Stages of Desperation: Trump's Smears Get No Traction on Eve of VP Debate

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

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4.5 • 664 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jen is joined by a roundtable of guests, George Conway, Ashley Parker, Eugene Daniels, and Adrienne Elrod to discuss how Donald Trump is increasingly resorting to baseless smears of Kamala Harris, as well as blatant lies about relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Later, fellow MSNBC anchor Joy Reid joins to talk about the racist dog whistle Trump is using when he talks about the vote in cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. And in anticipation of tomorrow’s vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz, Jen talks to Tim Ryan, the last person to share the debate stage with Vance, about the tactics Vance might use to gaslight viewers.

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0:00.0	Okay. I know it seems like every single day we are talking about some incredibly wild split screen between the two candidates running for president. I know it feels that way. But boy, did we get another one today.
0:22.1	I mean, on one side of the equation, Donald Trump bumbled and lied his way through a tour of
0:26.7	storm damage in Georgia, quite a thing to lie about. And on the other, Kamala Harris said things
0:31.8	you might normally hear from a president about a tragedy like Hurricane Helene at FEMA
0:36.2	headquarters here in Washington. I mean, here's
0:39.0	just a sampling of headlines from Trump's trip today. Trump makes false claims about federal
0:44.9	response as he campaigns an area ravaged by Hurricane Helene. Trump falsely says Georgia's governor
0:50.9	was unable to talk to Biden about storm damage.
1:00.3	And my personal favorite might be, Trump says no one could have predicted hurricane at peak of hurricane season.
1:02.5	So we're definitely going to talk about all of that tonight.
1:05.0	We're also going to preview tomorrow night's vice presidential debate with my friend Joy
1:09.0	Reid and with the last guy to actually debate
1:12.4	J.D. Vance, former Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, that's later on the show. But I'm going to begin
1:17.0	tonight, we're going to begin tonight with some very important context to keep in mind for everything
1:21.7	you're going to hear, everything we're going to talk about tonight, about the ways in which Donald
1:25.9	Trump is currently trying to smear Kamala Harris.
1:30.6	And that very important context is this.
1:33.3	Kamala Harris embarrassed Donald Trump in front of 70 million people during the presidential
1:37.3	debate.
1:38.2	You know what happened.
1:39.5	He knows what happened.
1:40.8	Everyone knows what happened.
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