to pivot that much, if vance can go from saying trump is america's hitler to being his vice president, she get some grace to pivot to the center. the first thing i would do is make sure on the border she is acting as though she's going to take the border seriously. the border is what made trump attractive to people. the fact that he was taking a hard line on immigration. what i hear from swing voters besides the economy is the frustration around the border. that's why trump and republicans will try and define her as soft on the border. they will tie that to crime and functional and or prosecutorial background, allows her to lean

in a little more on, hey, we want people here but we are a nation of laws and that law and order pitch could really reintroduce her in a good way to a lot of these swing state voters. >> can we shift a moment from the vice president to jd vance. he's having quite a rollout. talk a little about what you are hearing and seeing from your focus groups about him and the impact that he is having particularly now among women, who are hearing this guy talk about childless women, cat women, i won't go to the couches but the reality is, there's some real issues here that donald trump now has to deal with with his vice presidential choice. >> it is bad news. look, they made the pic of jd vance at a time when they were

riding high. this is the vision of a campaign that peek too early and decided we are going to double down on maga and men and that, up against harris, that was a fine strategy for biting, terrible strategy for harris and also i think the lobbying for jd vance that came from don jr. and eric, i don't think he was better that well because the level of stuff they are unearthing from jd vance is catastrophic, women in general, but i just think jd vance, the problem is jd vance isn't really who he is. he has no center, he has no core and that's what he was able to go from somebody who really disliked trump to the person you see now. and as a result, he comes off as awkward and inauthentic and the swing voters hate him. he is getting savaged in our swing voter groups because they know two things. they know one, that he flip- flopped on trump and they know

he's extreme on abortion. so he has big blake masters energy, -- >> arizona! >> this guy is weird. and when you are extreme on abortion and your awkward, it's not just women, it's men, too, they are like i don't like this guy. >> sarah, we want you to stick around because we want to talk next about the very ugly words that are coming from the trump advance ticket. you are watching tthe weekend. d

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individual, her, not even talking about him. i've got a low iq individual. >> well of course that's not true, and of course, this isn't just trump, jd vance, he's made sexist comments about the vice president about not having biological children and other republicans are using the flat out racist talking point that she is a dei higher. it's old and tired and i like to believe frankly that this is where they go because they cannot talk about the policy. you know, if there was a place to attack democrats if you will, it would have been on the border but trump called up the republicans and said don't do the bill. i want -- i don't want joe biden to get a win. so they were ready to support the most conservative frankly bill on the border that had enforcement mechanisms and trump said don't do it.

gases going down, groceries are getting a little cheaper, so they resort to racist and sexist attacks that turn off more than just women and people of color. >> this whole dei candidate thing, first of all, when you watch trump's speeches now, he is so mad. he is so off his game, because he was ready to run against biden. he was ready to run on age and infirmity and to be kicking around hunter biden, they had a whole plan and the plan has been blown up but worse, they have to live now in the frame of age and infirmity when he is the oldest president or person to be nominated for the presidency. so he's got to live without. the other thing about dei and kamala harris, it's going to bring out the absolute worst in them and it's already ringing that out and i think there is an element of that that i want

to say, i like it when people have to be shown who they are. you want people to be exposed. you want people to see who trump is, what kind of person he is, what kind of person he picks in jd vance, you don't wanted to be masked behind, so harris is forcing them, forcing the public to see trump for who he is and i'm watching it happen in real time, that's where people are warming up to kamala harris, they are interested in her, she doesn't come off as a down and those things only land, age and infirmity landed on biden because that's what people saw. trump wants to say this person was a prosecutor and a u.s. senate her and that he was vice president and is now running for president is somehow a dei pick or somehow not smart. she is, every time she talks right now and i've got to tell you, in the three years where people say they didn't really see her, she's clearly been doing a job where she has learned a lot because she is

just better. better than we saw her when she was running in 2020. you get better, so when she is out there now, people are seeing it for the first time being like, i don't know, she seems really smart, she seems really sharp. so they can try and make these land but it'll end up reflecting more on them than it does on her. >> sarah, i want to look back to the argument you are making about how harris needs to solidify her position on the border especially when it comes to these swing voters, i would argue is also where it's important for harris and her team to draw sharp distinctions saying in addition to securing the border you've got trump and jd vance wanting to round up 11 million american families and support them, people who have been here their entire lives, focusing on the interior of this country as a contrast point. my question is about where they

go beyond that, in persuading this group, immigration, let's say she is able to check that box, what is the economic argument that you make specifically as you are trying to live in this opportunity and freedom frame. how do you make the economic argument to these persuadable voters? >> this is where having a good communicator is essential and where i think joe biden was struggling because you've got to be able to do two things at once, you've got to be able to make the case on economics, that america has had since covid, the best recovery of any industrialized country and in that macro sense, the economy really is doing well while at the same time, making sure that people who are being hurt by inflation, low income people who feel like they are not being seen right now and everybody is telling them the

economy is great, but they are paying more for groceries, pay more for gas, paying more for housing and even though these things are coming down, you know they are working, they've got jobs but those people need to feel seen and i think biden was so defensive of his record that he really only wanted to talk about the positive side without being able to switch gears and there's a lot of issues like this. israeli and gaza is like this you have to be able to say that we stand with israel while also being concerned about the humanitarian crisis in gaza and i think she is demonstrating the ability to communicate nuance at a time when nuance is really necessary. and so, the other thing i will say, when i hear dei president and the way that they came out, this is something republicans try to do, they tried to other people, make them seem on america, that's why they said barack obama, where is his birth certificate, it's like these people are not real americans. this is an opportunity to lean in broadly, on how great america is because this is an interesting contrast opportunity. donald trump doesn't like america. he talks about america every day like it's a terrible place

and i think that she can talk about it as a place of great opportunity. a place where all of these different people can come together. it doesn't have to be obama from 2008 but it should be shades of that. i think it should be an optimistic message. i've been listening to people in these focus groups for years and years, people have been down. the reason they feel the country is moving in the wrong direction is they feel divided, depressed, that things have been too hard and they're looking for a happy warrior with an optimistic message and i think she has the chance to not just metamorphosis is, is that even a word? she has the chance to have a renaissance and create energy in america by reminding people that america is a good place and that would stand in contrast to the republicans and the republicans that i knew, they believed that america is a

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2008, 2016, you have the access hollywood tape, you have those but her emailed, even though it's a sprint, there's a lot of room for things to change in the next 100 days. >> that does it for the weekend, we will see you back here next saturday at 8:00 eastern and be sure to follow us on social media, 100 days out from election day, right after this. after this

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