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prison administrators saying who the brothers are now. these are the people who know them the best. >> and saying that they should be released, that they have been rehabilitated unbelievable to think of the journey of this particular case neri and klan. >> thank you. we will see how all of us eventually it turns out. thank you erin burnett outfront is next barack obama together tonight, the duo about to take the stage for their first rally together. >> we're going to bring that back to you live. plus trump >> taylor swift for endorsing kamala harris and warned swift's popularity would take a hit, is he writes, some staggering new numbers. and inside one of the ugliest senate races in america where a democrat is hanging onto her seat by a thread or opponents ads against her targeting her
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for being gay. let's go outfront evening. i'm erin burnett outfront tonight. kamala harris and barack obama about to take the stage together for the first time this campaign. the vice president and the former president will be at a rally in georgia. crucial state where new polling today shows the race tied at 49% already at that rally. bruce springsteen calling for glory days ahead, taking the stage moments ago, springsteen, not the only major musical star hitting the trail for harris, although of course, moving for anyone to hear him play like that earlier today, harris said this about trump trump will sit in the oval office stewing, plotting revenge, retribution riding out his enemies list or what i will be doing, which is responding to folks like the folks last night the to-do list, understanding the need to work on lifting up the american
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people that the line that you use last night, right? well, he has an enemies list of revenge. let that she has to do less. and as she mentioned, revenge and retribution today, trump had this to say about one of his top enemies, the government appointed special counsel, who of course horses brought criminal charges against him in two federal cases you're going to have to pardon yourself, are going to have to fire jack smith, which one will you do it so easy, i would try to hit within two seconds i'm just saying she's going to fire him instead of pardon himself, i mean, of course who knows what he really meant, but that's the point he wanted to make. >> still, harris then went on to make specific accusations against terrorists and biden people are crude rude, and vicious and by those things, only the best so is joe biden. he's not the leader of the party, never was. he's the vessel and he was a perfect you know of what they sell them to
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get out. >> and she's no difference watch her last night. >> she's got no intelligence. she's got nothing. he's got nothing last night, of course, he was referencing the town hall here and cnn, which was in fact the most watched town. >> all of this election for either side that's of course is something that trump cares about the ratings, right? if you measure things by ratings, well, it did better than any other town hall. this cycle. but his claim that others are crude, rude, and vicious, of course, is ironic. take a look at what he has said just in recent days if you look at kamala and you look at what she's done to every place. she's touched has turned to. we can't stand you or your vice president is man was strong and tough and i refused to say it. but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there. they said all by god
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trump. >> i think they like me anyway, i think it's all they make. >> when you don't use those certain little key words like is no other word all right. >> let's go to clarkston, georgia. that is where bruce springsteen is. and of course barak obama and kamala harris will be appearing momentarily that rally underway. and priscilla alvarez is there. i know priscilla, you've got some new reporting from the harris campaign. what are you learning right now? >> yeah. as the campaign brings out its star power over the next several days when i'm being told is that the vice president is also honing in on her own closing argument and we've already started to get a told by senior campaign
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drawing that stark contrast between her and the former president. in addition to that, she will continue to amplify issues like reproductive freedom, which she has been a key voice on since the beginning of the year before she was even the top of the party's ticket. but of course, as you mentioned, the star is we're here, are here in georgia. were springsteen performing a little bit ago? of course, he has been a frequent presence in the waning days of the election for democratic candidates. and soon we're going to hear from former president barack obama, followed by the vice president. this will mark their first joint campaign appearance. he of course, has already been deployed on a blitz of his own as he tries to mobilize voters. and that is a key areas here, campaign official telling me the next several days are going to be focused on mobilization and capitalizing on early voting. that is where they
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think they can build the most momentum here at the cobb county, almost one-third of active voters have already cast their ballots. so that is the type of energy and enthusiasm that they are trying to gin up here tonight in georgia, a crucial battleground state, one that they want to put in the vice president's column. and of course, the vice president going to be continuing or beginning saying her closing argument tonight and moving forward and moving forward, erin, of course, democratic star power out there. senator raphael warnock walking out on stage right now everyone is here with me here as we get ready for this appearance. and bakari is priscilla's reporting. we are just minutes away from former president obama taking the stage alongside kamala harris and you say that this moment, if they'll actually be together at the same time on the same stage is huge for the campaign. how come well, i mean the campaign and like many campaigns around this time has been in gotv probably since the debate and so right, what you're trying to do is make sure you get voters from the pews. >> you get voters from the beds, from the couches, from
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their workplace. you're trying to get them to the voting booth and so when you have star power tonight, i mean, you can't even sleep on raphael warnock, but bruce springsteen, when you have barak obama, when you have this litany of celebrities who are coming out urging you to go out to vote that energy he is palpable and we know and we've seen it before that you can win georgia, the person who's won georgia in recent history the most has been somebody like raphael warnock and jon ossoff and even joe biden. and this energy in this particular place in atlanta, in clarkson, right outside of atlanta, is huge. i mean, look at look at this. let's juxtapose barack obama, bruce spring i'm staying raphael warnock and kamala harris next to the fact that over the past two decades, three decades, there has been no one who's run for president or vice president who has endorsed donald trump. save for sarah palin. that is a stark contrast and that's why tonight's events are so important. >> david yeah, i think i think we discussed this before on the
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night before the election in the city of philadelphia. >> i was in the crowd watching the almost the same lineup. right? i saw bruce springsteen, jon bon jovi, beyonce, jay-z hillary. and, bill perry ran a bigger crowd yet? no, no, she was not there in about 30,000 people. and the next day, guess what happened? we walked hillary clinton in pennsylvania. so it's a nice constitute ten, if i was there, i might go here, bruce springsteen tonight but, i don't think it matters squat for november 5 so enjoy your concert. people have a nice time. >> all right, lulu, i think you might, you might express your thoughts slightly differently, but i do know you have some skepticism on the impact of an event like this, although, as i know, you've news audid michelle obama will be appearing with kamala harris on saturday in michigan that were in the final days here. so does it make a difference? >> well, i think i have said
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that michelle obama actually, i think does bring some real star power she inspires and motivates specifically women and especially women of color. they have a real affinity with her arm and we did see, for example oprah winfrey really move numbers when she endorsed brock obama back in the day. and i think she brings that kind of sort of emotional connection. but this lineup, i actually do agree with david here. i think it's a lovely concert i do think bringing energy and having these events is good at. it focuses the media's attention. i'm not sure. it actually moves the vote, right? >> i guess that's the crucial question okay. >> go ahead. cari, before i go ahead, that's not i'm sorry. that's not the purpose and i'm saying not to get purposes to get the purpose. the purpose is to get out the vote is not to move voters is not to persuade anybody. this is purely get out the vote. this is purely gotv. this isn't
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moving people from republican or on the fence. these individuals who are in this crowd, these individuals who are into kept fulton, gwinnett, claypot, all of these individuals from magic city to the pulpits and new birth are going to go out and vote because they hear that voice, they hear that echo. and what they will get from an event like tonight as a sense of urgency, which is far different than what everybody else is talking about yeah. >> i don't think here bruce springsteen's voice is going to make him go vote bakari, sorry. >> alright, well, let's just let's let's let erin asked me that question harry? >> harry, i got to get you in here. okay. let's put some data station. let's get some numbers in their numbers at the crucial must-win swing state of georgia certainly must-win for trump. he was there yesterday. harris tonight with obama, as i said momentarily, we'll hear them speak, but the polls that we see in the state are constantly within the margin of error, neck and neck. but you very specific about georgia? >> yeah. you know, look, i've
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been saying this entire campaign that i think the best track kamala harris to get the 270 electoral votes runs through the great lakes. and when you look at the campaign visits that the both the trump campaign and the obviously the harris campaign has been doing where they visited the least they've actually visited georgia the least out of any of the swing states, which to me lines up with what we're seeing in the polling data at a which is that kamala harris is best path to 270 electoral votes runs through the great lakes. it does not in fact run through the sunbelt. yes, they're having that rally here tonight, but it's actually a relatively rare rally compared to the other rallies that the harris-walz campaign have actually put forth okay. >> bakari, let me ask you about another number that i have been thinking about for now, 24 hours since this since i first saw the wall street journal poll, there is a sub number in there on favourability 53% of registered voters in the united states in the wall street journal poll, which is a gold standard poll, have an unfavorable view you have
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harris, 53% that is up and it is in fact a higher unfavorable than donald trump's okay what's going on. bakari, do you just think it's the polls is totally wrong or what on the kamala harris campaign and one of the things that we've done is hopped off the pollercoaster a long time ago. >> we've kind of thrown these polls off the window the window which you see is people dumping polls in on different things. you have the jiffy lube insights.com poll, probably some david's friends or something dumping street and wall street but nobody is watching that because people started voting three weeks ago. i mean, that's why this conversation is fascinating, because you know what we are watching for watching early voting, were watching trends around the country, particularly in these seven states. we're watching these events and yes, you she may have been the georgia the
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leaves, but you know where she was last saturday in georgia where she today in georgia, they're doing activation events at morehouse spelman this weekend for homecoming, where 30,000 people but we'll be in. so look, i get it. we've seen the bloomberg poll where she's popped on the economy. we've seen the wall street journal poll about favorability. this, that, or the third that's not where the campaign is. and i encourage people to hop off of that pollercoaster. i don't really have an answer to the question because what i am watching is the early vote in pennsylvania. >> all right, and are you saying that that early voting is showing you that people are that don draper rules are wrong and that they are overwhelmingly going for harris in a way that the gop can't make up for. i mean, are you seeing something that clear? >> i don't i don't know. i don't want to go as far as i say, they can't make it up, but i will tell you this that every democrat i know who has some sense of reading early voting, who doesn't necessarily come compare that early voting of 2024 to that of 2020 because that's completely asinine, believes that we're doing extremely well. i mean, europe you have banked 360,000 plus votes in david urban state. that's not including the
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independents, which we know are breaking for kamala harris. that's not including the ten to 12% of republicans. she's probably going to win in that state and so when you're banking those votes, you're actually talking about metrics that matter. michigan turnout, great early voting, wisconsin, same thing and so look, i, we can talk about polls, but for me, votes count votes matter. >> can i can i just jump in yellow second, i think what's fascinating here is what you're seeing in the closing messages with donald trump because keeps saying over and over again is she's dumb. she's stupid. he's using those words deliberately because he wants the message to be that you cannot trust her and that is why you might be seeing this unfavorables popping. he likes to use these repetitive words. those words get into people's psyche. on the harris side, you're seeing a different message, also, negative. this man cannot be trusted. he is, he is a threat to democracy. he is fascist, he is dangerous so the closing messages from both campaigns are actually very similar. they are both very
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negative and they're both trying to persuade people to say, you cannot trust this person with this country all right, erin, i think david oh, i'm sorry. i was going to say when you're talking about that poll the number that sticks out to me, is that right track, wrong track number? that because that is important and that number is so significant, it is it is, it is emblematic of the tie that the harris campaign and it's swimming against when 75% of americans feel the country is going in the wrong direction. maybe it's not 75% this poll, but it's in that, in that range that is a change election. people do not want to keep going in the wrong track generally. and so i think that is the most significant brother way that's not based on reality though the imf just came out. no, but the came out and said that the united states is now the number one economy. we are seeing. gas prices come down. i understand that this has been additional dealings.
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>> lulu understand people feeling i'm just talking about facts that's all. okay you i will tell the uber driver that i was with yesterday that you don't you don't feel his pain because he can't promise not saying i don't feel the pain. >> i should officially talk about the imf report. >> i'm just talking about the numbers. i'm just simply talking about the numbers one more set of numbers. >> we're talking about real people, okay harris and obama are going to be on the stage in just a moment, but before they come out, harry, i want to ask you one more thing about the numbers and that is you know, lulu and david were agreeing a moment ago on sort of the importance of or lack thereof, of having the star power entertainers on stage. >> bruce springsteen, eminem was earlier this week, beyonce tomorrow but of course harris has most notably been endorsed by taylor swift so you looked into what the impact of that has been, and it actually appears there may have been some on taylor swift yeah. >> i mean, donald trump's said essentially that taylor swift is going to pay for her political activity. and if you
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look at taylor swift's net favorability rating, compare it now versus a year ago, look at that. it's dropped by 17 points republicans have turned against her. it's not that she's necessarily convinced to many folks to register to vote. you might have convinced but what we've really seen in the numbers is that she's run into the mac truck that is known as donald trump and the maga base. and it has caused her from being one of the most popular folks in this country to be considerably less popular her favorabilities dropped almost as bad as harris. >> only heck right? >> we will hit pause conversation after this but we are this introduction introduction to brock obama and kamala harris chris on stage. >> now we're waiting for them to take the stage at any moment, this will be their first joint appearance of the campaign, and it will be here live. also in battleground, wisconsin, one of the most important senate races in the country tonight, getting very personal and nasty mlb embed
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is introducing them, so they will be out in just a couple of moments. we're going to bring you those remarks as soon as they walk onto the stage it comes in his trump tonight is covering battleground states out west. so he's out in arizona, must win for him, where he had harris hard on the border given to us through gross incompetence disqualifies her from even thinking about being president were dumping ground, were like we like it garbage can for the world that's what's happened. >> that's what's happened. >> we're like a garbage can you know, it's the first time i've ever said that every time i come up and talk about what they've done to a country i get angry or an angry kristen holmes is outfront and kristen now he's going to nevada. >> so what do you expecting to hear from him tonight? is it going to be more of that and he's talking about the first time he's used words like that garbage can to describe the
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country yeah, i mean, he's just variations of that for some time. now, know whether or not he's going to actually focus on what we're expecting him to talk about, which is the economy they do believe that in nevada in particular, the economy is the number one issue that is where they came up with this idea of no tax on tips. obviously, that in that area with a lot of hospitality, a lot of entertainment is huge policy and one that is widely supported, but whether or not donald trump actually stays on message remains to be seen. i mean, what you're looking at in these various events are very different from what we are seeing on the harris side? no bruce springsteen know beyonce performing instead, it's a lot of airing of grievances mean we play the party his messaging that he wants to get across about immigration, but a lot of it was also attacking john kelly, who had recently said that he believed that he was a fascist attacking the system as a whole. he called biden stupid in the last speech, multiple times this is donald trump completely unfiltered, and i know that we've said he's unfiltered for quite some time,
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but he really has taken all the wheels off here and all the restrictions off. as you said, now he's referring to our country as a garbage can. he is airing out all of his grievances earlier today. he said that he would fire jack smith's something that we've long reported that he was going to do not fire him, but get rid of those cases that were being brought against him by the department of justice, if you won but now he's actually saying the quiet part out loud. >> now, donald trump believes that some of this rhetoric is what helped him win in 2016, particularly the dark rhetoric around immigration. and he believes it could help him win in 2024. and this overarching idea that donald trump is now more unhinged is that's not really exactly what you're seeing, what you're also seeing is donald trump being his truest version of himself? they donald trump that we often hear about. are you often see behind closed doors or you hear about from people? well behind closed doors, the cursing in public constantly the denigrating remarks constantly. that is how donald trump talks when he's not in front of the
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camera. now he is brought that to the forefront all right. >> well, kristen, thank you very much. and of course, he's on his way to nevada and just a moment here in georgia kamala harris and brock, obama will be on that stage together and everyone's back with me on that. so lulu, right the context here, kristen talking about it now when trump is on the stage talking about garbage can of the world, when he's referencing the number of migrants who have come into the united states over the past years does rhetoric like that at this point does it motivate anybody? does it. i mean for or against, i mean, does it move the needle? >> i mean, i think donald trump's pitch is that this country is at a terrible state and the darker, the better because that benefits him. but moving aside from just the rhetoric, what i'm interested in are the policies. i mean, there was a very important article today in the new york times where they interviewed stephen miller. you might remember him from the first
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trump administration, who was the architect of many of former president trump's harshest immigration policies. and he basically detailed what they're planning for a next trump administration. and, some people have called this sort of a xenophobic fever dream it is mass camps, huge deal petitions of millions of people here illegally in this country who might have strong ties, who are not necessarily criminals definitely deporting people like the dreamers, daca recipients who were brought into this country legally as children and have been vetted and have been given permission to stay and work. some of them in the military. i mean, these are so very, very dramatic and draconian ideas about what is going to happen in a second trump administration. and i think those are the things that are reporting and should be getting scrutiny because if trump indeed becomes president, again what we saw in the first trump administration isn't necessarily what's going to happen in a second. and trump
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administration, they've had time to plan and they have real, very strong ideas about what should happen next. and it is indeed a very, very draconian. >> what do you say to that david? to those that list that steve well, i agree with lulu that as a fever dream of people would like to accomplish. but let's be realistic what needs to be accomplished is that the federal government needs identify, locate, round up, and deport 300,000 plus illegal immigrant criminals. first, that's the very first step. >> he was talking about billions, millions of people who i understand what you let you let me finish a little ashore so so if to undertake that alone, would take four years. this is, this isn't something that's easily done, but it has happened over a series of administrations in years. it's could take a series of administrations to get it started and get this country turned around. i said what donald trump's talking
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about, what stephen miller talking about, what americans want to see, they want to see a secure border. they want to see legal immigration. they want to see people who break the law. >> i mean, stephen miller, who is going to have a central role in this administration, was talking very openly. in fact, i urge everyone to go read the article just about, you know, kind of redoing birthright citizenship. the idea that people could, because they're born in this country, they have the right to be citizens bringing back the muslim ban. all these things that really are, were tried in the first administration. they were over turned by the courts and now they've had years to think about how to do it properly. and they're going to try it again and so, you know, you may like that and embrace it, but don't pretend that it's not going to happen. stephen miller basically promised that it would that it was i mean, you might think it's a good idea and there are many might embrace it, but understand that it is something that they are planning it is, it is something that stephen miller's
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planning, whether or not it becomes effective in an administration is not up to just stephen miller. >> there's a congress that has to allocate funds. i mean, this hasn't done by the wave of a magic wand, lulu, i mean, no, i agree. >> i agree, but he was talking about but appropriating funds from the military using the us military to deport some of these people building huge camps on the u.s. border in, on land in texas. i mean, it was very detailed. i mean, i'm just i'm just repeating what he said. you're saying he it might not happen or it couldn't happen? all right. promising that it will. >> i'm just going to hit pause here on this conversation. i hope everyone will read the article and think about it. here comes the foreign president barack obama he is coming out mistake. obviously in just a moment going to be joined by vice president kamala harris in their first joint appearance. together this entire campaign season she will be appearing also with michelle obama this weekend here in
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these final days so obviously, they're hoping that this is going to be as bakari sellers was just saying, really aid turnout event as opposed to eight persuading event, a turnout event. let's listen to the former president now here in georgia buddy, bruce springsteen a couple of guys from those capital one commercials if that doesn't get you fired up to vote, i don't know what will already. i'm going to repeat it. we are going to keep
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repeating it here in georgia. early voting has already started so if you have not already to go you're going to remember to bring your photo id if you need to figure out where to go. go to aiwill vote.com slash ga. and then you get your friends and you get your family to make a plan to vote chance to choose a new generation of leadership in this country and start building a better and stronger and fair and more hopeful america.
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election is going to be taken because, lot, of americans are still struggling as a country. we've been through a lot as a country. we've been through a lot over the last few years we, had a historic pandemic that wreck havoc on communities and businesses then disruptions from the pandemic cause price hikes that put a strain on family budgets how hard they work, sometimes it feels like they're just tread water so i get why people are looking to shake things up what i cannot understand is why anybody would think that donald trump will shake things up in a way that is good for you because there is absolutely no evidence that this man
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himself trump is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down that golden escalator nine years ago? and what is not complaining when he's not sending out crazy tweets he trying to sell you stuff sneakers trying to fell, you $100,000. watch trying to sell you a trump bible god. donald trump edition that is name right there next to matthew and luke
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up. if this was on a saturday night live skit, you'd say, well, no, that's crazy. >> but he's going to because all he cares about his his ego, his money, his status. >> that's his mindset. those are his intentions. and then there's the question of his competence i mean, have you day of love. he said that like it was what stuck or coachella this? up your cousin. you say, hey, have you noticed grandpa? he had to kind of funny right now interesting thing is he acts so crazy. and it's become so common that people no longer take it seriously
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just because he acts goofy does not mean his presidency wouldn't be dangerous and you, do not have to take my word for it lately, some of the people who know donald trump best had been saying in no uncertain terms that he should not be president again the other day, general john kelly, donald trump's former chief of staff wanted his generals to be like hitler's generals now, don't boo politics, a good rule of thumb is, don't say you want to do anything like hitler advice but it is useful because it gives us a window into how donald trump thanks and john
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kelly isn't the only one saying this to his defense secretaries. people who worked for him said the same thing his chairman of the joint chiefs of staff that is the top of the top brass in our military said, he is dangerous now, i happen to know john kelly and mark miller they served under me when i was commander in chief. these are serious people these are a decorated soldier and marine who served in battle they are not quote unquote woke liberals in the past even talked about politics because they believe
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that the military should be above politics speaking up is because they have seen that in donald trump's mind, the military does not exist to serve the constitution or the american people. he doesn't see being commander in chief as a solemn sacred responsibility, just like everything else. he thinks the military exists to do his bidding to serve his interests use that military to go after quote, the enemy within which he defines as anybody who criticizes him or refuses to bend the knee he can handle that and unlike last time, unlike the first time he won't have people like john kelly around to stop them he'll be surrounded by people who are
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just as loony as he is and who will let him do what he wants? and so my question to you, georgia, is how is any bank going to help you we do not need four years of a wannabe king i want to be dictator running around, trying to punish his enemies that's not what you need in your life america is ready to turn the page. we are ready for a better story. georgia, we're ready for a president, kamala harris kamala harris is ready for the job her life fighting on behalf of people who need a voice who need a champion kamala, one born into privilege. she raised in a middle-class family she
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worked at mcdonald's when she was in college to pay your expenses? she didn't pretend to work at mcdonald's when it was closed? >> for a photo-op she actually cares what people are going through because she's subpoenaed in her own family, in her own life as a prosecutor, communist stood up for children who have been victims of sexual abuse as attorney general of california, i thought the big fought the big banks and for profit colleges secure billions of dollars per people after they've been scaled after the home mortgage crisis kamala pushed me and my administration hard to make sure homeowners got a fair settlement, didn't matter. >> that i was a democrat, that she had not done doors for my campaign and i wish she was not going to let anybody stop her from winning as much relief as possible for families who deserved it. so the point i'm making if you elect kamala
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harris, she will not be focused on her problems, her ego, her money. she's going to be focused on, you she's going to be focused on many folks here in georgia and across the country are struggling to pay the bills now understand wages are steadily growing. unemployment is low, inflation is finally slowing but we all know the price of everything from housing, the health care, to groceries are still too high. >> and it hurts. >> she understands that the question is, who's really going to do something about it? so donald trump's tax cut two billionaires and big corporations because he was a reality star on the apprentice. there are some folks who think, well, i don't know. he's a businessman. he must know something about the academy i've heard people say
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this, right? i will talk to him. why why would you think about voting for this guy? but no, well, i remember the economy when he first came in and was pretty good my economy cleaning up the mess that the republicans had left me and then i handed over 75 straight months of job growth to donald trump and all he did was give task us to folks who didn't need it, drove up the deficit and the process. and now he wants to do it again you can't give him credit for that thing i hear some folks would be like, well donald trump sent
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me a check during the pandemic. no, no, no. you all know because i've heard this. i know y'all from you heard that sure you all understand this. joe biden sent you a check during, the pandemic, just like i gave people relief during the great recession the thing is, we didn't put our name on it because it wasn't about feeding our egos. it wasn't about advancing our politics it was about helping people. that's the difference don't give him credit for that come on don't don't be bamboozle
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about health care you ask you as donald trump, what he's going to make healthcare more affordable? his only answer is and obamacare the affordable care act he doesn't really know why you wants to end it, except for the fact that our pastor the problem he's got now, is that a popular because 50 million people have gotten health care because during the vice presidential debate his running mate had the nerve well the hubspot to save the donald trump salvage vehicle portable karen donald, presidency trying to tear that thing that any couldn't even do
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that, right was elected when he was asked what, what are you going to do? he says, well, i'm deck concepts of the plane for replacing. now i want you all to think about this for a second. let's say your boss on the job gives you an assignment says i needed by friday rolls around your boss says so did just that project i asked you to do and you say, well i haven't actually started but i got to concept for playing home. haunted. did you throw out the trash throw out the trash has i don't know
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one word for you why should it work for the next president united states? harris doesn't have concept of a plan. she got to make your life better she's going to go after corporations that unfairly jack up prices she's going to make it easier to build and buy a home she's got to limit out-of-pocket health care costs. she's going to give a tax cut to 100 million middle-class families and working americans and if congress passes a bill to restore the reproductive freedom that women ad for nearly 50 years. the freedom that donald trump bragged but taken away. common law was signed it into law
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say i get why folks get frustrated with politics. i do too some time i don't watch cable news because sometimes i get what people block it out. it just seems like everybody arguing and fasten but i always tell people, look, politics. it's not going to solve all your problems know, president is going to eliminate poverty in one term. or eliminate racism because those problems are hard it takes steps no bit at a time, but your vote matters because that little bit of a time that incremental improvement that adds up and things can get a little better, or they can get a little or a lot worse. when i was
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president, we did not solve all problems with our health care system. >> but 50 million people getting health insurance that didn't have it before, that made a difference. >> you know, somebody who has health insurance because of it and i'm going to give you another example when i was president, we put together an entire playbook for how to deal with a pandemic because we had dealt with the bola, we had dealt with h1n1 virus. we put together a a plan and we practiced and we had all the agencies in terms of how you going to do with the schools and how are we going to do? well, the public health agencies and we put it all together. and when donald trump came in, we gave him that playbook and he i guess dropped it in the dustbin three years later, a pandemic hit i want to be fair listened to amina no matter who was president, the pandemic was going to be a huge crisis. >> people were going to get
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sick, people were going to die we're going to close their travel restrictions. it was a once in 100 year event but if you look at a country like canada the per capita death rate during covid was 60% lower than it was here in the united states. so you do the math over 1 million people died during the pandemic here in the u.s. 60% of over 1 million that's 600,000 people that's grandparents that's that's uncles, parents, coworkers, friends. >> everybody here was touched by it some people might have been alive if we had had a competent administration who was paying attention and trying to do things better instead of talking about injecting bleach into your home? >> now you were a remember that if somebody tells you it doesn't make a difference it
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will not make things perfect, but it does make a difference. >> to have somebody was competent, somebody who sees you somebody who respects you, somebody who cares about you somebody who understands your dreams who are still on the sidelines that the election is about more than just policies. it's about values, and it is about character growing up, i didn't have a father in the house but i did at people around me stepfather grandparents, teachers, coaches and most of all my mother who tried to teach me the difference between right and wrong who showed me what it meant to be honest and responsible to work hard to treat other people the way i wanted to be treated and look,
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i was a knucklehead sometimes when i was a kid and i didn't always live up to those values even as a young adult. >> but but over time, i internalize those values and as an adult, i said this is what i need to stand on. >> this is my foundation and i suspect most of you grew up the same way one of the most disturbing things about this election and about trump's rise in politics is how we seem to have set the values we were taught, assigned how we seem to disregard them how we pretend they don't matter when donald trump lies about about hurricane aid. you've got a hurricane in north carolina people desperate and he and his vice president candidate deliberately circulate rumors that that money is being given to illegal aliens. illegal
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immigrants, as opposed to people who are desperate when he, when he cheats or shows utter disregard for our constitution when he calls service members who died in battle losers or fellow citizens berman people make excuses for they act like it's okay as long as their side wins i've noticed this, especially with some men who, who seem to think trump's behavior is a sign of strength that macho, you know, i'm i'm going to own these folks. i mean, i'm not put them down. limit i am here to tell you is it never has been real strength is about working hard and taken responsibility and telling the truth, even when it's inconvenient, real strength is about helping people who need it and standing up for those who can't always
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stand up for themselves. that's what we should walk in our daughters and our sons. and that's what i want to see the president but in the united states of america a candidate to vote for in this election, who demonstrates that kind of character. who knows what real strength looks like, who will set a good example and do the right thing and leave this country better than she found it that is what this election is about and that is why it is to introduce my friend but that's president of the united states of america vice president kamala
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>> i love you. >> i love over. it was 17 years ago. he was over 17 years ago. when i look good trip to springfield, illinois it was a call february day. and i went there to support this brilliant young
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senator who is running for president of the united states energized and inspired not only by barak obama's message, but by how he leads seeking to unite rather than separates us. and that is why in 20 au 72007, i went new year's eve to iowa to knock on doors in the snow and all these years later, barack obama, i say to you, your friendship and your faith in me and in our campaign means the world thank you, mr. president thank you. >> we have some extraordinary leaders with us tonight. thank everybody who is here for taking time out of your busy lives to spend this evening together. i want to thank
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georgia's congressional delegation leaders who are here with us less clear he's given up for samuel l. jackson bruce springsteen president of the united states. >> before i was the united states senator. and before that, a two term attorney general for the state of california and before that, a district attorney in a courtroom prosecutor, and in those roles, i took on perpetrators of all kinds predators fraudsters and repeat offenders i took them on and i won well,
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trump's turn consequential elections of our lifetime and i don't need to tell you voting has already started and everybody here knows it's going to be a tight race until the very end so we have a lot of work ahead of us. but we like hard work hard work is good work hard rock is joyful. >> and make no mistake we will win we will win we will win president it would say, yes, we
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can >> well, i guess we can end here here's why we're going to win. we are going to win because we are together are fighting for the future we are fighting for the future we hear understand, we have an opportunity before us to turn the page on the fear and divisiveness that have characterized our politics for a decade because of donald trump we have the opportunity to turn the page and chart a new way and a joyful way forward
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ambitions. the aspirations, the dreams of the american people. and i will tell you as i travel, our country there is an overwhelming call for a fresh start for a new generation of leadership that is optimistic and excited about what we can do together. there is a yearning for a president of the united states who will see you, who gets, you, and who will fight for you? the people before partisanship i never once asked somebody, are you a democrat? are you a republican instead? i always asked, how can i help you