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great to see you in nevada this morning. bill: on this sunday before we go, before we jet on out of here, want to share this fun, behind the scenes look here. long days on the trail leading to some intense snacking by both campaigns. "the wall street journal" did the digging -- [laughter] apparently, the trump team goes to at lot of fast food, right? if. dana: and a lot of diet coke. i would be right there on that train. bill: a little kfc, right? dana: mcdonald's, of course. bill: and she is a big fan of doritos. on the campaign, that's the go-to. what's your go-to on tuesday night, may i ask? dana: you have to the hydrate, but you have to calculate how long you're sitting there. so the hydration with the electroto lites is really important. okay? [laughter] bill: that's technical. dana: it is, but i've learned. what about you? phil bill i just want to come in rested and keep the caffeine going. cape deign we'll see you
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tomorrow. harris faulkner is next. harris: huge crowd, former president trump will soon speak at the rally at lancaster airport in pennsylvania. some people have been out there since dawn. both presidential candidates are in battleground states today, and as you know, we are fewer than two days away until election day. and if there are any people out there who haven't voted in early voting or are still undecided, the big question is, can anything that these candidates do sway them? i'm harris faulkner. this is a special sunday edition of "the faulkner focus." former president trump has events in three swing states today alone. vice president kamala harris will spend the whole day in michigan. trump had this pitch yesterday. okay, we don't have that for you. despite promises to be a joyful warrior, vice president kamala harris tore into trump just minutes into her speech yesterday. >> we have an opportunity in
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this election to finally turn the page -- [cheers and applause] on a decade of donald trump. this is not someone who is thinking about how to make your with life better. this is someone who is increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and the man is out for unchecked power. harris: democratic insiders have described feeling, quote, nauseously optimistic,9 and the real clear politics average shows trump and kamala harris deadlocked in all seven of the key battleground states. now martially, that average alse also shows the two candidates running neck and neck, inside the margin of error. senior national correspondent aishah hasnie is in kingston, new york, right now where trump will rally a little bit later this afternoon. aishah. >> reporter: hey, good morning to you, harris. i just was speaking with the
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trump campaign, and they believe that they have won early voting in this critical battleground state of north carolina. let's put up the numbers on the screen here. this is where we're at in early voting. it ended yesterday. 56% of registered voters here in the state have already come out and voted. and you can see there, unaffiliated tops the list. but registered republicans for the first time in a long time, 11.47 million, are at -- 1.47 million, are at the top over registered democrats in early voting. also flagging the campaign says african-american, male and early voting turn is down 22 here compared to this point in to 20 -- 202020. could be a big problem for democrats in the state. trump's final pitch appears to be more targeted towards suburban female voters. listen the him last night. >> the suburbs are under attack, right now. when you're home in your house alone and you have this monster that got out of prison, he's
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got, you know, six charges of murdering six different people, i think you'd rather have trump. >> reporter: so former president is just nonstop for the next 48 hours. he's going to make 7 stops across 4 battleground states. the ticket isn't just hitting swing states, harris, they're going to those blue-leaning states like virginia last night, and senator j.d. vance is in new hampshire today. we've got a lot of numbers swirling around, but the campaign says that arizona, north carolina, nevada and pennsylvania, new and infrequent voters, those low pro pencety voters -- propensity, they feel like they have a larger share. republicans are in those groups hand democrats. and that puts them in a very good position as they are expecting a pretty big wave of republican voters on election day. they feel very good about this going into tuesday. harris? harris: aishah, thank you very much, in north carolina.
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looking beautiful there today in kingston, thank you. power panel, ben domenech, the editor at large of the speck if today to have and fox news contributor, and former dnc deputy press secretary. great to see you both. none of this is a shocker, right? ben, how surprised are you that this is this tight in those seven key states that matter? >> you know, honestly, i wish i could pretend to be surprised, harris, but i'm not. i think what we've seen in this whole election cycle is that as much as there has been so much chaos, the attempted assassinations, the legal battle, the changing the democratic candidate, everything else, it's actually been incredibly consistent when you look at the poll data that we've had from all of these statements and the trends that we've seen going on -- states. for me, the key questions really have to do with whether you have the level of support among black men that kamala harris needs in order to take some of these key states and whether donald
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trump's shed so much support among college-educated women that he's not able to hold on to some of these suburban corridors. that's something we're not going to know for a while. it could be a very long time before we know who the next president is. if it's a short night, it would surprise me and a lot of people. harris: jose, a i've been talking with polling expert perts and getting ready for the big election night. we'll have an audience, and lee carter will be with me, voter analysis, so on and so forth. and i'm being cautioned to think all of this early voting whether republican or democrat, really, we shouldn't get an opinion about that and just in a very neutral way, i'm interested in your take on it. you've been with the dnc, you've watched these things play out before. >> yeah. look, harris, i think it's interesting, 100%. it's hard to the sort of predict because voting at the end of the day, it's secret, right? but i do see, for example, in a state like pennsylvania where the gap between women and men,
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it's about 10%. women are voting by 10% more than men are in pennsylvania. we know that kamala harris is doing fairly well with women across the line. if, in fact, those women are voting in the majority for kamala harris, it could be a good night for her. if she wins pennsylvania, she'll take this whole -- harris: well, they both have to win pennsylvania to win. >> exactly right. but i do find it a little bit weird on the former president's part in his closing argument, obviously, he's trying to win the woman vote and trying to close that gap with kamala harris, but he's been going a little vengeful and unhinged a little bit -- harris: wow. >> -- saying he wants to control a woman -- harris: that's not what he said. that is not what he said, and you know that's not what he said. i will tell you this though, i do see vengefulness, and it's through a main surrogate for kamala harris. and i am wondering a little bit, ben, is there a conversation that would benefit voters for
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kamala harris to actually put some oomph behind if she really means she's different from biden? because when he says half the country's voters who support trump, those supporters are garbage, and then you've got mark cuban going after women, i mean, you brought women into the conversation, say, it's your side of the aisle -- >> what i was saying, pert' de's trash?? -- puerto rico -- harris: kamala harris had to get rid of mark cuban. ben. >> this closing moment for the campaign is about holding on to a lot of women that, basically, the read that i have on donald trump's message is, look, whether you like me or not, i'm actually safer for the country. i'm going to provide more safety and security for your communities, and i'm not going to engage in the kind of radical, california-progressive policies that a we've seen not just ruin places like san francisco, but ruin cities across the country including great cities where they've applied that type of philosophy, one that, obviously, kamala harris is proven to share. that's something that i think is a really good closing message to
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have not just for suburban women, but for the suburbs generally -- >> can i add a something quickly? >> it's just something that i think, you know, is a very good closing argument the for him and to hedge against the kind of inroads that people who -- >> if that's the case -- >> don't like the tenor of his conversation, but look -- harris: hold on a second -- >> the bet, the bet that they have made, the bet that they have made -- go ahead. >> yeah, just really quickly, ben. you know, when you talk about the closing argument with the president about the economy, why is every major company, goldman sachs, you name it, economist, nobel prize winner saying kamala harris a is better for the economy than -- hearst hearst that's a direct question to ben. let's let him answer your direct question, and then we'll move on. ben. >> i don't think that has anything to do with what i was just talking about. look, the simple fact is that there are a lot of voters out there, swing voters, independents and the like who got tired of the chaos, the
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tweets, all that stuff during donald trump's previous tenure, but they are also completely dissatisfied with what the biden-harris administration has offered to their communities. and i think that's where donald trump is trying to appeal because he understands that is the closing argument that needs to be made -- >> you're not answering the question. harris: all right. we're going to -- >> you didn't answer my question. what does the economy have to do with these concerns? i'm sorry. harris: 2-minute closing ad, vice president harris' campaign is set to hit airwaves today to, this ought to be interesting. it'll air nationally during mfl games including the lions-packers connest, a match-up of key -- contest. and nearly all of the nation will get that the game this afternoon. now, after weeks of anti-trump attacks, the ad is pushing a message of unity. >> in the vast majority of people in our country have so much more in common than what
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separates them. good people, hard working people. harris: donald trump says she cannot have it both ways. >> she said the other day we want to be unified, we don't want to say bad things about anybody including our, including our opponent. he's hitler. he's hitler. [laughter] you ever hear that? she talks about unity, and schoen -- then she calls me hitler. harris: well, and and her vp running mate, many all fairness, tim walz, has called trump supporters who showed up at madison square garden, he said it looks like a nazi rally. i mean, that's not about unity. by the way, all of these things have been contained in the last 14 days. millions of people have been voting in the meantime. last night the vp made a surprise appearance on "saturday night live." the key word here is live, a risky move for candidates especially so close to election day. she got the white glove treatment, as you might imagine,
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nbc. here it is. >> the cool new stepmomala -- [laughter] we're in our pa jam alas. >> like legally blond-ala. >> and start decorating for christmas. >> because what do we always say? >> keep calm-ala and carry on-ala. harris: the republican candidate, former president trump, one fcc official says this is a clear and blatant effort to evade the fcc's equal time rule. the purpose of the rule so to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct. just one month ago snl, the show runner, lorne michaels, made this claim. quote, you can't have the main candidates without having all the a candidates, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in, like, three states, and that becomes really complicated. look, they knew they shouldn't
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do this -- do this, they did it. what a does this say this late in the game, ben? >> it say that is when lorne michaels made that statement, kamala harris looked like she was doing pretty well in the polls, and right now she's not. and i think that that's something that a changed. look, the simple fact is that this is an in-kind donation from nbc and snl to kamala harris. you know, i don't messily think that you need the make -- necessarily think you need to make a federal case of it, but the democrats don't think the the rules apply to them. brendan carr is completely correct, this rule is there for a reason. you have to offer the other candidates equal time, and that's something that i think is important to do. and the fact that they didn't in this instants, i mean, i think a lot more people would have tuned in he was on there too. harris: nbc made not just some, but all of its bread and butter with celebrity apprentice, a donald trump property. and so to put him on even in the
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same month with kamala harris would not, i mean, it wouldn't even have been a comparison because of his relationship with viewers as that celebrity apprentice, you know, manning the ship, you're fired, so on and so forth. it's part of the nomenclature at least in the last half century. maybe not if half, or quarter. jose. >> i think -- can let me just, something -- respond to ben really quick. i think it's call to say democrats don't respect the rules when you have your republican candidate not recognizing the 2020 election. i think that's hilarious. snl is not going to a move the needle -- harris: you don't think it will? >> the field game, getting out the vote is going to make a difference. it's going to be very, very tight, but snl, whether you go on a -- >> if it's not going to move the needle, then why did she do it? she canceled a plan to go to michigan -- >> this is what candidates do, ben, they go on joe rogan --
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harris: joe rogan had 45 million plus views. we have got a candidate on the stump. of let's go there now. we've got donald trump, and he's in pennsylvania. let's watch. >> just remember this. i'll tell you what, you remember it. do you like it better now or pour years ago? if we'll ask you the difference. do you like it better now or four years ago? [inaudible conversations] and i've come today with a message of hope for all americans. with your vote on tuesday, i will end inflation, i will stop the invasion of massive numbers of criminals coming into our country. thank you very much, kamala and joe. and i will bring back -- [background sounds] the american dream, and we'll bring it back stronger than ever before. but this is all you need to know, kamala broke it and we will fix it. we're gonna fix it fast. [cheers and applause]
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america will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer and stronger than ever before. the election, it's a choice between whether we will have four more years of incompetence and failure, which is what we have right now, or whether we will bin the four greatest years in the history of our country. [cheers and applause] and i'm asking you to be excited about the future of our country again. i'm asking you to dream big again. this will be america's new golden age. s this is going to be a golden age, and it's hard to believe, isn't it? huh? we're talking about a golden age. but that's hard to believe because we have been so low. we've never been this low. the image of our country is terrible. it's terrible. it's a failed country. that's what it is. they view us, hay view us as a -- they view us as a nation in decline. but even worse, they view us as a failed country. we're going to turn it around.
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the image is bad, what they've done to our country, this incompetent group of fools, what they've done to to our country is so damn bad. and the media is so damn bad, it's unbelievable. [background sounds] every inch of it. every problem facing us can be solved, but the fate of our nation is in your hands. on tuesday you have to stand up, and you have to go -- you gotta just go out, and you've got to stand up. we've done this for so long. this is nine years. we have to get out, but you have to tell that horrible, terrible, the worst ever vice president -- nobody knows where the other guy is. where the hell is he? where the hell did he go, david? if where is he? nobody knows where the hell -- where is biden? remember? we used to go where is hunter. we used to go, where is hunter. now we go, where the hell is biden? [laughter] where is joe?
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you know, when you think, they just stole, they stole the election. it was just -- they walked in, they said, you're out. right? that's a threat to democracy. they call me a threat to democracy. they stole the election from this guy. whether you like him or not, they stole the election. they walked in, they say get out of here, joe, you're out. you're dead, you're out, joe. man, oh, man. he likes me better than he likes her, i really believe it. [laughter] and you have to tell kamala that you've had enough, kamala. you've had enough. you the -- you're the worst ever. kamala, you're fired, get the hell out of here. [cheers and applause] if get outta here. you know, it's amazing. i watched her yesterday. she's saying all these things she's going to do when she gets to office. first of all, she's got three more months. but more importantly, why the hell didn't she do this stuff
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before? if first of all, none of it, does she believe in. none of it. she's changed 15 different policies. she's a radical-left marxist, and if she ever heads this country, this country is finished. and i say it loud and clear. everything we've been fighting for so hard to achieve for the past nine years all comes down to the next two days. think of it. we've worked on this for nine years, and we got a phony press, we got a lot of crooked people out there we're fighting like a son of a gun. we're fighting. they wont to, they want to -- they are fighting so hard to steal this damn thing. look at what's going on. look at what's going on in your state. every day they're talking about extending hours and -- what? who ever heard of this stuff? we should have one-day voting and paper ballots. [cheers and applause] and i just heard that a couple of states may go an extra 12
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days. how the hell do you have an election? [background sounds] you know, they spent all of this money on these damn machines, and paper ballots, have the answer by 9:00 tonight. it's damn, it's a damn shame. and i'm the only one that talks about it because everyone's afraid to damn talk about the it. and then they accuse you of being a conspiracy theorist. he's a conspiracy -- and they want to lock you up, they want to put you in jail. the ones that should be locked up are the ones that cheat on these horrible elections that we go through in our country. [cheers and applause] and i don't know what's going to happen, but for future elections i won't be even a part of it. but you ought to to damn well go to paper ballots, you ought to go to voter id, and you ought to have the election over by 9:00. i'm hearing now they're going to take weeks. can you imagine? they spend all this money, all this money on machines, and
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they're going to say we may take an extra 12 days to determine -- and what do you think happens during that 12 days? what do you think happens? [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] these elections have to be, they have to be decided by 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 on tuesday night. [cheers and applause] bunch of crooked people. these are crooked people. you know in california they just signed a bill that if you're an official or anybody, you're not even allowed to ask anybody if for their voter id. and if you do, you've created a criminal act or something. i mean, they only do that because they want to cheat. what the hell are they doing? the whole world is laughing at us. they're laughing at us. you know what? if nothing if comes out of this whole thing, it's going to teach
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you you damn well better get a better system. these blood suckers up there, they do nothing about it. [background sounds] what a shame. what a shame. that's why the world laughs at us. they all have elections. you know, france, france had crook ared elections because they had paper ballots years ago, and they switched. now they have paper ballots and at 9:00 in the evening they called the winner, they called the loser, everybody went home, everybody was fine. they had voter id. they had paper ballot toes. they had a one-day election. at 9:00 it was over, they called the winner. hay called the loser. everyone went home. now they say we'll wait million the next time. we've got to get smart as a country. this is just one thing -- it's all corrupt. she's corrupt. she's a corrupt person. i'm running against a totally corrupt person. and i'm really not running against her, i'm running against a corrupt machine called the
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democrat party. [applause] it's totally a corrupt party. guys liked adam shifty schiff. these are corrupt people. and to think, he'll probably be a senator. can you believe it? [background sounds] watermelon head. [laughter] no, he's a watermelon head. he's got the smallest neck i've ever seen. i don't know how the hell he can hold up that enlarged watermelon head. what an ugly guy both inside and out. [laughter] it's now or never,s this is it. this is the moment. we've been waiting nine years for this, and we've got two day, and we've got all this crap going on with the press and with the fake stuff and fake polls. and, by the way, the polls are just as corrupt as some of the writers back there. they can make those polls sing. they can make 'em sing. they brag about it. i got a poll i'm 10 points up in iowa. one of my enemies just puts out a poll, i'm 3 down. joni ernst and everyone's
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calling me, you're killing it in iowa. the farmers love me and i love them. [cheers and applause] they just announced a fake poll. hey, think of to it, or right before the election that that i'm 3 points down. i'm not down in iowa. i got $28 billion for the farmers, $28 billion. [cheers and applause] if. harris: all right. so there is former president trump in pennsylvania, the all-important swing state. you just heard both my guests previously saying how important that state is. one candidate could win it, and it really increases their chances by many-fold that they will win the election. and it's the reason president trump is there right now. the road to victory could actually go through pennsylvania with us 19 -- its 19 electoral votes. polls from the if battle battleground states show the race is deadlonged. brian yen -- deadlocked. bryan llenas is in philadelphia.
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>> reporter: harris, good morning. philadelphia's former mayor, michael nutter, says that vice president kamala harris will likely need 600,000 votes. that would be a historic turnout, even more, surpassing that of former president obama who had merely 500,000 votes. it's a tough task. but over the weekend here, they have been really hitting the ground to get out the vote particularly in north philadelphia. they knocked on 800,000 doors, the campaign says, across pennsylvania on saturday alone. we visited a canvassing office in north philly where some 40% of volunteers came from out of state like deborah from maryland who said she knocked on 1,000 doors. >> at this point we're not about choosing people's mind. at this point we're saying you need to go and you need to vote. this is the time to get off the couch, just stop saying i don't know who i'm voting for, to make up your mind and do it.
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>> reporter: yeah. and democrats are relying heavily on black and la ooh tee know voter turnout here in philadelphia amid real concerns that the get out the vote effort for those voters here by democrats started too rate. too late. >> i think, you know, it's been a little bit anemic until recently. i think people are going to come out. i think young people are coming out. you know? again, i do think that there needs to be sustained organizing earths year round -- efforts year round, not just during an election year. >> reporter: now, former president trump did better in philadelphia in 2020 the than he did in 2016, gaining the most ground, interestingly, in philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. you can see those numbers there. republicans think that 20 2-30,000 more votes in philly this year could give trump a win. harris: well, you know, bryan, that that last voter you talked with had a really good point. i mean, it doesn't matter which
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community, which voters it is, they should all get started earlier. that way people don't peel like they're, you know, being used and it's so identity politics in all of it. we know a lot of times it is. but they could at least try. bryan, thank you. [laughter] appreciate it. mark cuban came at conservative women and backfired, it did do. how it's playing out on the campaign trail. now, remember, she already removed him as, at least reportedly removed him as a surrogate for her. but the damage was so deep, his apology didn't nail it because it felt more like a double down. plus, democrats and the liberal media still twisting trump's comments on liz cheney. the trump campaign has a lot to to say. >> he was just talking about role reversal. and if you want to talk about the political violence, president trump is the only candidate in this race who has survived two assassination attempts. harris: yeah, it's interesting, they don't talk about that. he's right. jason chaffetz in focus next. there are
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harris: democrats and the liberal media are continuing to twist words by former president trump. they claim he wanted to see former congresswoman and harris surrogate liz cheney shot. he was actually making a point -- actually, you know who makes this point really well? bill maher. rereally does. okay. so trump was making a point about washington politicians who are just fine with sending american troops into war. the problem is on the left, they have a narrative that is tough because they don't often support those, have the backs of hose they send into war. vice president kamala harris seized on the false narrative. >> anyone who wants to be president of the united states who uses that kind of violent rhetoric is clearly disqualified and unqualified to be president. representative cheney is a true patriot who has shown extraordinary courage in putting country above party.
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harris: the liberal media, of course, right there to help out. >> donald trump calling for liz cheney being shot in the face. >> this is not normal. this is not acceptable. this is so dangerous. >> dementia or what? what's going on? [laughter] >> no. i wish it were dementia. >> i fled communism. this is exactly what communists do, they shoot their opponent. >> at what point does a republican member of congress call out trump for this kind of language? i just don't get it. i just don't get it. it's outrageous. harris: well, here is exactly what the former president said complete with full context. >> she's a radical war hawk. let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. you know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in washington in a nice building
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saying, oh, gee, let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy. but she's a stupid person. and i used to have, i'd have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people. so whether it's her, whether it's -- i was surprised a little bit with dick cheney. i didn't know him at all. i only had, essentially, the one or two phone calls, and it was only a call saying thank you very much for doing that for scooter libby, that was nice. and scooter libby, by the way, was beyond -- he couldn't believe that it happened. nobody would concern they should have done that for him years before. but i was a little surprised because i actually thought that dick cheney would go with me over his daughter, and he didn't. and you know what? i understand it, it's your daughter and you go. but she's a, she's a bad person. harris: trump campaign senior adviser tim murtaugh summed it up this way: -- >> it's plain for anyone to see if you just watch the videotape
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what president bush was talking about was how would -- president trump was talking about how would liz cheney view it if she were deploying to war zones instead of the sons and daughters of americans that she has always voted to deploy is send to their deaths while she sat in washington, d.c. with her feet up in her office there. harris: senator lindsey graham also laced into cheney saying her backing of vp harris has made her totally irrelevant. >> you're telling me you're pro-life and you want this lady to be president who believes in abortion up to the moment of birth? you're telling me you believe in a strong military when she advocated getting out of afghanistan, the last person in the room with biden? you're telling me you believe in energy independence and you want her to be president, stopping oil and gas drilling? so, liz cheney, don't listen to her. harris: jason chaffetz now, fox news contributor and former republican congressman of utah. look, you've seen late stages of campaigns. you win. [laughter] >> right. harris a hearst so, i don't
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know, 48 hours, the last 96 hours, how much of it matters? outside that zone we saw the president serving up fries -- [laughter] at mcdonald's, outside the last, like, four days. how much of it matters and when does the clock just stop and voters say, uh-huh -- huh-uh, i'm done and going to vote? >> a lot of person go vote in person, and there's a lot of people, millions of them. but the problem is your core thesis has to be consistent with the truth, and that's kamala harris' core problem. she's trying to say i'm pro-fracking in pennsylvania. we know she's not. she said she's going to be tough on the border, running ads -- harris: we know that's not true. >> she's going to -- donald trump will start world war iii. the beginnings of world war iii feel like it's happening in the middle east under her watch. so you go right down the list, your core thesis if it's not consistent, you're not going to to convince people. people are smarter than that. harris: so that really needs to
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be part of the closing argument, but it's been usurped. her surrogates have pulled the rug out from underneath her. donald trump said all the things you're saying, and his words got twisted around liz cheney just this week. and i'm wondering how much it matters. talk show host bill maher, let's take a look at what he says. >> i woke up today to the headline that trump had a called for a firing squad for liz cheney. and this is what i really don't like about the media. no, he didn't. >> he did not. >> you don't have to move me to the not like donald trump. of course, he expresses himself horribly, he has to add he's a stupid person -- >> well, trump knows what it's -- >> just, you know, just don't lie to me. i don't like donald trump. don't lie to me and tell me she was, he wants her in front of a firing squad. harris: the huffington post quoted it this way, bill maher defends donald trump's comment about a liz cheney, exactly what
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hippies always said. [laughter] that's the quote. >> exactly. you have to the remember two-thirds of this country believes the country's on the wrong track. i think as long -- harris: more than that that. it's, like, 732%. -- 72. >> as long as he continues to a beat the drum line, kamala harris broke it, i'll make it better, i had four years, the economy was better, immigration's broken, i will fix that, and we can get this country back together. just say and talk and remind people of those things, and i think he wins -- harris: that's where he started when we took the temperature of his comments in pennsylvania -- the top of his comments in pennsylvania and really reiterating a all those areas that need urgent tension -- attention, and you think it works. biden may have given the campaign another headache, meaning kamala harris' campaign. the woman he picked to be vice president? anyway, his comment about trump and republicans yesterday. watch this. >> there's one more thing trump and his republican friends want to do. they want another giant tax cut for the wealthy.
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now, i know some of you guys are tempted to think it's macho guy. i'll tell you what, man, when i was in scranton, we used to have a little trouble going down to the plot once in a while. [laughter] but i'm serious. these are the kind of guys you like to smack in the ass. [laughter] harris: i mean, wow. grandpa needs a nap. former president obama's top speech writer says joe biden shouldn't be campaigning because he's become a liability. >> if i was joe biden and i kne, obviously, is at stake in this election. he is the president of the united states. got a lot of work to do as president. i would probably look at the numbers, i would look at the race and say i'm going to focus on being president for the next couple of days. [laughter] and that's probably best, that's the best thing he can do for knot just the harris campaign, but himself and his presidency too. harris: jon favreau just calling
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the facts. >> i wonder, does joe biden really want kamala harris to win? if i think it's a legitimate question to ask. there is a point where you just have to say, or you know what? you're not the too many knee. and i think -- nominee. i think he thinks he's the only person that can beat donald trump. thiess not -- he's not on the ticket. he's very frustrated. he's a little confused and has been for some time. and kamala harris is surrounded by people from mark cuban to the cheneys? can you imagine if you're a democrat and you've got the cheneys? you're looking at the cheneys thinking they're the -- harris: yeah. i remember a time when democrats would just eviscerate the name dick cheney. >> yes. harris: i agree with you. i hadn't thought of it that way with. but look, even donald trump a few minutes ago on the stump in pennsylvania was saying where's joe. we know where joe is. joe is so busy at the time that she was giving her speech at the ellipse, it was supposed to be her big post-january 6th beat-up on donald trump and maga supporters and so on and so
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forth. but it turned out to be him on a zoom taking her down by, you know, saying terrible things about trump's supporters, calling them garbage. >> and there were two other times where kamala harris was doing something nationally on television only to have joe biden come on television and kind of usurp her. he's the president. you've got to take the president. but i, again, core themes matter. kamala harris has nothing. she doesn't have the economy, she doesn't have issues. harris: so joe -- i mean, jon favreau had a good point here. who's running the country if he's trying to also run her campaign? [laughter] >> we've been asking the this question for years, who's running the -- harris: i know you have. thank you for coming in. >> oh, love it. thank you. harris: a legal win for the gop, the pennsylvania supreme court ruled on mail ballots with errors on them. we'll get into that. and in georgia, another critical battleground state, multiple
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legal challenges are playing out already. one has republicans getting poll watchers in to voting sites. former assistant attorney general phil holloway has worked in georgia. he's in focus next.
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harris: so we know it's being reported that voting early, whether mail-in or in person, especially has been smashing records in battleground states, especially georgia. i was there on the first day of early voting with our "faulkner if focus" all-women town hall, and they had 307,000 people in that first day vote. that broke records, set history. some 4 million people now have turned out. more than half the state's population has already voted. early voting there in georgia ended on friday, and that same day several democrat-leaning georgia counties announced they would keep election offices open this weekend. and that would allow voters to turn in absentee ballots in person. republicans filed multiple legal challenges to that. madison alworth is in atlanta to explain where this is. so, madison, are they going to find fairground in this? what's happening? >> reporter: harris, that is the home. at this point -- the hope. at this point those offices are still open this weekend, and the reality is these legal issues, they're really in focus despite
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the election being just 22 days away -- two days away. georgia republicans did file a haut and sent letters to six different counties here in georgia over their decision to keep election offices open this weekend in order to collect absentee ballots in person. one of those offices is right behind me here in fulton county. this county saw 105 ballots turned in yesterday during that extended office hours session. the county says they are following the rule of the law. the gop, they disagree. they say that by having these extended office hours, what they're doing is illegal, equating the move to using dropboxes which are not allowed after early voting ends. that ended on friday. finish a georgia judge though, they tossed out that initial suit. but georgia republicans tell us that a federal lawsuit is imminent and that they will also appeal the state's decision. republicans did have a victory though. initially, fulton county was not
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allowing poll watchers the to observe the dropoffs. but georgia's secretary of state stepped in, and all of the counties allowed poll watchers which is in line with the law. raffensperger said he is not surprised by the legal challenges. >> they're both coming to fight and represent to the make sure everyone's following the law. and that's what we are asking, follow the law, follow the constitution. >> reporter: so after since pirger himself was subject to many lawsuits, and in anticipation of that, there's a new nonprofit, the election defense fund, which is raising money to support election officials that potentially will be sued -- sued personally. they're aiming to raise $5 million and, harris, they've already raised $22 million -- harris: wow, that was quick on the fund raising. less than two days away, and this is already starting to play out. we'll keep january ion it -- an eye on it. phil holloway, we'll get his
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title right this time. i gave him a major, major lift-up, but still he's former district attorney and legal adviser to a sheriff's department in georgia. all right. no longer the attorney general, but you should have been. let's get this straight. you're on the ground, you're familiar with georgia. what really gets us to fairness in that state in terms of all of the legal challenges? >> always great to be with you, harris. look, the biggest problem with this georgia issue that we're talking about right now is the the issue of poll watchers. they actually wanted to keep poll watchers out. they told their staff in a memo that if this happens, you know, alert your armed security teams, okay? if they were going to refer poll watchers to armed security to try to keep them out. of course, the secretary of state did step in, and that was, of course, fixed. but the other legal problem, you heard in that sound bite secretary of state after
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especially pirger says to follow the constitution. we all remember bush versus gore in 2000. and what that means is that elections have to be carried out uniformly throughout the state. it's equal protection of the law. and so when you have these blue counties basically doing these surprise moves designed to vacuum up as many blue ballots as they possibly can, it creates an equal protection problem. that's why you're going to see the republicans filing suit this if federal court, and that's why you're going to see republicans continuing to to fight for fairness in this election. harris: so, phil, are we in the same or a different spot now than we were years ago when challenges like this would be made, like 2020 or when al gore or and george w. bush were, you know, when that was contested by al gore? nobody ever really talks about that, but even hillary clinton doubted the election in 2016. wrote a book, "what happened," so i'm just wondering, have
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things changed at all in terms of how those cases work out? >> i think what's happened is we've gone from election day and very limited absentee voting which, you know, you couldn't vote absentee unless you had a legitimate reason as set out by state law, now we have just no excuse absentee voting that goes on for weeks and weeks and weeks. we have election season versus the constitutionally-required election day. this is what is the cause, i think, the root cause of all this litigation. all of the litigation we see, what does it involve? it involves absentee ballots and mail-in ballots. it's just like what we have going on in pennsylvania right now. the pennsylvania trial court was trying to change the law that's on the books to require balance to be -- ballots to be accepted even though they did not have the date written on them as required by state law. so all of these challenges deal with the mail-ins, the dropboxes and all of the basically just
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wide open absentee voting. harris: a legal victory on one of the issues and in one of the places you just talked about, a legal victory for republicans. pennsylvania's supreme court just ruled mail-in ballots without a handwritten date, and that's what you were talking about, phil, those will not be counted. the high court overruled a lower court which claimed the state law required handwritten dates on mail-in ballots is unconstitutional. break that down a bit. ,. >> i'm pleased that the supreme court in pennsylvania said in their opinion very loudly and clearly to the lower courts because they know this can happen again, look, we will not allow our courts to change election law. that's very different than what we saw in 2020. we saw trial courts throughout the united states basically reweeing on their own -- rewriting on their own the state's election laws. the supreme court in pennsylvania says we're not going to be doing that here, and they sent word to the lower
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courts not to do it anymore. that's what creates the distrust in our elections, harris, it's these judges who sit in these trial courts who seem to rule based on their political buy nas versus carrying out their sworn duty to enforce and uphold the law and the constitution of the united states. harris: and it's the timing of it. >> -- election day voting. harris: they had four years. they could have done that at any point, but it comes right down just before election day. real quickly, that's what we saw with noncitizens on the ballot and virginia governor, glenn youngkin, getting those taken off and then a last minute if doj challenge to that. it's not even just at the lower levels, it's also at the highest levels. that was, of course, the u.s. supreme court says those noncitizens have to the stay off the voting rolls, so another victory for republicans there. great to have you, phil. thank you, alls. hang for watching this special sunday edition. "outnumbered" after the break.
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