matt gorman we have matt gorman dog, molly, you know, it doesn't look like me right now because thispetition in torreon connecticut i'll have, you know, but yeah. thank caddie 60. what kind of dog? >> that's a golden retriever, little puppy? yeah. >> all right. alex, we have a picture of your dog too. i think tell us about your dog, various shy to that that is miley who sadly is not with us, but she is very two very well loved and my sister, she has to golden retrievers. >> they had puppies, charlie maasie sage, and they had puppies and my brother and up getting one of the puppies and so they're exempt whole family

matt gorman, in terms of what we saw from from donald trump. but i think the thing that i was struck by a couple of things. i mean, one, it seemed like he is still acting like he's running against joe biden, that sort of the posture and second, like the contrast, the energy contrast on display between trump and biden really worked in trump's favor, but between trump and harris, it doesn't couple of things. >> i mean, yeah, i think republicans are going into this day saying, look, how do we find a way to arrest harris has momentum. >> how do we find a way to kind of staunch that a little bit and it also how do we find a way to get her out of her bubble, right? >> throw her off a little bit in a way to, you know, we all we believe that she's best in unscripted possibly more politically vulnerable scenarios is supposed to be event that was going into this day. and i think there were the news the top as we as you started with here, was okay, the plan is we're going to talk okay. and do the three debates, one of which that we know she will agree to,

matt gorman, the low iq individual. that thing that he had to say, i mean, this is just like but can you just lay out what this is actually about? >> yeah. i mean, look, i think it was there was a common thread when sheet but 15 days going she was picked that we have to define her in the first week and it was so crucial i think that was always a fallacy because at that point that the media and the left who is just so exuberant that joe biden is off the ticket, wasn't you weren't gonna be able to find her in a week? so therefore, that got us for the first weekend of that political honeymoon then so you get the last week and i think i saw a lot of republicans openly frustrated especially after this weekend, exasperated because you saw the nabj conference leading into kind of the georgia conference and it's like, okay, we have a lot of good political apoe hit, so to speak, on whether it's fracking and a ton of there there are plenty of space to define where republicans could use her policy positions in ways that could infl

that's an attack on people. >> let's was going to say matt gorman like there is the there is a crisis at the border. now, everyone agrees on that. it did take democrats a while to come around to that new york city. i mean, it's on the cover of the new york post. its murdoch owns will take that for what it is, but it is a real problem, right? it's a real problem they can talk about it as a real problem without doing what they did there. you're right. i mean, it's one of those things where we're winning on the issue i believe like we've been doing for a long time the overton window has shifted on this. we always talked about how, you know, with border security had to come some sort of legal status as we saw, that was not a part of any time of the recent stuff on capitol hill. it's always been kind of border security focus, on look, the question is, how do you kind of keep the focus on that and not drifting kind of these other tertiary jerry things where you can lead yourself down rabbit holes. i think that's the key on this and i think that goes to kind of discipline, if not just trump,

it here on cnn matt gorman, did they wait too long to do this because this has become like turned intoind of a thing. it is just no bald. >> that said they are doing it. they will be on camera here. what do you expect a couple of things i took note, first of all, that kind of structure of it, right? >> it's a joint interview so we can be divided time. obviously. and then also on the cusp of a holiday weekend. so, you know, there's a couple of structural things i took note as an operative. the second thing is, look, i am very excited to see what she says in a host of topics and seeing with walz and we've talked about some of the things, especially on the walls and with his military service and circumstances, he's talked about, they haven't matched with the facts. a lot of it has been left to fester for now weeks because it wasn't addressed when it was when it first got out there. and so does this kind of give them each a chance to address some of this stuff? but look, i think the biggest thing is now republicans and i think everybody rightly so is watching what she says in this intervie

we have matt gorman and carly cooperman. great to see both of you. i have about 85 things i want to talk about and we're going to look at different ways the campaign are attempting to frame the stakes and we'll listen to former president trump talking about democrats being the threat to democracy with the way kamala harris became the presumptive nominee. take a listen. >> they said we'll do it the nice way or do @ hard way, joe. we used the 25th amendment and we'll call you mentally incompetent and everybody will believe us and you know what they did was a terrible thing actually. they forced him out. it was a coup. we had a coup. it was the first in the history of our country, and it was very successful. alicia: kamala harris from her rally talking about the future. >> in this campaign, i will proudly put my record against his every day. that being said, our campaign is not just about us versus donald trump. our campaign is about two different visions for our nation. one is ours focused on the future and the other. the other is focused on the past.

let's bring in matt gorman now is a device president targeted victory and one williams great to have f you with us. you know, it's interesting to look back matt. if you go back to 2016 lewandowski was moved out. paul metaphor came in for a while then conway came in and was the campaign manager during the 2016 when performer president trump. then brad pascoe 2020 and bill took over. both these things happened in the summer. with this sort of shift in the polls right now, three months to go, do you see bigger changes coming at the trump campaign potentially? >> i don't because throughout all the change the men at the top has been the one to stay the state -- same. he is been the one to call the shots like any candidate would pair at oc a ton more changes we will sea. but overall this iteration of the campaign has been remarkably well-run and effective. thank there are always people toward the end with the finish line insight more people come on i think that's what we're saying in this case. >> you know, here take on this as den and ensure didn't announcement today in "the wall street jo

matt gorman matt, i'll start with you the vice president is proposing tax cuts for lower and middle-class americans. and she's cracking down on price gouging. meantime, trump is proposing more tax cuts for the rich and the very, very rich and praising the elon musk for firing workers who are on strike are you concerned about that splits screen no. >> because frankly, that's not what trump is doing. he wants to extend the trump tax cuts, which gives tax cuts to everyone. but also, i mean, look, i got c's and b's and math and even i know what commonly harris is doing. it's bad policy may look a $25 subsidy, all that does is increase the price of housing by 25 25 k if you know that you're going to tack it onto everything and look, even washington post is calling out her price controls and saying could lead to rationing shortages, even black markets, it's absolutely ridiculous policy. so we've been waiting all time for any sort of policy, new policy farmer. and this is it, it's pretty lackluster whether what we heard from trump yesterday i think that the contrast is exactly what you laid out

that's a good number for republicans paired let's bring in matt gorman from a campaign advisor to the the biden white house. matt, to you first. i've covered nevada in the midterms. it's a very interesting state. a lot of independence there. folks that don't want to be aligned with either party because they are sick of both parties democrats and republicans. the economy was a number when the issue 2022. the most vulnerable democrat during that period was cortez. but adam lost. so what's different this time around. >> the governor won. the governor republican one. it's been trending bread for little while now and republicans in the state cut the deficit for voter registration. in half. things are going pretty well but this is one of the biggest states for trump. a biggest opportunity for trump to flip a state. nevada is the top of the list. >> they can vote for trump and then vote for jacky rosen. >> and that it's becoming less of a common occurrence. with bush and gore, ten senate races went opposite the presidential race in the state. over the last two presidential cycles, just one.

simone townsend former spokesperson for kamala harris and republican strategist matt gorman. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history. this is "meet the press" with kristen welker. >>> good sunday morning. as we come on the air after a brief pause for the olympics, the race for the white house has dramatically shifted with vice president harris now at the top of the ticket. she has reset the race and the electoral map and tomorrow night all eyes will be on chicago as the democratic national convention gets under way. >> we are running a campaign on behalf of all americans and when elected we will govern on behalf of all americans. [ cheering ] >> a month ago president biden trailed former president donald trump nationally and in key battleground states, but now harris has narrowed the gap with mr. trump nationally and is leading or tied with him in six out of seven ballot ground states and that's according to the cooke political report within the margin of error. the sienna poll confirms the high

matt gorman is a republican strategist, former senior communications adviser for tim scott for americar as well as aide to jeb bush and mitt romney. good to see all of you. okay, vaughn, in one of those very beautiful cities in a very beautiful state, but nobody's idea of a swing state. i think 2020 trump won there by 16. so what does his campaign think he can really accomplish by going there? >> reporter: right, they should be out here in montana hanging out with me. when you're looking at the senate map, look, this is one of the senate races that could change whether republicans have the majority come 2025 or not. if you look for republicans, all they got to do is pick up one or two senate seats. if donald trump and j.d. vance win, j.d. vance could be that tie breaking vote. if it is a 50/50 even split in the senate. when you look at west virginia, the expectation is the republican governor jim justice will pick up that seat left behind by joe manchin. that's where republicans see here tim sheehy, a veteran, somebody who they believe has a real shot to take down the likes of incumben

joining me now, republican strategist matt gorman, cnn political commentator, jamal simmons, and cnn legal analyst norm eisen. i should note norm is outside counsel for the democracy defenders pac, but normalise jump right into this. this is a superseding indictment. it replaces the old indictment a different grand jury was used in this new indictment. what can you tell us? there are some differences here, but the thrust of the case is basically the same. >> that's right, jim. the supreme court established a test and whatever you think of the sun the prim court's decision, which has been widely criticized for going too far and taking too long. there's now a distinction official conduct. donald trump can't be prosecuted for unofficial conduct, personal conduct, campaign conduct. he can be and what special counsel? jack smith has done with this superseding indictment, a replacement indictment is strip out anything that might be arguably official for example donald trump talks to his department of justice. look, there's an argument a president talking to doj that's official all of that

up the man who tried to make a coup d'etat from returning to the presidency. >> matt gorman there are a lot of republicans around donald trump who were trying to get him to do things a certain way and he does not seem to be listening to them. i mean, what what has stood out to you? >> a couple of things right. like a month ago we were all in milwaukee and it was remarkable kind of discipline that he had. but again, it was eating he's it had the defense of playing when you're up to five points. >> winning is easy. exactly so i think winning is very straightforward and not to his piece that came out talking kind of alluding to that same sentiment that the times talked about. >> and you had j.d. vance and the sunday shows really effectively levering some strong and probably the best, i assume, polling think messaging against camila, at least it certainly was when joe biden ran against that chameleon type attack. and then axios piece published just talking about kind of trump is kind of very fuming and angry. and then he posts about, you know, camila and the rally and ai. and so when you

matt gorman we have matt gorman dog, molly, you know, it doesn't look like me right now because this is from 1996 acutis dog competition in torreon connecticut i'll have, you know, but yeah. thank caddie 60. what kind of dog? >> that's a golden retriever, little puppy? yeah. >> all right. alex, we have a picture of your dog too. i think tell us about your dog, various shy to that that is miley who sadly is not with us, but she is very two very well loved and my sister, she has to golden retrievers. >> they had puppies, charlie maasie sage, and they had puppies and my brother and up getting one of the puppies and so they're exempt whole family well happy national dog day to all of them and to you. thanks to our panel, thanks to you for joining us. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn new central starts right now the final sprint to the white house, kicking off this week with a battleground blitz, kamala harris has team says she'll soon sit down for her first interview. >> donald trump is shifting his strategy to trump on steroids, his age he'd said he had break. break. >> right. >>

. >> it has been remarkable how the overton window has shifted on this issue for democrats, matt gorman, you are a grizzled political veteran, many, many cycles i started one of the things i've been wondering as we've seen, the attacks from the former president and his team on the vice president leading up to the interview, leading up to the debate next week, some of them have been very personal. he writes in one post, quote, camilla had refuses to do interviews because her team realizes she is unable to answer questions much like biden was not able to answer questions, but for different reasons, he is just playing shot in quotation marks and she has just playing in competent also in quotation marks expectation is an important part of things right now is this going to end up being a problem for them i mean, we saw this before the cnn debate in june. >> if you remember a couple let's before they were saying very lucky mutation or joe biden now he didn't really clear them but the whole other story, but even before they were sending very expedition and they kind of careened into a differen

matt gorman and richard fowler. a fox news contributor.oes it work for trump and vance to go after harris on these economic proposals which say that harris will fix the economy when she has been in the white house that has led us to this point? >> yeah. if you saw her on friday he would've thought she was a challenger. inflation in the housing market at its worst. look, her economic land, she is taking plans for weeks to moderate decisions. the first thing she puts her name on his price controls, subsidizing demand. even the mainstream media. >> price gauging. i'm sorry, i've been on vacation , i missed that one. if she is calling up these companies for what she calls price gouging, the last i checked, that is illegal activity in like 37 states. the states have the power to call these companies out on it. what makes her think she can tell voters that she will somehow cap prices and not run companies out of business? >> i do think that matt is right it seems as though kamala harris and governor tim walz are the challenges and the momentum s

i want to bring in now the power panel richard fowler, fox news contributor and matt gorman targeted victory executive vice president and former tim scott campaign advisor. richard, you first. when harris's aides say the fractured media landscape where trust in traditional news outlets have fallen and that's why we haven't seen her in an interview, abc, cbs, nbc, what does that mean? she won't sit for anybody then, just tiktok? >> no, listen. >> harris: that's what they said. >> as a member of the media i think it is important she does sit down for an interview and i do believe that she will likely do so. with that being said, in all fairness i think it is worth pointing out it is not like kamala harris was the candidate of four months ago or five months ago or six months ago or three weeks ago. she was the candidate -- hold on. hold on a second. she was the candidate of last week. there is a lot of things that have to happen between last week and this week and next week as we go toward the convention. i think she will sit down with the media but talk to party officials, get to all t

>> john: fox news senior political analyst juan williams and matt gorman. juan, to you first.rris like the paraglider, floating above it all, big policy promises but no sense of detail or scrutiny. how long can that last? >> it's a beautiful summer day and i love that image, john. soaring over the pines right now, this is pretty cool. right now, for her, you look at the real clear politics average come up 1.5 points, fivethirtyeight, she is up 3.5 points. and you say to yourself, well, wow, one polls since the conventions, morning consult, she is up four points. she is not hurting right now. i think the problem is the media and the republicans think you know what? we want an interview. republicans want an interview because if she has any slip, they will push that out there as a way to denigrate her. from that perspective i understand it and as a reporter i want to talk to politicians. they want to be held accountable. but from a political strategist point of view, we will do it when we are ready and she said they will schedule it before the end of this week. >> john: schedule

matt gorman former tim scott campaign advisor and david carlucci former democratic state senator from. david, do you first. isn't it about time she sits down and not only answers some questions but at least put your policies out there? there is not a single policy on her campaign website. >> well, the kamala harris team is on a roll. we're coming off of the democratic national convention. it was an awesome time. i was there. there wasn't a room to stand, it was so packed full of energy. they are talking about policies. that's not the place to get into the nitty-gritty details. just as the previous reporter said look, the opportunity is to debate kamala harris. what i have been reading is donald trump is now second guessing talking about how he might not show up to that planned debate and kamala harris has said nothing about not showing up. she is saying look, we should have live mics during the whole time. if donald trump doesn't agree to that she will still show up and debate. that's what we want to see. have the opportunity to ask your opponent those questions. get into it. but dona

i mean, she crossed republican strategist, matt gorman and cnn chief national affairs correspondent,eff zeleny. jeff, i want to start with you because typically at this point in an election season, we see candidates moderate their positions. but this set of economic policies more than a dozen proposals from kamala harris, they seem to be far more populous than even we're joe biden was in his economic view without question, i mean, vice president harris is proposing a bigger set of policies a higher dollar than the president's couldn't record. but we're seeing something similar on both sides of the aisle. that's what i find so remarkable about this less than three months before election day, there is this populist strain that is coursing through both parties. no surprise. i mean, it's been clear for years, really talking to voters, but a lot of similarities between what she's proposing and what j.d. vance has been talking about in terms of helping out families creation in the wake of the pandemic in the years after the pandemic, this is about sort of bringing prices down a lot of thes

matt gorman and robert wolf join me now. gentlemen, good morning.ential nominee tim walz in boston making that pitch to the unions. we will hear this week for the first sit-down vice president harris and governor walz together on cnn. i assume they will be asked about some of these stances that have changed since 2019. how do you think she answers those? >> good to see you. bret, i don't think this is about the vice president's values changing. i think when you lead a nation, you have to find common ground and you have to find consensus. that's just legislating. we could go one-by-one. i don't think she has changed that healthcare is a right and not a privilege. i don't think she has changed that climate action is real. and with respect to the border that i know that you just brought up, i don't think the vice president could be more clear that she would support this bipartisan immigration bill that was actually led by a conservative senator langford on stemming asylum and increasing border patrol. i could argue it was former president trump that fl

how that she's gotten, but she is thinking of a plan and aides going to move that into the future matt gorman, do you think his speech like this one still some of trump's populist thunder you know, i don't think it steals and i think one of the commonalities is we're hearing both is more popular. >> it's rhetoric from the right and the left nowadays with certainly with j.d. vance now on the ticket as well. i think a couple of things. i think number one, you know, over the last several weeks camilla's taken care to try and flip flop on, show me the position she took can the 2020 presidential race through kind of nod aides moderating those things. but this first policy goes pretty far left. i think that was a notable shift. and also, you know, if you were kind of kind of black deaf last four years, you would think that she was the challenges she was the incumbent vice president had states you know, there wasn't a lot of talk about, let's face it, a lot of the crisis with inflation housing happened during the biden/harris administration is a little bit of memory holding of that i took note of du

he means it all the stuff about if we lose, there'll be a blood bath joined now by matt gorman, republicanist, former senior adviser to tim scott's presidential campaign, and rachel palermo, former deputy communications director, associate counsel to vice president harris. it's good to see you guys. >> matt trump and some of his allies, they've repeatedly dodged questions or refused to commit to accepting results when asked over and over again about this, it becomes kind of a frustrating refrain in speaking with some of his surrogates what impact do you think that has on how trump and or harris are operating this in this campaign. >> now that we see what we hear from biden yeah, i think the biggest thing that it is a tell for me is when biden-harris met switch happened, suddenly that democracy argument and it was one look, i think it had dubious affected electorally as an issue when biden raised it is kind of been jettisoned by harris. >> i think it tells you a lot of the efficacy of this. now look, joe biden can say he wants to say, i think he might be a little bit remiss that he's not ge

is cnn political commentator and democratic strategist, maria cardona, and republican strategist matt gorman. thank you both this morning. looking lovely this morning, we are going to get there we're seeing this more than 200 bush, mccain, romney alums are endorsing harris for president. we saw this happen with biden. there was about 150 and then you hear some of these things from the trump administration. those people who worked with him here's some of what is being set out there we don't take an oath to a king or queen or to a tyrant or a dictator. >> and we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator we don't take an oath to an individual we take an oath to the constitution. >> i think he's unfit for office. look, it's he, he puts himself before country. his actions are all about him and not about not about the country. >> i think he's dangerous enough. he shouldn't get a second term matt, do you think that this kind of thing with a 200 republicans coming out and saying they're endorsing harris and hearing from his former administration officials will entice more republicans to vote for harr

. >> matt gorman. and cnn contributor and new york times reporter and podcast or lulu garcia navarro, welcome to all of you so a binder that would make mitt romney proud. i think he has been prepped for that. i know it's silly to poke front of it, but it is remarkable because he is a person who believes himself to be great off the cuff, right? can give these like long stem winding speeches and he made this crack this week about being asked to give intellectual speeches by his campaign. so what did you think of that attempt today? >> i mean, look, it's probably as good as you're going to get when it comes to kind of stick into pure policy from from trump i mean, that's just a fact that it was firstly like pure policy. >> well, the first eight to ten minutes we're pretty on the ball and then he asked two questions here and there. >> but that's probably as good as you're going to get if you're a republican, whether it's kevin mccarthy, vivek ramaswamy, swami, nikki haley recently who've been the ones real

meghan hays, former director of message planning for the biden administration and matt gorman, former senior adviser to tim scott's presidential campaign. good morning. bright early, quick turnaround from the late night now that we're here, we've been waiting for this moment. she's finally sat down and answered questions. matt, you're republican strategist. you look at what happened here. does her answers, does it change the race at all? >> no. i mean, it reinforced what i thought going in is when she looks, you can give a very good speech when she can control the variables and she's prepared. but when she gets any spontaneous interactions, these spontaneous scenarios she has on her feet and it gets a little harder for i thought she'd have a better answer on the fracking and the flip-flops. and i thought she had a better answer. >> i. she would have a bad you would have a better we knew these questions were coming a month ago where there's a flip-flopping on fracking flip-flopping and immigration. >> i thought walz would have a better answer on the question around his military service

let's discuss with our panel and misha cross, matt gorman, jeff zeleny, and julia chatterley is with us as well. javan on the politics of this. there were two things that really struck out to me with this speech, and i think there were pretty obvious and deliberate on the issue of tariffs, which donald trump has sort of made his name sick think back to his first run for the white house. kamala harris, who are describing it as a trump tax on imports, essentially saying that donald trump wants to tax consumers. and the second thing she's spent this speech contrasting herself with donald trump. and i think that the most clear contrast was the fact that yesterday donald trump is giving a press conference outside of his private golf club. and then you have the vice president here talking about how excited she was to see her mom save up for ten years to buy a house. and then how she worked at mcdonald's to put herself through college and wants people around her struggled to make ends meet, work multiple jobs to do that. so it gives a sense of legitimacy to this populist argument that she's