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CNN Erin Burnett OutFront September 22, 2024

And now Vice President Kamala Harris, who is about to speak at a rally in wisconsin at this moment, these are live images, is taking full advantage of the shocking revelations about robinson. Today. Billboards like this just popped up like this one. It features trump alongside robinson and a picture is plastered across North Carolina. Obviously North Carolina for trump is a mustwin state. Hes actually going to be there in less than 24 hours. He knows he has to win. The billboard reads it, puts quotes around it. We have to cherish mark. Hes an outstanding person, an incredible gentleman. So he said, okay, its a democratic ad. Weve got to check these quotes, make sure to tempt really say those specific that a cherished robinson well, here he is to cherish marquee to start, yet they chose him. Its like the Fine Line because thats what you have. You have a fine one. He isnt outstanding person they could have put hes like a fine wine on there. I mean, you know, you already said it now, robinson, of course, The One to cherish the fine wine, the outstanding gentlemen, according to kfiles reporting, once praised slavery, railed against martin luther king, called himself a black nazi, said he watched transgender porn and excruciatingly disgusting he tell despite calling transgender people demonic and talked about spying on women as they showered. He called himself a perv well, i guess well, my maybe, you know, theres a level of selfawareness there. I dont know. Its on top of his long list of controversial statements which the Harris Campaign is also highlighting and a new North Carolina ad trying Trump And Robinson at the top this country, its about the killing the child because you werent responsible enough to keep your skirt down with them a lot. Ive gotten to know him and his outstanding Donald Trump and Mark Robinson. Theyre both wrong for North Carolina so democrats, you know, all that money we talk about this massive Fundraising Advantage over trump. This is what happens when you have that. You can just throw money at it the next day, blanket entire state with billboards and ads and the close connection between Trump And Robinson does have republicans biting their nails so j. D. Vance was out and about today, he was out walking to the Doctors Office on capitol hill. And heres what happened to my Father And Son News Senator Vance he was, he was going to the Doctors Office. Thats why didnt have a comment. Well have more on that in a moment. But what is really important here is trump has said nothing thus far. And when it comes to North Carolina, as i said for trump, it is mustwin harris actually has several paths with without North Carolina, but for trump, he has to win it and he wanted by only just about 1 point a little bit more than that in 2020, his narrowest margin of victory anywhere and polls show the race extremely close and now republicans are distancing themselves from robinson on the same day, the first Absentee Ballots were mailed out. By The Way, Robinsons Name is on them. So even if hed gotten out Last Night, which he didnt, his name is still going to be on the ballot. And the Question Tonight is whether Robinsons Baggage will open a path for harris in a state that has voted republican in ten of the last 11 president ial contests Eva Mckend is outfront. She is in madison, wisconsin, where as i mentioned, Kamala Harris hes about dissipate the stage any moment right behind where you are. Eva. And i know youve been talking to your sources in the Harris Campaign about the robinson news. What are they telling you well erin this entire episode is allowing the campaign to make this broader argument that they have been clamoring to me that Mark Robinson and by extension, former president Donald Trump in the mantle of the Republican Party are trained certainly carolina they always have you robinson as an especially weak candidate. But now ever more so and whats interesting, erin about the strategy . Isnt there not so much focusing on the comments that robinson made as revealed in the kfile report. But his Policy Position on abortion, trying to link Robinson And Trump on that policy because they believe that that is where the former president is most week and most vulnerable. But listen not only North Carolina, theyre focusing on their also focusing on dane county. Right here in wisconsin. That is because of a Population Boom that this area has seen in recent years, more people, more voters, they feel as though they have an Organizing Advantage in this state 200 staffers on the ground, they just opened their 50th Field Office in the state aaron. All right. Eva, thank you very much. And as i said, the Vice President is going to be speaking where even is any moment were going to monitor that. Should there be anything that you should hear . Of course, were going to bring it to you. So andrew, k. File, the fallout continues from your reporting as we were just laying some of that there and youve got some new information that youre learning tonight. What are you learning now . Well, thats right. We learned that yesterday shortly after our hours after our story was published, all of Robinson Post that he made on that pornographic forum where he made these comments that we reported on a had been removed. Now, we have reached out to robinsons campaign. We havent heard back. We actually also reached out to the administrator of that Porn Forum to ask, did you delete this . Did robinson delete this . We havent heard back from either of them. So right now, all we know is those posts that we reported on yesterday of those controversial Posts Everything he said has been removed. And just to be clear, you reported on some of them and there were some that were just frankly disgusting to put out publicly. But from what they were all removed as far as you could tell, all of the salacious posted. I looked into that some of which cnn didnt choose to report on, those have been removed as well. All right. Which is very significant, phillip, i mean, they went and move them even though he said he didnt know anything about them the Harris Campaign is obviously not going to let this go. As i said, they got the money and they he threw it behind it today, the billboards go up, the ads go out. The Polling Context of North Carolina is an incredibly close race. The Ballot Mailin have been sent out. Do you think that this actually could be a deciding factor in the president ial race in North Carolina. Yeah, i mean, it certainly couldnt, especially when were talking about something that is this close, right . I mean, we see the first Blush Ad from the campaign focuses on abortion. Theres a very obvious reason for that, which is that the entire media is talking about robinsons comments right now. The Harris Campaign doesnt need to reinforce that everyones hearing about it on cnn, never else. Right . Right. So what theyre looking at then is as november approaches, if we are assuming this is going to be a one or two point contest, they are going to do everything in their power to turn out there, folks amplify anything which they hope is going to get trumps people to not be enthusiastic about coming out and vote, right . Thats really the question here, right . If this is a razor thin race are there going to be republican voters who like really like trump, but then theyre like, well, i dont really like robinson is it really worth end up staying home as a result of it . So as we get closer to election day, look for the Harris Campaign to do more for highlighting of the really gross things that robinson had said in an effort to try and have that, right . And they do the gross things and then that we make the thing about Cherishing Trump has said really good things about robinson. Now he hasnt said anything since this all came out but hes got to go to North Carolina whole lot, but hes got to win. Hes going to be there next week. So hes got a big decision to make about how to handle this. He cannot just avoid it wont listen, he hasnt said anything in the last 24 hours, but i think we all know that this Guy Cant exactly keep his mouth closed. And i when prodded right, hes going there, hes going to see all these Bull Bore billboards. Theyre gonna be protesters out there outside of his rallies holding up signs at some point, i suspect that hes going to do what he always does and hes going to boil over and have to address it. And say something ridiculous. So excited about that, i just want to remind us all though, that in 2008, Barak Obama won North Carolina. And it is not completely impossible for a democrat who can galvanize a diverse coalition in The Way that we saw Last Night. Night with Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey that had so many people from all Walks Of Life Across America Coming Together in support of a Kamala Harris that that democrat can win the state. First of all, second of all, there are so many people in North Carolina who are just over the nastiness, the bullying they care about abortion and they might have voted republican last time around, but this gives them an excuse, an opportunity not to do that again in ago for kamalas. So its really great that shes continuing to amplify this. I mean, look, if they had a strong gop gubernatorial candidate, they might feel very differently im just gonna be honest here, right they have a bad candidate. They they have a Problem And Governor the Harris Campaign is also touting the video that i played just a moment ago of j. D. Vance when he ignored that question about robinson today, i just want to play it again for you, Governor Pawlenty my province and News Senator Vance anything there. Governor. He did tweet in response. I was walking to the doctor because one of my kids gave me the plague and attempted humor there. But then he said my comment on Mark Robinson is the commonly harris cast the deciding vote on the Inflation Explosion Act and became because of that, a lot of americans cant afford groceries. So just trying to turn the issue altogether. Governor, the reality of it is though is trumps going to be in North Carolina. Hes eventually going to have to address this directly, whether its because he boils over as i you she say, or just because its going to happen because hes in the state are you dreading that moment well, i have to agree with aisha on one point and that is hes not going to be able to avoid it jd vances and going to be able to avoid it. So in the coming days, theyre going to have to respond to this for all the reasons that have been noted. Im sure theyre trying to figure out what to say about it. And theyre in a very difficult spot. For obvious reasons, these comments you know, if true by The Way, we should at least know that robinson is denying them that those arent his words, those arent his comments. So we should at least note that, but if they are true and theres allegations against him are credible, those comments are disqualifying. But as youve noted, the Ballots Mailin ballots as well as the overseas and military ballots, have been mail. And so even if thats just two, 3 of the vote that really matters. It certainly does. Andrew. I had a question for you, but just because Governor Police raises that he denies them, Governor Plenty doesnt, but it Mark Robinson does i just want to give you a chance again for anybody who didnt get to hear what you laid out Last Night the excruciating detail with which you did this reporting to know that these are indeed robinsons posts . Yeah, thats right. I think the most compelling evidence is i mean, besides his his emails on the Site Name is on the site it says the Users Name is Mark Robinson. He offered biographical details that matched them exactly the year he was married, his age, his location that his mother worked in hbcu we match that same username, minisoldr to use it on youtube, pinterest, black planet, the forum discuss. He used it previously on twitter we found that he used that same email on several other websites as well. So the evidence we found there was pretty compelling and a lot of people actually were drawn to something we found where there were all these unique phrases that nobody has heard. Anyone said that we found that robinson used on Nude Africa and then he also use on facebook. So there was just so many different breadcrumbs that we found pointing this to Mark Robinson and Mark Robinson only, which i think is just really important because the gotten a raise it for you for you to be able to lay that out. We got a Statement Tonight and do from out to outfront from the former wake county, North Carolina Republican Party chairman, steve berkshire. He says, quote, we expected some bombshells, but not to this devastating dating extent. Mark Robinson Supporters love his history of confronting Issues Head on, but he owes it to his supporters to come out swinging and knock down these allegations, which would be the reaction of an innocent man. Lieutenant Governor Robinson we are waiting and you just heard what Governor Pawlenty said that this would be disqualifying if if true. And as you lay out, of course, youve done, you have the receipts on that. But it seems like the gop was really thrown by your reporting whats interesting is weve reached out to his campaign, okay. Tuesday and i want to say 9 00 a. M. We gave them until thursday at 10 00 a. M. To respond to us the deadline comes, we get a call, we talk to Experts Verse and he asked us to push it back so we can interview Lieutenant Governor robinson, which we do and we played some of that Last Night on your show but while that story is, were getting to interview them details of that story start to leak comments, particularly the black nazi comments started going going around twitter. And cnn didnt leak that. We didnt tell anybody about that so that is coming from somebody in robinsons orbit. I start getting calls from sources, people who work at all sorts of republican committee saying were hearing about the Story Andrew and i dont like, first off, how you know, this is me. Well, there i could do it cnn, so we just its assumed it was you, but everyone knew knew you know, this this started to leak out and the question is, were republicans trying to Push Robinson Out of the race because that Ballot Deadline that we mentioned Last Night was midnight. He obviously did not drop out. Were people in his camp trying to get ahead of the story, which i dont know why you get ahead of saying that youre a black nazi, but its not like crazy. Maybe they did. Yes, it called a caused quite a stir and i wasnt even seeing half full or was going on on twitter because i was getting ready to publish the story, but i understand that it also caused quite a stir on their oh, it didnt it didnt because, you know, i was over there and we talk about these places because if their real places we all crazy. Philip, i want to ask you just because were talking about some of the big obviously the seismic Event Today continues to be Andrews Reporting also on the political front though, youve got this issue of democrats really trying to reach out to white man, which has become a big focus for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz puts a Video Out today to that Point Work on this thing. You got a manual. It shows you exactly what to do to fix things on this. Donald Trump And J. D. Vance have a manual to its called project 2025, and its a way to stick it to the middle class while giving Tax Cuts thats to The Wealthiest its like this whole house, but for its like clicking man im pretty sure. Im sorry, im dating myself, but it is okay. So is that sort of thing effective . Do they have any data to show that thats resonating . Yeah. I mean, ill say two things. First is that clip you showed cut out the beginning where its like well, ive got to say are feeling like i dont know how to do that in my car. Like god bless him. Right. So it was it was more than that. Wasnt just the campaign pitch, but the second thing ill say is were talking about it like this. This made waves. Ive already seen this scene multiple times on my Social Media feeds, right . This is what theyre trying to do. Theyre trying to demonstrate that he is this kind of guy who admittedly, they when they move from Joe Biden Kamala Harris, they lost that sort of immediate sense of im a white guy from their rust belt america, right . That was the Joe Biden Pension 2020. Now they have a back with walz and they are really punching up and look, ive already seen it does on cnn and its working from that. But i mean, going there now, governor, at the same time, trump is reaching out to men, particularly younger man. I mean, you remember the other day he posted on Social Media and all caps. I hate Taylor Swift and most people would think that that is sort of napalm if you want to win anything because, you know, you just, you just dont do that. But one republican pollster i saw noted that young white men actually do not like Taylor Swift all that much and maybe trucks trying to beef up that demographic that there might have been now strategy behind this rather than just a last shout. Do you think that he has a strategy with that governor well, when the issues in Swing States are illegal immigration inflation, crime, and other things were debating whether we do or dont like Taylor Swift underscores the lack of focus that ive been trying to emphasize for the Trump Camp Campaign to get back to those core issues. I like Taylor Swift, most americans like Taylor Swift, the idea that were debating, Taylor Swift and the context of Voter Subgroup is ridiculous. And by The Way, Last Night on the oprah interview, she, Vice President harris again got asked about inflation she again had an underwhelming to put it mildly answer neither the norm. Governor walz have had any connection to the private Sector Economy are free markets. I dont think they have an understanding of what triggered inflation obviously there was covid, Supply Chain limitations beyond that, they dont acknowledge that federal spending played a big role as documented by elements of the federal reserve. Well at that federal spending, you have a point, obviously, rates coming down is going to help them a lot. I usually let

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