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CNN Anderson Cooper 360 September 19, 2024

Joining us tonight on 360 new polls from battleground states have some good news for kamala harris, but the bad news is the teamsters declined to endorse her or any candidate for president also, another jibe by a trump surrogate at harris for not having biological children. What trump is saying about sarah huckabee sanders remarks at a town hall and a day after hundreds of hezbollah pagers exploded with devastating consequences across lebanon now, it's walkie talkies being targeted as well. And the death toll is rising evening, thanks very much for joining us. Take a look at the live feed from uniondale on new york's long island, where the former president is holding his first rally since sunday's apparent attempt on his life. Now, new york is not expected to be in play this election despite trump's recent claims that it could be the former president moments ago, blasted the harris campaign for saying he's a threat to democracy the and then immediately said that she is a threat to democracy it's time to stop the lives stopped the hoaxes, stop the smears stop the law lawfare of the fake lawsuits against me add stopped claiming your opponents will turn america into a dictatorship. Give me a break fact is that i'm not a threat to democracy. They are well vice president harris mean tom spoke to the congressional hispanic caucus institutes leadership conference in washington. She called for immigration reform and border security, saying it's possible to do both and put the spotlight on the former president's promise to carry out mass deportations if elected. We all remember what they did to tear families apart and now they have pledged to carry out the largest deportation a mass deportation in american history. Imagine what that would look like and what that would be how's that going to happen? massive rates massive detention camps, what are they talking about well, today also saw a new postdebate polling from three socalled blue wall states, pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin, conducted by quinnipiac university, shows the vice president leading outside the margin of error in the first two and up appointed wisconsin, meaning no clear leader there. More from cnn's harry enten on this shortly today also saw the federal reserve's first interest rate cut in four years, half a percentage point fed chairman jerome powell, a trump appointee defending the magnitude of it saying, quote, the upside risks to inflation have diminished and the downside risk to unemployment have increased the former president sees it otherwise i guess it shows the economy grew by that much. So i mean, they're not just playing politics the economy would be very bad or they're playing politics one or the other. But it was a big guy mr. Trump also applauded the teamsters decision today not to endorse either him or the vice president. He called it a great honor for union leadership, not to endorse the democrat. Former president also ramped up pressure on republicans to shut down the government and lost lawmakers can pass a spending bill containing language targeting noncitizen voting that bill failed today is expected, bringing a shutdown closer, something the senate's top republican minority leader, mitch mcconnell yesterday called and i quote, politically beyond stupid because as he put it, we, meaning republicans would get the blame once again tonight. A lot to get to cnn's alayna treene starts us off from the trump event. So what else is the former? president have to say tonight been walking through a lot and i apologize it is very loud behind me. There is a massive crowd here tonight but one thing i want to bring up just immediately knew that i found very notable is he repeated some of his false claims about springfield, ohio. He also vowed to visit springfield as well as a rora in the coming weeks. Now, there's no because of course, we've been talking about the springfield repeatedly on this program and how donald trump and jd vance's really baseless claims about haitian migrants eating pets is affecting negatively that community in ohio. But donald trump continued to say that this is a huge problem. You could hear rally goers in the audience screaming, saved the pac, save the cat and he said that he plans to visit there. He also said that he wants to go to aurora word colorado is a place where donald trump has repeatedly claimed that venezuelan gangs are taking over, even though there's people on the ground who have argued law enforcement, for example, that have said he is gross plague exaggerating but this is all again, part of donald trump's larger conversation. I think this is important to note anderson about migrants. He is saying that the migrants in springfield are there illegally. We know that's not true. They have given temporary protective status. He's saying that they are committing violent crimes. Again, without evidence. And now he's saying he wants to go there himself, so stay tuned on that when i talk to donald trump's advisers about this, they say as of now there is no specific plans but that donald trump shows this desire to go a couple of things. I just want to point out, what is that he went into detail at the very start of his remarks tonight about that apparent second assassination attempt on sunday. And at one moment, he said that he believes god spared him and that the reason for that is that so he could save states like new york as well, the country overall, remember this is language that we heard him use in the aftermath of the first assassination attempt in butler. However, he also then went immediately into attacking democrats and specifically kamala harris, saying that they are to blame for what has happened. So a lot of his harshest rhetoric here and you knew deal tonight, anderson when it treene, thanks very much joining us now is journalist and cofounder of lift our voices. Gretchen carlson, also cnn's eva mckend, cnn senior data reporter harry enten, and republican strategist brad todd. Harry, first of all, let's talk about the polling yeah. I mean, look, i think if you're a kamala harris supporter, you have to be quite happy with these new polls that came out. I'd argue it's one of her best pulling days the campaign so far on a personal note, when you get three important pulse from three swing states, it's almost it's like a christmas day for someone like myself. And when you look at these numbers, what do you say? i mean, first off obviously in wisconsin, you have a race that's way too close to call at this point, would no clear leader, just a point. But michigan and pennsylvania, pennsylvania, the big enchilada we spoke about it last friday. The fact that you're seeing fivepoint advantages for kamala harris, him michigan, and in pennsylvania, which has arguably the most important state in this entire election there's just no other word than saying that these polls are good for the vice president. What happens when you dig into specific issues? yeah, you know, one of the ways you can kind of tell that these polls are good news for kamala harris has actually to look at the questions that ask it's about what are normally donald trump's strengths, right? you talk about immigration, you talk about the economy. Who do you trust more on those issues? well, when you average across the three states, you see that more voters trust donald trump than trust kamala harris. But look at the margins, the margins are incredibly small. We're talking about just three points on the economy, just four points in immigration. Donald trump should be run running away on these issues. And the fact that kamala harris's keeping it staying in the ballgame on here says everything. The bottom line is, these polls tonight are good news for the vice president. Gretchen. I mean, do you buy polls like this at this stage? a question, given that traditionally, i mean, donald trump has underperformed in, in many polls. Yeah. I mean, look in 2016, he underperformed in the polls again in 2020 i don't put much trust in the polls. I mean, i think kamala harris has to be above by 6810 points because there are so many people who are not going to admit in polling that they're voting for donald trump. Another really important thing though, about this polling is that she's way ahead of us leslie on abortion and all of these swing states that were pulled so in my mind, abortion, abortion, abortion, abortion to try and get the independents and the suburban moms. At the same time. I also think she needs to give more details about her stance on immigration and the economy. I know her aides right now are saying no because that's too much of a risk to go out there and actually do something that might be a flipflop or that she might have said something different before but we saw after the debate that she went up in the polls, people thought she won that handily because she gave some details about how she felt about certain issues. I think she needs to give more details succinctly in interviews, you've got i mean, you've traveled with harris, you've seen in these states, what do you think is resonating? what do you think is not? well, i think the reason why she is doing relatively well and they would argue that there is still the underdog they're still running scared. Is because she's campaigning like a standard democrat. There's no big surprise fries about how a future potentially president harris would govern, right? you champions most issues that would expand the social safety net g talks about immigrants in a compassionate way, but also emphasizes a strong border. We know what we're getting with vice president harris, and i think that people under its domain, how much voters really crave stability in the last election, we saw independent voters put off by the former president based on the chaotic response to the pandemic. And that is why they flocked to president biden. You're seeing a little bit of this here on the campaign trail, sort of voters embrace, i think a sense of normalcy and a contrast with the former president talking about people eating animals bred. I mean, what do you make of these latest polling kamala harris has had a good week increasing her favorability. I would not look at this polling to be very indicative, though this is polls with done by quinnipiac, which i do this professionally and quinnipiac has perhaps the worst reputation of any national pollster. And in 2020 they said donald trump was going to lose by 11 the night before the election in ohio they said he had 39% the night before the election, he got 53. So i would take this quinnipiac batch of polling with more than a grain of salt. I look back a little bit further back a week or so ago to cnn's polling, which shows donald trump and a little bit better position, but kamala harris has done better improving her image. Ballot is not followed yet you know, one thing go, look ahead. Data nerd. Thank you very, very much. You know, the bottom line is, i wouldn't go on your program and put up polls that i didn't think were indicative of at least a larger trend in this race, right? you know, you talk about pollsters who have a good record. How about ann selzer in the state of iowa, nailed that race? i remember the first time appeared with you on air was back in 2020 this poll is big trouble for joe biden because it shows that he's basically doing about the same as hillary clinton in iowa. Guess what that poll showed this past week and it showed kamala harris only down four points in a state that joe biden lost by eight points, a tremendous improvement. You talk about another paul, how about unh, their final poll of 2020 had a race that essentially match the final result perfectly guess what that poll showed this evening in the state of new hampshire. It showed that kamala harris was up by 11 points and another improvement of three to four points over joe biden stands with the quinnipiac poll. You think i i would just say this. I'm not going to say that quinnipiac is right on the button. But what i will say is at this particular point, i know that the poll that's what i've been looking at this as not the first poll out this week from the state of pennsylvania that showed that kamala harris is doing particularly well. And i can guarantee you it will not be the last but i would just add though, there's another poll out today from scripts that shows to what kamala harris was just saying about immigration and what trump was saying that a majority of americans, a majority support mass deportations, but they don't really like, i think that the question is bad. Let him do you support a result of wreaking havoc on the economy? do you support law enforcement going door to door and ripping people out of homes? like if you ask the question chin to people in that way, i don't think the response would be the same. I'm just saying that i think that some of trump's talk about people eating animals in springfield rubs off when you get answers like this. I mean, there's certainly a reason why they're using that language. I mean, they clearly feel that there's a benefit for it. It's awful or not, or whether true or not, certainly there is no evidence of it bread, i'm wondering what you think about the teamsters declining to endorse either candidate well, there's a realignment underway in american politics right now. The republican party is becoming the party of the work and the working class. A democratic parties become sort of the champagne party, people with a lot of, with a lot of education, lot higher, higher education degrees, and a lot of wealth. And i think that this teamsters endorsement will not be the last shift you see an organized labor maybe not maybe not be the only big one in this election, but certainly not in the near term i just want to say there's some disagreement among members. I was speaking to the chair of the black caucus within the teamsters. He's very disappointed by this. The black caucus endorsed vice president harris several weeks ago and he argues that sean o'brien is not showing leadership right now and he essentially caved to a bully. Those are the words of the chair of the black caucus. There are going to be the teamsters that organized on her behalf even though sean o'brien, there had been posed within the teamsters among thank could file that showed trump has a majority of and by the way, in pennsylvania are really important state for the teamsters, there's 95,000 teamsters in pennsylvania. So i think that this endorsement was a big hit because there's definitely a gap, but sort of a cultural connection and the actual policies because democrats it's have been foreign a house ahead in support of union policies, but yes, we do see a kinship there with some rank and file union workers with republican kari brad, go ahead take a little issue with that. Democrats and kamala harris have been against fracking. They've been against things lik

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