Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sit down with CNN's Dana Bash for their much-hyped first big interview—and they pass the test. Donald Trump tries again to tack to the left on reproductive rights, and his campaign leans into their fight with Arlington National Cemetery over politicking at gravesites. Then, Jon and Dan go through the latest batch of national and state polls, all showing an extremely tight race.
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Free. Shopify.com/podcastfree. Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm Jon Favreau. I'm Dan Pfeiffer. On today's show, Donald Trump now wants you to believe he's a champion of reproductive rights. His campaign also continues their fight with the
US military over Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery. Always a fight you want to pick. And we got a whole raft of new polls showing an extremely tight race.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sat down for their first TV interview since becoming the Democratic ticket and the world will never be the same. That's right it's 10 p.m. Eastern as we're recording this.
About four hours later than we usually record, because we were not about to let this episode of Pod Save America become overtaken by events. - Knock on wood, you have no idea what's going on between now and 6 a.m. tomorrow. - It's, okay, yeah, well, you know what, it's 10.15 East Coast time now.
So I'm willing to take my chances. Okay. We'll see. How about that? I just put it out there.
Oh anyway, we waited around for CNN to air Dana Bash's interview with Harris and Walls, which they sat down for after wrapping up a bus tour through southern Georgia. Not surprisingly, when the first excerpt of the interview dropped today, it was Dana asking Harris about why she's changed positions on some key issues from past campaigns.
Listen. Do you still want to ban fracking? No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020. That I would not ban fracking. As vice president, I did not ban fracking. As president, I will not ban fracking. My values have not changed. So that is the reality of it and four years of being vice president. I'll tell you one of the aspects to your point.
Is traveling the country extensively. I mean, I'm here in Georgia. I think somebody told me 17 times since I've been vice president in Georgia alone, I believe it is important to build consensus. And it is important to find a common place of understanding of where we can actually solve problems. - All right, Dan, so we knew this one was coming and so did Kamala Harris. How do you think she did? - Great. It was the right answer. She didn't get weighed down in the--
Details of it. She didn't let Dana Bash play gacha with her. She just laid it out on message in a way that I think is easily understood to people because unlike politicians, people
change their mind all the time, and they're allowed to do so when they get new information of different experiences. So I think it was a good answer to a question that they have known was coming since the day she became the nominee.
That line, my values haven't changed, she repeated several times. I saw some folks on the Harris campaign tweeting that. Clearly, they wanted that to be the message that people take away from that. Basically, it's like two parts to this answer. Like one, my values haven't changed, but and you heard her at the end there talk about, As I've been vice president and traveled around the country, one thing I've learned is how to build consensus. She's also trying to signal that like, and she did this in her convention speech as well when she said, I'll be a president who's practical, who's realistic. She wants to convey that she has these deeply held values that are not changing.
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