Welcome to the journal editorial report. After ducking the press for a month, vice president kamala harris gave her first interview with the campaign to cnn on thursday sitting down with tim walz in the battleground state in georgia where she defended herself from accusations she has flipflopped on key issues including fracking and immigration. My values have not changed. You mentioned the green new deal. I have always believed and i have worked on it that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the inflation reduction act. My value around what to do to secure the border, that value has not changed. I spent two terms as the attorney general of california prosecuting transnational, organizations, violations of american laws regarding the illegal passage of guns, drugs and human beings across the border. Paul: let's bring in dan heninger and bill mcgurn. Did you learn anything about the vice president's views? we came out of it with nothing more and that was the goal. When she has been specific like on her economic plan she has been blasted even by some members of the left. What she wants to look is presentable, personable and say nothing. It was a great success from the campaign point of view. Mission accomplished. Paul: my values have not changed. She said that more than once, clearly a practiced line to try to forge the idea whether she changed her policy views. What do you think that means? i have an idea what it means, it's like a cloud, the listeners are supposed to make of it whatever they will. One of the vaguest phrases, my values have not changed. She did fill in the blanks when she said for instance that she has always believed in cleaning up the climate and what they did in the inflation reduction act which is to set timelines and deadlines for doing so. After she said that, that answer was crying out for dana bash to ask followup questions about which deadlines you are talking about? most prominently the one about gaining gas powered cars and mandating people adopt electric vehicles because everyone knows there's pushback against buying electric vehicles for a lot of reasons. Harris's values are big government and enforcing mandates but it will require donald trump himself in that debate to ask those questions. This is since the press dana bash didn't do it. Paul: there's an airbrush quality about this candidacy, that she's been in office the last 3 and a half years, talk about a new way forward and the future. Let's get past, she even put it in that decade, the trump decade as if democrats had no role in that. Is she able to get away with this for the next two months? one of the words she uses this air of that trump had set off, never mind that the last 31/2 years has been entirely democrats and democrats engaged in very polarized governing and very polarizing proposals. She will get away with this unless the donald trump campaign begins to relay point out the policy issues and told her to that record. We have a president in office right now with a 40% approval rating directly related to inflation, border, gas prices, energy issues. She was part and parcel. That alone art to win donald trump the presidency but we've not had enough focus on that record. Paul: do you agree the opening that trump can exploit if he has lewitt to do it would beyond climate and the economy clearly dana bash didn't press her on any of that. I those openings? they are all openings. She's presenting herself as someone who she isn't. I kept my word. She's right at least half the time given she's been on both sides of the issue. As dan suggested the problem is normally we would say press corps wouldn't let candidates get away with is that but the short time schedule means that the debate with donald trump, don't know how many millions watch to the interview but 51 million tuned in for biden versus trump. That would be the big chance for donald trump if he is disciplined to hold her to policies and flipflops and has to do something hard, to be aggressive but not personal. He has to stick to the issue and use her own words as much as he can and not tell people she's a flipflop or to expose it. Paul: a couple big endorsements for donald trump. Did it make a difference? one's instinct, a lot of people saying it won't make that much difference because percentages are so small and in rfk's case because so many of his supporters were disaffected voters who may not vote. The fact is that the margins in states like georgia and other swing states is so thin that every vote does count. Rfk especially is going to support trump it is incumbent on him to produce turnout if he supports trump. And trump would invite him to do that. I am inclined to think it means more than nothing. This election is so tight. Paul: with election day two months away fox poll shows the race tightening in key sunbelt states. Mark and on where the race stands heading into the post labor day stretch. Yay woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. And ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. () when the sawdust settles and the engine roars the thing you care about is a job well done. But when you get your tools from harbor freight something about the job feels different your wallet. Whatever you do, do it for less, at harbor freight. what the biggest companies deliver is exceptional customer experience. 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Is kamala harris leading the presidential race in national polls and in swing states? i would say she has in the real clear politics average of two point lead in the polls which is maybe or maybe not what you need to take the electoral college. Most importantly, this is the time period right after the democratic convention and after what has been week after week of positive coverage. If this is the best she can do, her real top, this is not a bad position for donald trump to come back here, join the race, spend his campaign funds on trying to make it more of a two way conversation because it has been a 1way conversatio i don't think this is great news for harris. It's not bad news but she's 5 points ahead. Paul: better to be leading than trailing. What voter groups have come back to her who were not there for president biden? basic democratic core constituencies that were thrown for a loop after the biden debate and questioning whether biden could be president at all, whether they were black voters, women voters, younger voters, that has driven the race to more debt even position from what was a 5 point bleed. I always thought a lot of those figures that show trump winning showed core democratic groups jettisoning the party and that generally doesn't happen on election day. Paul: one of the things i see is donald trump is losing independents to kamala harris. That suggests an ominous trend. Is that how you see it? what does trump need to do to get those back? in these polls, trump is squarely winning even in polls where harris is ahead, winning the economy, winning immigration, winning crime. What trump needs to do is make this a race in which those issues are the ones that count as opposed to personality where she is certainly winning on issues of personality, she is tying on issues of leadership. She is seen as someone who can bring the country together more. He is seen more as a fighter and someone who will get things done. He's got to make those things the things voters think about when they cast their votes. If he does that he will win handily. Paul: isr survey showing three quarters of voters say they feel they know enough about kamala harris's views to make a judgment about her. Does that surprise you? it does surprise me. I follow this stuff for a living and haven't heard her explain what she really believes on a whole host of things. Is that an opening for trump to educate voters and say here's what she really believes? with any candidate at a 38% favorable and moves to a 48% favorable in a matter of weeks without any actual events occurring where people say that's a great job, that means those are what i call uninformed voters who can be swayed back if they see information. Americans are always definite about their opinions until they change their next day. Paul: what about the endorsements of donald trump by rfk junior and tulsi gabbard, former democrats, being advertised as such. Will they bring along any other voters? they are interesting and provide color and interest to the trump campaign, it's worth point, they had 5 points, those voters generally don't like either candidate. I don't know if tulsi gabbard is worth anything but she was very effective running a town hall and someone who can warm up trump in some way and be effective in debate preparation. I don't know that she brings any votes but brings some, a rarity where trump is willing to share the stage. Paul: who are the swing voters remaining? the undecided swing voters as often said the suburban collegeeducated republicans who don't like trump personally, like his policies or are they working class voters who used to be democrats moving towards republicans? the votes we still need to get? a little bit of a mix of those two groups. First and foremost they are economy voters. If you are really someone who's got an opinion on immigration you won't be voting for the harris ticket. Same thing on crime. Economy, which is the largest issue, voters who are oppressed with inflation, workingclass voters probably suburban men, the two key swings here, she's going to lose suburban women although they often voted republican. He's got a real chance to rack up suburban men and to rack up some workingclass voters and latinos whose number one concern is inflation and the economy. 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Paul: with only 66 days until the election the battle for the senate is heating up and the stakes cannot be higher with chuck schumer on changes to the 60 vote filibuster rule to pass his top priorities including major changes to the supreme court and sweeping legislation on abortion and voting rights. What can we expect if democrats keep control of the senate. We are back with dan heninger, and joined by alicia finley. Dan, this is b