HAMAS LEADERS WILL PAY FOR THESE CRIMES. THESE KILLINGS ARE CERTAIN TO PUT PRESSURE ON ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU TO BRING HOME THE REMAINING HOSTAGES. TURNING NOW TO THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP RALLY IN PENNSYLVANIA THIS WEEK, WHERE POLLS SHOW HIM TIED HARRIS AFTER LEAVING PENNSYLVANIA.
THE FORMER PRESIDENT TRAVELED TO WASHINGTON, DC FOR A MOMS FOR LIBERTY EVENT, WHERE HE CRITICIZED THIS ANSWER FROM VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS ON FRACKING, A DIFFERENT ANSWER THAN SHE HAD PREVIOUSLY GIVEN. >> 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.
>> MEANWHILE, THE NEXT WEEK OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE WILL SEE HARRIS KICKING OFF A 50 PLUS BUS TOUR STOP FOCUSED ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. THE VICE PRESIDENT AND HER RUNNING MATE, TIM WALZ, HAVE MADE THE ISSUE A FIXTURE OF THEIR CAMPAIGN. THE PAIR RECENTLY VISITED GEORGIA, A STATE THAT RECENT POLLS SHOW COULD BE WINNABLE.
VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS HAS GOTTEN A BUMP IN THE POLLS OF LATE FOLLOWING THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN THE LATEST WALL STREET JOURNAL POLL TAKEN AFTER THE CONVENTION, HARRIS NOW HAS A SLIM LEAD OVER FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. AARON ZITNER RETURNS TO THE PROGRAM THIS MORNING. HE IS AN EDITOR AND REPORTER AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND JOINS US TO TALK MORE ABOUT THE POLL.
FIRST, BEFORE WE GET. GOOD TO SEE YOU. GOOD TO SEE YOU, TOM.
WE'VE BEEN ON THE ROAD A BIT TOGETHER THIS SUMMER, LET'S START WITH THE OVERALL NUMBER FIRST AND IF THE ELECTION WERE HELD TODAY, HARRIS GETS 48%. TRUMP GETS 47%, WE HAVE HEARD FOR SOME TIME THAT TRUMP HAS A 47% CEILING ON HIS ABILITY TO GET UP THERE IN THE POLLS. HARRIS NOW TICKING UP ONE PERCENTAGE OVER THIS.
IT'S WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR. BUT WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOU ABOUT WHERE TRUMP IS AT AND WHERE HARRIS COULD GO? WELL, LET'S TAKE A STEP BACK, TOM.
>> LIKE LIKE A LOT OF POLLS, THIS IS WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR. AND WE CAN'T REALLY SAY WHO'S AHEAD. TO BE FAIR.
BUT THERE'S SOME VERY IMPORTANT DURABLE FINDINGS IN THIS POLL. >> THINK BACK. >> IT WAS ONLY SIX WEEKS AGO TODAY, SIX WEEKS AGO, THAT JOE BIDEN WITHDREW FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
AND WHAT WE HAVE HAD SINCE THEN IS A FIGHT BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES TO DEFINE KAMALA HARRIS. AND THIS POLL HAS SOME VERY CLEAR FINDINGS THAT DONALD TRUMP'S EFFORTS TO TARNISH HER, TO CALL HER A COMMUNIST COMRADE KAMALA, TO QUESTION HER BLACK IDENTITY, TO RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT HER, HAVE NOT REALLY SUCCEEDED. AND AS A NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION, A NEW BRAND INTRODUCTION.
DEMOCRATS HAVE DONE VERY WELL IN ESTABLISHING HER AS A LIKABLE PERSON INDEPENDENT OF JOE BIDEN. >> WHEN YOU GET INTO THIS, SOME OF THE QUESTIONS YOU ASKED AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, WHO WILL STAND UP FOR AMERICAN WORKERS? WHO HAS THE EXPERIENCE TO LEAD THE COUNTRY?
WHO WOULD BRING ABOUT CHANGE? WHO HAS THE RIGHT TEMPERAMENT TO BE PRESIDENT? IT'S INTERESTING, IF YOU WATCH HARRIS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, SHE IS RUNNING AS THE NON-INCUMBENT WHEN SHE'S ALREADY IN OFFICE.
RIGHT NOW, A LOT OF THESE QUESTIONS SEEM TO BE DIRECTLY TIED TO WHAT WE HAVE HEARD FROM VOTERS IS THAT THEY WANTED A FRESH FACE. THEY WANTED A NEW CHOICE. >> YOU KNOW, YOU'RE HITTING AN INTERESTING POINT WHEN WE ASK, DO YOU APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE OF THE JOB THAT KAMALA HARRIS IS DOING AS VICE PRESIDENT?
SHE GETS LOW MARKS. SHE'S EXACTLY WHERE SHE WAS SIX WEEKS AGO. ABOUT 40% APPROVE, 50% DISAPPROVE.
BUT WHEN YOU ASK, DOES SHE HAVE THE EXPERIENCE TO BE PRESIDENT? WILL SHE BRING NEEDED CHANGE? WILL SHE FIGHT FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER?
SHE'S TIED WITH DONALD TRUMP. SHE'S ON PAR WITH HIM. AND WHEN WE FAVORABLE VIEW OF THIS PERSON OR UNFAVORABLE?
SHE HAS JUMPED 13 POINTS. >> SHE WAS MORE UNFAVORABLE THAN FAVORABLE BACK IN EARLY JULY BY 23 POINTS. >> NOW SHE'S AT PARITY 49 FAVORABLE 49 UNFAVORABLE.
THAT'S A BIG IMPROVEMENT. AND SHE'S AHEAD OF DONALD TRUMP. PEOPLE HAVE A MORE FAVORABLE VIEW OF HER THAN THEY DO OF HIM.
>> ON THAT QUESTION. AND WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THAT, TOO, IS IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, WHEN SHE'S PITTED AGAINST HERSELF, CANDIDATE HARRIS VERSUS VICE DO ALL THAT GREAT. BUT WHEN SHE'S PITTED AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, HER NUMBERS SEEM TO GO UP.
>> SHE SEEMS TO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY STEPPED OUT OF THE ROLE OF VICE PRESIDENT. PEOPLE DO NOT, YOU KNOW, SEE HER IN A POSITIVE LIGHT AS VICE PRESIDENT, BUT SHE SEEMS TO BE SEEN AS HER OWN PERSON, AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. >> THE FAVORABLE AND THE UNFAVORABLE QUESTION COMES IN, I THINK IN A DIFFERENT WAY, MAYBE IN THIS CAMPAIGN THAN IT HAS IN, IN PAST RACES BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT YOU KNOW, THIS IS A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES RUNNING AGAINST A CURRENT VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE'VE EVER SEEN, BUT THESE ARE KNOWN COMMODITIES. ALL RIGHT. YOU KNOW, KAMALA HARRIS NOT, UNFAMILIAR TO VOTERS.
DONALD TRUMP IS CERTAINLY NOT UNFAMILIAR, BUT SHE HAS DONE WELL ON THE QUESTION OF FAVORABILITY OVER, OVER TRUMP RIGHT NOW. >> THAT'S THAT'S RIGHT. SHE'S COME UP 13 POINTS IN THE SHARE WHO SAY THEY HAVE A FAVORABLE VIEW OF HER.
HERE'S AN INTERESTING THING, TOM. WE ALSO ASKED, DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT KAMALA HARRIS'S CAREER AND POLICIES TO HAVE A FIRM OPINION OF HER? AND THERE'S ALL THIS TALK THAT PEOPLE DON'T REALLY KNOW HER YET.
84% OF PEOPLE IN OUR POLL SAID THEY DO KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT HER TO HAVE A FIRM OPINION. 15% SAY, I NEED TO LEARN MORE. SO GOING FORWARD, IS SHE GOING TO IS THIS HER HIGH OR DOES SHE HAVE ROOM TO GROW?
I'M GOING TO LOOK AT THAT 15% WHO SAY THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH KNOWLEDGE. THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION YET TO FORM AN OPINION TO SEE WHERE THEY GO. BUT THESE VOTERS ARE TELLING US THEY'VE KIND OF SEEN ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT THEY THINK OF HER.
