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and neck presidential race. and women's reproductive rights issue, i think is really important. >> foreign policy, border, southern border. >> that's probably the biggest thing to me battleground wisconsin, we'll talk to the state's former lieutenant governor about the keys to victory with pivotal badger state and vowing a visit. trump promises a trip to springfield, ohio after those debunked pet eating place a.m. in washington. >> a live look at capitol hill on this thursday morning. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. there are just 47 days until november 5, election day in-person early voting begins tomorrow in virginia, south dakota, and minnesota a

new quinnipiac poll finding that kamala harris now leads donald trump by five points among likely voters in both michigan and pennsylvania there is no clear leader shown in their poll in wisconsin where harris is ahead by just one point, that poll comes on the same day that the influential teamsters union announced they won't endorse candidate in this election. internal polling that was shared by the teamsters ahead of that announcement showed trump with almost double harris's support among the union's rank and file. in a statement, the union president saying this quote, unfortunately neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before big business and quote, still, donald trump calling it a win i was honored to receive the endorsement of the rank-and-file membership of the teamsters. i love that this was a surprise it's automatic they endorse the democrats

automatic for many, many decades but you know what they said, they looked at her, they said we're not going there. i'm sorry. >> so inside that new quinnipiac polling, a potential red flag for the trump campaign on the former president's signature issue, immigration and the border. likely voters in pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin now almost evenly split on whether harris or trump would do a better job handling immigration both candidates yesterday addressing this issue at separate events in washington in new york they have pledged to carry out the largest deportation mass deportation in american history. >> imagine what that would look like and what that would be how's that going to happen? massive rates massive detention camps, about? >> we're getting them out of our country. they came in illegally. that destroying our country. we're getting about

their gonna be brought back to the contrary from which they came all right. >> our panel's here, jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters, sabrina rodriguez, national political reporter for the washington post. kendra barkow, former press secretary to joe biden and mike dubke, former trump white house communications director. welcome to all of you. thank you all for being here. mike, i want to start with you and kendra weigh in as well on on this polling that we have from quinnipiac. first, it shows wisconsin tighter than pennsylvania. i haven't talked to very many people who think that's actually true, but i'm interested to know what you think and what the latest is that you're hearing and similar on these immigration numbers, if you buy on spot on with you about the wisconsin numbers, and actually i think that the trump campaign should be really pleased with the wisconsin numbers i would have thought that was conston had been pulling away not just because there's a competitive senate race, which we do also have in michigan and pennsylvania. but that these states seem to have been traveling together. i was i was prepared to sit down here today and say that there was really no appreciable debate bump for the vice president, which i

this is the first poll that we've seen that has shown any type of movement in a large way in any of the battleground states, right? >> well, and to that point, so kristen soltis anderson, who is a friend here at cnn, wrote this in the times kendra, she said the reality well, it is the debate may have done more to fire up or reassure ms harris is existing supporters, then to add new voters to her ranks in large numbers, while the abc ipsos poll found ms harris is supporters back for more strongly than mr. trump's supporters back kim, it's still found nearly half, 47% of respondents think ms harris as too liberal. it's of course better to have more on your side, more energized eisen, your opponent. but an enthusiastic vote doesn't count anymore than a but grudging ones, so long as they both turn out and kristen's basically arguing, she hasn't seen a change since the debate in the polling. >> i mean, look, they have said all along that it's going to be a tight race. the harris campaign has said it's going to be up to the wire. it's going to be tight. we are not we are not going to win this. but i think the trend and it is going in the direction that they want, right? you have seen it

in these polls in the state-by-state polls, and you're seeing it on a more national level that the trend is going there. but look, she's talking about the issues that people in wisconsin are talking about abortion, the economy. she's getting out there, she's talking about her plans and she's talking about things that there can people want to hear jeff. >> here's what the coupon analysts wrote about these issues the issue polling on the economy and immigration. >> three crucial swing states wave a red flag at the trump campaign, the gop is most go to attack strategies against democrats on immigration and the economy maybe losing momentum. >> i will say this contradicts what i hear from some sources on the ground who say immigration in particular is still really potent issue for republicans, but i'm curious what you think. >> well, i think i've been spending a lot of time with the vice president on the trail and she's talking a lot about the middle class to kansas point, just talking a lot about bringing prices down she is doing what they think are addressing the issues that they think is really important to voters. >> and that is resonating with

voters. i don't think you're wrong. i mean, i think immigration is still a vulnerability for the vice president's campaign, and it was something that was surprising looking back on the debate that the president, the former president and states, didn't push that harder instead of taking the bait on some of the questions that she drew a min on. >> instead, we're talking about pets. >> exactly. >> but i so i don't think that issue has gone away, but i think they feel like her emphasis on the middleclass and some of her economic policies as unpledged out as some of them are, is resonating well i, think people are just starting to learn more about what trump wants to do on immigration. i think there's been this perception of the chaos at the border of the numbers of people crossing the border. this being such a potent issue in such a vulnerability for democrats. but now they're seeing harris a little more on the campaign trail. people might not necessarily know exactly what's happening on the hill hill, but she's really bringing home this point that there was this bipartisan bill that she wanted to see get through congress and that trump helped kill that. then you have on the

other side, you have trump talking about cat eating the haitian immigrants in ohio. so that is making people question a little bit like, is this too extreme? but i will say something to hear is the reality is that trump has shifted the politics of immigration to the right. i mean, we're not hearing harris on the campaign trail talking about a fair and humane immigration system and undoing the policies of donald trump. she's talking about endorsing a bill that has been endorsed by the border patrol union that has been widely criticized by immigration and human rights groups. and it just shows that the politics of immigration have changed in the years since donald trump came into power or decriminalizing the border which she has she has called for the past. i look, polls are snapshots in time i'm not surprised that polls will go up and down if this is going to be an incredibly tight race all the way through i would love to

see the trump campaign focus on the biden-harris agenda. one more time on inflation, on international crises, on immigration. she was the border czar and weeks can argue whether or not that's a term that we should be used. it was used in 2021 on this network she was in charge of the border for a long period of time. they should hold her accountable because it is one of the top issues. well, it mike to that this polling might actually be evidence of like what you and other republicans often sit at this table and say to your nominee, like, hey, let's focus on the issues because when you're starting to lose ground, on the issues, you otherwise. about the issues we are we have had record inflation over the last three-and-a-half years of the biden-harris administration. we can talk about the rate cuts later and whether or not those are going to be successful in bringing down pricing. but, you know, americans are herding outside of the, outside of the coast. and we're talking about races in wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania were families have

been hurt. by rising prices very briefly, we're kind of running out of time, but i really want to play this soundbite from trump yesterday because he was in new york, which is not one of these swing states. and i'm curious as to why here's what he had to say to voters in new york patriotic new yorkers must get your out to vote out of the couch you're going to vote for trump today perry, come on, let's go let's go kendre i don't even know what to do with that. >> i mean, it is it is crazy to me first of all, the swearing is so inappropriate on something like that, but why are you pushing new yorkers that is a blue state. so it is just sort of mind-boggled by the entirety of it. >> altogether. >> i mean, he's normalized swearing already in our politics, mike, but insulting

the voters on the couch in the way that they may or may not look. >> i don't know who harry is i just want to know who harry i thought that was the question i was going to get married. >> but it is. i mean, look, we've had in normalization of swearing on the campaign contrail. the president biden was swearing left and right, as in the final days before he dropped out of the race, it is beyond me. i agree with you. we should let's get back to you know, shut the front door instead of using profanity on the radek as a whole, just need, we just need to tamp it down across the board because it's just not appropriate to be calling somebody a childless cat woman or talking about people eating cats or any of those things. i just altogether i think the rhetoric now i want to find harry. >> i'm interested to know. i am interested to meet harry myself. all right. coming up here on cnn this morning. >> will the team jurors union decision impact blue wall states, we're going to talk to former wisconsin lieutenant

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has come down i wish it has, and that's the reason that the fed made this cut. on the other hand, it was interesting to see vice president harris is immediate reaction in an emailed statement yesterday, which was, happy to see this, but prices are still too high. i'm going to continue to focus on bringing down the prices of groceries, the prices of housing, et cetera. so it's not a victory would you be lap for her even though no doubt there are some democrats who are very pleased to see this happening just a handful of weeks before the election all right, ahead here on cnn this morning, a heart-stopping emergency on the road at deputy jumps into a moving vehicle to help a driver in need. >> it's one of the five things you have to see this morning. plus, it's a tie, donald trump, kamala harris locked in a dead heat in wisconsin as absentee voting in that state begins saturday, saturday at nine on cnn that's biggest sale of the summer is ending, save up to

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implosion killed fight explorers onboard last june and new dashcam video shows the exact moment a pipeline fire ignited in texas. >> the crash scene in the reflection of a window, you can see a car rammed into the pipeline and it bursting into flames on monday evacuation orders for dozens of nearby homes have now been lifted our time now for whether some warmer temperatures bringing a bigger threat for hail damaging winds, possibly even tornadoes across the midwest. >> let's get straight to our meteorologist, the weatherman, derek van dam. >> derek, good morning. >> good morning. kasie uk. so you need three things in order for severe storms to develop the heat which you mentioned, it's their instability in the form of relative humidity. and then he need some sort of trigger mechanism like a cold front to initiate the thunderstorms. so look at the warmth building across the central us, focusing in on minneapolis southward towards omaha and kansas city there's the cold front moving in from the west and that's going to be the trigger mechanism for these

thunderstorms to develop later this afternoon already a few showers and thunderstorms, lightning strikes been detected on our radar, but it's really later this afternoon just in time for that home return from work, damaging winds and large hail are possible, can't rule out a tornado across this region as well. so the upper midwest to the central midwest, this is the timing right around four to 5:00 p.m. near minneapolis. so just keep an eye to the sky and be weather aware because some of these storms could become strong rather quickly as that cold front advances eastward and if you thought your false fall was nice across eastern us, you can welcome back the summer-like temperatures. we're going to reach the upper 80s and lower 90s if you're located in atlanta and placed it to the south, i want to give you an early heads-up. we are monitoring the southwestern sections of the caribbean sea that could bring the potential for some tropical development this is for next week, so it's not a concern this week, but certainly something we're monitoring across the gulf coast states again, for next week, kasie. >> all right. keep an eye on that. derek van dam for us this morning, derek. thank you very

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right, welcome back to cnn this morning, new polling out t morning from the new york times, finding donald trump and kamala harris tied nationally among likely voters in must-win pennsylvania, the state perhaps most likely to decide the election. harris leading trump by four points. that is just outside the margin. urgent of error. and it does include the third-party candidates that will be on the ballot there, those polls were conducted in part after the apparent second assassination attempt against donald trump and the rash of bomb threats in ohio. and of course, with all of those events, were reminded how divisive our politics have become still. there are a few places rising above four or higher cause. the united states service academies, once our next guest recently spoke with a group of west point cadets about how and why they're able to put aside political differences in service of our nation west point teaches you

how to disagree with the people you have to work with because you're here for a greater purpose. >> and so you have to put aside your personal differences and find a solution. >> i how does this place? developed character and the kind of character that this country needs to fight successfully in the wars of the future, we'll talk about growth, but it's not just personal growth, it's growing together and do the four years here we all grow together. >> we all learn together. we rely on each other so in taking that, she's a military then in a broader aspect, it's not just sacrifice for ourselves at sacrifice for the people to our left and right. so we have to be willing to say for, you don't battle buddy. i'm willing to sacrifice whatever it requires for us to get the mission done there's also a hope for the future between all of us. so there's the understanding that if we

sacrifice for each other, we are enabling each other to create a brighter future for our country tomorrow all right, joining me now is pollster and communications strategist frank luntz, who you saw there conducting this group, frank, i'm so grateful to have you, especially on this topic. >> and this is the most nervous i've been this entire year because this matters to me more than anything. i've done possibly in my entire career. these young men and women are absolutely exceptional. and the institution of west point is extraordinary. >> they teach sacrifice and service. >> but even more importantly, the teach leadership with character i was pointed at cannot lie, cheat, or steal, and here's the important part. they will not tolerate anyone who does. now imagine if america was filled with people like this for those values, the institution you learn this, it becomes who you are and i see it articulated and i see it in everyday life. they help people

they are, they always have your back and it makes me not just proud for my country, but it makes me feel safe and secure knowing that they've got they've got our backs i will say it in an age when our politics seems so deeply selfish, a lot of the time, i think one of the things that i see in these clips that that were watching of these kids something that we can all aspire to, which is to think more about the people round us and these kids are obviously actually doing that. >> their actions are bearing it out. you mentioned the institution westpoint, what it means to them. let's watch a little bit more about what they had to say when you ask them that question, take a look. >> can several of you tell me what west point means to you personally? not describe the institution, but it's impact on you what the first thing that goes through my mind is the classic question of, if not me, then who how can i expect there to be a military if i wouldn't want to sign up for it we're lucky to have a

volunteer force that's something that a lot of americans don't think about, that we as a nation cabin, all volunteer force, that's not present in most of the world. >> for media to call it. >> it's a sense of duty something that isn't tasked to paula me, but something that i feel as if i need to do for my family, for my fellow americans. and most importantly for my friends. here, i wake up every morning being proud to serve and to be at this institution because i'm doing it for the people around me. >> so frank, in an age where we see some of the way the way that smarter leaders act conduct themselves in public. and you contrast it with these kids. and what they're able to say and do i mean can we get them to watch some of this and maybe help everybody get to a point that's closer to this over the last two days and met with seven senators, ten members of congress, and even number of democrats and republicans. they asked challenging questions because

the institution teaches them how to do so so you can you can say, wait, i don't think this is right where i don't think this is fair. but you can do so civilly and decently. >> and you can do so without a shred of partisanship it never comes up. >> i watched the debate with mlc, the debate coming up october 1, and they look each other straight in the eye and they sit up straight and their entire behavior is one they were trying to teach the u.s justice. they model model their behavior, off of what's right and what's decent and what's fair? i wish america could learn more from them and do exactly the same so of course the eu conducted this focus group in may. >> this was before these kids were about to graduate, which means that they are headed for training for a real-world that many others their age are nowhere near there heading to,

you asked them about what their goals are. let's take a look at how they answered that question what is the impact that you wish to have? on the world, on the country, on your family based on you being here at west point, i'd say being a role model that's the main impact that i want to be. >> there's different divides and divisions at all across the country but i think one thing at least at the academy, we can come together is understanding what being a role model looks like what it looks like ethically, being a leader and being resilient, you know, physically and mentally. and i think that's what i would want to give the countries that there is hope and there's leadership out there it was president laken that said if the united states over falls, that'll be around doing and not on other countries and i think west point facilitates humility and our facilitates all the purpose and a love for others besides, besides yourself. >> and i think it's the antithesis of that its pride, which is currently causing most

of it all of our problems. so i think the way do you inspire that shift in values is to do we yourself lead by example so frank pride and patriotism have been a part of this presidential campaign, sometimes in very negative ways. >> but one of the kids, one of the young, one of the young man that we heard from their his personal story is one of great, remarkable will patriotism tell us about it was important here he is born in iraq. >> his father was a translator, and now he's a rhodes scholar. and that's what west point does. it takes decent young people and turns them into liters of character and courage. and then the second gentleman talk about humility when do you see young people actually? sacrifice for others and respect others above themselves? and that's what makes west point unique and exceptional with extraordinary

cadets but it's all a part of living. it's all a part of the era is different. there heading up there now. and i can't wait because when you're around them you feel better about the country. you feel safe and secure. >> and you know that there's no reason for us to treat each other with disrespect that this country is better than that. >> they defend the constitution, not a president, not a political party, not a government that constitution and they all appreciate it because they're taught what that means yeah, so how does knowing what you know about them being able to work with them like this, how does it make you view when donald trump says things about how america's declining country, he's sometimes says things that make it sound, it made me maybe it's not worth fighting for it. >> what do you make of that language? >> well, here's what west point taught me. i'm actually going

to not answer that question. because there's not a shred not an ounce of partisanship in them. and they will defend whoever's the president they will defend the constitution, whatever they're asked to do, they do. and they're prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. i want to emphasize sure. >> but there are leaders serving them when they talk about our country that way they are prepared to put up with anything these are young people who walk with backpacks of 90 pounds or 100 pounds, mile after mile after mile carrying incredible weaponry carrying each other up and down hills and it's so heartwarming to know that there is still i wish there were more than 4,400 of them. i wish that other universities could do what they do because it would change the direction of our country. america is a great country because we have great young people and we have great young people because of institutions

that bring out the best in them, the best professors, the most amazing people who serve and its impacted my life. >> well, thanks for giving us an opportunity to hear from them, frank, i really appreciate it and thank you for cnn for bringing them to the american people. for sure. >> all right. ahead here on cnn this morning, absentee ballots in the mail in battleground, wisconsin. we're gonna look at the latest polling. if the state of the race from wisconsin's former lieutenant governor mandela barnes plus welcome or not, donald trump says he is planning to pay a visit to springfield, almost doubled they're population in a period of a few weeks. >> could you believe it and you know what they've got to get much tougher. >> i'm going to go there in the next two weeks. i'm going to springfield sunday on the whole story. >> how does a bernie bro become a pro-trump, pro-putin social media superstar? >> maga communist, you know? >> people watching cnn, i gonna say, you're crazy. >> the whole story with

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ultimately eliminate the federal department of education and send education back to wisconsin and back the states. she did exactly what she promised. >> and now wisconsin in every other state is dealing with the consequences. let's not forget our history, america. the labor movement starts in wisconsin. it's wisconsin all right, joining us now, former wisconsin lieutenant governor mandela barnes, who was also the democratic senate nominee in the badger state in 2022 sir, good morning. thank you so much for being here. >> hi, good morning. thanks so much for having me. >> so i've got to tell you these, these new polls we've got one from quinnipiac, one from the new york times out this morning show, the wisconsin race, incredibly tight i have to say the sources that i talked to on the democratic side seem to feel better about wisconsin than they do about pennsylvania yeah for example. so i was interested to see these numbers now that said you lost your race to senator johnson by just

about 26,000 votes. biden won wisconsin by just about 20,000 votes. it is going to be very close. what do you think harris in particular because you have a sense of what a democrat needs to do to win there. what would she need to due to pull this out well, i'll tell you these polls are all over the place and they continue to show a tight and tightening race that grows in intensity and grows and importance with each passing day so i want to tell folks to not pay attention to the polls, just focus on the work that needs to get done. >> always. act as if we're one point down. i think that brings the best and nurses organizers, i think it brings out the best in people as candidates and you see these trips multiple trips over and over again from vice president harris and governor walz to wisconsin because they realized how important things are and what's going on, what's important is the fact that they are talking about abortion access, that you're talking about freedom. they are talking about fundamental rights, but also talking about economic opportunity through the opportunity agenda. and i

don't think it gets enough press that kamala harris talks about a path forward to improve quality of life for americans. not just in the state of wisconsin, but what is good for wisconsin? it's good for folks all across the country and people need to think about how much they're paying for groceries, how much they're paying for gas, all these things that are happening, and a lot of this is not necessarily consequential of the role of the president. however, a president that truly understands what people are going through and wants to work to hold corporations accountable, to hold drug companies accountable, as she has done as a prosecutor? yes. >> no, no. i don't i don't want to interrupt you, but i do want to kind of drill down on one thing because one of the one of the reasons why wisconsin is a little different from michigan and pennsylvania is that it does have a lower share of minority voters those other two states, that's clearly a place democrats have done well in the past, but it also underscores that harris doing well with those voters in wisconsin is

even more critically important for her. and there has been some slippage among particularly black men for democrats, some of them have gone toward donald trump. why is that? and as harris doing enough to address it while can tell you there has been a lot of disinformation out there and it didn't just start with this campaign. this has been a pervasive issue for campaign cycle after campaign cycle, and unfortunately at a lot of campaigns and a lot of parties across the country haven't paid enough attention to it because there's business assumption that black people are just going to show up and vote for democrats. and we learned a tough lesson in 2016, and we have learned less over lesson with his increasingly close elections and the walking i do think that kamala harris's campaign, her particularly as an individual, has been making a strident effort to appeal to black male voters i think that she's been talking about the right things. i think that she's been employed in the race surrogates and i think that she is making the conversation and making the case as best as anyone possibly can. >> what do those voters see? and donald trump in your view

well donald trump had a very different profile before he decided to run for president he was a person that some people sort of glamorize. >> he was a subjective, many rap lyrics. and you know, when you think about how donald trump sold himself, it was attracted to a lot of people, not just black males, a lot of people across the entire country, people saw him as some shining star of achievement. but as we know, it was all a farce. it was all based on half-truths and mostly lies but as the war becomes lifted over people's eyes, we need to make sure that folks in every community across this country, it will be scam artists for who he truly is, people need to know that he is a person who is not some self-made billionaire. he's a person who's had a handout that nobody that most people in this country will never have access to? yes. nothing in common with the people that he has made some sort of appeal with whether it's a white working class voters or a very small sliver

of black male voters all right, the former lieutenant governor of wisconsin, mandela barnes server, grateful to have you on the show this morning. >> thanks for being here. >> thanks. happy to be here. look forward to coming back thank you. >> all right. 51 minutes past the hour. here's your morning round up. >> the disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein, pleading not guilty to a new sex crime charged. >> the alleged incident happened in new york in 2006. weinstein remains behind bars on a 2022 sex assault conviction and is awaiting a november retrial in his 2020 26 assault conviction. after that one was overturned. and this the search for the man who opened fire on a kentucky interstate now appears to be over a couple of found a body in the forest where authorities have been searching for the past week, officials say they're very confident that this ends the manhunt, which started nearly two weeks ago after five people were shot on i75 with an ar-15 investigators waiting on a dna test to

confirm the identity today. >> the trump campaign targeted by iranian hackers. those hackers sent stolen information to people associated with the biden campaign, law enforcement officials say there's no indication those people whoever responded and the harris campaign says, the material was never used students. >> now back in school in springfield, ohio after bomb threats forced local officials to cancel classes there the threats coming in the aftermath of donald trump's claims on the presidential debate stage claiming that haitian migrants were eating people's pets in the city. local officials have debunked those claims and they are also asking national candidates to stay away from their city with resources. now stretched because of all of the negative attention if either one of the candidates wanted to come to springfield, it would be very, very difficult to have them here would be an extreme strain on our resources. so it would be fine with me if they decided not to make that stop right now. >> the former president seems

unmoved by that request i'm going to go there in the next two weeks. >> i'm going to springfield and i'm going to aurora may never see me again, but that's okay got to do what i got it. whatever happens to trump while he never got out of springfield seeming to imply that the town is so unsafe, but he won't make it back ohio's director of public safety, defending the migrant population the number one issue we have in the public safety space with the haitians not it's not crime, it's not violence, it's the driving that that's the public safety issue. so what we want to do is we want to get driver's education to that population okay. >> our panel is back. mike dubke this one's for you know, mysteriously why why would he do this? ohio is not a swing state. the most valuable resource with 47 days left for

any campaign as a candidate, it's time. he is showing up or says he's going to show up in a place that is telling him not to come because literally there students are kept being kept out of school because of the threats. >> well, i think it's in the president's dna. president trump's dna to two quadruple quinn triple down on things. i think if they said please come to springfield. he would then go to wisconsin or pennsylvania, or michigan where i think the campaign it would be better served frankly, this reminds me of 2016 when you had hillary clinton at the end when she thought she was going to win the election, she didn't go to wisconsin. you just had the former lieutenant governor on talking about the fact that she lost the vote in milwaukee. and trump won that. and when the white house, so campaigns it is valuable to have their time there. he shouldn't be going to ohio. but i think it's in his dna to answer the question, kendra. >> i mean, what this is, what he does is, as mike says, he doubles down, he triples down, but we know what the larger

problem here, right? i mean, this is he did it with birther and obama. he said he finds something and he sticks with it and he goes over and over again. i just i feel bad for the kids and for the people who live in the city. the city is telling him not to come. but as long as they're going to tell him not to come, he's going to continue to go there sabrina there's a headline on the front page of the wall street journal today is it reads as follows, told pet eating was untrue trump team spread it anyway springfield, ohio officials informed vance's staff that rumors were baseless. >> it didn't matter. and now the town is in chaos. the by-line of springfield, ohio says that the city manager, brian heck, fielded an unusual question at city hall on the morning of september 9, from a staff member of republican vice presidential nominee j.d. vance. the staffer called to ask if there was any truth to bizarre rumors about haitian immigrants and pets in springfield, he asked point blank, are the rumor is true of peddle? it's being taken in eaton recalled, heck, i told him no, there was no verifiable

evidence or reports to show that this was true. i told them that the claim was baseless. but of course, by then, vance had already posted the rumors. now this wall street journal reporter, chris meagher, went to the home of a woman where apparently this rumor may have started he had filed a police report about a missing cat she had referenced haitian migrants the reporter found that the woman had actually located a cat in her basement this is how we got here. what is trump doing here and what does it say about where are, where the campaign is? >> and i would add, i mean, this woman, i recommend everyone reads the story, but this woman later says she apologize to her haitian neighbor's. and when she realized that that she found her cat and i think it just shows the power of disinformation and misinformation that we're seeing in this election cycle. i think to the point that we've brought home here today is sort of this is trump. i mean, trump is not the person that's going to say my bad. it was a debunked claim and i shouldn't

have said it and you're not going to hear that from j.d. vance as well but i just got back from being on the road in pennsylvania and arizona and this is something that that is coming up talking to voters on the democratic side, you're hearing so base voters kind of joke added, or show outrage about it and or a combination of the two and saying, you know, while at least we're not saying that we're like eating cats and dogs. but what i have heard is talking to republican base voters that are really say, that are saying this is true, that are saying, oh yeah, i've seen the videos. oh, yes. >> this is 100% then true? it's just now the media saying that it's not true. so this is really just feeds into that relationship that donald trump has created with the media of saying that we're lying. but these are baseless claims and people sort of feeding into oh, no, that it is true and really fueling the base, which is what we've seen him do so much of this cycle just the? irony of the former president calling out democrats for their rhetoric and his view that that

had an impact on the assassination attempts, but not changing his own rhetoric on a town that is now really suffering. >> as a result of of elevating these discredited claims. >> want to have to say it might mean these are jd vance's constituents. >> they are that's a fact i look, i come back to this. there if i had to put my campaign had on and look at why the trump campaign is doing this. >> to your point about voters in different areas of the country. if you're, if your goal is to turn out low propensity, trump voters and create an atmosphere where you can have something to talk about. because now we're how many days into the store we are ten days into the story this is a perfect, this is made for tv, made for social media story that goes back-and-forth if that is your goal, rather than to convince undecided voters to come to your side, you're you want to turn out low propensity base voters that makes sense. i

understand what they're trying to do here. i don't happen to agree with it because i think they've got a target rich environment with in the seven states that we care about talking about the economy, talking about immigration, talking about international crisis. >> but all of what you said is coming at the expense. of the people. >> and i was just going to say too that you see with kamala harris, she is out there talking about the issues she's talking about abortion and she's talking about housing. she's talking about childcare, and she's talking about the issues that do matter to voters at the end of the day. and so, you know, i think as long as she keeps going out there and talking about this she will expand the electorate and she will get more voters. we hope on her side because she's talking about the issues that matter when some of the issue polling that's out this morning is i think some of the most interesting because it may show that she's winning this kind of push pull with republicans. alright, thank you guys for being with us this morning. i really appreciate your time. thanks to all of you for joining us as well. i'm kasie hunt don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now