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good morning and welcome to Rising happy
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we've got a great show for the folks
today I believe Jessica why don't you
take it away we are less than 3 months
out from the presidential election and
vice president kamla Harris has a very
important Edge over former president
Donald Trump Harris leads Trump by four
points in three key swing States
Pennsylvania Wisconsin and Michigan
according to a New York Times Sienna
College survey it's a remarkable turn
for the Democratic party before
President Biden dropped out Biden and
Trump were pretty much tied in Michigan
and Wisconsin and Trump was leading in
Pennsylvania according to the survey
voters view Harris as more intelligent
and temperamentally fit to govern more
so than Trump Harris also has a 24 Point
Advantage for voters on abortion and
Harris also has gained ground for the
Democratic party with young voters and
black voters both key parts of the
Democrats Coalition now the polls also
show Harris's running mate pick Governor
Tim Waltz is performing better than
Trump's pick Senator JD Vance 48 % of
Voters said they were excited about
Waltz compared to just 43 for Vance but
it's worth noting voters prefer Trump
when it comes to handling the economy
and immigration plus 42% of Voters said
that Harris is too liberal while only
37% had the same to say about her
predecessor on the ticket Joe Biden the
presumed Democratic nominee until recent
events now the New York Times points out
that it's unclear how much of Harris's
bounce in the polls stems from
heightened excitement surrounding her
jump to the top of the ticket and
whether that momentum will actually last
meanwhile Trump is also having to deal
with a hack over the weekend Trump's
campaign said some of its internal
Communications had actually been hacked
the announcement came after Politico
reported they had been receiving emails
from an anonymous account with documents
from inside Trump's operation Trump's
campaign blamed Iran and said that
foreign adversary that foreign adversary
had intended to interfere with the 2024
election so chaos throughout our
Democratic process the campaign cited a
Microsoft report that found Iranian
hackers had sent a spear fishing email
in June to a high-ranking official on a
presidential campaign though the
identity of the campaign hacker had not
been independently confirmed now
according to Politico they were getting
these uh documents from this hacker
Robert yes oh where was I at the the uh
the hacker has is going by the name
Robert um um the documents apparently
pertain to JD Vance including early
vetting materials on him um which were
labeled by the Trump campaign so it's
basically the Trump campaign going
through all his previous statements and
they had labeled some of them according
to Politico as potential vulnerabilities
particularly the criticisms he'd had of
trump previously um it's also clear from
these hacked materials again according
to Politico we've not viewed them
ourselves and Politico is not publishing
them uh given the potentially illegal
origins of them
but Marco Rubio was also in the vetting
um documents so uh so Trump the Trump
campaign says this was the
responsibility of Iran uh Iran is
responsible for it which aligns with
what Microsoft has said about um the
hack right and of course a lot of news
sources are willing to publish leaks if
they get them but if they're obtained
illegally there's some recourse
potentially if they publish them Robert
if that's his real name said I suggest
you don't be curious about where I got
them from any answer to this question
will compromise me and also legally
restricts you from publishing them so by
saying that Politico out of an abundance
of caution has decided not to show what
they have which is apparently court
documents internal campaign documents
and this dossier on what could
potentially be a political liability
regarding JD Vance it would be funny to
know what they think a liability is
surrounding the Vance campaign and what
actually you know became a liability
around his candidacy as vice president
but to blame this on Iran and Trump is
saying I'm I'm so strong on Iran they
were not a powerful country when I was
president and that's why they want to
get me because they don't want to be
president it's an interesting way to
spin this for Trump uh I think we're all
curious what's in there but I don't
think we're going to get to see any of
this yeah I mean it's I I I'm not sure
there's anything we don't know yet that
there's anything in there that we don't
already know uh you know Politico is
alluding to Vance's past statements his
criticisms of trump we already know that
he called Trump Hitler and a bunch of
other names when he was a never Trumper
back before Trump won in 2016 so none of
that is new information you know
Politico is not publishing the exact
stuff which I have to say is they're not
I I would argue they're not required to
not publish it they didn't you know this
is It's almost like Wikileaks they
didn't steal the documents they the
documents were given to them by someone
who stole them that person could be
prosecuted but if you obtain
information if the the process was
elicit but the you know journalists do
publish information that was obtained
illicitly as long as it was as long as
they're not complicit in the crime of
how it was obtained just as you know
when that when uh Russia the hacking of
the DNC and the Hillary Clinton stuff
that was again the information
everyone's like oh that's Russian that's
Russian interference again yes it is a
crime what the hackers did but the
information given to was real
information it was not made up it was
not fabricated it was true information
uh pertaining to Hillary Clinton so just
as this would be true information about
JD Vance now I think it's information we
largely already know so it's moot but
it's not Politico does not have a
responsibility I would argue to not
publish it there might be some news
stuff in there you don't know rob me or
maybe you do know
Robert but I I like that you brought up
Hillary Clinton because many people are
saying people on the internet many
people are saying that the Trump
campaign this time around Bears you know
reminiscence of the Hillary Clinton 2016
campaign that it's doomed a party front
runner crushed opponents in a nasty
primary yeah portrayed as the inevitable
winner despite everyone hating him
forgets to campaign in swing States
dismisses opponent's crowd signs he got
shot in a swing state and most
importantly and recently have emails
hacked and leaked I guess look things in
Trump World uh people are not happy now
with how the campaign is being run I'm
seeing a lot of um many people are
saying I'm seeing a lot of grumbling
from uh connected Republicans with how
the campaign is being handled with what
it's focusing on um I I will say k
Harris is up a couple points in these
swing States we do have to remember that
in in the 2020 election Joe Biden was up
by as many as seven points at various
times and it ended up being very much
much closer than that so even if she's
up it doesn't she is clearly doing
better than Joe Biden was a month ago
that's you know we not discount that but
it is still very close either side could
win this election it takes focus and
determination and um and the Trump
people have to work on that now I just
saw some breaking news this morning
Trump is suing the justice department
for $100 million for the mar Lago raid
they're saying that was uh interference
with his business operations uh
torturous interference it's a common uh
civil suit terminology and so that just
got announced um this morning very
interesting to see what's going to come
of that maybe he's desperate for cash
who
knows I think that yeah seeing his
rather laxed campaign schedule
comparatively when asked about this he
says you know I'm going to let them have
their convention I'm not going to you
know bother trying to hold rallies when
they're doing their own thing I I don't
really get that I feel like you should
campaign while the convention's
happening I don't I don't really
understand that as a reason for why his
schedules thinned out so much um but my
dad did warn me you know be careful
doing anything with kamla because
there's these AI crowds that are
following her around sound very scary
we're going to talk more about the
crowds later on the show I think that's
probably a reason why his schedule has
thinned out I think he doesn't want to
be in a situation where people are
comparing their crowd sizes I will say
he's been campaigning for longer than
she has and there's some excitement to
want to go to a rally for a candidate
you've never had the chance to before
I'm sure a lot of Trump's supporters
have been to his rallies in the past so
I don't think it's something that will
determine who the winner is what these
crowd sizes are I do think internally it
is making them feel very bad and sad
well KLA is benefiting from massive
fawning media coverage right now um the
media is Bel it loves her campaign is
all about it they they had soured on
Biden Biden was getting no favors from
the media and then in fact he was
getting some of the most intensely
negative press coverage that a Democrat
has ever gotten in like our lifetimes
because they wanted to force him from
the ticket which they succeeded in doing
and now they've Fallen back in line
behind her and so everything is I I just
saw her on the cover of time this
morning uh it's uh it's um it says her
moment uh you know that kind of stuff
it's we're getting Barack Obama level
historical Milestone appreciation for
kamla Harris and uh you know that's
worth that's worth something it's not
going to decide the election necessarily
but it's worth a lot and uh and there's
but you're right that you know not
everyone is thrilled with Trump although
it's interesting again to look at the
policies except for abortion if you look
at the policies people want Trump's
policies they want his economic policies
they want his immigration policies the
only area and it's a decisive win to be
clear but is is abortion other than that
people want want a return to Trump
policies but maybe they don't want a
return to Trump himself is going to be
the deciding question of this election
will people stomach will people
ultimately decide they want Trump's
policies you know warts and all even if
that means four more years of Donald
Trump himself or whether they just can't
do it well what's interesting is is the
polling shows that yes people want
Trump's policies but how these questions
are asked matters more is the question
actually representative of real policies
Donald Trump has committed to this time
around and things that he supported when
he was president or got done as
president if they straight up asked the
American people are you okay with
corporate profits being cut uh their
taxes being cut by a higher margin than
taxes have been cut for working in
Middle Class families are you in support
of the corporate tax cuts lasting Beyond
2025 when the middle class and
workingclass tax cuts expire people
would not be support of that and that's
one of the biggest impacts the Trump
presidency has had on the economy I do
think some of the media coverage is
because there's organic support of KLA
Harris the media likes giving people
what they want to see we saw social
media blow up in support of KLA Harris
that's not something that's controlled
by corporations or the mainstream that's
organic support among people she has a
favorability rating of
47.5% trump in 2016 before he won the
presidency was down at 34% and social
media sites are I would not yeah but
their corporations cannot control what
users are posting on social media they
can yes they can and they do and they
can influence what they cannot tell
people you have to post about KLA Harris
they do not do no no no but they can
reup and promote posts in favor of one
person or the other we haven't seen any
evidence of that happening we have seen
many young people posting on Tik Tok
poting on because it's owned by Elon
Musk is maybe boosting right-wing stuff
I think I've seen things on my timeline
that I've never interacted with before
but we've also seen organically the
coconut army take over Twitter so I
think Comm Harris has a lot of support
and excitement right now and I think you
know maybe the mainstream media is
reflecting what their viewers want to
see they want to see this new campaign
they want to see coverage of it and
she's very popular right now I think
they're reflecting what they want to see
but we will continue paying attention to
this more rising in just a minute
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