Voters say they think they'd be in better financial shape
under former President Trump than Vice President Harris,
A new Financial Times University of Michigan Ross poll finds
42%
of voters think that they'd be better off financially if
he wins in November.
33% think they do better under Harris.
Meanwhile, the New York Times Santa College poll finds Harris
tops Trump by 4 points in three battleground states,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. And then a Yoga Blue survey
finds that Trump and Harris are tied in North Carolina,
a state that Trump carried in both 2016 and 2020.
I want to bring in bring in our our election
debate panel,
Democratic consultant and former House Judiciary Committee chief counsel Julian
Epstein and former Georgia congressman and former Judiciary Committee ranking
member Doug
Collins. Doug, I want to start with,
we would add one more layer to this,
you know, layer cake that I'm creating here with all
these polls and that
over the weekend, a lot of talk about former President
Trump going after Brian Kemp,
governor of Georgia, who was very popular in your state.
What is going on in Georgia in particular right now?
Well, making no mistake, I mean,
that's been something that there have been issues that Governor
Kemp and President Trump have had.
But there's no mistaking one thing.
Both Governor Kemp and President Trump have made it very
clear that Vice President Harris does not need to win
Georgia.
And they're going both going to do everything they possibly
can.
So look, you know, Democrats
may want to make something of it.
Media wants to make something of it.
But the bottom line here,
I'm with grassroots voters all the time.
It's time for us to win Georgia.
And I think that's what both men are committed to
do.
OK, Julian, what do you make of these new numbers?
It shows an interesting dynamic in particular with the,
the Financial Times Michigan Ross poll,
because these voters are saying,
and it look, it is a Democrat group that,
that put the poll together.
But basically they're saying, well,
I, I think I'd be in a better financial
position with Trump, but oh,
by a slim margin, they say,
but I trust her with an economic future.
What what does that mean to you?
It's, it's a, it's a question mark.
Well, I pulled the lens back a little bit.
Cheryl, you remember the, the,
the gag about the Seinfeld show,
the show about nothing. What,
what Democrats want this campaign to be is a campaign
about nothing,
at least not the issues.
Because when it gets to the issues,
Democrats lose by a margin of about two to one.
Americans think that the Biden Harris
administration has largely been a failure.
So they would much rather this be a campaign about
personalities in the age of TikTok memes because
Kamala Harris has youthful charm compared to Donald Trump.
And I think the foolishness of what Trump is doing
and the reason that you're seeing movement in the polls
is he's playing into that by
acting as the insult comedian and sort of getting into
Harris is not really black and going after the governor
of of
of Georgia to your earlier question to Doug.
And he's playing into the Democrats strategy,
which makes which is basically a campaign of personalities,
if they would prosecute the campaign on the issues.
To your point, the American people really feel like this
economy has failed and most of the social issues,
immigration, crime have been a failure under the Democrats as
well.
And that's the that's the game that the Republicans are
missing right now.
Yeah. Well, and, and to your point,
actually, what's interesting about and,
and I think Doug brought this up initially is,
is that the the editorial board at the Washington Post
writes,
Miss Harris can't afford a basement campaign.
You know, you got to start taking questions,
even if they're going to be hostile.
You got to get out in front of the press.
It's, it's not going to work.
What worked for Joe Biden in 2020 isn't going to
work now,
you know, And she's also under fire from critics for
copying Donald Trump's no tax on tips proposal.
He's been saying that for over two months.
She echoed the idea during a Vegas rally just this
weekend.
Doug Watch
raise the minimum wage
and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.
When I get to office,
we are going to not charge taxes on tips.
There will be no taxes on tips,
no taxes on tips. It's called no tax on tips,
no tax on
no tax on tips. I'm also doing no tax on
tips,
no tax on tips. OK,
got it. So Trump posted on Truth Social that Harris
quote just copied my no tax on tips policy.
Difference is she's not going to do it.
She just wants it for political purposes.
Trump idea, She has no idea.
She can only steal from me.
All right, Julie, real quick.
What do you make of that
of her kind of picking up AI mean this was
a Trump idea.
Let's be honest here. It's it's my point about the
Democrats don't want this to be a campaign of ideas
or issues because they lose on that campaign.
The same people who memory hold Joe Biden's infirmity are
now trying to memory hold Kamala Harris's previous fringe left
positions and her sort of soliloquies to nowhere,
unburdened by what has been and and and that is
unsustainable for the Democrats.
She's going to have to go out and do tough
interviews.
To your earlier question with the media,
she's going to have to sort of face the music
on that because otherwise the news media are going to
start to look a little,
do a little bit too Bolshevik here.
They're sort of going along and promoting one candidate over
the other and that's just not going to be sustainable
over time.
She's going to have to get out there and face
the tough questions.
Well, Doug, I do want to show you this morning's
New York Post cover because these questions are being covered
by some media about the flip flopping.
Look at the New York Post and it basically has
a new name for her and it's not even the
copycat.
It's it's comma chameleon. So if we have that to
pull up there it is comma chameleon.
Now everybody can sing the Culture Club song for the
rest of the morning.
You're welcome, Doug, but what your reaction?
Look, it's sort of scary that Julie and I are
actually agreeing so much this morning.
We are. Look, she is taking credit for every bad
idea that's come out on the economy,
immigration, foreign policy, everything out of the Biden administration and
they can't hide that 21 days,
22 plus days and counting.
Even the media, even her fawning media over the honeymoon
period the last few weeks are starting to say,
wait, you're going to have to answer these questions.
And I agree completely. Here's what the issues are and
they're going to come into real focus after the Democrat
convention because you still got a problem with your vice
president walls over there and issues that he's brought to
the ticket.
And then after this convention,
it's going to get down to what are you going
to do?
And I think people are going to have to decide,
do you want more of 3 1/2 years?
Do you want more open border,
a bad economy that we not find jobs and
everything's 2025% higher, gas is higher,
or do we want a chance to actually have something
better that we had under Donald Trump?
And then there's the missing piece.
And that is the piece that Vice President Harris lied
to the American people,
lied to the American press about the condition of Joe
Biden.
And I think that's a concern that's going to come
up more and more.
But when you look at all the problems of the
Biden administration and Harris administration that we've seen,
and then you top on that,
the top the ends and sincerity of the vice president
in dealing with Joe Biden,
people are going to see this.
And I think this is where it's right.
She can't hide in the basement forever.
Even her media that right now propping her up are
going to start asking questions and she's going to have
to answer.
Teleprompters are her new glasses.
She can't live without them.
Yeah, Julian.
Well, look, I mean, in the next couple of days,
the world's the, the greatest threat to global peace right
now is Iran.
They are the Nazis of the Middle East,
the KKK of the Middle East.
I think she's going to have to answer questions as
to how do you disarm such a maniacal regime.
And simply calling for a ceasefire on in Gaza sort
of ain't going to.
It doesn't really cut it.
This is not about a piece of land in the
Mideast.
This is about an imperialist venture by Iran.
And this, the Biden administration,
I'm sorry to say, has really not addressed the Iran
question very effectively.
And this is going to be front and center this
week.
And this is something, you know,
the reason that it's so important for her to get
in front of the media is because people want to
see how she will deal with a complex and changing
issues when she doesn't have a teleprompter in front of
her.
So this is something that she really needs to be
able to answer in real time if she wants to
knock the,
the, the, the old rap on her,
which is she's an empty suit.
All right, Doug, before you go permission to redirect my
question.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump's attacks on Georgia's
governor,
Brian Kemp, is going to benefit Harris.
I mean, your former congressman there,
this is home to you.
Does this put Georgia in play,
Doug?
No, I don't think this this story puts George him
anymore in play than than vice parent Harris,
you know, kicking Joe Biden out of the the presidency
to run now.
I think it brings back into play constituency groups that
were going to come back who are tired of Biden,
who are tired of the Democratic ticket.
Look there, you know, again,
this is something that's been going on in Georgia for
a while.
Everybody else seems to have just discovered it.
It's not. But it's also something which both men have
talked about this week.
It's saying their main commitment is beating Harris in the
fall.
Look, Georgia is going to be tight.
You and I've talked about this for over a year.
I've always thought it's going to be tight,
but also think Donald Trump's going to win about several
points.
Yeah, well, there's a lot of states in place.
Seven to be exact. Julian,
Doug, gentlemen, thank you so much.
Great to see you on a Monday.
Thanks, Cheryl. Take care.