The upcoming presidential debate will be &#8220;one of the most consequential&#8221; in history as voters will get a chance to hear Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> say what she believes after a series of flip-flops, Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-carson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Carson</a> said on Sunday.
Carson, who served as secretary of housing and urban development under former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, appeared on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; and shared his steep expectations for the debate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abc-news-releases-rules-for-trump-harris-debate-team-kamala-claims-shes-disadvantaged-by-format" target="_blank" rel="noopener">set to take place</a> Tuesday evening on ABC. It will be the second debate of the 2024 general election cycle, following one in June that featured Trump and President Joe Biden. After Biden’s fumbling performance sparked a crisis of confidence among his allies, he stepped aside under pressure.
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&#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to be one of the most consequential debates ever, because people will finally get a chance to hear from Kamala Harris what she believes,&#8221; Carson said. &#8220;And all this business about flip-flopping, you have to wonder if she has really flipped-flopped, because she said that her values have not changed. So what kind of values are we talking about? Values that, as the DA in San Francisco, led to a policy where people can go into stores and take $900 worth of stuff with little or no consequences, or values that lead to not deporting drug dealers who are resulting in the death of American citizens?&#8221;
He added, &#8220;Or the kind of values that allow you to kill babies right up until the time of birth, and maybe even beyond that time, opposing legislation that would save babies that survive abortion attempts? You have to wonder about that — values that need you to mandate what kind of car people should drive, what kind of stoves they should have, as opposed to letting free market forces — so what you&#8217;re going to see in the debate is Donald Trump running on his past policies and Kamala Harris running away from her past policies. So it should make for a very, very interesting evening.&#8221;
Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/09/06/kamala-harris-interviews-election-scrutiny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last week that Harris has &#8220;shifted views or her current position is unknown&#8221; across nine areas, including on fracking, reparations, building a wall along the southwest border, and Medicare for All. Harris recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-defends-flip-flops-in-cnn-interview-says-her-values-have-not-changed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> on CNN, during her first and only major TV interview since embarking on her own campaign, that her &#8220;values have not changed&#8221; despite the flip-flops. Polls have shown a very close race, with a fresh New York Times/Siena survey showing Harris&#8217; convention <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamalas-dnc-convention-bounce-evaporates-in-latest-nytimes-siena-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;bounce&#8221; dissipating</a> ahead of her first debate against Trump.
Jason Chaffetz, a former Republican congressman from Utah who was filling in as guest host on &#8220;Futures,&#8221; responded to Carson, &#8220;Yes, you kind of wonder, is Kamala Harris going to debate Kamala Harris? I mean, because her policies on the core issues, major flip-flops. And one of those things that I think is going to be at the forefront of a lot of people&#8217;s mind has to do with — and you&#8217;re a doctor — Medicare For All. Is she really, truly supporting the notion that she would get rid of private insurance for more than 100 million Americans, and make sure that it&#8217;s a government-run health care system? Because that&#8217;s what she has advocated for.&#8221;
In reply, Carson said, &#8220;Well, she has advocated that in the past. Of course, she will probably try to run away from it. Interestingly enough, those who are students of history know that Vladimir Lenin said that socialized medicine is the linchpin for socialism. This is the way that you bring it in. When you have control of people&#8217;s health, you have control of them. And we spend an enormous amount of money on health care in this country, more than any other country, $13,100 per capita per year.&#8221;
Carson went on, &#8220;Can you imagine what you could do with that money in an efficient system, an efficient system that used health care savings accounts or something of that nature, where there was real accountability and transparency? Those are the kinds of things that obviously need to be talked about and explored to a much greater degree than we are now. But socialized medicine has only led to much poorer distribution of medicine everywhere it has been tried. And the same thing would happen in this country as well.&#8221;
At the end of the interview, Chaffetz noted how Carson has experience on the debate stage, where he faced Trump and others during the 2016 Republican primary contest and asked Carson to give his &#8220;final guess&#8221; on what will happen Tuesday night.
&#8220;I think Kamala Harris is going to try to get under Donald Trump&#8217;s skin,&#8221; Carson said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what the preparation is all about. How do you get under his skin? Also, she needs to be told what her policies are, because she doesn&#8217;t really know what they are. Nobody else does either. Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t have to prep, because the truth is always the truth. You don&#8217;t have to try to figure out what things will resonate with people. You just say who you are. He&#8217;s very transparent. And I think the people will appreciate that. So it&#8217;s going to be a widely watched debate. It&#8217;s going to be a lot of fun.&#8221;

Ben Carson

Ben Carson Has Great Expectations For ‘Most Consequential’ Trump-Kamala Debate

2024 Election

Debates

Donald Trump

Kamala Harris

Politics

U.S.

Democrat presidential nominee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>&#8216; campaign was slammed online Thursday afternoon after one of its spokespeople tried to claim that the campaign had not agreed to the ABC News debate rules that the candidates&#8217; microphones would be muted during the debate while their opponent talked.
The claim from Harris spokesman Brian Fallon came hours after the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/08/29/us-news/abc-news-rejects-kamala-harris-last-minute-bid-to-change-trump-debate-rules-will-keep-muted-mics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that ABC News informed both the Harris campaign and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign in an email from ABC News Chief Counsel Eric Lieberman that the September 10 debate would have the same rules as the CNN debate in June — the candidates will be standing with muted microphones, not allowed to have any notes with them, and no audience will be present.
CNN <a href="https://x.com/Hadas_Gold/status/1829207092777128408" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Harris campaign was asked to let go of the issue surrounding the microphones so that the debate can happen, but that the campaign appeared to not be doing so, even though ABC News already set the &#8220;formal list of debate rules.&#8221;
&#8220;Our latest understanding is that even though Trump said Monday he would be fine with an unmuted mic, his handlers don’t trust him to spar live with VP Harris and are asking ABC to ignore Trump’s comments and keep the mics muted or else they will back out of the debate for a third time,&#8221; Fallon claimed. &#8220;We have been asked to accede to Trump’s handlers’ wishes on this point for the sake of preserving the debate. We find the Trump’s team’s stance to be weak, and remain in discussions with ABC on the final rules.&#8221;
Fallon faced significant backlash online over his claim from a wide range of political pundits.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s the thing about shills: They are literally paid to be dishonest and disingenuous,&#8221; said John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary Magazine. &#8220;Though in Brian&#8217;s case, I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d do it for free, since he hasn&#8217;t made an honest argument in his entire life.&#8221;
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Versus Media Podcast host Stephen L. Miller wrote on X: &#8220;Biden made these rules and ABC is abiding by the original debate rules, just as you originally wanted. Don&#8217;t know what else to tell you.&#8221;
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro fired back at Fallon: &#8220;Stop trying to manufacture excuses to avoid debates.&#8221;
&#8220;He agreed to three,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;You agreed to one with the original rules, and one provisionally; then you tried to change the original rules. You&#8217;re a campaign of cowardice.&#8221;
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Stop trying to manufacture excuses to avoid debates. He agreed to three. You agreed to one with the original rules, and one provisionally; then you tried to change the original rules. You&#8217;re a campaign of cowardice. <a href="https://t.co/Khuhod6evt">https://t.co/Khuhod6evt</a>
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Red State writer Bonchie added: &#8220;No one is buying this. Especially not after ABC News&#8217; own memo on the rules leaked showing the rules *were always* the same as the CNN rules. You got caught trying to manufacture a reason to pull out. Own it.&#8221;

US-VOTE-POLITICS-HARRIS

Harris Campaign Slammed For Trying To ‘Avoid Debate’ After ABC News Ends Attempt To Alter Rules

Elections

Tim Walz

Despite what the media are saying right now, Kamala Harris is not running away with the presidential race; this race is effectively a dead heat. Nothing has changed since that sparkling Democratic National Convention.
A brand-new <a href="https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/20240826_pol.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yahoo News/YouGov poll</a> shows Harris leads Donald Trump by one point in a head-to-head matchup among registered voters. The margin of error is three points, which means this is a dead heat. Not only that, but the previous <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-yahoo-newsyougov-poll-kamala-harris-has-a-huge-head-start-for-the-democratic-nomination--and-the-strongest-numbers-against-trump-143447808.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yahoo News/YouGov poll</a> also found Harris and Trump tied at 46% apiece, which means she got <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-may-be-kamalas-convention-but-trump-is-getting-the-surge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no bounce</a> from the DNC.
Why isn&#8217;t the media saying the race is a dead heat? The answer is: The media want you to believe this race is over.
After weeks and weeks of sycophantic media coverage for Harris, the election is still a dead heat. That is the real news story.
And that means Harris is in real trouble.
It&#8217;s the reason why she is agonizing. It&#8217;s why her staff is having intense debates over exactly who should interview her, how, and where.
We are now at 39 days of zero questions asked of her, but we are supposed to be satisfied with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-agrees-to-interview-with-biased-cnn-anchor-will-bring-tim-walz-with-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview</a> that she has now scheduled on CNN.
The media really don&#8217;t want her to do this. The amount of pressure that&#8217;s being put on Harris by the media to do a solo interview is essentially zero, which is why it hasn&#8217;t happened yet. If the media pushed a tsunami of coverage on why Harris is too much of a coward to do a one-on-one interview with, say, Lester Holt, then an interview would happen.
But they&#8217;re not pushing for questions or an interview because they are the stenographers for the message from the Democratic Party.
This should matter to the American people. If it doesn&#8217;t, it is to their great discredit because they should want some answers on what the prospective president of the United States thinks about issues.
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But finally, the Harris-Walz campaign announced an interview.
It only demonstrated what a weakling she is.
The interview will be on CNN on Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.
My gosh, we&#8217;re finally going to get a window into what she thinks!
Wrong.
It is not a solo interview. She will be joined by her babysitter, Coach Serial Liar Tim Walz.
She couldn&#8217;t do a one-on-one interview. She’s doing a double interview, and she is bringing along her vice-presidential nominee, presumably to help fill time and grin like a goofy-ass weirdo and make weird hand motions. That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re going to do.
She&#8217;s bringing along a babysitter. She&#8217;s the presidential nominee, the current frontrunner for the presidency. But she has to bring along a babysitter.
She can&#8217;t do a solo interview. She&#8217;s not capable of doing a solo interview. She can&#8217;t even go on a friendly podcast like Charlamagne tha God’s. She did it in 2019 and got her ass handed to her. She&#8217;s terrible at this.
So, she&#8217;s bringing along Coach Serial Liar. If she starts to wander off into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-serves-up-a-fresh-word-salad-about-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">word salad land</a>, he can jump in with his communist enthusiasm and jabber nonsensically about how she is “joy.” That&#8217;s the entire shtick.
Proviso #1: Bring a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-commentator-scorches-kamala-for-bringing-emotional-support-animal-to-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">babysitter</a> who will eat up time for you.
Proviso #2: The interviewer must be pro-Harris and not confrontational. This time it will be CNN’s Dana Bash
There&#8217;s a reason CNN is not going with Jake Tapper, who at least pretends to be objective. They&#8217;re going with Bash because she is an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-times-cnns-dana-bash-has-shown-extreme-pro-democrat-anti-gop-bias-in-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">openly partisan</a> Democrat.
Proviso #3: The interview must be pre-taped so the Harris-Walz campaign can exert pressure on CNN to chop out anything that makes her look bad.
Spot the edits, gang. That&#8217;s going to be the game. 
Pathetic.
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Harris now proclaims inflation is running too hot. She&#8217;s the current vice president. Why didn&#8217;t she fix it or do something about it? She claims she wants to be strong on the border. So why didn&#8217;t she do it? She claims the United States has a serious housing crisis. So why didn&#8217;t she fix it? 
Those are the simple questions <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-campaign-gives-cnn-10-must-ask-questions-for-kamala-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bash should ask</a>.
And one more: Why is this schlub with you? Why is he here? We’ve been told that your vice presidency is completely irrelevant to your positional stances on issues, so why should we care what Coach Serial Liar has to say?
Note: The Harris campaign has openly admitted Walz has also not been allowed to do independent interviews one-on-one with anybody because they&#8217;re afraid he will say something that is at odds with their actual positions.
The reason they&#8217;re having them both in the room at the same time is so they get their stories straight. They wouldn&#8217;t want a prisoner&#8217;s dilemma where the two are separated and asked the same question but give different answers. She&#8217;s flipping her positions on and off like a light switch.
If Coach Serial Liar jumps in and starts to answer the questions, Dana Bash needs to say (if she were actually doing her job), “The question was for the presidential candidate, Mr. Walz.”
Good luck with that.

Vice President Harris And Governor Walz Hold Rally

Kamala Finally Agrees To Interview — Pre-Taped, With A Babysitter

Ben Shapiro

interview

Opinion

Republican presidential nominee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> appears to have won the battle against Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris over the rules for next month&#8217;s presidential debate.
&#8220;I have reached an agreement with the Radical Left Democrats for a Debate with Comrade Kamala Harris,&#8221; Trump said in a post on Truth Social. &#8220;It will be Broadcast Live on ABC FAKE NEWS, by far the nastiest and most unfair newscaster in the business, on Tuesday, September 10th, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.&#8221;
&#8220;The Rules will be the same as the last CNN Debate, which seemed to work out well for everyone except, perhaps, Crooked Joe Biden,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The Debate will be &#8216;stand up,&#8217; and Candidates cannot bring notes, or &#8216;cheat sheets.&#8217; We have also been given assurance by ABC that this will be a &#8216;fair and equitable&#8217; Debate, and that neither side will be given the questions in advance (No Donna Brazile!).&#8221;
A source familiar with the matter told The Daily Wire that microphones will be muted during the debate the same way they were during the CNN debate, meaning that when it is one candidate&#8217;s turn to talk, the other candidate will be unable to interrupt.
The Harris campaign had aggressively pushed to have microphones for both candidates live the entire time and reportedly wanted the debate to be seated and the candidates to be allowed to have notes.
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&#8220;If Kamala Harris isn’t smart enough to repeat the messaging points her handlers want her to memorize, that’s their problem. This seems to be a pattern for the Harris campaign,&#8221; senior Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said earlier this week. &#8220;They won’t allow Harris to do interviews, they won’t allow her to do press conferences, and now they want to give her a cheat-sheet for the debate. My guess is that they’re looking for a way to get out of any debate with President Trump.&#8221;
In his post, Trump added that Harris has still not agreed to the Fox News debate on September 4, but that the network has agreed to keep the slot open if she decides to not cower out of it. He also said that she has not agreed to the proposed NBC News debate.

Donald Trump Speaks In Las Vegas On His Proposed Policy For No Tax On Tips

Trump Wins The Battle Over ABC Debate Rules

Senator JD Vance (R-OH) jabbed at Vice President Kamala Harris from the campaign trail on Tuesday, mocking her supposed dramatic shift from being the most liberal sitting U.S. senator to voicing support for Trump policies like no taxes on tips and a secure border.
Vance, who is campaigning to be vice president alongside former President Donald Trump, joked with a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, about Harris&#8217; apparent tendency to wait and see how a Trump policy is received and then announce her own &#8220;new&#8221; policy that mirrors it.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a>: &#8220;Kamala&#8217;s advisers are considering adopting all of Donald Trump&#8217;s policies&#8230; I&#8217;ve heard that for her debate in a few weeks, she&#8217;s going to put on a navy suit, a long red tie and adopt the slogan Make America Great Again.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/fFMcOybiLR">pic.twitter.com/fFMcOybiLR</a>
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&#8220;I read a story this morning that her advisers are considering just copying all of Donald Trump&#8217;s policies,&#8221; Vance joked, prompting laughs from the crowd. &#8220;They&#8217;re more popular. In fact, I&#8217;ve heard that for her debate in just a couple of weeks, she&#8217;s going to put on a navy suit, a long red tie, and adopt the slogan,&#8217;Make America Great Again.'&#8221;
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The former president also alluded to Harris&#8217; tendency to copy him during a speech on the economy in mid-August.
WATCH:
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Trump &#8216;DESTROYED&#8217; Harris when he expressed his concerns about her approach to addressing the economic crisis.
Trump says: &#8220;She is waiting for me to announce my plan so she can copy it&#8221;
He has a point; she does like the copy his great ideas cause she has none of her own! <a href="https://t.co/LGk76rrch8">pic.twitter.com/LGk76rrch8</a>
— 🇺🇸 Larry 🇺🇸 (@LarryDJonesJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryDJonesJr/status/1823875158043472221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Kamala Harris won&#8217;t end the economic crisis, she will only make it worse,&#8221; Trump told voters in North Carolina. &#8220;And why hasn&#8217;t she done it? She talks about it, she&#8217;s doing a plan, you know, she&#8217;s going to announce it this week maybe.&#8221;
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&#8220;She&#8217;s waiting for me to announce it so she can copy it,&#8221; he concluded, and the crowd roared with laughter.

Former President Trump And VP Nominee Sen. JD Vance Hold Rally In St. Cloud, Minnesota

Vance Hits Kamala Over MAGA-Morphosis: ‘Adopting All Of Donald Trump’s Policies’

Vance Hits Kamala Over MAGA-Morphosis: 'Adopting All Of Donald Trump's Policies'

Border Wall

JD Vance

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said late Monday night that Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris has declined to participate in the first proposed presidential debate next month with Fox News.
&#8220;Comrade Kamala Harris has just informed us that she will NOT do the FoxNews Debate on September 4th,&#8221; Trump posted on social media. &#8220;I am not surprised by this development because I feel that she knows it is very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in, including her statements that THERE WILL BE NO FRACKING IN PENNSYLVANIA and her HORRIBLE Performance on the Border, our &#8216;Border Czar,&#8217; where millions of criminals and people from mental institutions and terrorists, have been allowed to pour into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s called, and she LOVES IT, an OPEN BORDER!!!&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Rather than the debate on September 4th, I have agreed to do a Tele-Town Hall, anchored by Sean Hannity, for Fox. It will take place in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania &#8211; Details to follow!&#8221;
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Harris and her vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz, would not agree to multiple proposed debates last week offered by former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).
“The debate about debates is over,” the Harris campaign said. “Donald Trump’s campaign accepted our proposal for three debates – two presidential and a vice presidential debate. Assuming Donald Trump actually shows up on September 10 to debate Vice President Harris, then Governor Walz will see JD Vance on October 1 and the American people will have another opportunity to see the vice president and Donald Trump on the debate stage in October.”
However, the statement from the Harris campaign was wildly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harris-walz-run-away-from-debates-against-trump-vance-theyre-too-afraid">misleading</a> because the Trump campaign <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/16/kamala-harris-donald-trump-campaign-debate-lie-october/">said</a> there was &#8220;no proposal from a network for an October debate.&#8221;
The Trump campaign accepted three presidential debates — Fox News on September 4, ABC News on September 10, and NBC News on September 25.
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The Trump campaign also accepted two vice presidential debates, CBS News on October 1 and CNN on September 18.
The Trump campaign responded to the Harris campaign’s statement by saying it was obvious which campaign was afraid to debate.
“President Trump challenged Kamala to three debates. She only accepted two,” the campaign said. “J.D. Vance challenged Freakish Timothy Walz to two debates. He only accepted one. Just so everyone is aware which campaign in this race is ‘too afraid’ to debate.”

Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2024 – Day One

Kamala Declines First Proposed Debate With Trump, Former President Says

Debate

Presidential Debate

Former President Donald Trump has enlisted the help of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard as he prepares to debate Vice President Kamala Harris, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/us/politics/trump-debate-tulsi-gabbard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU4.zW-3.EUNARKJDeSbt&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=c-cb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. Gabbard, a former Democratic representative from Hawaii, famously lambasted Harris over her record as a prosecutor during a Democratic primary debate in 2019.
Gabbard visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in southern Florida to &#8220;help sharpen his attacks in a recent practice session,&#8221; the Times reported. Trump campaign Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Gabbard was involved with Trump&#8217;s debate prep, telling the Times in a statement that Trump has “proven to be one of the best debaters in political history as evidenced by his knockout blow to Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;He does not need traditional debate prep but will continue to meet with respected policy advisers and effective communicators like Tulsi Gabbard, who successfully dominated Kamala Harris on the debate stage in 2020,&#8221; Leavitt added.
During the Democratic primary debate five years ago, Gabbard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4fjA0K2EeE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ripped</a> into Harris&#8217; record as a prosecutor.
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&#8220;She put over 1,500 in jail over marijuana violations and then laughed about it when asked if she ever smoked marijuana,&#8221; Gabbard said to the applause of the audience. &#8220;She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. And she fought to keep [the] cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worse kind of way.&#8221;
In a recent article, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/harris-debate-history-biden-tulsi-gabbard-trump-09741696abe9d4217e51d94ac0af553e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> the 2019 debate as a &#8220;low moment&#8221; for the Harris campaign, and The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/us/politics/kamala-harris-2020.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2019 that many of her advisers pointed to the debate exchange with Gabbard as the beginning of the end of her 2020 presidential bid. She dropped out of the primary in December 2019 before the first votes were cast. Gabbard stayed in the race until March of 2020.
The former congresswoman from Hawaii <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elite-cabal-of-warmongers-tulsi-gabbard-says-she-is-no-longer-a-democrat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left</a> the Democratic Party in October 2022, saying it &#8220;is under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoking anti-white racism, who actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms that are enshrined in our Constitution, who are hostile to people of faith and spirituality.&#8221;
Last month, Gabbard threw her support behind Trump&#8217;s 2024 bid, <a href="https://x.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1813152686751293804" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a> on X, &#8220;We need leaders back in the White House who are committed to the Constitution, defending our God-given freedoms, and towards a peaceful and prosperous future. Donald Trump and JD Vance are such leaders, and I look forward to doing all I can to get them elected in November.&#8221;
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Trump&#8217;s debate prep differs from how most candidates get ready to face off against their opponents. Instead of practicing against a mock opponent, Trump discusses potential questions and topics with his advisers, according to the Times. Sometimes, Trump aides sit in chairs facing the former president and act as the debate moderators. Trump has also spent time discussing policy positions with Republican lawmakers and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).
The first debate between Trump and Harris is set to take place in Philadelphia on September 10 on ABC News and will be moderated by David Muir and Linsey Davis. Trump has pushed for two additional debates — one on Fox News on September 4 and another on NBC on September 25 — but Harris only agreed to the ABC News debate and one other in October.

Trump Prepping For Kamala Debate By Meeting With Former Dem Candidate: Report

Trump Prepping For Harris Debate By Meeting With Former Dem Candidate: Report

Tulsi Gabbard

Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> and Minnesota Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-walz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Walz</a> ducked away on Thursday from multiple presidential and vice presidential debates offered by former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).
&#8220;The debate about debates is over,&#8221; the Harris campaign claimed. &#8220;Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign accepted our proposal for three debates &#8211; two presidential and a vice presidential debate. Assuming Donald Trump actually shows up on September 10 to debate Vice President Harris, then Governor Walz will see JD Vance on October 1 and the American people will have another opportunity to see the vice president and Donald Trump on the debate stage in October.&#8221;
However, the statement from the Harris campaign was wildly misleading.
The Trump campaign accepted three presidential debates — Fox News on September 4, ABC News on September 10, and NBC News on September 25.
The Trump campaign also accepted two vice presidential debates, CBS News on October 1 and CNN on September 18.
The Harris campaign, which has held no press conferences or interviews since Harris announced her candidacy a month ago, only agreed to three total debates, two presidential and one vice presidential.
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The dates are also key as Harris and Walz appear to be looking to delay debating for as long as possible since early voting begins in multiple states in September.
Trump and Vance are looking for the debates to be earlier so they can highlight the far-Left positions held by Harris and Walz before voters start mailing in ballots.
The Trump campaign responded to the Harris campaign&#8217;s statement by saying that it was obvious which campaign was afraid to debate.
&#8220;President Trump challenged Kamala to three debates. She only accepted two,&#8221; the campaign said. &#8220;J.D. Vance challenged Freakish Timothy Walz to two debates. He only accepted one. Just so everyone is aware which campaign in this race is &#8216;too afraid&#8217; to debate.&#8221;
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President Trump challenged Kamala to three debates.
She only accepted two.
J.D. Vance challenged Freakish Timothy Walz to two debates.
He only accepted one.
Just so everyone is aware which campaign in this race is &#8220;too afraid&#8221; to debate.
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1824153430270808280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Harris-Walz Run Away From Debates Against Trump-Vance: They’re ‘Too Afraid’

Minnesota Democratic Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-walz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Walz</a> is refusing a second vice presidential debate held by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colbert-caught-off-guard-when-late-night-audience-laughs-at-his-leftist-talking-point" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left-leaning CNN</a>, but Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>&#8216; campaign said it is willing to accept a second presidential debate against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> in October under a specific condition.
Shortly after Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) accepted a CBS News <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/debates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debate</a> on October 1, which Walz previously agreed to attend, Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>&#8216; presidential campaign released a <a href="https://x.com/TaylorPopielarz/status/1824126747127759149" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that ruled out a CNN debate on September 18 that Vance also said he would accept.
&#8220;The debate about debates is over,&#8221; said Michael Tyler, communications director for Harris-Walz 2024. He claimed former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s campaign accepted their proposal for three debates, including one hosted by ABC News on September 10. The third, Tyler added, would be another face-off between Harris and Trump in October — contingent on Trump showing up to the ABC debate.
Vance responded to the statement on X, alluding to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-fires-back-at-cnn-for-questioning-his-military-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">controversy</a> over Walz embellishing his service record with the Army National Guard, claiming he carried weapons &#8220;in war&#8221; when he was never in combat and leaving his artillery unit before it received orders to deploy to Iraq.
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&#8220;Tim Walz refuses to deploy!&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1824128074335785127" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Vance, a U.S. Marines veteran who did serve in Iraq. &#8220;In all seriousness, if you want to be the VP of the United States, you should make your pitch directly to the American people. A debate is an opportunity to take your case to voters without a teleprompter or a script. Can&#8217;t imagine why anyone would say no.&#8221;
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In all seriousness, if you want to be the VP of the United States, you should make your pitch directly to the American people. 
A debate is an opportunity to take your case to voters without a teleprompter or a script. Can&#39;t imagine why anyone would say no.
&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1824128074335785127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Earlier in the day, Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-responds-to-walz-debate-agreement-says-1-face-off-isnt-enough" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he had accepted the invitation to CBS News&#8217; October 1 debate in New York City and dared Walz to appear for a second one held by CNN on September 18. &#8220;American people deserve as many debates as possible,&#8221; he declared in a post to X.
Walz had said he would show up to the October 1 debate on Wednesday, the same day CBS said it sent out its invitations to the candidates. CBS noted that it had provided three other dates — September 17, September 24, and October 8 — as possible times to hold the event. October 1 comes after early voting for the November election begins in some states.
Vance said in a Wednesday evening interview on Fox News he wanted to assess the proposed rules and moderators before making a decision. &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to walk into a fake news media garbage debate,&#8221; he said. He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-signals-hes-in-for-debate-as-long-as-cbs-doesnt-play-games" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signaled</a> having no audience at the venue would be a deal-breaker.
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CBS publicly <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vp-debate-tim-walz-jd-vance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> the moderators on Thursday only after both candidates agreed to the October 1 date: &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; anchor and managing editor Norah O&#8217;Donnell, and &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; moderator and CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan. All the rules of the VP debate were not publicly available as of press time.
In June, Trump faced President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> in a CNN debate with no audience and mic cuts. After Biden&#8217;s fumbling performance sparked a crisis of confidence among his allies, he stepped aside under pressure and Harris took the top spot on the Democratic Party&#8217;s ticket.
Trump and Harris are scheduled to have their first debate on September 10. That event is set to be hosted by ABC News. Trump has floated two other debates next month, one held by Fox News on September 4 and another held by NBC News on September 25, but Harris&#8217; campaign has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harris-accepts-only-one-debate-refuses-to-commit-to-more-against-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeatedly indicated</a> it would only consider a second presidential debate against Trump if the Republican nominee attends the ABC debate first.

Kamala Harris And Running Mate Tim Walz Make First Appearance Together In Philadelphia

Walz Dodges CNN Debate Challenge From Vance; Harris Open To Second Bout Against Trump

Walz 'Refuses To Deploy' For CNN Debate

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) said during an interview on Wednesday evening that he will debate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in the CBS News vice presidential debate this fall as long as the network doesn&#8217;t play any games with the parameters that it sets for the debate.
CBS News made its invitation to both vice presidential candidates in a statement released to the public Wednesday afternoon, noting that it gave the candidates four dates as options for the debate in New York City: September 17, September 24, October 1, and October 8.
Walz blasted out on social media that he accepted the October 1 date, which is after early voting begins in a number of states.
When asked during a Fox News interview about whether he would be at the debate, Vance responded: &#8220;We want to actually look at the debates, look at the moderators, talk about the rules a little bit. CBS reached out to us about this literally three hours ago, I was landing from a rally and a press conference in Michigan.&#8221;
&#8220;I strongly suspect we&#8217;re going to be there on October 1st, but we&#8217;re not going to do one of these fake debates, where they don&#8217;t actually have an audience there,&#8221; he continued, noting that the parameters of the debate needed to set up in the right way to encourage &#8220;a good exchange of ideas.&#8221;
&#8220;In other words, we&#8217;re not going to walk into a fake news media garbage debate,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to do a real debate, and if CBS agrees to it, then certainly we&#8217;ll do it.&#8221;
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NEW: JD Vance suggests he won&#8217;t debate Tim Walz on CBS if there&#8217;s no audience
“I strongly suspect we’re going to be there on October the 1st, but we’re not going to do one of these fake debates&#8230;We&#8217;re not gonna walk into a fake news media garbage debate.” <a href="https://t.co/9fVeZ9Lm4i">pic.twitter.com/9fVeZ9Lm4i</a>
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1823885908707344837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2024</a></blockquote>

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JD Vance Signals He’s In For Debate — As Long As CBS Doesn’t Play Games

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The following is an edited transcript of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/poll-snapshot-is-harris-really-gaining" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunday Extra edition of Morning Wire</a>. Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley sits down with Brent Buchanan, president and founder of Cygnal Polling Group, to discuss the 2024 presidential election.
The presidential race was shaken up again this week as another candidate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, was added to the ticket along with newly minted Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris. The unprecedented, last-minute swap-in of Harris and now the addition of her largely unknown VP pick has resulted in movement in the polls – and experts projecting a very tight race come November. We sat down with pollster Brent Buchanan to crunch the numbers.
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JOHN: Joining us now to discuss the state of the race – including the impact of the addition of Tim Walz to the ticket — is Brent Buchanan, president and founder of Cygnal Polling Group. First of all, thank you so much for coming on.
BRENT: My pleasure.
JOHN: There&#8217;s a new poll out this week by CNBC that has Trump up by 2 nationally. He actually pointed to that poll in his press conference on Thursday. What do you make of the poll’s findings? 
BRENT: Well, first off, it&#8217;s a bipartisan poll of two firms, one Democrat, one Republican, and both have a profit motive to be correct because they&#8217;re not being funded to do a bunch of public polls. They do mostly private work for campaigns and businesses. I tend to put a lot more stock in those types of polls. What we really pay attention to in polling is not where is it now, but where has it come from and why did it get there? The bigger narrative, that I think is being totally missed in the media right now, is that Trump is actually still holding his own and doing well. Kamala just appears to be doing better compared to Biden because his floor was so low. It was unrealistically, artificially low in the sense that there were going to be plenty of voters who did not like the guy but showed up, held their nose, and voted for Biden anyway. It just wasn&#8217;t showing up in polling but there&#8217;s been no degradation of Trump&#8217;s ballot share in these polls since they pulled in a swap-a-roo at the top of the ticket.
JOHN: Now, you and I have talked about this before, but for those who don’t follow polling as much, how important are these national polls overall?
BRENT: They&#8217;re helpful directionally. We do one every month for ourselves that we release every other month, but we track it internally just for ourselves and our clients — not that it&#8217;s going to direct you and say here&#8217;s who&#8217;s going to win the presidential election, since we do not use a national popular vote for that. It does help you see what&#8217;s changing under the surface, however, and be able to compare what&#8217;s happening in maybe state-level polling of younger voters who are more engaged and more likely to say that they would vote for Harris than Biden, as an example. So it helps directionally to know what&#8217;s going on because of the shifts within the demographic groups, but it&#8217;s not going to be predictive at all. If anything, even a Trump Harris tie nationally is bad for Harris. When you go look at 2020, I think our last poll for Biden had him up 5 nationally and he ended up at 4.5 national lead over Trump, by about 7 million votes, and then barely won. So Democrats have to get to a 5, 6, or 7 point advantage nationally on a poll for them to do well. So, any narrative where we&#8217;re looking at a poll saying, &#8220;Well, look, Trump&#8217;s dropped nationally, but he&#8217;s still ahead or tied&#8230;&#8221; is significantly better than 2020.
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JOHN: Yeah. Can you unpack why that&#8217;s the case? Why do Republicans seem to have an electoral advantage when it comes to the national polls?
BRENT: Well, I think it&#8217;s when you look at population concentration — New York, California, Illinois, are super blue, progressive states and have very big populations. Then you look at Texas and Florida that are the biggest Republican states. Well, the margin in those two states are maximum 8%, maybe 10% for Republicans, but a margin in California is 30% to 40% for Democrats. So when you start to think about how many people are answering a national poll from these given states, you have a lot more votes and concentration on these survey responses coming from blue states. So if they can&#8217;t use their might in those responses to get a national poll to be 5%, 6%, or 7% democratic advantage, then you can start to see where there are structural issues with voters that have to be persuaded in the middle that the Democrats, that if they&#8217;re not persuading them nationally, they&#8217;re probably also struggling to persuade them in state or district specific polling.
JOHN: Now, to put a finer point on what you mentioned earlier, you said Trump&#8217;s ballot share has actually not diminished – despite the switch at the top. Are you saying that Trump is in just as strong a position now – or is it that while the Harris support is higher than Biden&#8217;s, Trump has just not lost any support?
BRENT: It&#8217;s the latter there. I think this is a more realistic view of the presidential election. And, and I&#8217;m convinced that it would have ended up close to this had Biden stayed the nominee, because at the end of the day, a voter is going to walk in and either be willing to or not willing to vote for Trump. The election is more about Trump than it is about Biden. Now, Harris changes that calculus some because she&#8217;s a new entity that&#8217;s completely untested and has been able to avoid even talking to the press for 18 days. But, she&#8217;s essentially a generic Democrat, that&#8217;s the way I look at her. If you&#8217;re willing to vote for a Democratic candidate, you can put all your hopes and dreams on her because we don&#8217;t really know a whole lot else about her. Now, when it comes down to defining her, which is going to happen, I would say by mid-September, if we have this conversation five or six weeks from now, it&#8217;s going to be a different conversation because she won&#8217;t be in that honeymoon “hopes and dreams” phase she will be a defined candidate in and of herself, she can&#8217;t avoid it forever. I think a 2 point national race is a more believable number in where we would have ended up even with Biden. It was just never going to look that way because people were embarrassed to say they would vote for Joe Biden.
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JOHN: Well, this historic sequence of events gives us the shortest amount of time we&#8217;ve had to define a candidate ahead of an election. Now, Harris has picked Tim Walz. There&#8217;s been a lot of focus on him this week. There&#8217;s excitement from some Democrats. Republicans are also excited about this pick for various reasons. As far as polling goes, what does Walz bring to the table? 
BRENT: Well, he does not bring name identification to the ticket in the same way that JD Vance did not bring name identification. So, it&#8217;s not like you&#8217;re picking somebody who is already defined. You&#8217;re making a choice. You know, when I saw the JD Vance choice, it looked like a selection being made to dive further into opportunities within Rust Belt states, but also kind of cast a vision towards legacy of Trump&#8217;s movement and his ideology and the things he believes in and wants to advance in policy. When you look at Walz, it doesn&#8217;t appear to be the same choice by Kamala Harris. I was the pollster on Dr. Scott Jensen&#8217;s race, who was the Republican nominee against Walz in ‘22. So, I&#8217;m very familiar with Governor Walz because I saw the opposition research book on him two years ago when I was involved in the campaign against him. He is one of the most progressive and liberal governors in the country. So if you&#8217;re Kamala Harris looking at him — and I don&#8217;t want to put myself in her shoes because that&#8217;d be a scary place — but I think she really liked his sharp tongue. If I had to distill it down to why she picked him, he looks like a midwesterner, he talks like a midwesterner, but he has a really sharp tongue and he can be an attack dog for you on Donald Trump and JD Vance. I think they just set aside the very Left of center — not even center — just Left views and policies that he has. And they&#8217;re now going to have to defend that. But if you&#8217;re the Kamala Harris campaign, she&#8217;s already the most liberal senator. So what do you have to lose in that sense?
JOHN: So, you&#8217;ve seen the opposition research on Walz. What are his weaknesses?
BRENT: Well, he may be an affable person, but from a policy standpoint, he is very far-Left. He has gone so far as to change the definition of sexual orientation to include pedophilia. There&#8217;s just a lot of things that normal Americans would look at and say, &#8220;That is really out there.&#8221; I think he opens up the door for culture wars in the sense of some of the things he&#8217;s done around abortion — allowing it up to and after the point of birth. Many people would say, &#8220;I&#8217;m not for no abortion, but I&#8217;m definitely not for abortion at any and all times.&#8221; I think that&#8217;s just an example of whatever the center view is on a policy topic, he is much further from that center than say Trump or Vance would be to the Right of that given issue. He’s been able to get away with it because he has a complicit media in Minnesota that&#8217;s never really called him to account on anything. I saw that in the ‘22 campaign. And he also is getting a free pass from the media this go round but it doesn&#8217;t take a whole lot to look into the guy&#8217;s record, especially once he was able to take over the legislature. So, in ‘22, [Minnesota] Republicans lost control of the [state] legislature and he has a lot of issues around gun control and his management of COVID. I mean he set up a hotline where you could call and rat out your neighbor if they went outside during the COVID lockdowns. I could go on and on with the things that are just complete nonsense that he believes, that are very much out of the norm of probably 90% of America.
JOHN: Do you believe the stolen valor accusations against him will have an impact? Have we seen that in the past where that&#8217;s really done damage to a candidate?
BRENT: It would to a Republican because the media would pile on. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to have the same impact on Governor Walz simply because it takes a little bit of nuance to explain the issue. And also, Republicans right now have all the policy points on their side. They&#8217;re running against the most progressive leftist ticket that has ever existed in American history. And we don&#8217;t have to go label and name people when we can use their own words and beliefs to expose them to America. And Americans will look at them and say, &#8220;Yeah, that&#8217;s not even close to what I believe.&#8221;
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JOHN: Trump was well-positioned in his race against Biden, but has done some shifting in terms of his message against Harris. Do you think the Trump campaign has taken the right approach to attacking this new opponent?
BRENT: Anytime you have a shift in your North Star, it&#8217;s going to take some calibration to get to the new destination. And you can tell that the Trump campaign was prepared for this, for the swap out. I&#8217;m not sure her coming out with the messaging she did was exactly what they thought she would do. She&#8217;s cast an eye for the future and tried to build consensus and tried to ignore the last 50-something years of her life as if it didn&#8217;t exist — as if she didn&#8217;t believe any of those things. So that definitely throws you off kilter. But it was almost getting too easy with the Biden campaign because the poor guy was just so inept. It almost makes Trump&#8217;s job easy. Now it&#8217;s going to be a fight, and hopefully it gets to a fight on policy and past beliefs on policy points because that&#8217;s to Trump&#8217;s benefit.
JOHN: Right, there&#8217;s been some criticism about attacking from an identity perspective. Final question, Trump brought this up in the press conference Thursday. He’s sort of thrown the gauntlet down to debate her. She’s agreed to at least one. How important are these debates in helping define these particular candidates?
BRENT: There&#8217;s nothing Donald Trump can do or say that is going to change somebody&#8217;s opinion of him. Because if he says something that is perceived as kind of off the wall, it&#8217;s like, well, that is Donald Trump. If he has a zinger or comes on strong in a policy position, people say, &#8220;Yeah, I already knew that.&#8221; I always tell clients that debates are an opportunity to walk out the same way you walked in. That&#8217;s the best case scenario. Debates essentially create risk opportunities, especially for the less defined individuals. So I think it&#8217;s great that Donald Trump and Kamala Harris agreed to a September 10 ABC debate because I don&#8217;t think Kamala can do well without a script or a teleprompter in front of her. All the videos that you see with her babbling on about nonsense are when she was allowed a microphone without a script or a teleprompter. So it&#8217;s kind of hard to believe that she&#8217;s going to be able to walk out of that debate viewed the same way she walked in because Trump cannot make unforced errors in that it&#8217;s just not possible. Nobody&#8217;s going to view him differently if he does make what is perceived as an error. But she has a lot of risk walking into that scenario, to say something that will be used against her or make people view her differently. I think if Trump stays on his trajectory and really holds to message on policy and contrasts — here&#8217;s the America that you&#8217;ll get to live in if she is in charge and here&#8217;s the America you&#8217;ll get to live in, and you already got to experience under me before COVID, if I&#8217;m in charge — that choice becomes very easy for the American public.
JOHN: Great. Thank you so much for talking with us. We&#8217;ll talk again soon.
BRENT: Thank you, John.
JOHN: That was Brent Buchanan from Cygnal Polling Group – and this has been a Sunday edition of Morning Wire.
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Kamala Harris, Tim Walz Continue Swing-State Blitz To Beat Trump

‘He’s Very Far-Left’: Pollster Breaks Down The Harris-Walz Ticket

'He’s Very Far-Left': Pollster Breaks Down The Harris-Walz Ticket

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Vice President Kamala Harris finally stopped to answer a few questions from reporters before she left Detroit on Thursday and hinted at a possible long-form interview &#8220;before the end of the month.&#8221;
Harris has been blasted by Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, for avoiding taking questions from reporters or holding a press conference since she became the Democratic presidential nominee. The vice president spent less than two minutes <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?537657-1/kamala-harris-debate-donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">answering</a> reporters&#8217; questions on Thursday and said that she is pushing her team to get a major interview scheduled before September, which is still three weeks away.
&#8220;Madame vice president, there&#8217;s been a lot of questions about when you&#8217;re going to sit down for your first interview since being the nominee &#8230;&#8221; a reporter stated.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve talked to my team; I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month,&#8221; Harris replied.
Harris also addressed Trump&#8217;s announcement that he has agreed to three debates against Harris on three different networks in September. The vice president only agreed to the September 10 debate on ABC.
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&#8220;I&#8217;m glad that he&#8217;s finally agreed to a debate on September 10th. I&#8217;m looking forward to it and hope he shows up,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Are you open to more debates?&#8221; a reporter asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m happy to have that conversation about an additional debate for after September 10th,&#8221; she responded.
During an hour-long <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-hes-agreed-to-3-debates-on-3-different-networks-calls-harris-barely-competent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news conference</a> on Thursday at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said he and his team &#8220;have spoken to the heads of the networks&#8221; and set up debates on Fox News on September 4, ABC on September 10, and NBC on September 25 contingent on Harris accepting the terms.
“They may or may not agree. I don’t know,&#8221; Trump said of the Harris campaign. &#8220;She hasn’t done an interview. She can’t do an interview. She’s barely competent. She can’t do an interview, but I look forward to the debates because we have to set the record straight.&#8221;
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A Harris campaign official said the vice president would not agree to the September 4 debate on Fox News, ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Selina Wang <a href="https://x.com/selinawangtv/status/1821680709678870641?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Wang added that the campaign official told her that &#8220;future debates are contingent on Trump showing up to @ABC debate on Sept 10th.&#8221;
Trump also blasted Harris for avoiding the media during his press conference, saying, “She’s not doing any news conference. Do you know why she’s not doing [it]? Because she can’t do a news conference. She doesn’t know how to do a news conference. She’s not smart enough to do a news conference.”

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