One week away from the president ial debate between Vice President harris and former President Trump. This morning, a new look at how differently they are approaching this big moment breaking overnight, israel says it has killed a top Hamas Commander responsible for the October 7 massacre and its a whale of a tail. The video you have to see this morning launched into the air by a whale, a snorkeler gets to surprise of a lifetime. Im Sara Sidner with John Berman and kate bolduan. This is Cnn News Central check your calendar as its the first day of that. Always talked about post postlabor Day Sprint to the finish. In this election cycle. That is 63 days to go nine weeks, exactly. And soMe Ballots though will start hitting the mail in North Carolina this week in pennsylvania, early voting starts, theyre in two weeks. So calling it a sprint, no exaggeration. And one thing to president ial candidates are sprinting to right now is to get ready for their big debate ahead of their first facetoface, cnn has new reporting on how the candidates are preparing and maybe no surprise, they are taking very different approaches. One major focus for both campaigns is and will continue to be the economy on that, Kamala Harris is set to roll out more of her and im like, Agenda Tomorrow is already rolling out a major new Ad Buy to go with it shell make groceries more affordable by cracking down on price gouging. And Shell Cut Housing costs by taking on corporate speculators. MiddleClass Families Build America we need a leader who has their back still the latest polling suggests nationally americans Trust Donald Trump more than Kamala Harris and handling the economy. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is leading us off this hour so priscilla, what are you learning about the focus . For harris anD The new message for harris now well, the Vice President is trying to fine tune her economic pitch. What you hearD There from that ad is affordability anD That has been the theme of her messaging on this issue, which again, as you mentioned, she pulls behind former president Donald Trump on now that ad is part of a broader 370 buy from Labor Day to election day. So they are going aggressive on the airwaves. But shes also hitting the Campaign Trail to also woo those Working Class voters anD Those labor groups that boosted president Joe Biden in 2020. Now, yesterday, we saw her in pennsylvania alongside president Joe Biden was the first Campaign Event thAt They have done together. And of course, in a place where he only beAt The former president by less than two percentage points in 2020. So clearly an important place for them to appeal to those voters. You see the images there. Now, the president will be hitting the camp Campaign Trail to help her as he shifts from candidate to surrogate, take a Listen Lot of Progress And Kamala going to build on that progress and shes going to build on it. Ill be on the sidelines, but ill do everything i can to help now, he is expecteD To go to wisconsin and michigan over the next few days again, as he hits those Blue Wall states areas where the campaign sees that he can be helpful. He anD The West Wing anD The campaign, the Vice President s office, all trying to strategize where they can utilize him over the next few weeks. Now, of course, the Vice President also hitting the trail this week ahead of her debate preparations, some of which is already ongoing, she will be going to new Hampshire Tomorrow where she will unveil more of her economic proposals, especially focusing on innovatiOn And entrepreneurship. Remember, last week, she previeweD That one of the things that she wants to propose is Tax Credits for small business startups. So more on thAt Tomorrow, but certainly she is hitting the trail trying to get ahead on this issue ahead of that critical debate next week, where she anD The campaign knows it will bring in large audiences and allow them to hear from her directly more about her policy these against former president Donald Trump and priscilla this morning the Harriswalz Campaign is also kicking off another Bus Tour this focus On Reproductive Rights. What are you learning about it . Sources ive spoken with in the campaign all say repro rights is where they see thAt They can really capitalize against former president Donald Trump. And its an issue thAt The Vice President was set up from the beginning of the year to be the voice on. She had kicked off her own reproductive Rights Tour earlier in the year was during thAt Time that she actually coineD The Term Trump Abortion ban, something that well be hearing about a lot on this story, on this tour starts today in florida. Of course that is a place where abortion is on the Ballot And Werenald trump saiD That he would vote no on overturning their current sixweek ban. Now, the Vice President , despite all of this, has been maintaining and she is thE Underdog in the race. So she is certainly trying to capitalize on these issues to appeal to voters, but hear from her directly here its going to be a tight race to the very end. So lets not pay too much attention to those polls. Because as unions and labor knows best, we know what its like to be thE Underdog and we are thE Underdogs in this race and we have some hard work then ahead of us. But heres the beauty of us in this room we like hard work now a lot of folks will be hitting the trail for her this job, in particular On Reproductive Rights its one of at least 50 over the next few weeks thats going include surrogates, elected officials, and celebrities all right. Priscilla, thank you so much for laying it out for us. A sprint. It is sara is on im still going pretty slow just not even close not candidates are going fast if this morning we are almost two months to the day from the president ial election, which is why that spread is happening. And while Donald Trump is not on the campaign, trail today, his efforts to crush Kamala Harris is momentum. Are in full swing. The former president fully leaning into the insult driven strategy that helped him win in 2016. Despite pleas from advisers and aides to stick to issues like immigratiOn And inflation cnns Steve Contorno is joining me now, trump on the trail, not on the trail right now what are you learning about his strategy is the same thing that we saw in 2016 . Well exerts very clear that as this race has tightened and as weve gotten closer to november, Donald Trump is leaning on what has worked for him in the past. And in 2016, that was a very much Attack And Insult driven campaign. If we look at just the past few weeks, he has question Vice PresidentHarris Harris is racial identity shared a sexist social Media Post describing Harris And Allude sex as he is calling her an extremist and communists right out of the 2016 gop playbook, refusing to say if he will accept the accept the Election Results and also digging in and counterpunching in the face of controversy these, which is what hes done over this dust up about what happened at arlington national cemetery. So thats one way we are seeing sort of this reprised of 20 2016. And other ways is focused on immigration its an issue that he clearly wants to talk about the most just as he did in 2016, i was at an event on friday for moms for liberty. This is the a group that is focused on Education And School is issues and young children. And he was turning almost every question into an immigration topic. Weve also seen him bring back some of the people who helped him win in 2016, for example, corey lewandowsky, one of his top advisers in 2016, is now banned back in the fold. So this is all just further evidence that as this race has gotten closer, Donald Trump is leaning on what has worked for him in the past, his aides and some of his advisors had been telling him not to do this. Is this working for him and some of that. Chatter has died down recently. Sara, i think a lot of people just realize the former president is who he is. And it certainly if you look at national polls, it does show that Vice President harris is starting to pull ahead in that national contest. There was a recent poll from abc that showed her lead at 52 to 40 46, but the Trump Campaign will tell you and certainly Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton know this very well. This race is fought not in the national, not on a national poll, but in these tight battlegrounds. And if Donald Trump can effectively blunt some of this enthusiasm for harris by Going On the attack in these key battle battlegrounds in wisconsin, in michigan, in pennsylvania. Some of these sunbelt states that is more important to the Trump CampaignAt This point, then how he is doing in some national poll. Alright, Steve Contorno, thank you so much. Appreciate your reporting this morning all right. New overnight, israel says it has killed a top Hamas Commander, as Benjamin Netanyahu says, it is its Up To hamas to make ceasefire concessions. Not with my notes. 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