Chief Washington correspondent John Carlin.
John, let me pick up with Michael and Rick just
left off.
If anything right now, Kamala Harris probably goes into the
debate something of an underdog, and she probably has more
at stake.
I think she does have more at stake.
Look, she is very famous.
Everybody knows what Kamala Harris is.
She's been vice president, but people don't know that much
about her.
And Rick made a very important point about the number
of people that say they need to know more about
where she stands.
But an even more important point is that those are
the persuadable voters.
So the voters that will determine this election are saying
they need to know more about Kamala Harris.
Look, they are trying to define her, the Republicans, as
a radical left, liberal progressive.
And they are largely winning that battle.
If you look at our poll last week, 47% of
voters say she's too liberal.
She's portraying herself now as a moderate.
She has a chance tonight to explain where she is
and why her views on some key issues have changed.
This election is unique in so many ways.
It's the only, and this debate is unique in so
many ways, only president financial debate in history where one
of the candidates actually tried to overturn an election.
Yeah.
I mean, look, you have to take a step back.
This is not a debate over what the capital gains
rate should be about, what the foreign policy should be.
This is a debate has somebody on the stage who
is stands accused and has actually been indicted for trying
to overturn the last election.
And in fact, has suggested that if he were to
lose this time around, he would once again raise questions
and try to try to challenge the results of the
election.
And look, they're going to be in the Constitution Center.
They're going to be right across the way from where
the Constitution was actually ratified.
Donald Trump is somebody who has been indicted for trying
to undermine that constitution and in fact, has also said
suggest in the past that he would suspend the Constitution.
Jon Karl, thanks very much.
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