is an arms race, >> Nick Ramos, thanks very much.
>> Hey, thank you Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are now
sparring over when and where to debate each other.
change up just off the Republican National Convention.
We had to have political panelists Republican Bill
Coshen and Democrat Scot Ross back again for reaction to fast
moving election news. And thank you guys for coming back to talk
with us. k for giving
us a locker here. Yeah exactly. >> So just since last Friday,
Joe Biden stepped aside and Kamala Harris stepped in. I want
to go first to you, Bill McCoshen, and ask your reaction
to that. eir best to
snap off any bounce from the RNC for Donald Trump. That's for
sure. I mean, you look at the point in history we're at, we
have had three seismic shifts in the last 30 days. First was the
early debate on June 27th, which was fatal, really, for Joe Bide.
Then you had an assassination attempt and then you have a
candidate, a major candidate, dropping out with 107 days to go
in the race. At no point in in our 248 year history have we
ever seen anything like this. So I think people ought to keep
this all in perspective. How much change there that has
occurred just in the last 30 days?
>> Scott? Your reaction? >> Well, you know, everything
that Bill said was correct. So this is what it sounds like when
doves cry, you know, I mean, it is an absolute and complete
turnaround for where the Democrats were both fundraising
wise, enthusiasm, you know, across the board. I mean, I
would not have wanted to be a part of the Monday morning, you
know, July 22nd Breakfast Club with Trump having to see what
they had to deal with that day because they knew, I mean, you
know, Kamala Harris raised $81 million. The first day. And now
I think they I think by the end of the week they had about a
quarter of a million between that and the super PACs. Yeah.
It was I mean, it's an extraordinary it's an
aordinary show of support. But it's also that unity with
Dems like it had not been there. It had not been there.
>> Dems are energized by the change, no doubt about it. And,
you know, we'll see if there's somewhat of a sugar high here
and that sort of melts over time. I think, you know, for the
next 30 days, Republicans ought to be prepared for a tough race
all the way through the fall. Yeah, I think I could be a I
mean, I'm a broken record on this, but just the historic
first with Kamala Harris's, you know, the first black woman, the
first South Asian and the first Gen-xer to be in the white House
and again, going from where Democrats had been and where the
country had been, you know, we'd had a Boomer in the in the white
House from 93 to 2021. >> Then we had Joe Biden a
little earlier. This is the first time this could happen.
And, you know, change is always, always favors the candidate who
people don't know as much about. >> So I wanted to ask you, who
do you think Kamala Harris should choose for her VP?
>> Well, I just want to say first, right off the bat, I
think that it is an embarrassment of riches for the
for the Democrats with all the great candidates, possibly, who
are, you know, for 4 or 5 who are being vetted right now. And
I think that shows what happens when you don't have your party
held hostage by a guy like Trump for the last eight years. My
choice would be Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. And
the reason is because he is thebest media person, other than
Barack Obama, that Democrats currently, you know, currently
have to deliver, message and deliver the punch. And he's also
been vetted because he was not only a presidential candidate,
but also transportation secretary nominee.
ting part is huge and that we're struggling with that
a little bit with JD Vance. He was the one candidate in the
finals who had not been vetted on a national stage. Doug Burgum
had run for president, Marco Rubio had run for president. So
they had been vetted. And I think we're sort of working our
way through that. I don't know who they're going to ultimately
choose. I think they'll make a strategic call, whether it's
Mark Kelly to put Arizona in play or it's Ray Cooper to put
North Carolina in play, or it's, Governor Shapiro to put
Pennsylvania in play. Those are the options I think make more
sense than Buttigieg for from a from a tactical standpoint. But
we'll see. Republicans will be ready either way.
talking about, should have vetted JD Vance better and
you're working your way through that. What does that mean?
>> Well, here's where I'm at on this. I think there's, there was
a an unbelievable change in this race, the landscape last Sunday.
And I think we ought to reconsider where we're at. I
don't know that we should necessarily stick with JD Vance.
I think Donald Trump could easily ask the RNC to reconsider
their vote to nominate him. If there's a candidate that gives
us a better chance to win. At the end of the day, all of
campaigns are about winning. You can't govern if you don't win,
and if they've got data that shows that there are candidates
that may be stronger than JD Vance. If I'm Trump, I'm
considering that. >> I mean, you know, so now that
the shine has come off JD Vance, we're starting to learn a little
bit more about him. I lived in the Appalachian region longer
than he did, and my grandmother, Grandma Beulah, would have said,
you know, he pert near got away with it and he didn't. And
Democrats are going to continue to pound on him because he is
the gift that keeps giving an abortion, calling it murder,
saying no exceptions for rape and incest. The new recording
that came out showing that he wanted abortion stormtroopers to
be able to go for made by the federal government to go from
blue red states to blue states to chase women who were trying
to access their, you know, their abortion rights. You know, as
far as Democrats go, nobody puts JD in the corner.
>> Last Saturday, Trump I would have put out an 80% chance to
win today. I would put it at 60%. So there has been a
closure, no question about it. There have been six national
polls. Trump's leading on five of them. She's leading on one in
the swing states. The only state that tightened completely was
Wisconsin. It's now tied at least on one poll. So I think
Trump's still in a position to win this. You want to make sure
Vance doesn't hurt the ticket in any way, shape or form. Scott
raised some things that, you know, there should have been
discussed beforehand, but if I'm if I'm playing to win, I'm
considering all my options. >> I want to leave it with Scot
Ross and ask you about what Kamala Harris's entry into the
race does for Tammy Baldwin. >> Well, it's huge.
>> You know, I'm I think that Tammy was going to prevail no
matter what. But this really does a great job with ceiling
that she had to do the work, you know. But again, Wisconsinites
are going to only vote for one Californian in the race. And
that's Kamala Harris. You know, I mean, I think that Republicans
woke up, you know, thought that we were going to wake up after
November 5th with this red dawn all over the country. But I
think, you know, with Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket,
we are going to have a sea of we are going to have a sea of