Now could a posture helped deliver one of the most crucial battlegrounds in this election . Lead starts right now Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are On The Road again traveling through what will surely be one of the most important states in november, the state of georgia. And out of their courting voters, Harris And Walz are also preparing for their first joint interview. What you will see tomorrow only here on cnn plus, with harris at the top of the ticket, democrats seem more confident that they can actually win control the house of representatives, republicans lets say not so fast, ill be joined live by the man in charge, dashing those democratic dreams. And were learning a Brand New details about the failed attempt to assassinate former president Donald Trump. The shooter searched for major political events to target from the month before settling. Im at Trump Route welcome the lead on Phil Mattingly in for Jake Tapper its Road Trip time for the Vice President Kamala Harris and her Running Mate Tim Walz. They just landed in the Host City of savannah, georgia, where Theyll Kick off a bus to through rural and southern parts of the Battleground State. Touring this area is a lesson learned from president Joe Bidens very narrow 2020 victory in georgia. Metro atlanta is bluest counties may not be enough to pull off a win in the peach state, theyre going to need some more throughout the State And Tomorrow during this trip, Harris And Walz will sit with Cnns Dana Bash for their first major interviews since president Joe Biden ended his president ial bid, we start things off with cnns Priscilla Alvarez shes savannah, georgia, priscilla, the Vice President and governor walz, just arrived. What do we expect to see and hear from them on this bus to over the next two days well, we expect, them to talk about the Kitchen Table issues, the economy, for example. But its where theyre going. That is notable about this visit to this critical Battleground State. Of course, theyre hitting southern South Georgia with its rural counties. And its a page from a playbook from Senator Warnock back in December Of 2022 during his runoff, where strategist and his Campaign Manager at the time, Quentin Fulks they tried to peel off voters from republicans and Quentin Fulks is now the deputy Campaign Manager for the Harris Campaign. When i spoke to him, he told me that he thinks that he can use a similar strategy. In georgia. This time around again, what this boils down to is essentially winning big and metro atlanta, but also trying to close margins with republicans, essentially losing by less in South Georgia by doing that campaign, thinks that they have a path to victory in this state, a state that as you mentioned, President Biden only narrowly won in 2020. Now of course, strategist, ive spoken with also say there could be a tim Walz Factor in all of this too, and thats going to be critical as they both hit the Stops Today and tomorrow. And that factor is the fact that he comes from a rural upbringing. He has roots and football and his Military Background and how does that resonate with voters . That is what strategists say that they are focused on. But again, phil certainly a critical time for this campaign in a place unlikely, but when they think they can make in roads in the margin certainly matter. Priscilla alvarez in savannah, georgia. Thanks so much. Lets discuss now with former democratic congressman said richmond, cochair for the harriswalz campaign. Carson appreciate your time. I want to start with six weeks ago. Did the campaign think than president Bidens Campaign think the georgia was slipping out of reach. And if so, whats changed since then well we thought that georgia would be a challenge. We still think the judge is going to be a challenge, but we have to put in the work and i think that that strategy is the same, that it was then which is if we put in the work, we do what we need to do georgia is a state that we can win. And so you see 190 staff in georgia, you see 24 coordinated offices all across the state and were going to go there and make our case to the great people of Georgia Priscilla did a great Job Kind of outlining the Bus Tour and kind of the key Goals Quentin fulks obviously michael tyler, also a warnock alum. If you will, you guys know the state. He flipped the state in 2020. When you look at kind of the demographic makeup of the state, everybody talks about the black voters in bolton county, fulton county, and pushing outside also savannah as the Majority Population black as well. Black man has been an area where the Trump Campaign feels like they have made inroads and the crosstabs in the polls would seem to back that up, at least to some degree. Think. Thats changing i do think thats changed and i think that you see that black men are realizing exactly who trump is and take his word for the things that he said he was going to do. But look, trump thinks that he can get black male vote because hes now a convicted felon. Its foolish assertions like that, that i think that people are starting to see exactly who he is and you see more African American Men Gravitating back to the Harris Campaign and the other part i will tell you though, is that we had a broad coalition to win georgia. And you Cant Count out the asianamerican vote that was in georgia. That showed up in 2020 at 20 22. And we expect him to show up again and were going to knock every door and tried to earn their support congressman, as a former member of the house, some of your House Colleagues spoke to my colleagues in the Capitol Hill Team here at cnn and they made the point that they dont want this to be necessarily from the Campaigns Perspective about detailed Policy Discussions or Policy Proposals they want this to be about character, about values do you think thats the case that this shouldnt be in Depth Policy here well, i think that part of your values is your policy and so i think that what you will see us do is articulate the values of the harriswalz a team. And that is too ill help the middleclass ease the prices and burdens on families. We dont want them to just get by. We want them to get ahead and prosper and so thats the overarching goal and yes, character absolutely matters. But i also think you have to show your values through policy congressman, you served in the White House with President Biden. I know we think very highly of you. Youre close adviser of his he will have his first joint Campaign Event in pittsburgh on Labor Day with the Vice President and he seemed be out in wisconsin next week as well. Is there an understanding right now of what his role in this campaign will be had those conversations happened . What do they entail well, i dont know about any detailed conversation specifically on roe, but you saw the incredible response that Joe Biden, President Biden received at the democratic convention on the first day, late into the night you know, the excitement and the love that democrats have form. The one thing they know is his character and they know he woke up every day focused on them and how to improve their lives. And i think that thats going to be an asset around the country. And were certainly going to use the president in that way with a specific focus on those Blue Wall states pennsylvania, he goes there quite often as you know, well what do i mean he calls himself a boy from scranton and he has tremendous relationships. Theyre tremendous accomplishments and affection from the people. So we expect to use him a lot of places as much as hes willing to do it, you know . Hes a fighter. You know, he cares deeply about the people in this country and he understands that threat that Donald Trump, j. D. Vance, and project 2025 or to the future of this country former Congressman Richmond, always appreciate your time, sir. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Lets bring in our panel of political experts, guys, thanks so much for being here. Michael eric dyson, want start with you. Vice president has faced a lot of pressure from republicans and she became the nominee to give this indepth interview, which she will be giving with our own Dana Bash. Dana bash tomorrow. But one of my questions has been, how important is this for voters . First to hear her actually go in depth on policy to explain where she stands on these issues. Well, i think its extremely important obviously as Congressman Richmond just indicated Vision And Value policy is critical, but public character is critical as well. So those Republicans Hankering after a word from Vice President harris will certainly get it. They would do better, of course, to ask for Consistency And Logic from their own candidate. But that notwithstanding i think shes quite capable of doing so. If you saw her speech at the convention, she laid out basic elements of her vision, but she also wanted to communicate to people i care about, you you remember, i think it was my angelo said people wont remember what you say about that. Remember how you made them feel. Now its not that feeling as a Substitute Emotion as a substitute for Serious Concrete Forensic Analysis and policy, but it does suggest that given the history of this country recently with President Trump having so disrupted the politics and the protocols of normal everyday existence. Her presence is a reassuring one. And then to drill down on specific policies is exemplary as well. It will be instructive to watch her her explain some of the evolution on some key policy issues. So when she ran for president she advocated for banning fracking. We understand from her team that that is no longer her position especially for pennsylvania voter. Shes going to have to explain why and im looking at how she talks about immigration. Im reading her memoir now, her very first visit after she won her Senate Seat in 2016, was to charleston immigrants Rights Activist Group in california. She advocated for undocumented immigrants pretty forcefully in this book, she called out the Trump Administration for what she described as indiscriminate enforcement. So going after immigrants werent necessarily committing crimes after they were in this country she now advocate. She said that she will sign that Border Enforcement Bill if shes elected president , that bill, of course, does not have a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Now, she might have a very good reason for her evolution on some of these policies and she is following the party democrats who have lurched right on immigration, but she should have to speak for that. 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 ive been wondering as weve 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 lets before they were saying very lucky mutation or Joe Biden now he didnt really clear them but the whole other story, but even before they were sending very expedition and they kind of careened into a different set of expectations about a week or so prior. Look, i think thats a very fair point on this, and i look, im interested to see how she addresses a host of those sorts of flipflops you said over the years. But look, stepping back hes an operative and paul, you know, theres too Media Prep Interview prep is among the best Debate Prep you can have because you can hear what people will come after you with your find your arguments. I dont think its a secret that shes doing this in the middle of the Debate Prep process. I would count it as another session if you well, Thursday Night with dana, thats an interesting point. Alright, paul begala, i can if youve had seen paul begala, he may have been buzzing over the course of the last experience because for good reason, i would know not just because he said next, Matt Gorman the backdrop of the interview, key Battleground State of georgia, Harris And Walz just kicked off that Bus Tour. You know, a lot about the state. Also know a lot about Thchief Strategist for the 1992 clintongore campaign, and youre bubba for Bill Or N 1992 by the slimmest of margins, not these limits to actually biden had this slim as 13,000 back then in 2020, biden carried the state were just under 12,000 votes. Explained and the strategy here in terms of what the campaign is doing and what you saw back then, youve got to show up. Youve got to respect people, you know, democrats have been pounding South Georgia and i think priscillas reporting is exactly right. Quentin fulks, a native of South Georgia, graduate of georgia southwestern university, one of our great universities in georgia hes behind this, right and up present clinton did i was with them on that Bus Tour back when Hes Governor Clinton and it was fantastic. But you show up and you show respect then you have to perform. You have to show that you get it. You know, on the other side of the aisle, i thought it was good that Donald Trump went to the national association of black journalists. You didnt do very well. Black voters but then he insulted them, right . He performed very poorly there. I expect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to do a very good job and to resonate culturally with those folks. Thats its critically important. Youre not going to win South Georgia, but if you lose less badly those Margins Matter and by the way, i would encourage them to draw the contrast you know, Coach Walz actually had been in small towns all his life, not just like South Georgia. They happen to be up in the midwest, where they talk with a really funny accent. But coach, i think can relate to them and then you draw the contrast. I mean, Donald Trump lives on a country club. He proudly says that hes a billionaire. I mean, his idea of a foreign program is he why the hell is rural America Voting for this guy, right . Do you think showing up matters and i dont asset to be kind of simplistic about this, but it just in this moment in time with where the u. S. Politics system is at this point absolutely. Buck owens, notwithstanding the Car Mini Pearl was great too. But the point is jake. Notes. But the presence matters enormously. First of all, because shes got a chance to reveal herself to many people. We havent even seen her get a sense of her in the flesh. What does she . You talk like . How does she laughed that laughter on television is one thing that laughter in person is cued by certain contexts that you can understand what motivates her and for her to communicate her compassion her sense of engagement with the people Donald Trump is not a peoples person. Because he has manipulating endlessly and his insults upon black women, his Racist And Misogynist of salts will be mitigated by the fact that this woman stands up highly intelligent, highly articulate down with the people with a white guy from minnesota in there accident that shows that she is not not averse to reaching out to the hinterland a Black Man in oakland in San Francisco in her hometown told me, you know what, this is, the problem with democrats. He said, theyve got to show up. They say what the Swing States are. He says, you know, how many Swing States ar i said no. He said all of them. So the point is if you show up and you are president that makes a difference, there are plenty democrats in South Georgia and they often lament that candidates skip them over, right . So it makes a lot of sense for them to campaign there. Yeah, in terms of margins, activating those voters a critical Point Shadow to our team for pulling on the File Footage from the bill clinton Bus Tour. Paul begala says, lot photos on his ipad wants were talking about extinguished, the former president , a large nation in north america. I wont reveal my reminded him that he went down there in columbus, georgia and he said, i like going to a place where i dont speak with an accident. Were Moon Pie Asem eat and mud kept at somebody plays baseball in a president as somebody who fights for ordinary people and i have No Doubt he has complete recall of that in into sure everybody around praise for Jimmy Carter yes. Thats right. And you got a lot more to get to and dont miss out of course, on the very first interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and her Running Mate Governor Tim Walz, are sitting down with Cnns Dana Bash. It airs Tomorrow Night at nine eastern only on cnn. So how exactly do republicans . Plan to blunt democratic momentum and make sure that house stays under gop control. The man in charge of making that happen joins me live next, plus the fbi releasing Brand New Details Today about the man who tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump, why he picked butler, pennsylvania, and the rally to try and carry out his plans, stay with us the first interview, Harris And Walz, Cnn Exclusive Tomorrow at nine, knockknock, Number One broker here for the Number One, hitmaker. Thanks for swinging by carl. No problems. So thos