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92 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY

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MS NOW, Ali Velshi

Ali Velshi, Government, News, Politics, News Commentary, Versant, Ms Now, Versant Media, Weekend News

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Ali Velshi is joined by Senator Chris Van Hollen, producer of ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’, Steve Benen, former Homeland Security, Counterterror and Intelligence Official, Olivia Troye, President and CEO of Center for American Progress, Ambassador Patrick Gaspard, MSNBC Political Contributor, Errin Haines, Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University, Timothy Snyder, MSNBC Political Analyst, Juanita Tolliver, and Representative Jasmine Crockett

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0:00.0

Well, she starts now.

0:09.9

Hey, good morning. It's Sunday, August the 4th, 92 days until Election Day. Kamala Harris has now been at the top of the ticket for two weeks, and sometime in the next two days, we will learn her pick for a running mate.

0:21.1

There's been reporting on everything from breakfast trips to dog walking, but all we know for

0:24.4

certain is that it's down to these top six contenders. And the New York Times reports this

0:29.1

morning that at least three of them, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Minnesota Governor Tim

0:33.3

Wals, and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro are scheduled to meet with Harris herself today

0:38.4

at her residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington. That's according to several people

0:43.1

who were briefed on those plans. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is backing out of the previously agreed

0:48.2

upon ABC presidential debate that was set to take place on September the 10th. But, and you may have been confused by this

0:55.8

in the last 24 hours, in classic Trumpian fashion, he's pretending that it's Harris who doesn't want

1:02.0

a debate. Until this weekend, Trump had refused to say whether he'd show up on September 10th after

1:07.6

Harris replaced Biden at the top of the ticket. Now he says he will not participate in

1:12.5

that September 10th debate, but adds that Harris will surely not debate him on September 4th in

1:19.1

Pennsylvania on Fox News, an event that was not previously agreed upon or scheduled, and in fact,

1:24.9

one he seems to have invented himself on his social media platform.

1:29.1

Among the reasons Trump says Harris won't debate him, quote,

1:32.2

there's no way she could justify her years-long fight to stop the words Merry Christmas.

1:37.5

I'll see her on September 4th, or I won't see her at all, end quote.

1:42.1

Trump has resurrected this decades-old war on Christmas trope multiple

1:46.6

times during a belligerent true social posting spree, which began during a flight delay on

1:52.4

his way to Atlanta yesterday. His first stop was a roundtable discussion with black business people.

1:58.0

Notably, he didn't question their race when he, like when he falsely

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