August 9, 2024: Trump struggles with Harris in the spotlight

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

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What do you do when your opponent seems to be getting all the media attention? Hold a press conference, of course. Yesterday, former President Donald Trump did just that, taking questions in Florida. The backdrop is the surging popularity of Vice President Kamala Harris, whose campaign is now leading Trump’s in most national polls — the result of what Trump suggested is “honeymoon” that is “going to end.” What stood out from the presser? National political reporter Natalie Allison joins Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza to talk about everything from the prospect of Harris-Trump debates to the questions the former president would prefer not to answer.

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0:00.0	Presented by the Brendan Center for Justice.
0:06.5	Good morning, everyone.
0:08.0	I'm Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza.
0:10.0	It's Friday, August 9th, and here's what's driving the day.
0:14.6	The September debate is back on.
0:16.3	At his press conference yesterday in Mar-Alogo,
0:19.4	Donald Trump recommitted to the September 10th event
0:22.9	on ABC News. He also challenged Kamala Harris to two additional debates. The Harris campaign was
0:29.2	non-committal on anything beyond the ABC debate. And speaking of debates, don't miss this week's
0:35.7	episode of Playbook Deep Dive with Anita Dunn,
0:38.9	Joe Biden's longtime advisor, who was at the center of the decision for Biden to challenge Trump
0:44.1	to an early debate. Dunn left the White House on Tuesday, and on Wednesday she sat down with me
0:50.0	to discuss the logic behind that pivotal decision to call for the June debate on CNN,
0:55.8	the strategy she and her colleagues developed to fight party leaders calling for Biden to step aside,
1:02.2	Biden's final days as the nominee, the new electoral opportunities now available to Harris
1:07.8	and a lot more.
1:10.0	Well, Trump had a lot to say at his news conference yesterday
1:12.4	in Mar-a-Lago, and Politico's Natalie Allison was there, and she joins me now. Good morning,
1:18.9	Natalie. Good morning, Ryan. Okay, so you were one of the reporters yesterday in Mar-a-Lago
1:23.7	at President Trump's rather lengthy news conference. Give us a little bit of the backstory of how this came about, who was there, and what the scene was like.
1:33.5	So how this came together, I mean, we were under the impression as of a couple days ago that this was this summit, if you will, it was originally going to be in West Palm Beach, not Palm Beach where
1:44.7	Marlauga was located, but in West Palm Beach with Trump's campaign advisors in a hotel conference
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