The countdown to be able to use presidential debate one week from tonight of course right here on a b c vice president kamala harris and plumber president donald trump face to face for the first time it could be the most consequential event of their campaigns tonight hear the new a b c news poll who now leads in this very close race recline standing by with the numbers rachel scott on the campaign trail.
-tonight with their first the be just one week away former president donald trump and vice president harith preparing for what could be the most consequential moment of this campaign in a podcast interview today trump projecting confidence or adding a rare acknowledgement that he lost the last election well done well with the birds and abu
-became president than the second time i got millions more was i got the first time i was told if i got sixty three million which is what i got the first time you you’d you’d would ruin you can not when
-then i get millions more votes than that and
-lush by a whisker trunk never a fan of formal debate prep has been reviewing policy with advisors including former congresswoman tolsey gabbert who wants challenge harris herself on the debate stage here is taking a much more formal approach as she prepares the a beat trump and what will be their first face to face meeting we know this is guy
-be a tight race to the very end
-it’s gonna be a tight race to the very end so let’s not pay too much attention to those polls sources tell a b c news harris has done at least to mark debates at her alma mater howard university her campaign bringing on hillary clinton’s former senior advisor fully brine it’s who helped clinton prepare for the twenty six team debates to once again
-then play the role of trump the vice president know she has to make up ground on the economy where polls give trump an edge she sent to roll out a new phase of our agenda new hampshire tomorrow focused on building up small businesses by expanding tax deductions here is positioning herself a champion of the middle class
-trump i will always put the middle class and working class families
-i come from the middle class i know what i’m talking about both again and anthropic campaign trail today preparing for the debate and win tonight.
We have learned that for president donald trump is expected to plead not guilty and that new indictment from the special counsel when they did to his adapt to try to overturn the twenty twenty election trump is expected hold a campaign rally in wisconsin later this week at for heresy of the campaign stop in new hampshire and then shall travel of pennsylvania on thursday.
She will hunker down until the debate david rachel scott with us on among tuesday night feels like monday but it is tuesday after labor day rachel thank you let’s get right to our washington bureau chief political director recline brick this new a b c news ipsos poll shows a very close race coming into labor day.
David our latest poll the of social vice president harris with a six point lead among likely voters she came out of the democratic convention holding that slight lead nationally but looking just at the key battleground states or that a the president biden dropped out you can see all seven of the major battlegrounds were tipping read in the five thirty eight polling averages trump leaving it all that buy as many as seven points in north carolina fast forward to day six out of the seven states are leaning blue.
But some of these these or virtual tie of look again at north carolina that it’s trump up by less than half a percentage point david one dynamic were watching a growing gender gap harris now leading about women by thirteen points that’s more than in our last round of polling with ipsos and trump was up five points overall among men it all points to a very close race down the stretch.
we’ve heard hours call herself the underdog and years one reason why her lead not that much different than hillary clinton’s wasn’t twenty sixteen a race of course that she went on to lose in the electoral college it