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MSNBC Alex Witt Reports September 16, 2024

The spacex crew today. The Recovery Ship plugged plot their capsule in the Gulf Of Mexico and it marks the end of a historic mission which includes the first civilian spacewalk. The crews reached higher limits than any other since the apollo 2 mission in 1972. Austin davis will join us and a Court Decision friday that could have a huge impact on the president ial race. Very good day to all of you from Msnbc World headquarters in New York. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports, again with decision 2024, just 51 days to go until the election. Early in Person Voting in pennsylvania starts tomorrow as a new Abc Poll shows a still tight race with Vice President , harris at 52 of likely voters while former President Donald Trump stands at 46 . On the issue, the Vice President leads on abortion, healthcare and protecting Democracy And Trump leads on immigration, the economy and inflation. One republican Surrogate Today say the economy is a winning issue for trump. If you look at the economy issues and these are issues i think the american people are most concerned about, i think that Donald Trump is the biggest, is the best choice. So you would advise him to keep talking about that and not pets in ohio. I suggest he talks about things he knows people really care about and things that could have an impact. One democratic surrogate in pennsylvania said Vp Harris is acutely focused on the economy and is offering actual solutions. In the last few days, some of the policies the Vice President has talked about, cutting taxes for people who are paying for child care, making sure Small Businesses get a tax cut, opening the doors of opportunity for more people to go to work by removing the college degree requirement. I can tell you, these are incredibly popular things in pennsylvania. New reaction this hour to trumps baseless claims of haitian migrants eating pets in ohio. Jd vance is doubling down on the Sunday Talk shows. Every time he talks about an immigrant, he makes it seem as if they have done something nefarious. It is not true. Just because they are immigrants does not mean there is anything illegal about them. Donald trump is married to an immigrant, as well as Jd Vance. Your children are children of immigrants and you are going out and attacking other immigrants every chance that you get. Meanwhile on the Campaign Trail this week, Vice President harris will be in philadelphia tuesday, thursday she will be in michigan for unite for america liveStream Event, friday she will be in Wisconsin Hall in tuesday in clinton, michigan followed by a rally in uniondale, New York on wednesday. We have a lot of reporters ready to go. We begin with and Bcs Aaron Gilchrist at the white house. Welcome, again. The Vice President is launching a blue wall blitz. What states will she hit this week . Reporter Vice President harris hit several states, she was in from pennsylvania four or five days last week, she is going back to pennsylvania this week. That is the key Battleground Voting State where early voting is about to begin with 50, 51 days left before the election. People will start Casting Ballots so the Harriswalz Campaign was to make sure they get out in front of potential voters in these critical states. Tuesday the Vice President will be in philadelphia for what the campaign is calling a Fireside Chat with the national association of black journalists. That will happen in philadelphia. We understand then she will move on to michigan on thursday, she will sit down with Oprah Winfrey and a few hundred other people for a live Stream Event and on friday, a rally in wisconsin. At the same time, Governor Walz will be in georgia and in North Carolina. There are many surrogates for the Harriswalz Campaign that are crisscrossing the country talking about this comparison between Vice President harris and former President Trump, try to make the case for voters who are still undecided to swing into the harris camp. I want you to hear a little bit about what Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had to say this morning on Meet The Press speaking, not as Transportation Secretary but as surrogate of the Vice President. He was asked about how she will differentiate herself from President Biden and asked for some sort of an explanation on how some of her policies have changed over time. She is also a pragmatic person, who knows that, you know, the reality of policy is that there is a giveandtake around your core values, principles and goals in order to get things done. She is going to keep making her case and as more americans contemplate the difference of her economic Tax Cuts and standing with workers in the middle class, the more they will like our economic message and not their unpopular project 2025 vision. Reporter the last part of what you heard the secretary say about sitting with workers is something the Harris Campaign and Vice President harris herself repeated on the Campaign Trail, especially when you think about pennsylvania, alex, we know the Vice President has spent time in those counties, counties that went for former President Trump in the last election cycle, trying to chip away at the margins, if you will, trying to get at least one more voter, in each case, with the hopes that will help her win in pennsylvania and a strategy that is really going out across all the Battleground States in the last several weeks of this campaign as the Vice President , we know, will be on the ground in at least three other states this coming week. Leave no stone unturned. Aaron, thank you for that. Joining us now is jake traylor. Trump is expected to be off the Trail Today but how was he looking to rebound this week after that rough Debate Performance . Reporter alex, we have that new Abc Poll out today showing voters cast harris as winner of the recent debate, 58 said she would be trump just 36 saying trump was he outright winner. He said it was such a Knockout Performance that now he will no longer be participating in future debates with Vice President harris, despite previously saying he would agree to another one with nbc. As for the weekend, the former president will be busy making his way through Battleground States this week, michigan and North Carolina, as well as stops in new York State and washington, d. C. And, alex, this continued week of busy campaigning for mr. Trump comes amidst a story that has consumed the News Cycle the last couple days spotlighting the town of springfield, ohio, after unbiased after those claims with no evidence, my dad. He was asked about a recent Bomb Threat in the community of springfield, ohio, amid of all this. Listen to his response. Reporter do you denounce the Bomb Threats in springhill, ohio . I dont know what happened with the Bomb Threats. I know it has been taken over by illegal migrants. It is a terrible thing that happened. Springfield was this beautiful town and now they are going through hell. Reporter alex, new reporting just moments ago, a source familiar told me trump is now actively planning a trip to springfield, ohio, expecting it to take place in. We have no word on exactly when that will be just yet but with trump now planning a visit to the town, that story , may i remind you, no evidence of what is being accused by trump and his republican allies, but that story will continue to unfold. Yeah, he calls them illegal migrants and he is wrong, they are legal immigrants. That would be interesting if he shows up to see who shows up, as well, to rally. Heads up. Also today, trump reporting his allies his ties to far right Activist Laura Loomer could cost him georgia and North Carolina. I want to bring in right now natasha, Nbc News Senior International Political reporter and in the Studio Tara Paul mary, senior political reporter. Lets go to you first, natosha. Thursday you sent up a flare about North Carolina. We will get to that in a moment. First, what is the deal with trump and Laura Loomer . What are you hearing about why he is keeping her this close, in spite of his allies concerns . He himself has called her a free spirit. I think, at a time when Donald Trump feels like he needs people who support him unequivocably close to him, he wants to keep them closer. And right now, he is really taking off some people in his own campaign, that was the Nbc Reporting you just referred to, is showing there are eight in his own campaign who are saying, what is the stick this is too much. Laura loomer, having her come on the plane, including Doing A September 11 stop after false claims she made about September 11th and some other things, they are saying this is not the kind of symbolism they need, this is not the messaging they need coming out of that campaign right now. He has to hunker down and turn this back into about a referendum on Joe Bidens Presidency and Kamala Harris and make people realize that Kamala Harris was part of the biden presidency. Instead, what he keeps doing is turning it back onto questions about him and how he is running his own show. Way, maybe turn something back onto him . What it means for him . I just kidding, little sarcasm there. Tara, even the Wall Street Journal Territorial Board is playing off on a comic cartoon. The Nbc Report close this, Trump Li saying loomers racist attacks could hurt trump with Indian American and hindu voters in georgia and North Carolina. Do you think the Trump Campaign is at all mindful of these concerns . I am sure they are. They are strategists and professionals and there is a difference between trump and the Trump Campaign. They dont always sail on the same ship together. So, you know, they can try to keep, you know, people who bring up his worst instincts away from him but it is really hard as a Gate Keeper in the trump world, he runs the show, you saw that in the four years he was in the white house. I think lehrer trump, that is a sign he is in a state of anxiety, maybe despair, manic. He needs a Comfort Creature near him, yesman, another reason why he brought on corey lewandowski. A lot of people think that he allowed Laura Loomer to come back into the circle. I think when all the evidence around him says things are not going well for his campaign, he needs people to tell him otherwise that he could keep Pritchard Trading his own lies like saying his debate was a knockout. A knockout. I am not entirely convinced. I think he is using that for leverage. He is saying he is not going to debate to create the terms of the next one, perhaps the network. He already said he would debate now he wont. He goes back and forth. I will drill down on the debate in a second. Lets go to what natasha wrote, which is the postdebate energy, the turnout, as well, for Vp Harris in North Carolina, saying the democrats hope to flip it blew for the first time since 2008. Here is what both sides said yesterday about the tar heel state. Lets all watch. Just look at the electoral college. It is very, very hard for us to win unless we get North Carolina. I feel very good about it. The state chair, you know, look, we feel like we are in a very good place here. When you have Tens Of Thousands of volunteers in North Carolina and i want to be on the Record Right here, we are going to win North Carolina. In the last six months, i took four trips to eastern North Carolina, not to charlotte, not to raleigh, not to key natasha but to poor, black folks in rural counties and spoke to those folks. We will win North Carolina this election cycle. Natasha, did you find that in your travels there . First of all, that is true. Dimensions democrats have momentum but they have a rural strategy, they have been deploying that for months, even before harris came to the top of the ticket. Now they are really drumming down on that. What i saw personally and attend 350,000, greensboro, North Carolina, there are 18,000 people who came out that night. It was packed inside the coliseum there. And it was basically an extension of the dnc. You remember the dnc, people dancing and all the music and people waving their arms in unison, that kind of stuff. It was really, really high energy that We Saw coming from people. They were there hours before the Vice President showed up and took the stage. And it was just a very jubilant event, you know, they feel they have momentum. If you talk to her aides, they know there is a lot of work to do, including in places like North Carolina. They are trying to make inroads there because they are feeling a little iffy about pennsylvania. Still, tara, this Conspiracy Fallout is ongoing. You have j. D. Vance, governor mike dewine, they are forced to continue talking about this. As a matter fact, they did so today. Lets listen to what they said. You brought up my constituents. The president said 60 Million people. If i have to to, if i have to create stories so that the american media actually pays attention to the suffering of the american people, then that is what i was going to do, danna. The Hate Groups are coming into springfield. We dont need these Hate Groups. I saw a piece of Literature Yesterday that the mayor told me about from purportedly the. Springfield is a good city, good people. Hang on. Vance said if i have to create stories so the american media pays attention to the suffering of the american people, that is what i will do . If i have to store up lies to incite xenophobia to make the issue of immigration and migration more important to voters when they go out that is a threat, Bomb Threats, school closures, hospitals, two of them. What they want is that when voters go out on november 5, or they mail in their ballots now, they wont talk about line to be what they dont want and they wanted to be on the economy and immigration. How are they juicing those issues . They are hiding these stories, this hysteria, creating xenophobia, which in turn, makes people care more about migration on the border. Whats gonna be next . The economy is sinking . We are headed into the worst, you know, recession of all time, that will be nice, right . In the same way democrats want voters to go out and think about Abortion And Healthcare and democracy. They will highlight stories getting out in parking lots, which are verified stories. These are the stories you are going to hear. The fact that the Vice President ial nominee would say they are willing to create a story is very troubling. It is stunning. It is very, very troubling. Let the facts speak for themselves. Sure. We already have a border with a lot of issues. Both candidates agree with that. That is where republicans are having a really hard time because they see Kamala Harris take the Talking Point from them and say, you know what . We want to shore up the border. We tried to with that bill Donald Trump told you to kill. Where do we go and how do we make this work for democrats and they are making it hysterical, that is where theyre going. Natasha, tara, please stick around. 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There was terror and a similar vibe, he was very angry again. I think the second debate was better for him. I think he was able to chill out. They showed him video, nice and easy, he did a better job. He needs to, it would be to his favor if he can control himself. As for Kamala Harris, i think she did a great job but i can see why they would want her to do a second debate, as well. Because, again, she is still introducing herself to the american people and some undecided voters came out of that Debate Feeling better about her but still

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