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MSNBC Alex Witt Reports September 22, 2024

Tell us why President Biden hopes to accomplish. Reporter any time you see these four leaders, biden, Prime Ministers of india, Japan And Australia they take pains to say this alights known as the quad is not countering the influence of any one country but when you look at some of the deliverables, the announcements we expect these leaders to make expanding what is known as the maritime Awareness Initiative from the specific ocean to include the Indian Ocean conducting joint Coach Guard Coast guard exercises, it all speaks to an alliance that is trying to counter the influence of china. That is what at the heart of the agenda. The alliance is something that President Biden as he is very much in Legacy Mode is particularly proud of. Jake sullivan, the national Security Adviser saying that President Biden is not just hosting the stomach in his hometown pretty is hosting each of these leaders at his home, his home in wilmington. Hes at each three Prime Ministers coming to visit him at his Home And Spending informal time with them. This is a way of the president showing that not dispute these individual Leaders Matter to him but that the quad alliance, itself, matters to him. We will see the president gather these leaders after spending time at his home also at another place of great cinemas, Arch Mayer high school, which President Biden recalled was making them important in the leader that he is. We also expect the cancer moonshot, another very personal priority for this president. 100 mike, as we await the arrivals, we will check back in with you at the bottom of the hour. Thank you, mike only about 45 days to go until election day. Today, the Harris Walz Campaign is of the Vice President has expected Cnns Invitation to a debate on October 23rd. A lot more than that in a moment. Fundraising number showing Harris Trouncing trumps Cash Halls Last month. The Vice President raising 190 Million mr. Trump 44 1 2 Million dollars for it right now tom is speaking at the rally in wilmington, North Carolina, where he has repeated his faults and informed her rhetoric about immigrants. A vote for Kamala Harris means a 40 or 50 Million more illegal aliens will grace our borders pretty stealing your monies and jobs and stealing your life. It means your Police Forces will be gutted. Your guns will be confiscated and savage criminals will run wild in the streets. What can one person not at the rally, but candidate for governor Mark Robinson, who has been accused of making racist and lewd comments on a website years ago. He made those posts and trump says he has no plans to pull his endorsement more on this later on in the hour. Vice president harris making some passionate remarks on reproductive rights at a rally in atlanta where she blamed trump for the deaths of women who did not receive for medical care because of strict abortion bans. This as in person early voting is now underway in south dakota, minnesota and virginia and in virginia turn out on Day One was high. The number of voters friday tripled the number from Day One of the early voting back in 2020. The Harris Campaign is recommending that we get out early so they do not focus on get out the vote activities with people who have voted. People like you will carry all the enthusiasm, which is always loosely for her and because we have got to a lecture. We have several reporters and alice ready to go for all of the developments but let my begin with Dasha Burns at trumps rally in wilmington, North Carolina. First thing, we did hear from Donald Trump about the prospects of another potential debate. What did he say . Reporter he address it at the top of the rally. I want you to take a listen to some of what he said and we will talk on the other side. Good entertainment value. A lot of people said, it is great entertainment. I have already done two. One with a crooked Joe Biden at cnn and the other one with, the on abc. Cnn was very fair, i thought. Joe is driven out of the race. It was a coup, by the way, but he was driven out of the race. They have been widely criticized by the radical left lunatics for all of the fairness. In other words they will not be fair again. Reporter he did say there are reasons he would like to do the debate but he feels it is too late to do another debate. The date that harris proposed, October 23rd i was talking to the crowd here and there was a mix of reaction. Some people agreeing with the former president think it will not do them any good to do it again. We know who he is but others think it would be good for voters to hear from the two candidates another time. Mixed reactions there. You mentioned that Mark Robinson, but republican governor is not present at the rally. We have not heard from the former president about him just yet. We know that his allies alluding to the two senators from North Carolina are advising him behind the scenes to rescind his endorsement but he has not done that yet. Dasha burns, thank you so much. Please stay with me and do not go anywhere. We will go to our colleague aaron gilchrest, who is near the Harris Campaign headquarters in wilmington, delaware. We have Mark Robinson who was a topic of governor Walzs Speech we understand, what you know about that . Reporter Governor Walz spoke just a little while ago in pennsylvania. About a grounds date. This was not a speech that was supposed to be a out some of the controversial remarks that Lieutenant Governor has made. We did hear Governor Walz without actually using Mark Robinsons name make reference to him in his Comments Today and some of the comments that mr. Robinson has made or has allegedly made via the Cnn Reporting that we have been talking about. He reference a comment about Cnn Reporting that said Mark Robinson called Himself Up Black Nazi and i want you to hear what Governor Walz had to say about that. Together, it was our people that built i dont know if you noticed tragedy for tyranny, we have folks running as republicans for governor that are proud to refer to themselves as nazi. Let us not pretend that there is a gradual difference between the folks that are running here and that they are running together across this country. We forge the bridges. We built the highways and we built the skyscrapers. Reporter the Harris Campaign has called Mark Robinson a toxic extremist and try to tie him to Donald Trump and suggest that birds of a Feather Flock together. That is the reaction we have heard about that particular person but we know the campaign has been putting a lot of energy into North Carolina as it has been in pennsylvania trying to drum up more support and push the margins in their direction. We do not know what degree this might be a topic if another debate were to happen. Former President Trump said that he would not engage in another debate. The Harris Campaign, today, said that Vice President harris as accepted Cnns Invitation for the debate on October 23rd. They believe that the american people have a right to see the two People Debate again to contrast their values and their views on what a future america might look like and as you have been reporting, it does not look as though the Trump Campaign is willing to engage in that. It is possible that the last debate we see in this Election Cycle will be on october 1st, the Vice President ial debate between tim Walz And Senator j. D. Vance. Thank you so much for that. Let us bring in alexi mccammon, political Analyst And Host of in sync with alexi podcast. Ndot is back as promised as well. Any conventional wisdom out that on whether a second debate would help the Harris Cant more than trump or do you think both need a second debate . Notwithstanding what Donald Trump has just said behind the podium, behind dasha, where she stands, that he will not do another debate . Reporter i think the Competencies Campaign has in their abilities to pull off a second debate is proven and who has accepted Cnns Invitation to do a second debate. So far that is only Kamala Harris Donald Trump continues to, it seems, do another Debate Thing is already debated President Biden and Kamala Harris. Something like 67 Million people tuned into the first debate. But when you look at the polls and whether or not each candidate got a bump afterwards, they did not really change much because of that single debate. When you think about the campaign getting an advantage in polls, it will not matter. Of course, she could always expand on showing what a tough meter she would be against trump that people already saw that in the first debate. Let us talk about Mark Robertson who refuses to drop out of North Carolinas literal race amid reports he made lewd comments over 10 years ago and called himself a black nazi. Robinson denies the reports and Down Ballot rates usually do not affect the president ial vote. Does it feel critical in this state . Reporter it is not only making North Carolina the single most important Swing State in the president ial election but to your point, we could see a situation in which the Down Ballot races for Senate And Governor could have negative impacts on trump. Those down Ballot Abortion initiatives in other states, those will also, they have the potential to have a negative impact on trump because they are reminder to voters of how all these things got started with Trump Setting off in motion the overturning of roe v. Wade. I certainly think that will not help him either. Mark robinson is a liability for trump in so many ways, even though hes denies the past comments the Trump Campaign knows it because they are not allowing him to join the Rally Today and do not want him near trump himself. Point well taken. Dasha, president ial historian larry, who is famous for his Election Predictions said the North Carolina Governors Race is now changed from a leading democrat to likely democrats. Given these prospects, will robinson Bill Pressure from the Trump Camp to dropout . Reporter we already know the republican allies have been urging trump to resend his endorsement of Robinson Cameron that, alone, says a lot. He has not been a popular candidate to begin with. Some of the voters were already saying that prior to these reports coming out , they were already not planning to vote for him. And they have been pulling ahead of robinson and ahead of some of the other Down Ballot candidates. The question is how much of an impact might this have . Folks at the trump rally, it will not sway them. With those lame democrat or the republican but my peace weibel, it could have a potential impact. That is why you have got this grandma was in the campaign and within the world of republican operatives trying to how to walk this line. It is sounding like, so far, the conversation is having sources with the former president is leaning towards doing sort of a not necessary going so far as to resenting his endorsement but what i am hearing is all of these conversations are ongoing right now. We will see where this heads in the coming days and weeks. On friday the Vice President delivered the powerful speech in Battleground Georgia addressing abortion and the profound of tax on women and their lives after roe v. Wade was overturned. Here is a bit of what she said. This is a Healthcare Crisis and Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis. He is proud. Proud that women are dying. Proud . That doctors and nurses could be thrown in prison for administering care. Proud. Proud that you Women Today have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers. How dare he. Alexi, the speech was a direct response to the death of two Georgia Women tied to the lack of abortion care. What impact do you think this will have on this highly contested states . Reporter when you add Human Stories and Human Faces to what could otherwise be abstract policies or issues that just get swept up in the partisan noise, that really sticks with people longer than a regular political Ad Or Rally or speech bite. It is terrific. Folks warned about this before roe was overturned. Women would die because they would be denied care they need in order to live. That is now a reality. Donald trump is not in the White House. Imagine if he is reelected and that is the argument that democrats are making every time they tell the story of what happened, not as to these Women In Georgia but all around the country. Dasha, springfield, ohio, still grappling with Donald Trump and j. D. Vances repeat allies but haitian migrants eating pets. Now that is been debunked and denied by a list of officials, including its republican governor, is the Trump Campaign trying at all to pivot away from this or does trump still plan to visit springfield in the coming weeks . Reporter i have been listening out for exactly that. He has not mentioned at this rally so far. They have really double down amid all the criticism and all the response from a local official in springville, ohio, talk about how much damage this is doing to the community. This is a strategy for former President Trump. He does not apologize her back away and he doubles down on anything that seems scandalous but this is one that is having a tangible impact and is distracting from an issue that should be a winning issue. You saw a high republican governor Mike Dewine in an Op Ed saying as much. Saying, by the way, ohio senator j. D. Vance and former President Trump saying, i am a fan of them. I like them and want them to win but this is not the way to go and talk of immigration, which is an issue. You could have real success here. That is where it is at. We will take a listen it he mentions it again. He is getting a lot of advice from people within his own party. This is not how you frame the issue of immigration successfully. I just say alexi must join me in a applauding your ability to keep your thought process, keep going when you have Donald Trump and his rhetoric blaring behind you. I thank you for that and i thank you as well my friend, alexi. Thank you for joining me. 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In and out we heard from officials who also spoke out against these roles. But the Secretary Of State and the Attorney General releasing statement saying that the board is exceeding a statutory authority and that these new rules will not withstand the legal challenges. Proponents of the new rules including those three republicans on the Election Board who have consistently been voting in favor of the new rules really believe that this is going to make the entire process more safe and secure. Let us take a listen to a little bit of the debate. I think it is too late to train about a Poll Workers that ive already started the training processes. To go back and have to retrain them on something like this. There is a lack of resources in many counties to effectuate this role. Were talking about 300,000 ballots but im pretty sure that should are Election Workers should count that with accuracy. Reporter speaking of legal challenges, the Georgia Democratic Party and the national democratic party have already the georgia Election Board over two rules they passed in august but about date is set for october first. It is affected both groups will challenge these new roles. It is unclear at this time if the court will have time to take up this issue prior to the rules going into effect on October 14th priya sridhar, thank you for that. Let us bring in Colorado Secretary of State And Chair of the democratic association of secretaries of state, jenna griswold. Thanks for joining me. I am curious your reaction to this new law we just heard about from priya. How long does a Hand Count of Ballot Take and how much chaos does this add to the counting and the Certification Process or is it a good thing . What do you think . First off, thank you for having me. It is great to join the show. This is, of course, this is not a good thing. We have seen this type o

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