matthew dowd just repeated it, so obviously it is starting to get somewhere. want people to do, you want them to have a theme that catches fire and they can repeat because when we look at the policies that are coming out from the republicans, when we look at project 2025, when we look at the supreme court that is basically trump's supreme court, everything is about taking us back to a dark part of our history, and what we're saying especially our vice president as a black woman, for those that don't know she's black, she black, as a black woman saying we won't go back because we honor those that bled, died, risked their lives for us to make sure that we move this country forward. we just saw the president down in austin, texas, this week, and what he was he doing? he was commemorating the work of a great texan, lbj. we want to move this country forward, and that's the option you get with a kairgs, or you can go back to the 1960s where they have the likes of byron donald glorifying the jim crow era that he's married to a white woman that he wouldn't have been a

matthew dowd is chief strategist for the bush/cheney 2004 political campaign, and political contributorst. you have had 24 hours to process the remarks that you heard, the questions and answers that you heard yesterday because you were there has a reporter. also as a black man who has dealt, i'm sure your entire life with racial issues, give us your perspective on what you saw and felt yesterday at the nabj conference, and what you think it means for this campaign. >> reporter: absolutely, chris. this was a really remarkable series of comments by former president trump. i think it's very important to note that his comments questioning harris's identity came within the first five minutes of the interview and were unsolicited, which indicates in some ways this had been on his mind, he had been thinking about it. that's a striking fact given over the last week or so, we have been seeing kamala harris really come into the fore mere, as you said, she's going to be soon officially nominated as the democratic nominee for president here, and all of that shows that she's been dominating the news

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. >> joining us now are matthew dowd a senior political analyst and former strategist for the bush campaign and marcus childress for the january 6th committee former investigative counsel. matthew. it had to be surprising to you to see so many republicans. not just former republicans, but actual republicans, on a democrats' convention stage this week. >> yeah. it was -- it was very heartening to see that the basically crossing the aisle in order to preserve democracy. and preserve our constitution in this country. and i have to give -- we need to give credit to the folks. it takes a ton of courage for people like jeff duncan and adam kinzinger and others to do this because we all know how alienated they will be among fellow republicans who don't seem to have the courage to do this in this moment of it. and so i hope it sends a signalto other republicans who may be on the fence and wondering whether or not they should cross over and do the same. i know it will send a great signal to independent voters which is probably more important. it basically tells independent voters listen, there is a

matthew t dowd was chief strategist for george w. bush's 2004e campaign and is senior msnbc political analyst, and adam jefferson worked for the democratic senators harry reid and johncr fetterman and also a democratic strategist. great to see all of you. so, matt, trump is not happy about these new numbers. his campaign calling the polling atrocious. what does it do for the harris campaign to have states like arizona and nevada and georgia, even north carolina, in play now? >> well, first thing i would notice is any time donald trump is attacking the polls, then you know he's in trouble. that's thes clear signal, ever time he does that he's in trouble, because every other time he hawks the polls and says here's how great i am and now he's attacking the polls including fox news, which is kind of amazing. any time you can have a larger map to compete in on electoral states, on swing states, the better for you. i would add the only state that wason added from 2020 to this yr was a red state, north carolina, that has been trending towar

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and back with us, matthew dowd.us more about team trump and their reaction to walz as the new vp pick? >> i think the trump team views walz as the easiest person of the short list finalists to respond to because they think they can go after his record and basically tie him directly to kamala harris and argue that he's too extreme, too progressive, too liberal. that's what we saw in the official statement that came from the trump campaign, calling him an extreme liberal. that's what we heard from jd vance today. he mostly just tied him to harris both in that gaggle on the plane that you just saw and at the event he ultimately did in philly. he talked a little bit about walz. i'll play some of it and explain it on the other side. >> the reason i didn't say a whole lot about tim walz is because the democrats showed a willingness to pull a little switcheroo on us. i don't know if we'll get tim walz out of this campaign. tim walz's record is a joke. he's one of the most far left radicals in the entire united states gover

joining us now, msnbc senior political contributor matthew dowd. nbc's vaughn hillyard joining me in studio. the trump campaign has a whole week of counterprogramming planned, right? what can we expect? >> donald trump launched this presidential bid in november of 2022. let's be clear, this is going to be by far this busiest week yet. he's going to hold this afternoon a rally in york, pennsylvania. he held a rally in pennsylvania 48 hours ago. he's then making his way to michigan, north carolina, arizona, and nevada, for donald trump, the battleground states, the map has just expanded for him. and there is a realization that their own convention, one month ago, at the time when he was giving his primetime address, he was facing a completely different nominee on the democratic side. and so for now, it is up to him and his team. let's be also very clear here, this is a much more difficult than 2016 and 2020 for him. with hillary clinton and joe biden, he had not only biographically opponents who were much more identifiable to the vast part of the ame

with us to continue the conversation, megan heys and matthew dowd, chief strategist for the bush-cheney campaign and senior analyst. megan, i want to start with battleground roll. they're going to d.c., which could increase their momentum and give them another bump. is this something they think could co? >> yeah. i think there's a poll that came out yesterday that shows that vice president harris is trusted more than donald trump. these are important things to keep moving the momentum forward. it shows they have the momentum. they're gaining the support with organizing, financial backing and all of work has them going in a forward momentum. >> how do you orient or focus your campaign going forward to keep that momentum and to translate that momentum into actual votes the 5th of november? >> you know, when the vice president took over, they had over 1,200 employees on the ground in battleground states that are organizing and diej all the hard work. shape f so they will continue to move votes forward and they have people that have volunteered app more. they need to continue to show what t

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is morally and ethically bankrupt >> you owe it to yourself to check it out joining me now is matthew dowdstrategist and msnbc senior political analyst antoine c. wright, democratic strategist, and alens yeah johnson, senior adviser to the 2020 biden/harris campaign i'm going to go to you first i definitely have been thinking about the wiz a lot, because it is this sort of thing that happened where like, even the winkies are dancing. you know what i mean i have not seen this many smiles even on panels. >> as someone who just saw the wiz on broadway, which your viewers should go see. >> so good >> it's so good. i'm pretty sure donald trump is telling his team, no bad news. like, every single day there's bad news coming out for him. the fact that we are able to make voters understand what is happening on the other side by using something as simple as weird. let's be clear, governor walz said he's not talking about the voters he's talking about the guys running the party and also fox news this is where we are in our election we have got 80-some days and democrats and those who want to defeat

of the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas, and msnbc political, and matthew dowdstrategist. so what has the trump campaign said about family separations going forward? >> let's be clear. they have said very little. donald trump has not at any point during this 2024 run said he would not reimplement what was a zero tolerance what became a family separation policy that his administration implemented in 2017, 2018, 2019, more tha 5,500 children were separated from their families. to this date, april the department of homeland security said there are still more than 1400 children who have yet to be reunified with their parents because of that trump administration policy during those years. and as you heard in that interview, jd vance continued to not say definitively that the administration would not reimplement that. let's be clear. two of the key architects and allies of donald trump who are behind the family separation policy in the first administration, tom homan, who worked as the i.c.e. director as well as the adviser steven miller, continue to be key allies who