david chalian: we were in totally uncharted territory.ubject 4: this was going to be a moment that jolted america awake to this election. this may be the most consequential 90 minutes of their political careers. this might be the most consequential 90 minutes of modern american political history. anderson cooper (voiceover): we're live from georgia, a key battleground state in the race for the white house. kate bedingfield: coming into the debate, there was an enormous amount of hype. there was the question of whether trump was going to be able to keep himself in check and not be the kind of most unhinged, deranged version of donald trump. there was the question of whether biden was going to be strong. was he going to be able to push back on concerns that he was too old to be in the race? pamela brown (voiceover): more than 50 million viewers tuned in to watch the first ever debate between a sitting president and a former president. what they saw was shocking. joe biden how are you? van jones: from the very moment that biden walked out, m

david chalian, so grateful to have you on the show. thank you. >> thank you so much for being here see you soon. i hope the rest of panel is gonna be back in just a few minutes still to come and after the break, just days away from the next presidential debates, this time, kamala harris faces off against donald trump. how each is preparing plus the gala honoring january six suspects at donald trump's resort in new jersey has been postponed indefinitely five things brought to you by karwan. >> car ivana, dale drive you happy and so it's done i just saw my car to car ivana just entered my license plate and i sort of view questions i'm dropping out and getting paid today to the news that thanks for tuesday, carvajal, your car today. >> you get paid the same day with carbonic. >> ever worry that you're drinking too much. take back control with orhon? hope for health provides access to medication proven to make it easier to drink less for him to quit drinking altogether qualify for treatment today that we're health.com. >> i just found out

and yet david chalian you hear time and time again. the question from focus groups, from undecided voters. >> but what about her policies? >> what, what is that about? because he yes, he was president, but he hasn't really super articulated his economic policies for a second term because he was asked this weekend about what his plan is to bring down costs and it was sort of lacking any kind of specificity and trains run. i think what it is is she's newer to the scene for voters. i mean, it's just she's a newer characters sure playing on the main stage in american politics for voters. and so they are wanting to learn more about her. i don't even know that they necessarily are demanding specific policy proposals but you said yes, he has been president. i mean, i think that is part of though he was president americans observed him as president for four years i think they have fewer questions in their mind about what does a trump presidency looked like. and so that is why i think there are questions still as you decide, undecided persuadab

. >> cnn's david chalian, man caldwell from the washington post semafor's david weigel jasmine wright with notice. good morning to you all. good morning. thanks for being here. so it's interesting new poll were getting a couple of sense, a sense of where this race is post-debate. >> this abc news poll. the second really that we've seen him national poll about where this is. >> it's a justice ways has not changed at all despite the view among many people. >> by the view of integral of some of the snapshot polling in the aftermath that harris won the debate. but the race hasn't changed and the view of the people in this new abc news poll is well, harris, the clear winner of the debate when they were asked about it, you know, as we've been saying, winning a debate and winning an election, not necessarily the same thing though, if you're harris, likely voters 52 to 46, you're not unhappy with those numbers, even though they haven't changed pre-debate are post-debate those are numbers you'd like to see, as you noted, this is a national poll. this is a battle for 270 electoral votes. and so

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cnn's david chalian, cnn's alayna treene, and jasmine wright of notice, formerly with cnn. nice to see you all at david chalian yesterday kamala harris gives a speech that talks about the economy bit more moderate separates herself for the first time really, from joe biden on one of the key tax issues that people who are paying attention to that pay attention to. and today, we have donald trump yeah. >> i mean, it is issue number one for voters obviously. and so both of these candidates want to speak to where voters are, which is a concern about the economy. i also think it's an opportunity to practice some policy lines before the debate in philadelphia next week. so i think what you hear today from donald trump, if he does indeed read off the prompter as planned, what you heard from kamala harris yesterday, i'll be shocked if we don't hear some of that same language on the debate stage, next week it's interesting that you noted on the harris side dana a little bit of separation from biden, which is noteworthy and interesting in and of itself from the sitting vice president

david chalian says that could prove a problem for joe for donald trump. does that does that at this stage in the game, does that concern you should concern the kennedy? >> because i think the gender gap right now is working both ways, right? we do see a historic gender gap among women voters processing historic gender gap among male voters. and that's actually given donald trump opportunities to go out and get voters that haven't voted republican in generations. young african american men, young hispanic men, young white man, he's actually now potentially on the cusp of winning young men for the first time that we've seen in probably a generation for republican candidate. and that's in part because this as gender gap. now, what you are seeing is both kamala harris and donald trump's campaigns recognize that there are some risks in that strategy of just maximizing the number of male votes or female votes that could get. and so you've got kamala harris talking about about shooting people coming into our house and you've got donald trump now making some stro

david chalian, has the numbers. anderson, one of the questions we asked these debate watchers is that classic question of who do you think cares about people like you, if you will? and take a look at these results from our instant poll. who better understands problems facing people like you? before the debate, 39% said that about harris, 43% trump. and look at how that flips for harris after the debate, 43% of the debate watchers say that she understands problems facing people like them 40% say that about trump. now, this is margin of error stuff. but you can see directionally that she made up some ground in that category that is not true when it comes to the economy and this shows even though she won the debate overwhelmingly in the minds of the voters. look at the economy here who would you who would better handle the economy? is what we ask going into the debate before the debate. 37% said harris, 53%. trump. after the debate. again, margin of error stuff here. but numerically, she lost a little ground. 35% said

the first results of our instant poll of debate watchers have just come in and david chalian is going to join us now break it all down. david, tell us more yeah, jake and as you noted, this is a poll of debate watchers. >> this is not a poll that represents the overall population, although in partisan breakdown, it is pretty close to what the overall registered voter population looks like in the country. but if e is a poll of those people that watched the debate. so just keep that in mind as we get to these results, our first results here in our exclusive flash poll, who won the debate, the overall number here overwhelmingly kamala harris did i'm going to look at my email here, 63%. you see there on your screen say kamala harris won the debate, only 37% say donald trump won the debate and that is quite different than the expectations going into this, among this group of debate watchers in this poll, we asked folks going into the debate, who do you expect to win the debate while it was 50, 50, 50% expected harris, 50% expected trump to win the debate that was before the debate. and we

david chalian, great to see you get some rest.hanks back now with our panel, maggie haberman, ashley etienne, and erin perrine, maggie, let's talk about pennsylvania. shall we? because it is the state honestly that i hear most about from republicans and from people in the trump campaign how important is it to them? how do they feel about it? >> it's vital to them. in fact, the super pac, the main super pac backing trump top official put out a memo several months ago describing it as the ball game. and so you can't overstate the degree to which they're focused on pennsylvania. they're feeling good about it and they had been feeling good about it for some time. now depending on which side you talk to, you hear different things about their polling but i do think that the trump team feels stronger about their position in pennsylvania right now? now then the harris team does actually that number that david pointed out about how many people are still changeable voters about 15% of likely voters around it and all of those six states, if

let's get the latest from cnn political director david chalian. david, you perhaps more attentively than most are eagerly watching election results as they come in how could this reshape the way we see those votes come in and george? >> so let's be clear, boris, even before this rule change in georgia was passed by the election board the likelihood that we're going to have an actual result to the election on tuesday night of electrolyte. very low, right? it's just if you look at the seven battleground states that are going to decide this race. georgia being one of them. and you look at how they count their votes. there are several pennsylvania, arizona even wisconsin sort of goes into counting into wednesday morning, unlikely that we would ever result. but now it becomes even more unlikely because him counting is a slow for process, right? and so obviously there are politics behind this decision because this, this is tied to donald trump's election lies in 2020. this is, this is all a response to that because remember brad raffensperger, the secret

let's start with david chalian. what is trump's direct appeal david, two women tell you about how he sees the state of this race right now well, he certainly knows he's running a deficit with women voters. there's no doubt about that but what was really interesting in our poll today, wolf is that if you look specifically at a white women kamala harris is running about even she's three points behind 47% to 50% trump among white women. that's a group that hillary clinton lost to trump by nine points that joe biden lost to trump by 11 points. if indeed that mirrors what will be come election night when the votes are counted that would be pretty good news for kamala harris if she's able to narrow the gap with trump among white women and that is largely who he's talking to when he's making this appeal, yeah, an important point, indeed, ana navarro is with us as well. >> and what do you make of trump's comments that women no longer have to feel scared because he will be they are quote, protector well first of all, i'm a wo

and to give you more on that, let's go right now to cnn's david chalian, who was with me at the magic wall with our brand new numbers six weeks to go, as you said, 42 days and it doesn't get much closer than this, dana, this is among likely voters and believe no clear leader within the margin of error kamala harris at 48% support donald trump at 47% support among likely voters according to this brand new poll by ssrs. take a look here. most important issue among likely voters far and away. it's the economy 41% say so. protecting democracy is second at 21% immigration and abortion rights round out the double-digit support categories, and on issue number one, you mentioned donald trump going down to georgia today. take a look at trump's advantage on the economy. 50% of likely voters say they are, they trust him to handle the economy more than harris, only 39% of likely voters say so of harris, again, on issue number one it. is really stunning if you think about these numbers, 20% more of voters say that they are worried about the economy and that's their number one issue more than anybo

so let's get right to cnn political director david chalian is with us the top lines this morning, david good morning, john. and yet just two days from ballots going out in north carolina for people to begin voting, but take a look at our snapshot of those six states, six battleground states. and what you see here, you mentioned there were a few states where there are slight leads in wisconsin kamala harris, 50%, donald trump, 44%, slight lead for harris in wisconsin outside the margin of error. same in michigan, a slight lead for harris outside the margin of error in arizona down here. it's a slight lead for donald trump 49% to 44%. georgia, nevada, pennsylvania all within the margin of error, no clear leader in those states. what these shows us both candidates have paths to 270 and it is a very close race, nine weeks out from election day, john a lot of tight states there, david, how many people still making up their minds this number actually surprised me in our poll, john, because it was a little bit larger of a group of what we call movable voters than i would anticipate. >> you see

david chalian, you must come on every day. thank you very much. it's good to see you, sir. >> all right. thank you, kate. today, vice president kamala harris is back in battleground, pennsylvania to lay out her economic vision to voters, a senior campaign official telling cnn, the vice president will, vice president will focus on american manufacturing it is another chance she has to pitch voters on her plan and how it differs from donald trump's. it comes after trump outlined his vision for a manufacturing renaissance as he put it in the us and said, this about harris's plan gets four more years, she will d industrialized the united states and destroy our country. >> we will become virtually a banana republic we will be destroyed joining me now is connecticut governor ned lamont. i'm going to let you respond to that very dark language that is being used. and sort of scare tactic being used by donald trump. what do you make of that? >> good morning, sara. >> it's the exact opposite of our experience here in connecticut. >> we pride ourselves on ma

david chalian, thanks so much. let's bring in my panel of political experts, gretchen, let me start with you. you just saw how much harris trails trump when it comes to the issue of immigration. what do you think she needs to do? vice president harris, when she goes to the border on friday what are the two sentences she needs to convey to the voters out there? >> she needs to talk about crossings are lower than they've been since 2020. she needs to take over the narrative and talk about how donald trump torpedoed the bipartisan bill that would have helped immigration on the border tremendously she needs to just reclaim the narrative and maybe step away a little bit from the biden administration because she's not polling well at all. so obviously changes what she needs to do. >> what do you think? >> well, she's not going to be able to change how voters feel about immigration, right? that, that is set. this is a top issue. folks coming at it from either perspective of security, some fear-based. so she will likely be

and let's start with david chalian, the harris county i think clearly thinks they had a very good night last night. they did have a very good night, but they're also tempering as we just heard mj report tempering expectations about how much this currently changes the race right now, what's your analysis? >> yeah. well, first of all, we don't know if it's going to change the race or not. so they're obviously being cautious in their approach to assume and that it's not going to change the trajectory of the race. but there are two things there. one obviously, guarding against complacency, making sure that i'll think about it. wolf in all the battleground states and all the structure and organization that they built on the ground. the ground troops up through the party leadership. they want everyone working every day you saw it from all they're highly level surrogates on social media immediately. the michelle obama's and hillary clinton and barak obama is the world that we saw at the convention were out saying, yes, she did great, but now it's time to get to work. so they were all sort of s

david chalian, kamala harris addressed the issue of race more today than she has in recent remarks.ou about what we heard from her today? >> well, obviously the audience that she was talking to african american journalist. so i guess not terribly surprising that race was going to be a central topic, but i thought what was really interesting she, is how much she wanted to lean in to that springfield, ohio situation, which is where most of her comments about race came from and really try and hold vance and trump accountable for what they have said in that scenario and use it as a contrast. two, the likes of governor dewine are other republicans. the republican mayor in springfield of what they've been doing you know, one, she's trying to paint a sort of irresponsible rhetoric and one and another slice of republican officials involved in this trying to have a bit more responsibility for it. she clearly wanted to tinubu to hold trump and vance and their rhetoric around this as sort of outside the stated goal of wanting to focus on the issue of the pressures, the downward pressures on th

days to the election people are going to be voting even before that, as cnn political director david chalian likes to remind us all of the time, i could importantly i gave a bit of the ovary. >> can you take us dive me into the states? and these topline numbers? >> yeah. like you said, kate, a whole lot of daylight. >> everyone also to check it out on our website. but in these brand new cnn polls, you see how close this race is. you noted these are the top line numbers here that harris has an outside the margin of error, slight lead in wisconsin. she also has an outside the margin of error, slight lead in michigan. you also noted that in arizona, donald trump has a slight outside the margin of error lead but in georgia, nevada, pennsylvania, no clear leader within the margin of error. this shows that they candidates have multiple paths to two 70, but that this is indeed a toss-up race. and you mentioned the gender gap. take a look here look at these numbers. >> kate, among female likely voters in these states, you see this is 17 percentage point lead and wisconsin among female voters for har

david chalian, the stakes couldn't be higher for these two candidates tonight.xpect it? >> they couldn't and i would say you know, they're high for both of them. it's a tied race, but kamala harris has more of a spotlight on her tonight. she's 51 days into this as a presidential candidate. she's got 56 days left before we count them. boats. that's how compressed her candidacy is and there's just you see it in all the survey research an appetite and a swath of the electorate to learn more about her. now, that is a potential upside for kamala harris, but there is potential risk in that as well. and so this is, you know, donald trump has done this. this will be a seventh time that he's been on this stage about this particular stage, but the general election presidential debate as the nominee of his party. this is the first time for harris. she's a relatively new candidate, has not done. obviously any debates only one big interview this is a moment where the spotlight is going to be on her and there's potential for her potential growth for her in that moment no doub

cnn political director david chalian is here to break it all down. where do you want to start? >> well, let's start in nebraska. you call it a blue dot and look at those results. you see why it's blue. she has a significant lead there. you see why? donald trump and his allies were trying to get republicans in the state to change the rules in the middle of the game here so that it would just all winter at stake for nebraska, make it all red, don't divide it up. as you know, it's one of two states, nebraska and maine that divide electoral votes by congressional district. it's clear why they wanted to do that. now as you noted, dana, if indeed that's what the results look like on election night, all kamala harris needs to win the white house if she has that electoral vote in nebraska is repeating the blue wall victory is of pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin, where she seems to be running a bit better than than the sun belt. i want to say one other thing about the nebraska poll. we asked a question. >> do you who live in the second congressional district in the omaha area of ne

we have cnn political director david chalian joining us to break down these these numbers are at what are the big takeaways that you're seeing? >> well, as you said, the biggest takeaway is this. it is you can't get closer than this really a presidential election, we should note this is a national poll. is among likely voters now that we are just six weeks away and we know that the path to 277 battleground states will determine the winner here. but this is a national map shot. most important issue, the economy by far brianna 41% of likely voters through driving their vote choice 21% say protecting democracy, that's second on the list. and you see immigration and reproductive rights, abortion rights round out those that have double-digit support. but these top four issues are the ones hear the most about on the campaign trail and obviously the economy is the big one. and that is advantage trump. we asked these likely voters in the poll, who do you trust to handle the economy more 50% say donald trump 39%, say kamala harris, she needs to narrow that gap between now and six weeks from no

cnn's priscilla alvarez is with us eva mckend, david chalian in the atlanta journal constitution's tia mitchell, as well. to you guys here in studio first. i wonder if you thought it was substantive enough and i will point specifically to a couple of examples she was asked about her plans beyond the child tax credit for things like elder care to help families. she didn't actually end up really getting into specifics and i knew as journalists, we love specifics and candidates don't always. she was also asked about whether there might be a federal response or it might be necessary when it comes to springfield, ohio, she did talk at length about how she feels about these issues, but maybe she didn't really commit to answer that question, eva well, i think that in broad terms, like sheets, chief did actually say quite a bit. >> she talked about the low housing supply, how no family should pay more than 7% of their income on childcare increased wages for home health care providers. she talked about her plan for for small business owners. so we did get quite a bit and i think ultimately the

cnn pol director david chalian, cnn legal analyst jennifer rodgers cnn senior political analyst. ron brownstein a full house yes cnn, folks. >> thanks so much for all of you being with us, kara first to you, how to judge marshawn explain this decision to delay sentencing until november 26, jennifer shahade issued a four page decision here and he goes to great lengths to explain his reasoning behind it, saying that he's doing this in part to avoid any appearance that he is trying to influence the election to affect one party or the other and he also notes in this decision that the prosecutors did not oppose delaying the sentencing and he said some of their arguments and their papers actually led him to think that they agreed with delaying the sentencing. >> he says specifically he doing this to avoid any appearance, however, unwarranted that the proceeding has been affected by or seeks to affect the approaching presidential election. he also said he doesn't want to give an advantage or a disadvantage to either political party pretty so taking the politics out of the snow, we also

let's discuss with cnn political director david chalian and cnn national politics correspondent eva mckend. along with cnn reporter alayna treene. thank you for being with us eva, talk to us about this bus tour. how many stops and where's ago. >> it kicked off today in palm beach county notable because that is the former president's backyard and what that illustrates is that democrats are feeling particularly bullish on this issue. to begin it in florida, which has been a red state for a long time, where democrats have suffered a lot of political heartbreak, heartbreak cycle after cycle. i was listening to debby merkel cell powell, she's a former congresswoman who's running for senate down there and she told a crowd today on the bus tour florida is very much still in play. there's also a lot of momentum around amendment for that would end restrictions to abortion access prior to viability, we saw the former president's sort of get caught up in this and how to answer for this. but what we're seeing that become it's a really galvanizing issue for democrats in that state and why they started