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CNN Inside Politics With Manu Raju September 9, 2024

Next on Cnn Face to face is anybody going to be watching with Harris And Trumps set to square off to pollsters breakdowns, Brand New numbers wheres this morning. This race is going to be tight until the very end. Our panel dives into the preparations and how they could go on the offense who will come out on top on the trail, on the underdog, theres No Doubt about that manu goes oneonone with both candidates in a key race that good decide control of the senate. I dont care what they spent. Im going to win this race. And upping the ante who the betting markets think will have the upper hand too. Inside politics, the best reporting from inside the Corridors Of Power starts now good morning, and welcome to Inside Politics sunday, im Pamela Brown in for Manu Raju in just two days. Donald trump and Kamala Harris will meet for the very first time at the president ial debate. It could be the only time they face off and a new poll out this morning from the New York Times it reminds us just how crucial the debate could be. There is still no leader in this incredibly tight race. Harris, his campaign announced today that she and running mate Tim Walz will campaign in north carolina. And pennsylvania later this week. And then yesterday in pittsburgh, harris was relishing a new endorsement from two staunch conservatives former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney im honored to have their endorsement and i think that what they both as leaders, who are wellrespected, are making an important statement that its ok its not important to put country above party trump. Meanwhile, is rejecting traditional Debate Prep at a rally in wisconsin yesterday, he floated a barrage of new ideas for a next administration playing directly to his base you son leaves the house and you say, jimmy, I Love You so much. Go have a good day in school and your son comes back with a brutal operation. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department Of Education finally, i will support modifying the 25th Amendment to make clear that if a Vice President lies or engages in a conspiracy to Cover Up the incapacity of the President Of The United States have you do that with a coverup of the President Of The United States. Its grounds for impeachment immediately lets break this all down with cnns jeff zeleny, punchbowls and a Palmer Mario Parker from bloomberg news. And the daily beast. Joanna coles. We have an allstar panel with us on this Sunday Morning, and im going to kick it stop here with my colleague jeff zeleny. I mean, the stakes really could not be higher when you look toward this debate, right . On tuesday, and both candidates are prepping, though in different ways, tell us what youre hearing from your sources. Good morning, pam. They couldnt be higher. And if debates you think dont matter, just think back to june. Debates changed the course of this president ial race potentially even history here. But look, no american president ial candidate has debated more than Donald Trump. This will be his seventh general Election President ial debate. What that means is Kamala Harris it has a lot of Game Tape to watch and im told she has been watching all of those old debates with Hillary Clinton back in 20163 of them, as well as, of course, the Biden Debates from 2020 and she was watching in real time that June Debate is all of america was, of course, but that is what shes focusing on. But look for her. Theres a big Opera Trinity her advisers tell me that they believe this is an opportunity for her to not only on necessarily define trump, he is defined in the minds of people. Im told this is not going to be a replay of 2016 where Hillary Clinton called him out saying hes massage monistic, et cetera. Shes going to be focusing on policies, but then also so trying to define herself before he can do that, there are still so many questions about what she stands for the New York Times poll this morning shows that theres still a lot of room for her to fill in the gaps here. She is a couple of different objectives, but one is answering more questions about her for rather than raising them about him, right . 20 of those polled actually said that they still have more to learn about her. So this is an opportunity, but it also carries a lot of risk for Kamala Harris. Yeah. No, absolutely. And suggest point i mean, the campaign has talked about this kamala curious snus, right . Thats out there within the electorate and so to his point that we do see the campaign that they plan to try to define her to get her story out, to have some type of narrative about her background as well. Part of the from what i understand from sources, part of her Debate Prep is to put things in simple terms, so shes not speaking as much as a prosecutor as well. But then of course and you have to when youre dealing with Donald Trump, muted mics or or otherwise, shes going to find a way to try to get under his skin, throw him off of track, and make him appeal to some of his worst instincts. I wonder to get your perspective on this because so far on the trail, shes largely avoided talking about race police, and gender. What do you think as you look toward this debate, is that something that she should get into or not . Well, i think whats really interesting about this debate is actually television. We must never forget is Donald Trumps natural medium. Hes incredibly talented at it and actually as far as we know, Homeless Natural Medium is the courtroom. Shes very good as a prosecutor. Thats where she feels confident. Its going to be very interesting. See if she can bring those skills. Shes clearly not leaning into the fact that she will be the first woman. Shell be The First Black Woman the first indian woman to actually be in that role. Shes going to have to bring an energy and a television celebrity confidence, which weve certainly seen at the dnc, but we havent actually seen on television i think i think hed lead usually yemen with no what were have in common because you see them have actually the producing skills that Donald Trump has. Donald trump understands how he appears on television. He understands its energy. Its incredibly compelling, even if you dont like anything, hes theres, even if he lies all of the time, he brings an incredible compelling energy. And thats what shes actually up against. How do you think the muted mics will impact that energy . Well, clearly thats not what her campaign wanted, right . I think they wanted to have that kind of unscripted moment. The ability to probably in realtime Fact Check Donald Trump when he went off the rails. I do think whats going to be very interesting to see is how she does in some of the issues like abortion, where Donald Trump has been every single Way And Kind of hasnt figured out how hes going to respond to that. How does she kind of take some of these issues where shes had a leg up. Can she actually deliver in the Debate Format . Kind of land some punches on those issues. Lets take a listen to some of the new ads from the Harris Campaign on project 2025 and abortion rights trumps project 2025. Agenda will give him unchecked political power with no guard rails, and it would take black america backwards. He told us who he was should abortion be punished. But it has to be some form of punishment. Then he showed us for 54 years, they were trying to yet grow v. Wade terminated and i did it and im proud to have done it now, Donald Trump wants to go further what you think about that being her focus this week, jeff, look, i mean, project 2025, which is loosely you know, a roadmap potentially for a second, Trump Administration that he is tried to distance its himself from it really has taken hold among voters far more than i thought it would a few months ago. Shes been talking about it endlessly, but if you look at that new and New York Times poll out this morning, i mean, i was really surprised at the majority of people who said theyre familiar and sort of worried about project 2025. So i think that ad that she has been using to drive this home, obviously the telegraphing what she will say at the debate on a tuesday is effective. Theres no Doubt But Abortion rights hangs over this campaign for all the differences we talked a lot about 20 16, 2020. The reason this is an entirely different race is because of the Dobbs Decision. And we will find out in a president ial campaign, in a president ial race the resonance of this issue its not been tested before it has in midterms, of course, but she clearly wants to improve her standing among women and widen the Gender Gap which is really the heart of this campaign. And he has squirming around this issue. Unlike anything else, his instinct is correct, that its im going to loser for republicans. Hes right about that. But he also is sort of in a box on this as well. So what he says on abortion on Tuesday Night in front of the biggest audience he will have will be certainly telling and not obese. And im just base voters, right . What he has really struggled with and youve seen this time and time again the last couple of weeks Donald Trump Cant Figure out what his message is on it. And the question is going to be, how does he actually answer this to a very wide audience, not just base voters, but women independents, people that are wanting to see where he is on this issue and clearly democrats, this isnt just a president ial race for issue for them. They are playing this Up And Down the ballot. They think this is he issue that turns out voters for them and will change this election, right . Because you have to wonder the abortion referendums on several ballots in several states, right i think its around ten states. If im if im not mistaken, but one of the things we also know is that Donald Trump is prepping for this debate by already attacking abc so that he can say that the ground that theyre playing on his actually unfair. Weve seen him go after George Stephanopoulos wasnt even part of the debate, but we know that theyre in legal action together. Hes going after dana walden, whos the cochair of disney an abc tv, and saying this is unfair for him, the only person and we wrote about this in the beast this week, that he hasnt gone after David Muir because he loves David Muir. David muir is a winner. Hes a winning in the ratings and i think Donald Trump wants to be, wants to associate himself. He wants the sort of proximity to the winning qualities of David Muir to rub off on him, but hes fully prepping by every time it goes on, talyor when hes talking at his rallies criticizing abc, laying the groundwork just like he is with the election, right . I mean, its just like what the election well, if i lose is because it was rigged, if i dont come out as a winner in the debate, its because abc, it was werent against me like you point out, George Stephanopoulos, not the actual debate moderator, right . Nothing to do with george slopanopoulos as them and you know that commonly is studying all the policy statements. And donald, its just thinking, how can i go on the attack here and undermine the whole thing . Its an incredible, its an incredible philosophy. And we saw him say, say just as much in his Friday News conference where he talked about republicans need he to get better at working a referees right. So we see him doing some of that right now to that point. But coy back to project 2025. Just speaking to republicans and democrats alike, theyre both surprised about just how much has penetrated the psyche of the electorate. And each time that Donald Trump says things like he did last night in a truth social post about remaking the government consolidating power under the department of justice, doing away with the Department Of Education. It makes it that much harder for him to distance himself from that platform because those are some of the very tenants that are in there. Thats interesting if he has tried to distance himself, right. But then as you pointed out, he undermines it by making comments like that. Alright, stay with us more to discuss coming up to pollsters. Join us. This almost what Harris And Trump need to do to pull ahead On Tuesday plus, we take a stroll down Memory Lane for clues about candidates will handle that, make or break too big mr. Vice president , im speaking i have im speaking Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, the debate. Everyones been waiting for Follow Cnn for complete coverage and exclusive pre and postdebate analysis. A cnn the abc News President ial debate to the nine eastern on Cnn And Streaming on max. The tempurpedic Breeze Make Sleep, fuel, cool. So no more sweating all Night Or Blasting the Air Conditioning because the Temper Breeze feels up to ten Degrees Cooler all night long, dont miss our biggest sale of the year with savings up to 700 on elected Justice Mattress sets. 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Women are the majority of the population in this country. People need to keep their hands off of womens bodies and let women make the decisions about their own way. These awards. It will never end with him he will drive us into World War iii. This is about a pattern of Donald Trumps, where he has referred to our men who are serving in our military as suckers and losers stand back and stand by but with only one debate on the campaign calendar, at least for now, will either Candidate Change up their strategy in a bid to change the dynamics of this race. My panel is back to discuss this you know, theres the question, can harris score some memorable moments on stage . And we talked about the mics be muted and we talked talked about the fact that she is relatively inexperienced compared to Donald Trump. She has debated before we remember, of course, when she debate against Mike Pence and of course when she was running for president , the first time, but what do you think oh, i think Television Isnt incredibly visual medium, which is often overlooked when people discuss things like the debates and the one thing that we know, Donald Trump is actually thinking about is how good looking calm or is she is fabulous. Got gorgeous skin, hair. She has great presence whether or not she can really translate it on television. Well know a bit more On Tuesday but we know that it gets under his skin because at a rally he actually said, you know, they say shes good looking. She was on the cover of time Magazine Writer and you remember he compared her to an actress since i actually looks like Sophia Loren slightly dating himself, but he went, im better looking than kamala in better looking and youre like, good lord, ive never well heard a man compare himself to a woman and say, im better looking. So you know that against Joe Biden, hes certainly brought a different kind of energy and more televisual, good look. I think the visual comparison between them is going to be much more important than people play discussing. Its almost as if not more important than actually what they say. And we saw how important the visual comparison was in the debate with Biden Right . Now. Now you have it is absolutely is. And now hes the candidate 20 years her senior. But look, one of the questions at the heart of

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