LIVES AND, OF COURSE, A
PRESIDENT WHO CONTINUES TO LOSE
BADLY IN SWING STATES.
>> AND LET ME ADD TO THAT
DYNAMIC AS WE GET INTO THE NEW
SWING STATE POLLING.
THE OTHER ASPECT OF THIS IS THAT
REPUBLICANS AREN’T STUPID, ARE
THEY?
I MEAN, IT’S ONE THING TO ASSUME
VOTERS ARE STUPID, THAT’S BAD
ENOUGH.
BUT THEY CAN’T BE STUPID.
THEY MUST SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING
HERE.
THEY KNOW THE LAW.
MANY OF THEM ARE NOT STUPID.
THEY SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH
THE POST OFFICE.
I ASSUME REPUBLICANS LOVE THEIR
COUNTRY, THEY’RE THERE TO SERVE.
TO ME IT’S STILL VEXING AS TO
WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING ON EVEN IF
IT’S AT THE RISK OF THEIR
POLITICAL JOBS.
POLLING SHOWS VICE PRESIDENT JOE
BIDEN IS PULLING AHEAD OF
PRESIDENT TRUMP IN STATES TRUMP
WON IN 2016.
IN THE NEW CBS NEWS/YOUGOV POLL.
OUT OF PENNSYLVANIA, JOE BIDEN
LEADS PRESIDENT TRUMP 49, 43.
IN WISCONSIN BIDEN AT 48%
COMPARED TO DONALD TRUMP 42.
AND A STATEWIDE POLL FROM
MICHIGAN FOUND TRUMP TRAILING
BIDEN BY 11 POINTS, 40% TO 51.
AND JOE, AGAIN, I RAISE THE
ISSUE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH
THE POST OFFICE.
WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP LOOKS AT
THE NUMBERS, IT’S A WORTHY
QUESTION, IS IT NOT, THAT --
>> YEAH.
>> -- THERE IS SABOTAGE INVOLVED
HERE.
>> THE PRESIDENT IS DESPERATE
AND WE KNOW HE’D DO ANYTHING TO
GET RE-ELECTED.
SO THE QUESTION IS FOR PEOPLE AS
THEY’RE LOOKING AT THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES DECIDING
THE RADICALLY RESTRUCTURE THE
UNITED STATES POST OFFICE JUST
MONTHS BEFORE THE MOST IMPORTANT
ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIME AND THE
ELECTION THAT THE UNITED STATES
POST OFFICE WILL PLAY THE MOST
IMPORTANT ROLE.
DELUGED WITH A MILLION BALL
LOSLOS --
BAT
BALLOTS.
>> IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC.
>> YES.
I’M CURIOUS IF THERE’S A
REPUBLICAN SENATOR BRAVE ENOUGH
TO TAKE UP THE CAUSE AND SAY
IT’S NOT GOING TO BE ALLOWED.
BUT YOU LOOK AT THE POLLS,
JONATHAN LEMIRE, AND THEY LINE
UP FAIRLY CONSISTENTLY WHAT
YOU’VE BEEN HEARING WHAT WE’VE
BEEN SEEING, AND THAT IS
MICHIGAN, APPARENTLY OUT OF
REACH RIGHT NOW FOR THE
PRESIDENT.
AND WISCONSIN AND PENNSYLVANIA
BOTH STILL SOLID -- SOLIDLY IN
THE BIDEN CAMP.
YOU LOOK THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF
PENNSYLVANIA, WITH THE SUBURBS
OF PHILLY, PHILADELPHIA PROPER,
LOOK AT SCRANTON WILKES-BARRE.
A BIG MEDIA MARKET THAT USUALLY
BREAKS BIG FOR REPUBLICANS.
THAT’S NOW -- BIDEN IS DOING
WELL THERE, OF COURSE, BECAUSE
IT’S HIS HOMETOWN.
THE PRESIDENT IS FACING REAL
DIFFICULTY AS WE GET HALFWAY
THROUGH AUGUST.
>> THAT’S RIGHT, JOE.
AND THE PRESIDENT HAS RECEIVED
NEW BRIEFINGS FROM THE CAMPAIGN
STAFF ABOUT WHERE THINGS STAND.
FIRST, A LITTLE MORE POLITICS
THIS WEEKEND, OF COURSE.
THIS IS THE WHITE HOUSE WITH THE
EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND THEY’RE
DUBIOUS CONSTITUTIONALITY.
THIS IS THEM TRYING TO FRAME THE
PRESIDENT STEPPING IN THE
BREECH, THIS IS THE PRESIDENT IS
A MAN OF ACTION TRYING TO GET IT
DONE.
BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE LESSER
THAN EXPECTED.
ONE OTHER THING TO FLAG, PAYROLL
TAXES HELP FUND SOCIAL SECURITY
SO THIS IS THE PRESIDENT TRYING
TO CUT INTO THAT.
THE PRESIDENT DENYIED THAT
YESTERDAY SAYING SOCIAL SECURITY
WOULDN’T BE TOUCHED IT WOULD
COME FROM AN UNSPECIFIED GENERAL
FUND.
THAT’S SOMETHING WE NEED
SPECIFICS ON.
BACK TO THE SWING STATES THE
PRESIDENT AND HIS TEAM THEIR NEW
INTERNAL POLLING, HE WAS BRIEFED
ON THIS OVER THE WEEKEND
SUGGESTS WHAT YOU SAID, JOE,
THAT MICHIGAN IS BASICALLY OUT
OF REACH.
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAS STOPPED
ADVERTISING THERE, THEY ARE NOT
PLAYING THERE.
THEY’VE ALL BUT CEDED MICHIGAN.
ANOTHER STATE YOU AND I TALKED
ABOUT IN THE EARLY PARTS OF THE
CAMPAIGN THEY THOUGHT HAD THE
CHANCE TO FLIP, A STATE THEY
LOST IN MANY 2016 BUT FEEL THEY
CAN TURN THING AROUND IN HAD
THIS TIME, MINNESOTA, NOW
THEY’RE CONCEDING IT OUT OF
REACH AND THEY’RE NOT GOING TO
PLAY THERE.
THEY FEEL THE GAP HAS NARROWED
IN SOME OF THE BATTLEGROUND
STATES, NEW HAMPSHIRE ONE,
WISCONSIN ANOTHER STATE THAT
WON’T HAVE COLLEGE STUDENTS ON
CAMPUS THIS FALL WHO WON’T BE
ABLE TO REGISTER TO VOTE THERE,
SAME DAY VOTING IN IF MADISON,
WISCONSIN NOT GOING TO HAPPEN
BECAUSE STUDENTS LIKELY WON’T BE
ON CAMPUS.
BUT PENNSYLVANIA IS TRYING TO
MAKE A PUSH HERE.
JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN AHEAD, AS YOU
SAID, THE WHITE HOUSE TEAM, THE
CAMPAIGN TEAM THINKS IT’S WITHIN
REACH.
THEY FEEL THEY’VE WHITTLED OFF A
LITTLE OF HIS MARGIN.
AND THEN THERE’S THE FIRE OF WHO
VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’S PICK
WILL BE THAT WILL BE A FOCUS THE
NEXT FEW DAYS AND FOR THE WHITE
HOUSE A RELIEF.
THIS WHOLE CAMPAIGN -- EVERY DAY
OF THE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN ABOUT
DONALD TRUMP FOR AT LEAST A FEW
DAYS THEY FEEL THAT SCRUTINY ON
BIDEN AND HIS PICK THE STORY
WILL BE ABOUT JOE BIDEN AND HIS
PICK.
>> I DON’T SEE THEM MAKING A
PLAY FOR IT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
WISCONSIN COULD BE COMPETITIVE
TILL THE END.
BUT AGAIN, YOU LOOK AT THE
BREAKDOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA, I
JUST DON’T SEE HOW THEY MAKE UP
ENOUGH VOTES TO MAKE -- PUT
PENNSYLVANIA IN THEIR COLUMN BY
THE END.
SO THIS MAP CONTINUES TO SHRINK
BY THE DAY FOR THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN.