>> yes. let me tell you that as a veteran, i do get my care from the v.a. hospital. in fact, i was just at the reno v.a. hospital this morning. i also realized that the v.a. system, just like any federal system, doesn't cover everything it needs to. doesn't have perfect care. it's one of the reasons i started my business when i moved here to nevada to provide emergency andto provide emergent care to access to pharmaceuticals for veterans when hospitals were not able to. the v.a. is an important part of our health care system. it is when i personally utilize. my wife as a veteran utilizes it. it does have room to get better. what i see is incredible providers, nurses, doctors and so on but the bureaucracy and the processes create some of these missed spots where people end up in a really bad situation.

>> you have one minute to respond. you stood on the armed services committee even though you were not a veteran. would you feel comfortable having the v.a. as your primary care hospital? >> i can tell you we were proud to support a act to expand health care for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. i asked of the president to put in his budget a new va hospital in reno so our veterans did have the best care possible. they are currently searching for the 50 acre site. they're going to be announcing it in the spring. we have expended telehealth. we are making permanent, my bill, the veterans assistance helpline to make it permanent. we are doing everything to expand our workforce. we are thousands of nurses short in nevada. my train or nurses act passed unanimously in the senate so we can have that are medical professionals to provide that care. what we need to do is increase our medical force.

we have a new hospital in southern about a. we are going to get a new one in northern nevada. my father was a veteran. of my uncles, my grandfather. i come from a veteran family and owing to do everything i can to support veterans. >> do you feel comfortable with the care the v.a. is currently providing? >> i know the men and women who work at the v.a. hospitals and work for the v.a. and the v.a. is the largest employer of veterans only above the post office is the second largest player of veterans but the va hospital, the largest employer of veterans in our nation. i know they do everything they can to serve their fellow veterans, the men and women serve. my dad got his care at the v.a. for his whole life. he got excellent care there. continue to support it. >> we have had a lively discussion. it is time for our closing statements. we are going to give you each one minute for your closing.

we will begin with mr. brown. >> we have a choice to make. this is a choice about our future. this is a choice about our families. this is a choice about whether or not continue to have the leaders, the insiders like senator rosen continuing to vote and cast their vision for us. you heard tonight that she wants to hit these d.c. buds words -- was words, make accusations. it relies on so much deception and money from the coastal elite that support her while we are hurting. it is time for a champion to go to d.c. who understands our issues. for someone to be there who knows what it is like to be a small business owner. to be there as a veteran. to go there to work to make sure we lower our taxes. decrease regulation so we make life more affordable again. i am asking your vote.

i am asking your trust. we cannot survive another six years like this. >> you have one minute tonight for your closing statement. >> i want to thank everybody for tuning in tonight. it has been the owner of my life to serve as your united states center and i hope i have earned your support and trust to continue serving in this role. i am proud to be one of the most bipartisan, effective and independent senators with 90% of the bills i introduce being bipartisan and everyone knows i am not afraid to stand up when it comes to somebody hurting nevada. check out how i kept the -- fought against the post office. i have lived in nevada nearly 50 years. i worked here. i raised my family here. i took care of my parents and in-laws as they aged here. i. my parents here. they are buried at boulder city veterans. cemetery i love our great state.

that is why i am running for reelection to continue to serve all of nevada in a pragmatic, problem-solving, bipartisan way. i am jacky rosen and i am humbly asking for your vote. >> thank you very much. thank you for taking part in this. thank you at home for watching this lively debate for the race for the nevada senate. >> before we sign off tonight, we want to remind everyone early voting in nevada is right around the corner. it starts on saturday. vote at any polling location. same-day registration is available. but those ballots in the mail or drop them off in any polling locations. our candidates know this very well. election day coming up november 5. thanks so much for joining us. ♪

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tammy baldwin faces of against her republican challenger in the race for wisconsin senate seat. wah the debate hosted by the wisconsin broadcasters association live at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, or free mobile app or online at c-span.org. ♪ >> this week on 2024 campaign trail, we are joined by political reporters to talk about the latest developments in the presidential, senate and house campaigns from the past week. >> donald trump making a campaign stop in the bronx yesterday.

would at madison square garden next week. kamala harris going on fox news. this does not seem like the campaign stops of two candidates trying to turn out there respective bases in 18 days before the election. >> specifically for trump he has been playing to the home team in this final stretch. he has gone for a lot of friendlier interviews. definitely news organizations or podcasts, alternative media that will for the most part be generous with him in terms of the questions and give him the space to do his thing. the one exception was an interview with bloomberg which was an event that happened to be hosted bloomberg earlier this week at the chicago economic forum. that was very contentious. otherwise and we can talk more about that otherwise he is out there doing his thing. he is into these splashy your events. donald trump at the end of the

day is a show man. the madison square garden thing. he has been doing a lot of stops in the bronx this year. even joked sometimes -- i think he is joking he is going to win new york which is a long shot. he has done a lot of stops in new york particularly the bronx and other boroughs highlighting his anti-crime agenda. his need to crackdown on crime. there are campaign messages that are embedded in some of these stops. a lot of it is showcasing his celebrity. >> your take on the media strategy here with less than 20 days. >> a part of it is we are in social media era where you are not necessarily needing to go to your neighborhood or your swing states stop to see the clips of what donald trump or kamala harris is saying and other perhaps -- splashy stops.

why was donald trump in overall, colorado? it is because he wanted another backdrop to talk about immigration. that is the issue that has become his closing argument in the last month of the election. he is very focused on that. with kamala harris, if you look at the fuller picture of what types of media she is doing, she is going on fox. she wants to reach voters. she is doing call her daddy, a podcast popular with young women. if you put those together, those are the pockets of voters she is trying to reach. >> headlines about the fox news interview. eugene robinson. harris should send threadbare flowers after that interview. from the washington times today, it is quoting donald trump showing -- he said donald trump showed she was incompetent.

what was your read on the takeaways from that interview? >> he did come at her with several tough questions. he led with immigration. he interrupted her a number of times. she seemed more prepared for that interview that she has been for previous interviews. she came prepared with an answer about how she would be different than joe biden. she said i will be having my own administration. i will be different. she came prepared with answers about immigration. she pivoted a lot to talking about donald trump. brett did challenger in many ways. she did go into the lions den. >> what is the al smith dinner? >> the al smith dinner is a traditional -- it is catholic run. a dinner that has been happening for several decades. the big lure to it is

presidential candidates -- it has been tradition for a very long time, i cannot even remember the number of years -- >> i think it aids back -- it aids back to the 1960's. >> several decades. it -- presidential candidates go out there. paying homage to the catholic unity. more broadly it is an effort to showcase -- it is a satirical sort of roast of any event. speeches tend to take into various politicians and other dignitaries. presidential candidates show their best jokes. not going is very unusual. that was the approach vice president harris decided to take. she submitted a video to the dinner which aired last night which frankly was a little bit forgettable. it was a brief message thanking

folks. she had a cast member from snl do a skit with her. it was short and sweet. donald trump took the stage. >> let me show viewers 30 seconds starting with donald trump and then kamala harris with her video appearance last night at the al smith the dinner -- al smith dinner. >> tradition holds i'm supposed to tell a few self-deprecating jokes this evening so here it goes. i have got nothing. i got nothing. there is nothing to say. i guess i just don't see the point at taking shots at myself when other people have been shooting at me for a hell of a long time. >> anything you think maybe i should not bring up tonight? >> don't lie.

thou shall not bear full witness to their night -- to thy neighbor. >> especially thy neighbors election results. >> there will be a fact checker tonight. >> who? >> jesus. maybe don't say anything negative about catholics. >> i would never do that no matter where i was. that would be like criticizing detroit in detroit. >> sophia, on those appearances last night. in the place of humor 18 days away from what has otherwise been a very contentious and not a lot of humorous election. >> i think kamala harris is a fairly furious person. her public image is -- she is a serious vice president. that is the image she continues to hold. with trump, i think he is willing to engage. just about every rally -- i have

been watching him for several years now. he likes to dip into the humor. it is a place where he feels comfortable. you heard him make a reference to the shooting. why do i have to take shots at myself? people are taking shots at i. was back in butler where trump was shot a couple months ago. when he returned, he joked for weeks he would say when i return to butler i will say as i was saying and that is how he started his rally. his return to butler rally. he said as i was saying and he got a lot of laughs from the audience were surely nervous to be back there. >> he definitely spun it in his favor. use the advantage harris was not there but also his jokes were not exactly jokes. he did have a couple fingers. new york mayor eric adams was there. took a few shots at him. he also defended him saying

because -- you in this position because you criticized the administration about immigration. i understand where you are because they came after me too. he really went after former new york mayor bill de blasio in a pretty mean-spirited way. said he was the worst mayor new york ever had and really attacked. he hammered his political message. he was -- in a very not funny way. he was very serious about it. he was low-key. looked a little tired. he has been hustling on the campaign trail quite a bit. it was a very interesting night and one on the trunk was using as his campaign shtick. >> for viewers who may have missed it, they can watch it at c-span.org. we aired it before this program. go on our website. this morning on the washington journal at this hour on the friday political roundtable.

phone numbers as usual for you to call in. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. you did a story this hour about kamala harris fighting to counter donald trump's appeal with black men. how did she do on that front? >> it is a work in progress. i don't know if you would agree. this is something the harris campaign has struggled with particularly if you compare with how she is doing today versus how joe biden was doing in 2020. the appeal they were hoping for when she entered the race has not really manifested itself. in july just before joe john -- joe biden stepped out of the race, the trump campaign would tell us they felt they were in a great position. better than they had and in the

previous two cycles with black men. some black women. hispanic men as well. it was driven by the economy. they felt like the economic conditions in the economy today were something the black community, hispanic community really felt they needed a change and they were disappointed with how democrats had done on that. when harris entered the race, they conceded a lot of black women especially, women in general but black women killed off and they went to harris. they did not see that flow with black men as much. it was because of the economy. they see her as an extension of joe biden's administration. she really went out of her way this week to try to court to those voters. tell them i understand your struggle. i am from your committee. . and part of this community. i understand it better than my

opponent. right now the numbers don't seem to be budging as much as the democrats like. >> agree? >> do agree with vivian. i think black men are already the voting block most likely to stay home. they are a tough, graphic 2 -- tough demographic to court. donald trump from the getting of the cycle has very focused with the demographic as well as latino men. he has been hitting philly. he has been hitting milwaukee. his campaign is counting on making gains in the margins. a couple percentage points here and there to make up for some of their losses in the suburbs so that is a very intentional strategy. >> two national political reporters with us. i want to get to more of your stories. funny of stories you can read at the. wall street journal and axios. . brenda is up first in indiana, pennsylvania.

line for democrats. good morning. >> it has been over six weeks since i saw the interview where donald trump somberly admitted he lost the election. i saw the interview and it was a somber admission. i would be willing to bet the vast majority of americans did not know this interview took place until the presidential debate when david muir brought it up and donald trump dismissed it as being sarcastic. since it has had such a detrimental impact on our democracy, the big lie leading up to january 6. why hasn't there been more national reporting on this admission? there's been such a detrimental impact to our country. i would like c-span2 play that part of the interview and let the american people decide if it was a somber admission or if she

was being sarcastic. why hasn't there been more attention paid to this admission? >> brenda in pennsylvania. 18 days from the 2024 election. >> we will continue to litigate the 2020 election for many years to come. it was talked about just this week when jd vance was asked about this very thing. he was asked at a rally. i don't know if viewers know but jd vance unlike donald trump takes questions at his rallies. it is quite the show. but he takes questions from journalists. one journalist asked him if he believes the election -- if donald trump lost the election. for the first time -- he has been dodging this question. saying we are looking toward the future. we don't want to focus on the past.

he finally came out this week and he said not in the words i would use. he did not lose it. instead he blamed technology companies for manipulating the metadata that is out there in a way that skewed the election. republicans continue to push back. donald trump himself has not quite come out -- i'm not sure interview you are referring to. he has not come out boldly to concede to the election but he has said we were short by a few votes. he adds some context and says he believes those votes were stolen and things like that. i would not say it is admission of losing as much as acknowledgment or elaboration that the system in his mind is rigged. >> i will give the vans direct quote -- the vance direct quote.

have entered this question directly a million times. know, i think there are serious problems in 2020. did lose the election? not by the words i would use. >> that is somebody who really feels like he cannot stray from the top of the ticket when it comes to this issue. jd vance is a smart guy. he said in the vp debate, he said if governor walz becomes a vice president, he will have my blessings. he will have my best wishes. he could have my advice whenever he likes. that is as close as you are going to get to donald trump or jd vance saying they will accept results from the 2024 election. jd vance feels like he cannot say that alt-right. >> huey in new haven just drop the line so we will go to amy in leesburg, florida. good morning. >> good morning/i would just

like to say i don't know how anybody can say the 2020 election was free and fair. mark zuckerberg, he even came out and said the fbi approached him and asked him not to put anything up about the hunter biden laptop which the f guy had -- the fbi had already proved was true. why did himself -- biden himself had 51 people sign a letter which if you look at it, it was worded very carefully. instead of outright saying it is a lie. it had all the earmarks of being disinformation. you had 51 people involved with the cei -- the cia signing a letter they know is a lie. you have the fbi asking marks on not to put stuff up. he will not even come out for the democrats this year because he knows he was wrong.

>> amy in leesburg, virginia. still focused on 2020. >> i was in arizona if days ago with donald trump -- a few days ago with donald trump. the 2020 election heavily in that state. in arizona where the election was contested, maricopa county conducted a republican-led audit of the election to review the results. the republican-led audit showed joe biden got even more votes than were tallied up on election day. the courts have litigated the matter in various states. what you are saying echoes a lot of what donald trump and allies are saying. they are concerned election interference could happen this time around. there is a lot of effort by various states to address that issue. so that people have more confidence in the election system. that is what this boils down to.

even if a lot of those concerns were debunked, people should have confidence in the election system. what 2020 taught us broadly is that we need systems in place so that when election results come out, especially when they are close elections this year like in 2020, people have confidence in the numbers that come out and feel good about the government coming into power. >> you talk about your experience in arizona. a story by you and your colleagues recently about donald trump campaigning in colorado. what is going on in the centennial state? >> colorado is a deep blue state. why is donald trump going to colorado a before the election? it is because he wants to go into a town -- there has been video of latino men with guns in an apartment building and that caught his attention. he has been using that as false

claims that a venezuelan gang is taking over the town of aurora. that is not true. that has been debunked by republican local officials who have said it is not true. yet donald trump wants to use aurora, colorado as a backdrop to talk about illegal immigration. to talk about resources. and it is true in towns like aurora and towns like springfield, there have been more immigrants who have come into smaller towns in the u.s. donald trump is using that to fear monger and create division between perhaps u.s. born americans and even haitian americans. and that has been a big issue he is trying to talk about. >> let me play one of donald trump closing ads in the final 20 days of the election. the title of the, global chaos.

>> skyrocketing prices. global chaos. kamala would not change a thing. >> would you have done something differently than president biden during the past four years? >> there is not a thing that comes to mind. >> nothing will change with,. more welfare for illegals. even more taxes. only president trump taught middle class taxes and only president trump will do it again. >> i'm donald j. trump and i approve this message. >> one of the closing messages from donald trump. let me give one of the closing ads from the kamala harris campaign. again 30 seconds. the title of this one, enemies from within. >> more dangerous, more erratic than ever before. >> the worst people are the enemies from within. the enemy from within. more dangerous than russia. we have some very bad people. easily handled by the military. >> i do remember the day he suggested we shoot people on the

street. >> the second term would be the worst. there would be no one to stop. unchecked power. no guard rails. we elect trump again, we are in terrible danger. >> that ad from the harris campaign. the two messages the two campaigns are going for in the final days. >> certainly the trump campaign is hammering immigration. in the migrant crisis more broadly. it links harris to that crisis. donald trump calls her the border czar famously. president biden early in the administration had asked harris to take the lead on spearheading the root causes of the migration crisis which is trying to find why people leave their countries in the first place. it is not linked to the border directly. of course the trump campaign has blurred the lines and called her the border czar.

they have taken the narrative and spun it into a law and order narrative that the migrant crisis has completely unleashed a wave of crime into this country. that is uncontrollable and only donald trump can address it. that is his message. of course the reverse for harris, she is trying to paint a picture of a democracy threatened by the presidency of donald trump and taking former trump administration officials to hammer that message that people who have seen him in action and believe he is unfit because of the fact he could manipulate that power. >> this is joe in lynchburg. independent. good morning. >> thank you, c-span for taking my call. . i wanted to commend both ladies on being practical and pragmatic. but then sophia spun a narrative i don't agree with. maybe she can talk more on it. i