Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Melber. Our top story tonight is Kamala Harris's

surge, Donald Trump's fear, and brand new developments fortifying the effort

to make women's rights and choice a top ballot issue in some key states in November.

I'm going to show you exactly how that's playing out in a moment while the energy around the

Harris campaign is manifesting itself in the big crowds which are drawing Donald Trump's ire.

One Detroit crowd was so large, so visually striking that he is now lying about it with

propaganda posts that I'm not going to quote or air tonight.

Trump also is longing for the old days of three weeks ago.

That's just some of her crowd lining up there, by the way.

When Harris was not his opponent, drawing jokes about the matchup and Trump grieving the loss of whatever

he viewed as an easier opponent.

I get it. You wanted to run against Joe Biden just two old dudes going toe to

toe-to-toe fungus. The last hurrah rocky 12. It's not fair fair now you've got to run against someone who appears

Healthy and youthful and happy he's grieving for his lost lead against Joe Biden he's going through all the

Trump stages of grief it goes anger anger denial that you're angry, anger and nugget bucket.

The jokes relate to something true.

Colbert is just riffing on the old psychological literature about the actual

five stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance, drawn

from work by Elizabeth Kubler Ross about 50 years ago.

Many people can recognize how really bad news will spark things like denial or anger

and how a healthy landing place for major setbacks is usually an acceptance of reality,

rather than staying in that denial phase, which could be your initial reaction or complete

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