"Harris is best in fight mode." The Reporters' Roundtable-August 9, 2024
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
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Trump’s Lying Presser: Fake Helicopter Crash. Sexist Attack on Harris. Abortion Delusion. MLK Crowd Whopper. And Harris’ CA Record. How Long Will “Joy” Work? Walzmentum. “Swiftboat” Attacks. Debate Expectations. CA Senate, House Races. With Joe Garofoli, Senior Political Writer, San Francisco Chronicle, Melanie Mason, Senior Political Writer at POLITICO California and Marisa Lagos, Politics Correspondent, KQED News.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Good to see you. And welcome back to the Bill Press pod and welcome to this |
| 0:11.9 | week's Reporter's Roundtable. Looking back on the week when the 2024 presidential campaign |
| 0:17.7 | got into full swing now with all four candidates. That fourth slide, |
| 0:23.1 | of course, was filled when Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her fight |
| 0:27.9 | presidential running mate. Harris and Wallace immediately took off on a barnstorming tour of |
| 0:34.0 | key swing states, bringing energy, hope, and joy to Trump-size rallies. |
| 0:40.1 | Meanwhile, Donald Trump, who refuses to call her by her real name, attacked Harris as a |
| 0:44.8 | California communist, and claimed she was, quote, barely competent. |
| 0:49.9 | J.D. Vance, meanwhile, tried to swift vote Tim Wals as a veteran who lied about his rank and quit |
| 0:55.9 | the service to avoid combat. But Trump and Harris did agree to a debate, yes, on ABC News on |
| 1:03.3 | September 10, and President Biden, through a dark cloud over all of it, by warning us we cannot |
| 1:10.2 | be sure of a peaceful transition of government |
| 1:13.0 | next January were trump to lose again. Wow, that's a lot to tackle, but we've got a great panel |
| 1:20.8 | today to help us sort it all out. An all West Coast panel today, since I'm on the West Coast |
| 1:26.4 | myself, with three reporters who know |
| 1:29.0 | Kamala Harris on her home turf and have covered her for several years. Joe Garfali, senior political |
| 1:37.0 | writer in San Francisco Chronicle. Hi, Joe. Good back. Hey, Bill. How you doing? Okay, Melanie |
| 1:42.4 | Mason, senior political writer for Politico, California. Hi, Melanie. Hey, Bill. How you doing? Okay, Melanie Mason, senior political right for Politico, California. Hi, Melanie. |
| 1:47.3 | Hey, Bill. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:48.6 | Welcome back again, and Marisa Lago's politics correspondent for KQED News in San Francisco. |
| 1:56.0 | Hi, Marisa. |
| 1:57.3 | Hey, Bill. Such a pleasure to be here. |
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