back with us, jennifer palmieri and stuart stevens.ocrats made her a target before republicans did. made our work easier over the first three years of her term. what say you, jennifer? how has this vice president positioned in light of the first part of our conversation? >> one thing i want to say, public service announcement for people who want to have kamala harris's back. when the new york post had a terrible super racist column yesterday and some people retweeted the column and said this is racist. that is not helpful. that is what they hope you will do. they hope you will take the content and retreat it so it spreads. you can say, here is the thing, she -- trump is coming after her. whether she is -- continues to be in the vice presidential slot or the nominee, the president will be close to 82 on election day so she's a big part of the campaign. she is tough enough. that doesn't bother her. it is bothersome that that misogynistic content is out there. it's bad for young girls to see that. you know what it will do? fire up a lot o

and stuart stevens, he served estimate romney sheet strategist in 2012. just someone that i love listening to. >> welcome to everybody. rachel, that is a lot right out of the gate. 170,000 volunteers in a week? $200 million in a week. those are crazy numbers. but how'd if it translating in terms of the campaign, the shift from biden to vice president harris, how is is beginning to look on the ground in terms of organization? have any of that change? where are we with the campaign 100 days out? >> it means there is a lot of excitement. it has truly felt electric. people have been excited for vice president harris. she really draws the contrast between donald trump and her candidacy. people are really excited to vote in november. >> it feels like that, alecia. >> it does. i want you to take a listen. the vice president giving a speech in wisconsin this tuesday. i think you will find her frame very interesting. >> do we want to live in a country of freedom, compassion and rule of law? or a country of chaos, fear and hate? here is the beauty of this moment. w

it was all a lie, as stuart stevens, who will join us in a moment, put it. but it was donald trump's 92 minute rambling speech that should really remind people why donald trump is unfit for the presidency. after paying tribute to the firefighter killed at his rally, it was classic trump. the lies, the anti-immigration rhetoric, his fixation on personal grievances all on display. and, of course, so was the crazy. >> you know, the press is always on me because i say this. has anyone seen silence of the lambs? the late, great hannibal lector . he'd love to have you for dinner. if they would ever win this election, i didn't even say that, we will have our next republican convention in venezuela, because it will be safe. and we don't have fierce people. we have people that are a lot less than fierce, except when it comes to cheating on elections, and a couple of other things, then they are fierce. >> used a word i wouldn't use, because i can't use that word, because you'd say he was braggadocio's. the press would say he was a braggart. i'm not a braggart. but vik

. >> reporter: stuart stevens is a longtime republican political strategist and author. >> there is something about being vice president that diminishes you, and there's something about being the nominee of a party that enhances you. so i think what we've seen since the president withdrew from the nomination, this process of vice president harris becoming something larger than being a vice president. >> reporter: someone large enough in the eyes of voters to be president. traditionally candidates have months, the entire primary season, to do that. harris has exactly 100 days between now and november 5th. she's in a big hurry. in a week, she's locked the nomination, hauled in a mountain of cash, and racked up an impressive list of endorsements. young people, volunteers, constituencies who had tuned out of the presidential race are tuning back in by the thousands to support harris, nudging her to a statistical tie with former president donald trump in a new poll. >> we choose freedom. ♪ freedom ♪ >> reporter: harris has moved fast to define the narrative of her own campaign before trump does it

howard dean and stuart stevens are here to talk about how it's already shaping next week's republicanonvention where a convicted felon, donald trump, will officially be nominated for president. >>> and the kamala of it all. some within her own party.her readiness for the job. but you better recognize, she may be the best and not so secret weapon. i am jonathan capehart. this is the saturday show. ♪ >>> tonight, republicans are in lockstep preparing to coordinate a convicted felon as their presidential nominee at their national convention next week, in milwaukee. and yet after more than two weeks of self immolation cuts are still debating the political future of their presumptive nominee, president biden, who has been working overtime to shore up support for his reelection campaign. biden had calls with the congressional progressive caucus and democrat coalition to reassure them he can and will beat donald trump in november. it's a message he's been delivering ever since his disastrous debate performance on june 27th, including last night, at a raucous rally, in detroit. >> i am runnin

i want to bring in a former white house communications director for president obama and stuart stevenscky him, is still with us. jen, let's start with these two big editorials calling trump unfit. i want to share now just a sample of what trump has been saying at recent rallies. watch this. lexi is the worst, he is the most corrupt, the most incompetent president in the history of our country. do you ever see him swing? he is like this. the guy thinks he looks good in a bathing suit. laughing, look, there have never been people treated more horrifically than january 6th hostages. we are not going to have men playing in women's sports. we will institute the powerful death penalty for drug dealers. by the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, did you notice that? sir, chris christie is not fat. crazy nancy pelosi, who also, by the way, is very cognitively impaired, have you watched her lately? she is not doing too well. >> jen, who is hearing that and thinking he is the one to lead the nation in the free world? just a minute ago, they think he is strong, it's tough, he is a leader. did you

jennifer rubin, stuart stevens, thank you very much for coming to the last word. >>> coming up, on the day trump took his hannibal lector stick to the national convention stage, vice president, harris was campaigning in north carolina. the chair of the north carolina democratic party, anderson clayton, joins us next. >> north carolina, i think it is clear. if donald trump were to win in november, he will continue to sell out working families. he will continue to attack reproductive freedom, and he will continue to undermine our democracy. look at that! the heavy duty cloths are extra thick, for amazing trap & lock. even for his hair. wow. you'll love swiffer or your money back. can you do this? as early as your 40s you may lose muscle and strength. protein supports muscle health. ensure max protein has a 30 gram blend of high quality protein to feed muscles for up to seven hours. so take the challenge. ensure, nutrition for strength and energy. always dry scoop before you run. listen to me, the hot dog diet got me shredded. it's time we listen to science. one a day is formulated with k

donors with a call today from biden's campaign chair progresso with us, john allen, david cluff, stuart stevens are big fundraising numbers. >> sure, well i think the only thing that stands to the between the donald trump presidency and democracy is joe biden and so you've seen grassroots donors and bundlers and others continue to give. that's important. listen, we're only 90 days away from people beginning to vote in battleground states, so you're running out of time. you know every day, every week, to make up the ground we need to make up. the most important thing would be joe biden's performances and those getting better and not giving voters who don't really want to vote for donald trump but are concerned about fitness, that will give them permission structure but advertising is important. ground game is important so you've got to basically be pouring it on right now. obviously you want to be fully funded in october as ballots are going out, as people are making their final decisions. but you've got to be on it right now, so seeing the fundraising keep up is a great sign because that's an i

having a, having a primary, having a voted the convention would do that for people applebaum, stuart stevens, i appreciate you both. thank you for being here what are your thoughts? hit me up on social media. i'll read some responses throughout the course of the program from the world of youtube. if biden is out as the candidate, then the question is why can he stay in the white house? democrats need to allow harris to test-drive the country as the hot spare joe, the nerd. i don't think that happens. by the way. i don't think it necessarily follows. i think you can say that you have confidence in his capability today, maybe diminished confidence, but that you're so concerned as to how he looks in four years, he'd be 86 at the end of that second term. and in that you don't have confidence consequently he can remain but can't run for the second term. i don't think one necessarily follows the other. i can't wait to see how you're voting on today's poll question. go to summer cottage.com and tell me which would make kamala harris a stronger democratic presidential nominee. would it be acclimatio

but he's pro-polio, pro hoping cough candidate, stuart stevens, jim messina. >> thank you. next the new acting director of the secret service and his grilling by lawmakers on the failure of protect donald trump from a would-be assassin? >> when you're the leader is that's the clean up and restoration. how do you make like it never even happened? >> brandi whatever comes your way there's appropriate sir for like ever even happened doug lima someone needs to customize and saved hundreds and car insurance with liberty mutual let's fly chief i thought you were right behind me. only pay for what you need labor day is the day you get your clear choice. >> dental implants, changes your struggle with missing teeth forever it changes how you eat, how you feel, and how you enjoy life it changes your smile and now others smile at you clear choice network doctors have changed over 100,000 lives with dental implants and they can change yours too. because a clear choice day changes every day schedule a free consultation can sugar ray leonard you everyday tasks wearing boxing gloves bird

. >> reporter: stuart stevens is a long-time republican political strategist and author. >> there isg the nominee of a party enhances you. so i think what we have seen since the president withdrew from the nomination, this process of vice president harris becoming something larger than being a vice president. >> reporter: someone large enough in the eyes of voters to be president. traditionally, candidates have months. the entire primary season to do that. harris has exactly 100 days between now and november 5th. she is in a big hurry. in a week, she has locked the nomination. hauled in a mountain of cash and racked up an impressive list of endorsements. young people, volunteers, constituencies who have tuned out of the presidential race are tuning back in by the thousands to support harris, nudging her to a statistical tie with former president donald trump in a new poll. harris has moved fast to define the narrative of her own campaign before trump does it for her. >> if you don't mind, i am not going be nice. is that okay? >> reporter: the fact she is a black, south asian woman is

john allen, david plouffe, stuart stevens, people are talking about a debate that didn't work out but those are big numbers. >> i think the only thing that stands between donald trump presidents and perhaps the end of democracy is joe biden. i think you will see grassroots donors continue to give. we are only 90 days away from people beginning to vote in battleground states. you are running out of time. every day, every week to make up the ground we need to make up. the most important thing is joe biden's performances. getting better and not giving voters who don't really want to vote for donald trump but worried about fitness, that will give them structure. advertising is important. round game is important. you have to be pouring it on right now. you want to be fully funded in october as ballots are going on in people making final decisions. you got to be on it right now. seeking fundraising keep up is a great sign because it's an important part of the matrix to make up the ground to make up in battleground states. >> you have to have the dollars to show the voters of the policy win

with us to discuss this and more, msnbc political analyst and host of the one-a- day podcast, stuart stevens of the mitt romney and george w. bush presidential campaigns. he is now with the lincoln project. we have talked a lot about the threat from project 2025 on things like democracy, women's health. lgbtq+ writes. do voters understand what it could mean for their wallets? >> i mean, if you keep showing the graph like that and explaining it plainly, they will pick because what that shows is donald trump is coming for the people who are already struggling in this country to create the opportunity to give the wealthiest of the wealthy a tax cut. steph, this is his m.o. he did this in 2017 with his tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy corporations. because that is who he cares about. he does not care about anyone else in this process. and i appreciate, also, how that graph shows a difference in what a biden/harris administration has tried to do for people who are struggling, for people who are living with low income, whether that is the extended child tax credit that we saw left millions of childr

david plath and stuart stevens are still with us.david, what are you looking for tonight in these terms? >> well, as we think about the presidential race, simone, kari lake will be on the ballot and that is bad news for donald trump. it has got some similarities to carolina and the gubernatorial candidate, robinson, i think it's going to be a real problem in terms of voter behavior for the state. so i think that obviously got an abortion issue that is going to be front and center in arizona. you've got kari lake was probably the most maga candidate, other than donald trump on the ballot. so i think it is probably a very good night for the harris campaign. because you have now got, i think, and politics it is so important to have targets so to the extent that they find in the senate race will see, maybe very much mirrored now the harris-trump race. but to the extent that perhaps lake is performing more poorly with trump, the harris campaign will know who those voters are and can target them so i think it is really a problematic light

. >> stuart stevens from the lincoln project was saying that what might help democrats in addition tomphasizing policies and the fight against the limitations on abortion, is to lean into project 2025 which is a big project because it is 900 pages, it is a lot of stuff. people are not all that likely to read it. but do you think this benefit, as somebody who rents for office, somebody got to deal with constituents, is there a benefit in trying to tell this out for americans and say, your vote, even if it is a protest against joe biden, could end up voting for this very dangerous platform? >> absolutely, project 2025 is the blueprint and that is sort of the government in waiting, if not donald trump is re- elected. what is dangerous, even more than last time is he came in with some people who made mistakes like he put in a patriot like general mattis and to be in charge of the military, he's not going to make that mistake again, it is going to be yes men and women. and they are laying out the agenda they want from day one and they have been working on a very hard. so they are talking a

joining me now, tonight, is senior advisor to the president and stuart stevens, that veteran of the mitt. can i just say, david, that it's very clear that donald trump is mad about these attacks about project 2025 because it seems as though they have been effective, but the reality is, a lot of the policies in this hundred page document overlap what donald trump has said on the campaign trail, so make it makes sense for us. >> well, some of, if you study donald trump at all, he really never likes to back down or admit a mistake and he is running from this sss someone his age could rent, and so i think that shows it's a tale that they've probably got research showing that this is taking on water, but this is his blueprint and it's very consistent with what he ran on in 16 and try to do as president and very consistent on what he's tried to do in this campaign and obviously was written and designed by people who worked in his administration who want to work in this administration, so if anything, he is just drawing more attention to it and we live in a world where everything is on the inte

. >>> i'm back, with me mark leibowitz, and stuart stevens, senior advisor for the lincoln project, bothtlanta" this week. >>> there is no disagreement with any of us, folks who want biden to drop out are saying, it is because of democracy being on the line, because of stuff like project 2025, because of abortion rights, because of a bunch of things and democrats should run someone else so they guarantee the win. you are actually making the argument that it should be biden to me for exactly the same underlying reasons. make the pitch. segment what makes you think another candidate will do better? none of these candidates have run for president and won, except for joe biden. how many times have we seen candidates that look great and they answer primaries, and it turns out, they are not so great? what is this sort of assumption that we are going to replace this person? it seems to be this very american thing, that new must be better. how we sell cars, we never say just as good as last year, it has to be new. how long does that last? and you are going to spend how long vetting the next cand

and also stuart stevens, the chief strategist of mitt romney’s company in the 2012 elections. in common? these three top campaign strategists and experts lost in all three cases. well, the new new york cover magazines, vice president haris, who sits on a coconut in the literal sense of the word. why on coconut? the phrase "harris" which she attributes to her mother: "i don't know what's wrong with you young people." do you think you just fell out of a coconut tree? the phrase quickly became a meme, especially when combined with the vice president's cringe-like laugh. on the cover, look, in addition to biden, schumer, pilosi, clooney and beyoncé dancing under a coconut, as well as the new american singer charlie xx, whose album atorva, brother, in english, has become a trend this summer in america. the singer herself. if in the race between pensioners biden and donald trump, the votes of young people from 18 to 34 were divided almost equally 53% to 47, then in the confrontation between haris and trump, the ratio was already 60% in favor of kamala and 40 in favor of trump. donal

former campaign manager when she was running for attorney general of california, brian broca and stuart stevens, former republican political consultant, who is the presidential campaign strategies for george w bush, mitt romney's also the author of the conspiracy to end america, five ways my old party is driving or democracy to autocracy, guys, thanks for being here. bryan lanza with you, what do you think of as sara was laying out? there's kind of big moments that's going to happen to nab j today with trump sitting for this panel discussion and taking questions. what do you think this move is about by trump and also about the controversy around it well, i think the narrative around this race than conventional wisdom has been totally flipped on its head over the last three weeks. >> and that's because kamala harris is somebody who can confounds her opponents and donald trump doesn't know well exactly how to go after her. i just read that he's been calling her a communist. i mean, there i don't know if they think she's too liberal or she's too conservative as a prosecutor. but the thing is she k

stuart stevens worked as a poetical strategist on dozens of republican campaigns. he is now a senior adviser for the lincoln project. they both join me now. good evening to both of you, great to see you. let me start with you. we are seeing a great deal of energy around the harris campaign. to some, surprising amount of energy in the early days, when we thought there might still be some people who were jockeying to take that top spot. the winds are favoring kamala harris right now. what is the campaign got to do to keep this going for 100 days? >> well, it's interesting, because as the campaign is staffing up and reinvigorating for the next 100 days, as you are going to talk about later on the show, you have groups self organizing, raising millions of dollars, breaking zoom. and the campaign still has to continue to speak to those voters. one, they have to pick a vice presidential pick that is going to be really strong on some of the issues the folks want to make sure this ticket can cover all the bases, and then, as continuous forward, to talk about issues that ha

former republican strategist stuart stevens, thank you, as always.come back really soon. >> thank you. >>> coming up, it was a historic defeat for the conservatives. i mean, historic. we thought it was going to be their worst turnout since 1832. worse than that. britain's labour party wins in a crushing landslide victory. we're going to have the latest from the united kingdom as they welcome their new prime minister. that's coming up next on "morning joe." "morning joe." >>> for the first time since 2010, the united kingdom is no longer under conservative rule. earlier today, labour leader keir starmer assumed power after a crushing election victory over former prime minister rishi sunak's conservative party yesterday. let's bring in raf sanchez live from 10 downing street in london. i have got to say, raf, if you listened to former prime minister sunak's concession speech and you then listened to keir starmer's acceptance speech, you could be forgiven to think you were in like 1950s america, where dignity, grace, respect for one another still ruled

correspondent at vanity fair molly jong fast, former strategist of the mitt romney presidential campaign stuart stevenswriter for "the atlantic" david from. good to have all of you with us. stuart, you have an op-ed titled "democrats stop panicking." why don't we start right there. a lot of democrats are panicking and i think what they saw on thursday night, yeah, there's a lot -- we have a lot of questions, stuart. i mean, i've already said what i think, but i can understand the worry. >> all the presidential campaigns i did people were constantly worried, sometimes for good reason, sometimes not. you look at it as everything is going great, keep it up. you know, there's something here that's sort of i think lost in this conversation. millions and millions and millions of people voted to nominate joe biden as the democratic nominee. so the major -- one of the overarching arguments against donald trump is -- doesn't want to acknowledge the will of the people. he's proven that. january 6th. so somehow now democrats are going to say, okay, we're going to throw out these millions of votes and have a small

stuart stevens worked as a political strategist, he's now senior adviser to the lincoln project, and they join me now. amanda, why do you think it may be back firing? >> i think that first of all, they gave it like a weird sinister name, right? project 2025, and so i think the original goal was to sort of put it out there and hope that the maga shock troops could hear it and then like progressives might hear it and get all freaked out and then they could laugh at how they're sugaring the liberals. i don't think they thought ordinary people that might be swing voters in this election would hear of it, but i don't think that that's true anymore. we're seeing some evidence that it's kind of breaking the barrier and getting on the radar of people that don't pay super close attention to politics. >> i had a conversation with a guy on the street who said i've been checked out of politics for four or five years, what's been going on. which is a great question. i was like where do i start? and also said, his only question was what's this project 2025 i keep hearing about, which suggests to m

msnbc's "the weekend" symone sanders townsend, staff writer at "the atlantic" mark leibovich and stuart stevensts and jd vance. >> jd vance, i think, is maybe a little bit out of his depth here. you set up this matchup, if you will, prior to sunday that would have been vice president harris and senator vance, the experience she had versus he had, it was like night and day. but the trump campaign, tim alberta has said they all thought that, look, they had this in the bag and jd vance was tripling down on maga. this is not a play for minnesota, as they kept saying in virginia. now that the vice president is at the top of the ticket and we don't yet know who will be her running mate versus vance, the trump people got to be [ bleep ] in their pants this morning because yesterday was insane. anybody who's been watching jd vance over the last couple of years could have told them that. this is what happens when you don't take advice from the expert. >> you mentioned vice president. there's a lot of things that still have to happen to seal this deal. stuart, you wrote a piece on what happens next. tell

stuart: there trying to fix us and tells when it is fixed. [laughter] work on it i promise you. [laughter] okay are you okay now. stevenith what you were saying stuart heard it is true, that after the events of this week it will be a lot of leadership is going to be about courage under fire and about the hero isn't then of course, a couple of weeks ago biden having a hard time getting out and intelligible sentences but i want this also to be on policy stuart come up with the peace in the wall street journal, over the weekend saying, something like 75 of the top economists on wall street and academics, they say that biden would be better on inflation, and the biden would be better hundred right it would be better reducing interest rates, then trump and yet you look at the records side-by-side and i just put a paper out of this, the inflation rate was 1.s president and now you don't and biden, we've seen 20 percent increase in prices and if you look at interest rates, the interest rate on a tenure body was present and now it is 4 percent and you look at that depth, but in this increased a bike $7 trillion and so i think

stuart: more reaction from democrats after that closed door meeting where they were discussing the president's cognitive ability. this is congressman stevenly the vast, vast 45 jordyty of members support the president. >> can you put a finger on it, sir? 90%? >> i would say around that area, yeah. >> is that enough? >> one is the time frame and the process. got to deal with that as well. stuart: to repeat, he says 90% of congressional democrats want president biden at the top of the ticket. 90%. in california, a father of six went grocery shopping for his six children and was shocked by how much it costs. >> here's what it takes to feed six kids and about a week and a half. if you have six kids, this is your trader joe's receipt. keep going. oh my god. stuart: my goodness. that father joins me now. you've paid $444 to feed your -- you and your children, family of six. what was it like, how much was it two or three years ago? >> two or three years ago it was probably maybe about 25% less i would say, you know, some of the normal things we would buy, but definitely thing have increased, but we're a larger family. we're the modern day brady

stevens believe it'll end in failure "decide in haste, repent at leisure" he says and i think he's right. third hour of varney starts right now. stuart boothe joining me now. lee s harris has obvious weaknesses and why are democrats so fervently supporting her? >> look at what the media is willing to do to try and elect her? just a month ago, stuart, we were told that videos, raw footage of joe biden clearly showing cognitive decline, those were cheap fakes. anyone saying otherwise was a liar. and then we saw the debate where hysterologied to even walk on the stage and americans saw with their own eyes what the truth was that joe biden was slipping cognitively and not up to the teskying and democrats were the party elites and donors and set joe biden up with the early debate to take him out and strong arm him and bully him out of running for reelection and then they even stalled kamala harris with even getting a single vote in a primary or caucus. look at what the media is willing to do to protect and help the democrats to push propaganda and look at what the democrat party is willing to do. do you think that anything is beneath thes