Howard in just a moment, well talk to to Corey Lewandowski. Most debates are heavily hyped by the media and turn out to be the less than dramatic. That the does not look like the case with tuesdays a answerer bc debate. Donald trump, Kamala Harris, which could easily thin this tip this very tight election. Harris appeared in Spirits Burg with Joe Biden who pittsburgh with Joe Biden who spoke mostly about his own record. Thats why kamala and i are so proud [applause] so proud of the greatest Job Creation Record of any president in a single term in american history. Joe biden has been one of the most transformative President S in the united states. Howard but the does she want to be linked so closely to the man that a democrats and the media forced out of the race . Her slogan should have been im not joe. Right now shes not im shes im not trump, and i dont think its going to work. Shes to going to sink like an anchor, hes going to be an anchor around her because the Bidenheifers Administration is incredibly Bidenharris Administration is incredibly unpopular. Howard Donald Trump slammed the vf for her original position Banning Fracking which she has nip flopped on. Flipflopped on. She said it A Hundred times, there will be no fracking. Then just recently she said, yes, i could approve frack. Look, this is, this is a woman who is dangerous. I dont Think Ooh too smart, but lets see. Howard whats most revealing in the campaign are unscripted moments, and thats the appeal of the debate. The candidates dont know what questions are coming. Im Howard Kurtz and this is mediabuzz. Howard there has been no shorage of pundits and Progress Knost caters handicapping tuesdays debate. Foo if im Donald Trump at this debate, do you agree with Joe Biden . The country believes, 80 of the country if not believes the countrys on the wrong track. I guarantee you next week on the Debate Stage we are going to the the hear more hissing from trump and more sort of nonsensical statements and attacks. Acting as if theres some false equivalency between what Kamala Harris campaigning on and about and what trump is campaigning on and about count serve this country well and, frankly, its a poor reflection on the media if that happens. All you need are eyes and ears to sense that any Momentum Harris may have had, it was just entirely mediagenerated. It was the long on social Media Hype and brat vibes but just short on substance. Howard joining us now from west palm beach, Corey Lewandowski who was Donald Trumps first Campaign Manager in 2016 and now has joined the campaign as a top official. Welcome. How do you see the debate, corey . You say Kamala Harris is an easier opponent than 81yearold Joe Biden, but shes 59, shes clearly energized her party and improved her standing over bidens to. Yeah. But, howie, heres the difference she can run from the biden administration and the failures shes been part of, but she cant hide. We can go back and look at her tenure whether as Attorney Attorney General or in the u. S. Senate or now as the Vice President. Shes continuously changed her position, some say lie about her positions when it comes to the border wall, fracking and no tax on tips. She continuously takes over the Trump Agenda on the positions that a Donald Trump has, that hes articulated to the american people because she knows the agenda that she and her boss, joe bide, and her running mate, joe walz, have are so outside the Tim Walz Have, are so outside the mainstream. Howd howd Donald Trump has criticized floridas 6week Abortion Ban, hes said another Trump Term would be good for Reproduct Weve rights, i i know thats sparked backlash, and he says Insurance Companies should pay for Ivf Treatments and he favors decriminalization of marijuana. Those are pretty clear signs hes moving towards the center. Those are positions that most of the american people arent voting on. Look, theyre voting on crime, National Security Issues and most importantly, howie, the number one issue is the economy. It is always the case. And the question you have to the ask yourself, are you better off today than you were pour years ago . And four years ago . If Donald Trump appointed three prolife judges that overturned roe v. Wade so it goes back to the states and the states now decide through elections what those laws are going to look like. And what happens in kansas and ohio may be very different than what happens in a a state like New York or arizona. Howard sure. So the states are the laboratories of democracy, and all Donald Trump has done is give the people the opportunity to vote on how they want to govern themselves, and thats how the systems supposed to work. Howard Kamala Harris, whos also moving towards the center, insists trump will sign a national Abortion Ban when hes Express Itsy explicitly said he will not. Of Course Question says she says that. We know the democrats position, and particularly tim Walzs Position is death up until 40 weeks, death after the baby is born. What Donald Trump has said is hes in favor of the three exceptions, rape, Incest And Life of the mother which i think most of the people in america agree with. But the democrats are so extreme on this issue, and thats the only issue they want to to run on because theyre running from their record, howie. They have nothing to stand on to the make americans lives better. Howard Kamala Harris has also flipped on banning of plastic straws. I just wanted to get that in there. She just tweeted, the vice President Said that trump will end the affordable care act. Is that his position . If. Of course not. Listen, again, what is Kamala Harris for . From our estimation the we have done since Kamala Harris has been the De Facto nominee, 34 sitdown interviews or Press Conferences where Donald Trump and j. D. Vance have answered questions. Kamala harris and Tim Walz Have done exactly one. She spoke for just under 17 minutes, there was of no pushback during that a interview. Tim Walzs Answer of why he lied about carrying a gun into War Zone was because he has bad grammar, and the only Thing Harris could say was the biden administration didnt ban fracking even though she said she would do it on day one. As the Vice President , she didnt have the ability to do it. I believe we should listen to what she says. She wants to ban fracking. That would be devastating to the people of pennsylvania. Howard well, i can ask because when Donald Trump was president , he did try to get rid of obamacare, but i think hes moved on from that, so i wanted to clarify. Dick cheney, once known as darth vadar, mr. Weapons of mass destruction, says hes voting for Kamala Harris because he says trump is the greatest threat to democracy in american history. Is that a setback for your campaign . Look, its not a setback. Look, you know, heres the bottom line, i dont understand this motion that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. He went through a competitive primary if process on two separate occasions including this year, he won more votes than any candidate in the history of the republican party. The people have chosen him to be the nominee. Kamala harris has been anointed by the creme can karates democrats, never went through the process, kicked Joe Biden off the ballot because We Saw his terrible debate performance. The real threat to to democracy . You remember this, howie, they tried to keep trump off the ballot in some of those battleground states, and even the Liberal Supreme Court justices said you cant do that. Kamala harris has just been anointed to be the democrats never went through the primary process, didnt get any votes. Thats really what this is about. We have a process to go through which allows individuals to vote on who their Nominee Talk about should be, and she completely bypassed it because her radical ideas are so far out of the mainstream that she couldnt even win a primary. Of look, i believe that the system was fair. Rfk jr. Probably would have been the democratic nominee, but they did everything they could to keep him off the ballot. Howard thats an interesting take. So youre not particularly concerned about Dick Cheney, you know, representing the old republican party, i guess you would say. Well, hes clearly the old guard, the guard, you know, the Country Club republicans that dont support Donald Trump because hes for what we used to call the blue dog democrats, the he can traditions and the plumbers and the workers who go out every day to earn a living whose jobs are being decimated by illegal aliens coming across the border, some say as many as 20 million. We know at least 100 people on the Terror Watch List have come through this country. Heir taking jobs from these people, and i dont really care what Dick Cheney says. We saw what happened to Liz Cheney in her last election, she was absolutely destroyed. The people said you dont represent us anymore. Theyre bitter, angry and living in the past. Howard your campaign raised 130 tomillion last month, pretty impressive, but the Harris Campaign tripled that with 361 Million. Doesnt that a put you at a serious disadvantage when it comes to to organizing and the Ground Game . Howie, what we have is weve got an amazing campaign right now. Weve got a fantastic Ground Game. Ive reviewed it, ive looked at it, i feel very good about where we are. More than that, we know that these unions that traditionally turn their voters out for the democrats other than maybe the Teachers Yee Union have no unit anymore because the Rank And File are with Donald Trump. They want their jobs protected, they want their jobs to continue to grow, twhairnlgs to continue to grow, and hay know the only way to do that and if Donald Trump is elected president of the united states. So the traditional Turnout Model that the democrats have used which are the the big unions turning their voters out, the Rank And File are no longer with them. We feel very good about where we are. We also know that most of the mainstream medias to going to continue to hype up the Kamala HarrisTim Walz campaign. They want to tell everyone how shes a savior. Howie, is she complicit or was she just naive to to what was going on during Joe Bidens three and a half years of mental Health Decline . Its time to hold her accountable for it. I feel very good about where we are, and historically speaking from strictly empirical data point, we are in the best position Donald Trump has ever been in from the public polls to be successful come november. Howard its a very tight race. Even some republicans who support trump, corey, say he needs to be more disciplined, stop calling harris dumb or wandering off at rallies talking about sharks. Youve always been sort of the Let Trump be trump camp. What do you think look, i dont think we have time. Howie, we just dont have time for political centness. We literally have a correctness. We have a woman and an administration destroying this country, and if we have another four Years Anything similar to the Bidenharris Administration, well have 20 the million more illegals pouring into this country, Gas Prices that are probably 80 cents more a gallon, Energy Kansass we cant sustain costs we cant sustain, and every american will suffer under it. Weve got a very short window, about 58 days left in this campaign before the voting ends, and we have to make sure that everybody whos concerned about the future of this country and our allies around the world will Respect Us us once again if Donald Trump is the president and our enemies will fear us. Thats not the case right now. Were a laughing stock, and its the time to get back to business. Howard corey, im coming up on a break, but Kamala Harris and the democrats keep warning about project 2025 the, the heritage project, even hoe Donald Trump says he had nothing to do with it. It is staffed by members, many of his former staff theres, and found parts of it abysmal. Yet that seems to be a big Talking Point for the dems. Well, its because they have nothing else to talk about. What they dont want to talk about which is cap, the center for american Progress P63 members of that organization inside the Bidenharris Administration. They are for if taxpayerfunded reparations. They are for some of the most extreme surgeries particularly as it comes to transgender surgeries for children, not notifying their parents. When does the biden and Kamala Harris has said that the ceo of that a organization is phenomenal, the best, heir doing great works. Donald trump has disavowed mig to do with project 2025, but No Ones holding the harris, walz, biden Team Account for their support of the cap guys who want to use taxpayerfunded reparations and want to the make sure that children under the age of 112 can have Sex Change 12 can have Sex Change surgery. 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Ap deleted the headline because vance actually said i dont like that this is a pact of life. Howie, this is the not the first time that we have seen the mainstream media twist the words of someone on the conservative side. This is, you know, unfortunately, id like to say it was an honest mistake, but its not. It always seems that when a headline is wrong or a story in is inaccurate, its against the republicans. Weve seen this now from Big Tech when Mark Zuckerberg has now admitted that he suppressed providing information that conservatives were sharing which we now know to be accurate at the request of the biden administration. So, howie, Id Love to say it was an honest mistake from the ap but, unfortunately, for many of us, ive been doing this for almost a decade with President Trump, and we have seen how many times he was been wrong and refused to correct it or they correct it on Page A97 in one font. Howard when we first met with in 2019, there were two employee of the trump campaign, you and hope hicks. That was a long time ago. Campaign stares are on edge as Corey Lieu Wan Dow can sky begins popping up on calls, taking meetings with staffers and searching for loyalists. Youre paints as a big power struggle. Heres what i like to say with myself, suzie and chris, i like to call us the three amigos. Were working together very closely every day. Weve got an incredibly unified Campaign Structure here. Im proud to have a Campaign Part in this campaign. I told the president that when he asked me to come back, i was willing to sacrifice time with my family because i think the future of our country is so important. There is no infighting. They want to make that story happen because its their narrative, but the reality is we are completely focused on one thing which is making sure Donald Trump is the 47th president of the united states, and were doing it as a team. Howard the Washington Post ran about a 9 Million Word Story on you including some of the personal controversies, but also kind of went into incredible detail on your relationship with trump and the work that you do. My question is, isnt there whether one approves of the process or not, isnt there a long history of president ial friends being hired as consultants because clients want access or have a meeting set up and yet youve got this, you know, incredibly lengthy can and not terribly positive look at the work that you do . Howie, if they spent more time vetting Tim Walz or potential terrorists coming into the country than they did on me, wed be a Stayer Country for safer country for it. They want to say i was out making all this money and i did all these things. Where is the story on the other side, the David Plouffes of the world and those guys literally working for Meta Or Facebook or are the lead counsels in those cases who are sitting there literally doing the Debate Prep with Kamala Harris . Where are those stories . They dont care about that. The reason, it doesnt fit their narrative. I am a private Citizen Whos Volunteering with this campaign because i want to make sure our country is better, and i believe the way to do that is by electing Donald Trump. Im u. S. Ed to the area arrows, and im okay won with it, howie. Ive decided to do that because its the right thing to do. But the washington compost, as we call it here, wanted the destroy my reputation. The truth is, howie, this is a Staff Story that nobody cares about. The thing we should