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right now on cnn this morning it was easy five minutes in and out. >> everything was peaceful and streamlined record turnout, more than 300,000 people in june we're just showing up on the first day of early voting. >> plus this i was supposed to live and you very peaceful transfer downplaying january 6, donald trump dodges questions about if whether whether he'll commit to a peaceful transfer of power our while claiming that what happened in 2021 was very peaceful and later they say you might just stick to your talking points and somebody says you have it will be called discipline to scripted. kamala harris defending herself against criticism that she's sticks to the same script

coast. a live look at capitol what will hill on this wednesday morning. good morning. everyone. kasie hunt, it's wonderful to have you with us 20 days left in the race for the white house and another battleground state gangs started early on tuesday, more than 300,000 voters went to the polls on the first day of early voting in georgia setting, a single day record for early voting in that state's history last time i waited, my i'm going around the block around the coin. >> now i'm getting my vote in today. right now on that first day of early voting, donald trump appeared in georgia trying to get out the vote after he had discouraged early voting among his supporters four years ago well, if you have a valid returning it immediately, if not, go tomorrow or as soon as you can go to the polls and vote then for the next 21 days, get

everyone you know, to get out and vote the people of georgia are going to end. kamala harris ran afoul trump in georgia looking for early votes. kamala harris continuing to step up her media appearances, she was on a virtual townhall with charlemagne tha god on his popular radio show, the breakfast club. as she tries to draw more distinctions with her opponent in this election and by voting in this election you have two choices or you don't feel but you have two choices. >> if you do and it's two very different visions for our nation. one mind that is about taking us forward and progress in investing the american people, investing in their ambitions, dealing with their challenges. and the other donald trump is about taking us backward all right, joining us now to talk about campaign in these final three weeks. >> nick johnston, publisher at axios. nick, good morning. good morning to see you. >> so we had two very different i mean, harris is correct and

that there seemed to be two very different visions for the country and on display here donald trump, of course was, did a variety of appearances yesterday in which he seemed defensive about january 6, he was defensive about tariffs in an interview with the wall street journal, harris, of course, feeling like she needs to get out there more especially appealing to black americans what are you looking for watching here in the final? >> days of this race? >> i mean, like where people are trying to get the final message out. i think what the kamala harris campaign has done as began to change a little bit of their messaging strategy heading to a lot more places. there was a lot of criticism and a lot of showed up in the polling that people really know who she was. there was one thing to be a jew, not joe biden not donald trump, which needed provide less more of a positive message. what are you for? what are you like? and i think certainly in the past week, the harris campaign has changed their strategy on that, showing up patrols on the god pod, catherine would be other podcasts of 60 minutes interview with issues going on

fox later this week really trying to get more of a sense of getting into the mix, like even possibly going on joe rogan, we've seen some reports those would be a big audience of trying to both tell the electorate more about who she is and then of course finding those people who are going to vote, right? it's no more an academic exercise here as you've got to top of the hour, like they're voting. now and so it's not just about reaching people and trying to change their mind, but making sure people we'll get out to vote and what's really interesting, but the media strategy, it's not so much traditional places where you might find voters who are less likely to go to the polls. and i think both sides are very much and to get out the vote operations now, because as people are going to pull it's time. >> one of the biggest differences in this election cycle. it seems to me, nick, is that in the past when you talk to strategists on both sides of the aisle, i feel like they're telling the same story, which is that democrats used to be able to, if they could get what, what what they refer to as low propensity voters, people who don't normally show up, maybe they only show up in presidential years, but maybe only once in a while, or basically not at all. it used

to be democrats if they got those people to show up, could, could count on them, mostly voting for the democrat, whereas now it seems as though republicans actually may have the advantage that he's flipped on the head. >> i don't even really know where to come down on. that is interesting because republicans have been very critical about the way donald trump talked about dropbox is and early mail voting and that cost them send races in georgia after the election last year. and i think republicans are struggling right now with how do you get let me look. donald trump flip-flop back on that issue. he says early voting is fake and drop boxes are fagan that you showed the clip just now it's like get out and vote early, vote anyway, you possibly can. so i think both parties are adjusting to this new reality of who are these low propensity voters? it is a key element. here is something i think the thing i'm watching more now than anything, less about the messaging and more about the get-out-the-vote. where are the candidates going to try and get these people out to vote? because i think data to then make the difference, especially in an election, this close, you're not convincing anyone else i can think it's very unlikely someone else is going to wake up and finally change their minds with the people you've already reached. get them out the door. >> i thought it was interesting

with harris talking there with charlemagne tha god, how she said, well, you have two choices. if you do vote, right? >> the reality is the choice. the more important choice maybe to be between voting and not voting for a lot of sb entire thing now, so look commonly harris campaign raised $1 we're running out of ad slot but you could purchase for doing that. and i think there's a ton of money flying is something elon musk which poured a lot of money that the trump campaign is talking about. as i saw recently, he's been doing a bunch of events in pennsylvania to attend an event with elon musk the prove you voted in pennsylvania, the focus is on get-out-the-vote right now. >> interesting way to look at it. we do have a new poll out this morning, nick from marquette university law school, but it's close. >> i know. right. it's like, oh, new polling headline. >> look at this 48 47. they did do a likely voter screen. so they included third-party candidates and that which is why they're both below 50. but this, i mean, i have to say when i talk to my sources, they look at this and they say, this means trump wins the election.

if it is so close in this national, obviously, we're going to talk deep down about each battleground state they all matter. it could go either way. but essentially the argument that's often made to me is that democrats need a significant lead in the national polling if they want to see that translate and battlegrounds those trends, right? >> you know, a democrat used to go with 456 points in the national because of the way the electoral college is built. but i don't know what to believe anymore as you're taken in these kind of put like i don't want to be a nihilist about it, but these calls are also close to movement has been so much, i think commonly harris have just the beginning of them saying like we're under dawn, but it's a race they can win, but it's not going to be easy. and when the races or that close, it's a matter who gets out a betting those are the polls and that's what they're focused on for sure. >> alright. nick johnson pours this morning, nic. thank you. i really appreciate it coming up here on cnn this morning an ultimatum for israel, the us warning they could revoke military aid if the humanitarian situation in gaza doesn't get better. plus, why a judge in georgia has blocked a new rule about hand-counting election ballots in that state

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comes back up from the very, very low levels that it is out today. >> israel vowing to address those concerns. max foster joins us now with more on this from london. max, good morning. always wonderful to see you at. let's start with we again, we don't have a lot of information at this hour about what it is israel has decided. we're just learning here that they are her ready with plans to retaliate against these missiles, strikes, and obviously the question has been, how far would they go? would they hit iranian nuclear facilities? some former israeli officials have been urging them to do that. would they hit oil facilities that would have an economic impact? it seems like we're learning right now. they've decided against that. they're going to try to hit military targets. how do you look at this as we try to learn more about what's next. >> well, you know, we're going to see whether or not the u.s. have any leverage there because they are the ones saying not to go for oil, not to go for

nuclear and then israel apparently responding saying is gonna be military targets if it is military targets and it's pretty clear the u.s. has had some leverage there, which is important right now, because a lot of the world is looking at america saying you keep warning israel not to do things. and he's ignoring you. so this will be a big test of that obviously, the scale of the attack will also define the scale of the response from iran as well. so how much this escalates, all that tension in the middle east and we've also had this letter that you were mentioning from the u.s. to israel, another big test of whether or not israel is listening to the united states right now, where there has the power that he should have really considering how much military aid it gives to israel, right? >> well, max, let's talk about that letter for a second. because here's how the new york times framed it. because that letter it's worth noting, came from the secretary of state and the secretary of defense, not from president biden. and the times writes this the decision not to put

the letter in mr. biden's name, some aides said may provide a level of insulation for vice president kamala harris, who as the democratic nominee for president, has walked a fine line, declining to issue any threats to israel while urging the war must end quickly. in part to end the heartbreaking loss a palestinian lives and they also note that this comes just three weeks of course, before the election, but this has been a tough thing for harris to navigate on the one hand, the left of her party, very focused on the devastation in gaza, but on the other hand, she has been trying to move to the center to appeal to swing voters here in the u.s. at tend to support israel and the other way that some people are saying this plays into politics as it's a 30 day deadline. >> so they weren't have to be a response until after the election also a lot of military experts are saying this is gonna be academic, ultimately because if you've got a situation where there could be

a conflict between iran and israel and america pulled military aid to israel that's almost unthinkable. but clearly the americans are very worried about the situation in gaza, humanitarian eight situation, doing whatever they can to make sure some aid gets in. it's just been dwindling, dwindling and dwindling. and now we've effectively got a blockade according to the un in northern gaza. and there's no help getting in at all. people are literally starving and they need vaccinations. and it's getting worse all the time, not better all right. >> max foster for us this morning. max, always grateful to have you. thank you so much for being here. >> all right. coming up next here on cnn this morning, three weeks since hurricane helene, north carolina's still counting the number of people missing, we'll bring you the latest ahead. >> the reality is that there are certain things that must be repeated to scripted or on message vice president harris responds to her critics

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peaceful transfer of power. >> now, four years later, he is dodging that question. once again, during an event with bloomberg news and chicago yesterday, trump was asked that same question when he commit to quote, respecting an encouraging, a peaceful transfer of power sense of gdp well, you had a peaceful transfer of power. you had a peaceful transfer of power. you had piece. >> come on. >> you got a piece that you would appeal just whole transfer of power compared with venezuela. but it was by far the most, the worst transfer of power for a long time. >> it was love and peace and some people went to the capital and a lot of strange things happen there. i left, i left the morning that i was supposed to leave. i went to florida. and you had a very peaceful transfer of course, after trump's loss in 2020, he refuted the election results and then a violent mob stormed the capitol building on january 6, 2021

person killed was ashley babbitt. she was a woman who was shot by capitol police. however, she was one of five deaths reported following the insurrection at the capitol that day kamala harris continuing to stress her and trump's contrasting plans for the presidency it's two very different visions for our nation. >> one mine that is about taking us forward and progress in investing the american people investing in their ambitions, dealing with their challenges. and the other donald trump it's about taking us backward, but others about fascism. >> what can we just say? it yes, we can say that trump's campaign responded to harris as remarks on social media. >> they said this type of rhetoric, they quote, led to the two assassination attempts against president trump joining us now cnn, national political reporter, daniel strauss. daniel, good morning to you this is trump here in the final 20 days of this campaign. as we

are barreling toward the possibility that this could be an election balanced on a knife's edge and everyone is wondering, okay, if kamala harris narrow ledges out, donald trump what is trump going to do? >> that's the question here. and it seems as though he's laying out what he is going to do in the event that that happens. because he's insisting that what happened on january 6, it was peaceful. i think the picture show you otherwise that it was not peaceful how do you look at what trump is doing here in these final days? >> and what should we be prepared for? >> it's not just trump, it's republican party at large, you know, trump and his campaign under, in the past few months have really changed the republican national committee from a get out the vote operation to one that is basically a law firm filing legal challenges against voting and preparing for a contested

election. even as trump himself, am sub his rhetoric and the kind of things that cause kamala harris and her allies to say that she should call him out as fascist look, this is going to be a very close election. and it's unlikely we're going to know what the results are going be on election night and if there's any sort of outcome that trump does doesn't like he's going to argue that it was stolen, that there were questions to be had, and that there was foul play daniel, the harris campaign is raising questions about trump's fitness, especially in the wake of that rally that he held or the town hall, i should say that he held earlier in the week. >> there were some medical emergencies and then he ended up spending half an hour on stage dancing to his to his spotify playlist. he also got really prickly in an interview yesterday we had played various dancing again, went on

this town hall. the comments that he made about january 6. >> he also was pressed about some of his economic policies by john mcarthur of bloomberg news, formerly of the economists mickles invoke the wall street journal and trump got very testy about it. >> let's watch that moment. >> when the markets are looking at the fact you are making all these promises. latest one was car loans to people like the wall street journal. he's hardly a communist organization that you don't have criticized view on this as well? but you are running up enormous depths. >> what is the wall street journal now a meeting with them tomorrow? what is the wall street journal? they've been wrong about everything. so of you, by the way, you've been wrong about it with the arms crossed what kind of figure is trump cutting at this point in the campaign look, one who is very confident in a very, very simple economic proposal, which is a 10% across-the-board tariff that as michael fleet was saying, would cause a

negative impact across the country according to economists. >> and you could see here that i can't think of the last time where someone like michael thwaites, someone really steeped in business and economics, called him out in such a way. and it's clear that trump didn't like that. >> clear indeed. all right. daniel strauss for us this morning, daniel very grateful for you. thank you for being here. >> all right. it is not of course, just the white house up for grabs here in 20 days, democrats are hanging on to the senate by a thread. they currently only have a two seat majority, 51, 49, and that includes for independents who caucus with the democratic party. west virginia, all but certain to flip from blue to red come november because of joe manchin's decision to retire from the senate and to competitive senate seats currently held by democrats in ohio and montana are in states that are, let's be real red states now and that makes democrats path to defending their majority in the upper chamber even more complicated.

there is one race and let's they are always hopeful about it because of who holds it currently. but this is pretty interesting in texas because congressman colin all all-red trying to unseat longtime republican senator ted cruz a recent poll showed all read just four points behind crews last night. the pair took to the stage to debate that was never there for us when we need him when the lights went out in the energy capital of the world, he went to canned on january 6 when a mob was storm in the capital. >> he was hiding in a supply closet. and when the toughest border security bill in a generation came up, the united states senate. he took it down. you know what he argued for military bases should have drag shows and should be able to fly a transgender flag above it looked calm the old fashioned, i think the only flag that should fly above our military base should be the american faeser all right, joining us now, senior congressional reporter for punchbowl news, andrew desiderio. andrew, good morning to you. look, this is a race. this is not the first

time that we've talked about somebody who is challenging ted cruz, democrats are always hopeful about it, write it never actually pans out i will say this is the time that it's probably the closest, right. call an all-red as a candidate, bring some things to the table that others may not have in the past and in the right national environment maybe something might happen there. why is it so close in texas right now? >> well, it's getting closer and closer each time ted cruz has run for reelection. of course last time he ran against beto o'rourke a year, remember, and he only lost by a few points. that was of course, a midterm year in midterm years, we see a much lower voter turnout. usually we're now in a prison a year. voter turnout is going to be higher. i think that benefits ted cruz here. but again, colin all-red is a strong candidate. he is someone that senate democrats are very high on and that is why the dscc, the senate democratic campaign arm, is pumping tons of money right now into texas to try to go on offense here and look one of the main reasons they're doing that is

because they've got this really slim majority. and if they lose just one of those battleground states to republicans, their majority goes poof unless they pick up a seat in texas or in florida, which is another state they're trying to compete in, which again, the odds are pretty slim for there as well. so again, this is all about saving their majority there. there's obviously only a few weeks left here. so there's only so much you can do only so much money you could pump into this state. but the dscc and senate democrats writ large are feeling a little bit more optimistic let's talk about texas this year than they have in recent years. >> it's interesting montana and ohio, the two other kind of red state seats. jon tester out in montana. i honestly having the fight of his life. yeah, there are a lot of people that have kind of written them off ohio, maybe a little bit different than i know you just traveled there. how do you see these two races, this point look, these are the two best pick up opportunities for republicans right now. they need to just, again, they just need to flip one of those to get the senate majority. they

would like both. obviously, they would like more than like some other rust belt states. they would like arizona nevada, for example, but montana, montana, and ohio are obviously the biggest pickup opportunities right now. what they have to contend with is a group of really thousands of voters who are going to be ticket splitters. in other words, people that vote for donald trump at the top of the ticket, but also vote to reelect their incumbent democratic senator, which might sound very weird. but there are a lot of voters, especially in these states, who are doing that. because john tester and sherrod brown, the incumbents in those states are running based on their own personal brands, trying to distinguish themselves from the national democratic party brand. they've, they've had some success in doing that. they've been able to outrun kamala harris in that respect? in montana, like you mentioned, might not be enough to close the gap in ohio. it's much more doable for democrats and sherrod brown is a uniquely strong candidate in that respect. but again, senate democrats the fate of senate democrats and majority

ironically, will come down to a group of people who will vote for donald trump. in these red states andrew, when you're on the ground in ohio, did you get the sense that the brown campaign thinks they're going to win? >> i did honestly, because, bernie moreno, who is the republican running against him and republicans view him as a strong candidate. he's saying all the right things doing all the right things right now, capitalizing on all of these national issues to try to bludgeon sherrod brown and really tie him to again, the national democratic party, but sherrod brown is focusing on a lot of local issues here i'm running against really everyone he's running against democrats, he's running against republicans. he talks about how presidents of both parties have sold out our state when it comes to trade policies, when it comes to the bottoming out of the of the auto manufacturing industry in ohio, for example, he talks about the fentanyl crisis in the context of the border, right that's how he's trying to blunt some of those attacks from republicans over border security. and again, republicans obviously

trying to tie him to that the biden administration record and trying to tie him to kamala harris. he's pushing back and saying no presidents of both parties have failed in that respect. and that was a phrase, by the way, that he used many times when i was within what presidents of both parties that at least half a dozen times and that's deliberate, right. >> fair enough. all right. andrew desiderio. thank you very much for being here this morning. i really appreciate it. >> all right. still ahead on cnn this morning rambling or weaving it's called the wave. it's happen two candidates, two very different approaches to messaging. >> we'll take a look at those plus world series. her bust for the new york yankees bleacher report next psoriasis, my skin was no longer mine. my active psoriatic arthritis join symptoms held me back. >> don't let james define you emerge as you with clearer scam

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donald trump's seems literally almost physically incapable of talking about every time it gets a question about it, you got a strange ramp she only speaks to voters behind a teleprompter. >> everything is scripted. >> donald trump, we know is just going to ramble on, say, a number of incoherent things. maybe say some really crazy and outlandish things to anyone who has watched both a kamala harris at or a donald trump rally, it's very clear that these two candidates have very different styles on stage. >> and when interviewed and while both, as you saw, there have been criticized by their opponents for the respected are these respective styles? harris a scripted trump is rambling. they both defend their rhetorical approaches as they're making media rounds in the final weeks of the election folks, are you come off as a very scripted they say you like to stick to your talking points in some media says you have that will be called discipline. but what do you say to people who say you stay on the talking points i, would say you're welcome.

>> there are certain things that must be repeated to ensure that i have everyone know what i stand for ago. you and i call it the wave. you can call it. it's got to have the wave as long as you end up in the right location at the end. but i'm just telling you basic. it's called the wave. it's all these different things happen all right, turning now to discuss cnn, chief media analyst brian stelter. brian, good morning. it's wonderful to have you on the program. thank you for being up so early with us let's talk about what we're seeing from these two in the final weeks. i mean, harris i thought that was fascinating that she says, look, what i'm doing, it's called discipline. and, you know, as someone who's covered a lot of these candidates, this is certainly something that historically is considered to be an asset for anyone trying to become president of the united states. trump obviously takes a different approach. >> and i'm going to try not to do the we've with you, but but here's when trump says that he

is very self-aware and when his critics that hit him for rambling or dancing on stage, i think they're missing the connection that he has with his fans he creates a loving, adoring connection even when he rambles, even, even when he goes off script and he complains that harris is scripted and always someone a teleprompter, which of course is not true. and when when she was on yesterday with charlamagne tha god that was a long and unscripted, challenging interview. i was glad to see cnn simulcast that, you know, millions of people were able to see harris in a very tough interview yesterday it seems to me harris is doing a leave no stone unturned strategy. she's going everywhere doing interviews, she's going to fox news underdog, whereas trump thinks he's sitting on a lead and he's been more careful. well, by trump's standard careful we can never really say trump is actually careful in his events or in his rhetoric yeah, well, i mean, because you saw him say on stage yesterday that he thought about not doing that interview, that he sat for, and the folks over at cnbc say he

pulled the plug on a plan interview with them for later this week, which i think speaks to your when you when you think you're winning, you tend to take if you were risks, right? >> whereas harris does seem to be in a position where her team feels like she needs to take some i think that's exactly what's going on here. >> again, he can ever use the word careful when you're talking about donald trump, but pulling out of cnbc, refusing to go on 60 minutes, refusing to have another debate. he seems to think he's winning. he's acting accordingly. it actually jealous the general political environment where republicans are feeling more confident, democrats are more anxious about the election at all of this is of a piece when it comes to harris, i'm really intrigued by the interviews that she's doing some of them are with journalists, some of them are with influencers and podcaster i think her strategy right now is to try to reach out to news avoiders and people who are cynical about the news, people who don't really want to hear about politics necessarily. that's why she's going on the radio for that town hall yesterday that's why she's doing youtube streaming shows. it's an attempt to reach the persuadable base of

voters who have not yet made up their minds yet. and frankly, you're not going to find them by going on fox the fox interview though that's why the fox interview i think is the unusual one here. maybe she does. she has to do it, yes. to check the box so she can't be accused of ignoring fox in the election. but there are some persuadable voters who might still be watching fox then maybe that's the strategy there today. >> yeah. i mean, i think if you dig into that data, there are some independent voters who watch fox news, who get their news there that better potentially persuadable for her. i agree. it's interesting. i think the question about whether she may or may not do joe rogan's podcast as well? it is one that, i mean, i'm really interested in the risk reward calculus on that, but i guess we'll find out brian stelter, i'm so grateful for you. thank you. i hope you come back i'll be anytime. >> good morning. >> all right. sounds good. all right. time now for sports, the yankees take a commanding league in the lead in the american league championship series he's after beating the

guardians last night. it's my least favorite sentence in the newscast today. carolyn manno has this morning's bleacher report. good morning good morning. >> the 80s and the mets really have new yorkers exciting, kasie and while game one featured one said, oh and giancarlo stanton hitting home runs now, aaron judge getting into the act, the yankees captain had 58 home runs in the regular season, but none in the postseason until the seventh inning of this game drive in effect hezbollah way over the centerfield wall. he knew it right away that right there marked a 14th home run of his playoff career, broke the game wide open as well. also the yankees win 6-3, taking the first two games in the bronx, by the way, teams up to nothing in the best-of-seven series have gone on to win 84% of the time so the guardians are gonna have their work cut out for them in game three tomorrow night on tbs. and max tonight, the mets host the dodgers here in new york. that series is tied at one one and a pretty big tuesday in the nfl beginning with a pair of receivers setting to new homes of brown setting amari cooper

to the bills for a third round pick and some late picks swaps the raiders are sending devontay adams to the jets for conditional third-round pick. adams reunited with his packers teammate aaron rodgers in new york, surprising everybody when he showed up upon aaron's weekly appearance on pat mcafee show on espn i'm soon as a few new low nuances, but for the most part, a lot of the same verbiage they're the same og right here. >> so should be able to pick up where we left off this as the idea tuesday awarding the city the super bowl in 2028. >> this is the second super bowl at mercedes-benz stadium, the other in 2019, which was the last of tom brady's titles in new england. and speaking of tom brady, his purchase of a minority stake in the raiders got approved by the league. so that's a 5% stake in the club according to the associated press the super sa'ar saying he is humbled by the move and what's to help the team any way that he can elsewhere this

morning in the u.s men's soccer team playing in mexico last night, his second game for new manager, mauricio pochettino, a number of us stars were out of action. mexico taking advantage of that fact, real jimenez with a stunning free kick go wrong ising over the wall into the corner, two-nil the final there as the u.s. losing mexico for the first time since 2019. and lastly for you this morning, kasie, this was emotional night in columbus as the blue jackets honored former teammate johnny gaudreau. the jackets and the florida panthers lining up while many of the gaudreau family members came onto the ice receiving a brother matthew were killed back in august after being hit by a suspected drunk driver, john his widow meredith, wiping away tears. she watched a banner with his number 13 raised to the rafters

blue jackets left, who drove wing position empty, and the game stopped at the 13th. second mark two a huge ovation. this was such an emotional moment. kasie, now they're dry eye in the house so many people loved the gaudreau brothers. they love the family and the tragedy impacted so many people some raw emotion is still present from everybody fans, teammates. it was just incredibly powerful to watch last night as the family was there and these two were honored yeah, really, really very, very emotional there and a touching moment to honor them, carolyn. >> thanks very much for that report. i appreciate it. >> our coming up in our next hour on cnn this morning, the final polish, just 20 days until election day. i'm going to speak exclusively to the founder of the faith and freedom coalition as donald trump's allies tried to mobilize evangelical voters

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