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And 25 years, stars of the West Wings celebrate at the White House Inside Politics the best reporting from inside the quarters of power starts now good Morning And Welcome Inside Politics sunday im Manu Raja 44 days out from Election Day, Donald Trump is dealing with the down scandal in North Carolina that he does not want to talk about yesterday at a Campaign Rally there the Gop Nominee for Governor Mark Robinson was nowhere to be found. And trump made no mention of him or the Bombshell Cnn Report that revealed Robinson Made Graphic and inflammatory comments on a Porn Website years ago with lieutenant governor, even expressed support for reinstating slavery instead, trump would endorsed robinson in the primary and had been a vocal supporters of his in the past, tried to draw the attention back to Kamala Harris as both campaigns now battle for the dwindling number of persuadable voters and raised that poll after poll says, is a dead heat and time is running out. Early voting has begun in several states, and this week, mailin ballots will become available to voters in the key battlegrounds of michigan and North Carolina. Now is heres stumped in georgia, in wisconsin on friday, trump in North Carolina yesterday, made this pitch to try to cut into harris is significant lead with Women Voters lets talk about our great women women have gone through a lot. Ive gone through a lot women are poorer than they were four years ago. Our less healthy than they were four years ago. I will fix all of that. Women. I will fix all of that women will be happy, healthy confident, and free. You will no longer be thinking about abortion because It Is now where it always had to be with the states all right, lets break this all down with my great panel this morning, while three journals molly ball cnns isaac dovere, nprs georgia walz. And in New York Times is zolan kanno youngs. Good morning to you all. Thanks for being here. I lets talk about this Trump Comment first from this morning followed up from this late night Friday Post on truth social, all caps, talking about Women Voters, clearly on Donald Trumps mind eve, he said the similar to what he said at a rally, you will no longer be thinking about abortion because theres now where it always had to be with the states premises is one reason why trump is trying to change his message to gene of sorts on this potent issue. Hes down by 12 points to harris among likely Women Voters according to the New York Times sienna poll. But is this a strategy that will be effective at this stage of the game . You know, It Is not really in a political Messaging Oneonone texts perhaps not to tell groups how theyre supposed to be thinking what they should be thinking about. Theres been this debate within the republican party of whether theyre candidates should try to find a winning message on abortion, which has generally been a losing issue for them since the Dobbs Decision or whether they should ignore it completely. A new approach would be to say to just tell women not to think about it doesnt matter so youre not ignoring the issue. Youre just telling women not that the ai, but clearly trump has had this weakness with Women Voters, particularly college educated women. And the strategic choice that his campaign made as evidenced by, you know, Hulk Hogan tearing his shirt off at the republican convention, was that they were going to be able to make up that gender gap. On the other end by attracting more men particularly noncollege educated men, disaffected men who maybe hadnt been voters at all before but that weakness with Women Voters is a pretty glaring one. And its not clear if he can make it up with men and so you see him trying to also bring some of those women back into the tent, however, claims were going to talk about harris is challenges with male voters. In the next segment, i want to turn though, to what was not apparent or not visible. At yesterdays rally, which was the Gop Nominee for Governor Mark Robinson and the aftermath of that Bombshell Report from our colleagues here at Cnn Kfile Reporting but those lewd and graft inflammatory comments, some of which we cant even say on tv on this Porn Website that robinson has been essentially been in hiding. He was endorsed by Donald Trump. Trump called him Martin Luther King On Steroids and the like. There is now the Harris Campaign is trying to tie the two together as you can see on your screen, there of the campaign and from the Harris Campaign tried to tie the two together theres perhaps a reason why they hope this will change the dynamics of this race. Look at the North Carolina president ial results from the last four election cycle. So close of democrats did we take obama won an oj barely wins North Carolina, but republicans did do Take Care of the state in the last three election cycles. Does this make a difference on the margins . Can it help harris ultimately before the summer when harris became the nominee, she was spending a lot of time in North Carolina. There was a hope that democrats could when North Carolina, that hope of course, is, as you point out, every president ial elections in 2008, also, every Senate Race since 2000 and North Carolina, the democrats think, oh, maybe this is the year but It Is not ideal to have a leading candidate on the ballot. The gubernatorial nominee have this situation when youve got an attorney generals race, their House Races, and now a what was already a Pitch Battle for the president ial race. There that robinson has not appeared anywhere. The Donald Trump is suddenly forgotten that he exists and we dont know if hes still endorsing. Weve reached are you still endorsing him . Norberto response yet . Right. But he was part of the reason that Mark Robinson became the nominee. And i think its important to note here that Mark Robinson, its not like though these revelations were shocking, they were not surprising in a way given what robinson has said in the past, he said things along the lines of some of this that im not all that our colleagues got out right and there was still a decision by the report publicans to nominate him as the candidate and maybe he hasnt been endorsed yet, but i mean, you dont have to try too hard if youre the Harris Campaign or democrats to tie trump to robinson, trump has already said that robinson should be cherished, as you said, he said that he was Martin Luther King On Steroids, somebody who did describe themselves as a black nazi on these, on this pornographic website. In addition to some comments about Martin Luther King, thats right. Thats right. If youre democrats at this point, i dont think you need to waIt It for for an endorsement here trump has already said so many comments at i tie him, the damage dana, i talked to house republicans from North Carolina after this story broke on thursday. So theyre thrilled lets get that question where they were saying they were still reading the story. But one of them, richard hudson, who heads the house republicans campaign committee, did say the comments were very concerning hes he noted that robinson denied them, but he said he needed to get detailed answers about the allegations in the story he also downplayed the impact on that House Race in eastern North Carolina, but the republican candidate in that race has deleted a photo of herself, or a Burn Book out with Mark Robinson and democrats are quick to try to tie her to the unpopular governor. Its going its just they asked Hudson Months ago about Mark Robinson. He said hes an effective messenger, so clearly that has changed in the aftermath of this kfile report. I do want to show you the comments that j. D. Vance made yesterday. He was asked by a reporter in philadelphia about this. They have not really campaign. Vance trump, theyve really not said anything about this until vance was asked about it last night. Do you believe that those were not his post i dont not believe him. I dont believe him. I just think that you have to let these things sometimes play out in the court of public opinion. I just think that fundamentally its its Mark Robinson and the people of North Carolina, they get to decide whether hes their governor and thats what were going to focus on okay. So you do you believe he was asked i dont not believe him. I dont believe them very clear. It saying that he was just sort of not going to be taking a position. Yeah. I mean, both of these southern swing states georgia, North Carolina, are on a knifes edge and this has always been part of the reason that democrats thought North Carolina might be in play this cycle more so than last cycle was because there was this downballot ill erase that. It looked like they were in good position to win, whereas georgia, when it flipped for the first time in decades in 2020, was helped by the momentum from those two Senate Races being on the ballot at the same time, although they then went to the runoff and so that part of the reason that democrats have felt like North Carolina could be more competitive than georgia this time around when you see the state narrowly flipping from one side to the other, as in that chart that you put up, its not primarily because theres a lot of voters in North Carolina changing their minds. Its because different voters are coming out and so if you were republicans are coming out because they feel demoralized about that gubernatorial race, or they Cant Stomach Voting for their own candidate if more democrats are coming out because theyre enthusiastic to vote against a gubernatorial candidate that potentially helps the momentum at the top of the ticket. So its big part, even before these revelations, but even more so after these revelations, the Mark Robinson dynamic has been a reason that North Carolina was competitive. There was another Development Yesterday about the potential debate. Or perhaps not a debate yesterday, the Harris Campaign said that they would agree to have a debate in october. Cnn debate in october, trump. Meanwhile, indicated hes not so keen on doing so a lot of people that It Is greater entertainment ive already done to the problem with another debate is that its just too late. Voting has already started. Shes done one debate. Ive done two. Its too late to do another. Id love to in many ways, but its too late. The voting is cast of voters are out there immediately i mean, most of the time debates arent october. Yeah. And in 2020, there was a debate on october 22. This debate is proposed for October 23 because Election Day is little difference. Its the same amount of time between that would be that final debate and the Election Day. So this excuse that its too late, doesnt really make sense. He agrees read to it four years ago, though, voting was underway that said, it doesnt seem like Donald Trump is in a rush to accept it just underscores the fact that they view this as a campaign where they can try to win across the airwaves campaign, ad wars, and the leg, the debate didnt go so well, maybe thatll be a distant memory among some voters come november all right, we shall, see if any changes up next. 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But shes still hasnt caught up with him and all of his 2020 numbers, new polling this past week showed bidenharris trailing bidens 2020 numbers in some key areas notably hispanic voters noncollegeedu cated voters, and men. I caught up with one democratic congressman this week who conceded his party is struggling to appeal to male voters. Struggling . Male voters . Well, look, i theres not like a sort of an easy explanation for that but there are a lot of males in america who are struggling themselves and they need to be able to look at our party and see real solutions and see leaders who identify with their concerns. I think we need to do two more to address that how can harris address these vulnerabilities . And what will matter in the lead up to november 5. Here to answer all of our questions and with insight, his insight former president obamas chief Strategist And Cnn senior political commentator David Axelrod, acts great to see you. John king. No, youre playing with his wife . Im sure hes okay. But maybe John Della will surprise. Okay. All right. So lets look at the Obamas Path here. This is 2012, this is the numbers right here and how he did with all of these key demographic groups. Hillary clinton did improve a little bit with 65 and over. And of course this according to cnn, exit polls, actual voters, how they voted but when we look at the, the Biden Path over versus Hillary Clinton, he did improve over her with noncollege educated, voters, male voters, and 65 and over, over Hillary Clinton by a couple of points, harris is behind biden all this should she be concerned . Well, maybe she is and maybe she isnt. One of the things i wanted to say as a prelude to this whole conversation is we are victimized by a flood of public polls and we treat each as if theyre stone tablets and not all that data is reliable. There are, there are organizations and campaigns that are doing steady polling that i think are a little bit different than this. There are areas where shes behind biden among younger voters, shes shes improved dramatically over where biden was this