Lower one. Thank you so much for joining me this sunday. Im Fredricka Whitfield and we begin this hour with a new glimpse at where americans are leaning with just 51 days until the president ial election, a new Abc News Ipsos Poll released today shows Vice President Kamala Harris with 52 support among leading likely voters to a former President Donald Trumps 46 . That margin unchanged from the last Abc News Poll taken at The End of august before they are debate with roughly seven weeks until the general election campaigns are racing to secure undecided voters in several key battleground states. But while these events will focus on voters, trumps mind seems to be elsewhere at this critical moment in the race, a former president posting to his truth social account today, i hate Taylor Swift following the pop Singers Endorsement of harris last week, cnns Sunlen Serfaty is at the White House for a sunlen, what more are these latest polls telling us about the state of the race fred, it shows that the state of the race is largely unchanged since the debate. This is a Headtohead Matchup that they test did 52 for Kamala Harris, 46 for former President Donald Trump. And those numbers are largely similar to when this was tested back in august before the early september debate. Now still the poll does show that most americans believe that Kamala Harris was the one to win the debate 58 eight to 36 said that she was the one that did a better job on that Debate Stage in the poll largely finds that the issues the central issues of each candidate is also unchanged. Trump continues to be more widely trusted to handle the economy and immigration. While harris is broadly more trusted on abortion and protecting american democracy. Now, meantime, president biden himself got in the mix on the Campaign Trail at an Awards Dinner here Last Night In Dc or he blasted former President Trump in his peddling of baseless Conspiracy Theory, notably that Conspiracy Theory that the Trump Campaign has been pushing jane, that haitian immigrants In Springfield, ohio have been stealing peoples pets and eating them. Heres what the president said Last Night She Has Evergrande Black and brown immigrants, poison the blood of our country right now his Running Mate is attacking Haitian Americans in ohio its wrong. Its got to stop any president should reject hate in america and insight, not excited now meantime, jd vance, trumps Running Mate, he reiterated he did on Cnn Air this morning, these baseless claim saying that hes heard that from his own constituents, but he did not put evid any evidence forward. Meantime, the republican governor of that state is dismissing this, saying that is untrue, and the mayor, notably this morning, fred, he says that his city is going through a very difficult time plnly, un rumors to understand the weight of their words, fred and then sunlen, has there been any reaction to trumps post on Taylor Swift saying he hates Taylor Swift . There certainly has fred the Harris Campaign wasted no time getting in knots. Grothman really throwing a nod to this with these out there. They sent her a very long statement with references to many of swifts songs. Should they said Donald Trumps week of wining and spouting Conspiracy Theories has voters on both sides of the aisle ready to forget that he existed . The want to be out of the woods. Again, those a nod to some of taylor whips most common and popular songs. But notably this poll that were referencing, fred showed that taylor Swifts Endorsement of commonly harris at this point did not have a huge effect, only showed that 6 of likely voters said that her endorsement of harris makes them more likely to vote for her that is interesting saying, all right, Sunlen Serfaty. Thank you so much or republican Vice President ial nominee, senator j. D. Vance, spoke to Cnns Dana Bash. This morning on State Of The Union, where he defended his baseless claims about haitian immigrants. Watch the american media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and i start talking about cat memes. If i have to just do the name create stories so that the american media actually pays attention to the suffering of the american people. Then thats what im gonna do. You just said that youre creating policy you just said that youre creating the stores that data you just said that this is a story that youve created. So theyre eating dog, were not, we are creating, we are dana, it comes from firsthand accounts from my constituents. I say that were creating a story, meaning were creating the american media focusing on it cnn senior reporter in fact checker, daniel dale, joining us right now. Danielle. So what stood out to you there from Vances Interview as i mean, the word create right there. Lets start from there what stood out to me most more than any individual claim was something i think as the high got caught, shuffle and its something ive seen over and over again in about eight years of factchecking, former President Trump and his allies and its one false claim, a lie and unsubstantiated claim is called out by factcheckers and others and then the person who mix it tries to use the attention generated by that factcheck to pivot to some larger issue on which they think they have the advantage. And so, for example, when trump will claim New York is at record high crime, people like Kamala Point out, its nowhere close to record. I crime and then trump and his supporters will say, well, you dont obviously dont care about the people who were you killed this year in New York. Well, thats, thats not what we said. And similarly, in this case you know, vance and others were pushing this claim that haitian migrants In Springfield, ohio were abducting and eating cats. Former President Trump added dogs. Those claims have been factchecked repeatedly at this point. And now vance is saying, well, no, no, no. Lets lets talk about the broader issue of the extent to which haitians In Springfield are affecting Health Systems that the Education System committing other crimes. And thats, thats not what were talking about here. Were attempting to bring focus to the specific facts on the specific claims that theyre making and theyre trying to pivot. So didnt know then theres something else. I mean, trump you know, made, a comment about a Military Draft in the u. S. Well, he was campaigning this weekend in las vegas. First lets listen a vote to bring back the draft. Would anybody like to be drafted at the audience because thats what theyre doing is shes already talking about bringing back the draft she wants to bring back the draft and draft your child and put them in a war that should never have happened has that happened . It has not. This is imaginary. Vice president harris is not talking about bringing back the draft, has not introduced a single proposal to bring back the draft. Frankly, i have no idea where this is from. Probably nowhere thats the Trump Campaign for any evidence supporting the claim that harris is talking about the draft. They simply did not respond okay. And then youve also seen some discrepancies on harriss Social Media. What are you seeing . Yeah. Id call them false and misleading claims. So theres this account on x, formerly known as twitter, called kamala hq. Its an official account the campaign, and i found that this account has a pattern of deceptively clipping a video of trump and his allies and misleadingly captioning it to make it seem like it was worse than it was. So there are a lot of examples, some kind of silly, some quiet substantive, but ill give you one easy one, and you can read the rest On Cnn. Com. The easy one is there was a rally in pennsylvania where former President Trump he gave kind of a shutout to North Carolina. The Harris Campaign used this Social Media account to make it seem like he had been confused about what state he was in. In fact, if you watched the full video, he was not confused what happened was that he had earlier in the rally spoken to a group of supporters from north the carolina who were attending that pennsylvania rally. And then later in the rally at the moment shown by kamalahq, he again refer to that group of North Carolina supporters as North Carolina. So he was not confused. He was not mixed up, but the Harris Campaign attempted to make him seem like he was they also did that with another clip more recently and their whole bunch of other examples of misleading cuts, snipping out parts of quotes to make trumpvance and others make it seem to make it seem like they said stuff that they didnt actually say. All right. Daniel dale, we always appreciate digging. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Joining me right now to talk more about the race for the White House is alex thompson. Hes a Cnn Political Adolescent and national political reporter for axios. Great to see you. Alex great to beer. So Donald Trump and his Running Mate, j. D. Vance, continuing to double down on these baseless claims that haitian immigrants are eating peoples pets In Springfield, ohio. Even governor josh shapiro. Response did this morning when he was talking to Dana Bash and he says thats bonkers. So what are voters to think of this information that continues to be a spewed by the republican ticket well, obviously it was unverified rumors and things that j. D. Vance has said that he heard from his constituents i asked Jd Vances campaign actually, if i can talk to any of them and they didnt link me up with one person who does believe thats happening, but also had not witnessed it basically this is a truism of Donald Trumps entire political career that all attention is good attention and as a result, when he throws out all of these unverified, often racebaiting complaints are claims. It reminds me of 2016 and 2020 talking about people coming from quoteunquote you know, s whole countries talking about hey, are you there . I still got you okay. Sorry Theres Someone in my ear asking me, but anyways, there was in 2016, he was talking about how he wasnt going to get a fair trial because of mexican judge was what had who was born here was mexican. This is a Triedandtrue Playbook that basically consumed the attention consume the energy and often the way to do that is by making unverified. And sometimes baseless or racebaiting claims. So this new Abc News Ipsos Poll out today showing harris with six point national lead among likely voters over trump. And thats the same league that she had over trump in this poll in late august, despite polls showing viewers believe harris overwhelmingly won last weeks debate. So what does that say to you about the state of this race with just over an hour, 50 days . Tell the Election Day i think it says what you just inserted it, which is that it hasnt changed a lot, that we live in a very polarized country right now. And that trumps numbers, you know, most people, the most interesting thing about these next 50 days in this race is the most people in this country know what they think about Donald Trump . Most people also know what they think about Kamala Harris, but significantly more people in every poll that weve seen, dont really know what they think about her than they do about Donald Trumps. So the real question is that 30 of voters, many of whom are still undecided, what do they do in these next few days . And what do the campaigns do . Now just Kamala Harris well be a little bit more cautious, not really sit for national interviews. And what happens if theres not a second debate . Does she actually miss an opportunity to introduce herself . Thats going to be the real key question. His next 50 days. So trump meantime, has been going on a series of rants on truth, social over the last 24 hours, including a Post Today they were he says, quote, i hate Taylor Swift, this coming after the megastar endorsed his opponent, Kamala Harris at The End of Tuesdays President ial debate. And again, Abc News Ipsos Poll showing that more than 80 of voters say Swifts Endorsement will have no impact on who they vote for. So what it doesnt say to you about the state of the campaign that big Star Endorsement or not it doesnt seem to make a huge impact on those who were pulled and at the same time, it kind of ruffles the feathers of the republican nominee i mean, the one thing that Taylor Swift can do and she did this in 2022 when she endorsed joe biden. Is really encourage people to vote also, i think trump going on many rants on trump on truth, social today ending and why sort of a thing. And again, this is what. About thing where trump considers himself a counterpuncher. But really what it is is he cant let any perceived or real slight go. And you saw Kamala Harris really make great use of this on the Debate Stage, where Time After time, whether or not i was talking about proud Rally Sizes are citing people from upenn where he had gone to school at contradicting him kim he just always always feels a need to respond now, whether or not Taylor Swift is going to matter in The End, we have a very Celebrity Focus Culture celebrities though sometimes matter so alex, as cnns manu raja, talked recently with two of the senates most centrist members, democrat turned independent, Joe Manchin and Republican Senator Mitt Romney and both say they are not voting for trump. They say that in emphatically, but listen to how they respond when asked if they plan to instead vote for or even endorsed Kamala Harris we decided to go for ive got nothing in that job. By harris is anywhere you go for im not going to be showing not going to be voting for former President Trump and i think thats been very clear if people know where i stand with regards to that. But harris i dont have anything on that at this stage. I think shes moving in the right direction. Things im hearing youre sounding grade i want to make sure that we get there. I think very good conversation we will do that. And well see what would you could see yourself endorsing before the election. All i could see that well see what happens so alex even not saying something can be influential, might it be on their constituents really. Fascinating because Kamala Harris has really used some of these endorsements from republicans like liz cheney, Dick Cheney saying that she was honored to have their endorsements. That Back Matter is that Kamala Harris doesnt have a base problem. She has the democratic party solidified because Donald Trump, the fear of Donald Trump has come united them now the waste shes the place you struggling. Are these republicans and foreign publicans like mitt romney, who is still a republican, who feel like they dont have a party that is who she is focused on is why shes talking about small businesses. Thats why shes talking about the middle class and talking about sort of moving beyond the politics of Division And Polarization and that weve seen since Donald Trump entered politics in 2015 all right. Alex thompson, great talking to you. Thank you so much thank you. Alright. Still the come the idf says that three israeli hostages, whose bodies were recovered from gaza in december were most likely killed as a result of an israeli airstrike. Strike we have the very latest and later us is facing yet another Government Shutdown. Congress has only two weeks to pass a Spending Bill before money runs out. 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