Trump threatens to bail on the September debate, his campaign signals yet another attempt to keep their candidate on message, and his newest big endorser now comes with even more dead-animal baggage. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz prepare to hit the road on a Georgia bus tour and sit for a high-stakes interview. Jon and Tommy break down the state of the race as we head into the final two months, and Harris-Walz battleground state director Dan Kanninen stops by to talk about Harris's pathways to 270 electoral votes—and all the work they're doing on the ground to make sure she gets there.
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Please save. Welcome to Pod Save America, I'm Jon Favreau. I'm Tommy Vitor. Good to be back from Chicago, but I really miss not sleeping and eating like shit. What about you?
To not be doing this in eyeshot of a Michael Jordan statue or 15,000 of our closest friends. Yeah, that was a lot. Super loud noise all the time behind us, no headphones. Great week though! Very fun.
Fantastic City I Chicago it was like what 72 75 every single day perfect I maybe want to move there again, and we barely get to enjoy it I walked I walked by the lake one time for about an hour. Did you get out smart? No not at all I like two blocks from the hotel. Maybe all right on today's show
Trump campaign says Trump is serious about ramping up his schedule and staying on message as we head into the fall. And they really mean it this time.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz get ready for a swing through southern Georgia in their first big interview. Then you'll hear Harris' campaign's battleground states director, our friend Dan Cannon, talk to Pfeiffer and me about the campaign's path to 270 and what they're doing on the ground to get there. But first, now that both conventions are over, one of the last and potentially the last big event between now and election day is the September 10th presidential debate on ABC News. even that might not be a sure thing on Sunday night.
Trump posted a rant about ABC News on Truth Social saying quote I ask why would I do the debate against Kamala Harris on that network? ostensibly because Sunday's This Week roundtable triggered him in some way He also doesn't like George sloppidopolis sloppidopolis that could be a thing. He had complaints about sloppidopolis John Carl, Donna Brazil, huh? I mean he was just he was pretty angry. It's been the same cast of characters on ABC
for a while. You probably should have seen this one coming. So Playbook had more reporting on Monday morning that there's actually a substantive disagreement between the campaigns about whether the rules should be the same as the Biden-Trump debate. The Trump campaign wants the mics muted again when the other candidate is speaking. But this time the Harris campaign wants the mics on the whole time. Here's Trump when he was asked about it in an event on Monday.
Would you want the microphone muted in the debate whenever you're not speaking? We agreed to the same rules. I don't know. Doesn't matter to me. I'd rather have it probably on. But the agreement was that it would be the same as it was.
Last time in that case, it was muted. I didn't like it the last time, but it worked out fine. I mean, ask Biden how it worked out. It was fine.
I think it should be the same. We agreed to the same rules. Same rules and same specifications. And I think that's probably what it should be. But they're trying to change it. The truth is they're trying to get out of it. Because she doesn't want to debate. She's not a good debater. She's not a smart person.
She doesn't want to debate. On message. I love there's like a take out or coming in as he's doing a press conference.
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