Trump Needs to Utilize Nikki Haley as He Campaigns in Swing States: Political Commentator

For some insight into the Trump campaign, we invite Jeff Krueger. He's a political analyst and TV radio host. Hi, Jeff. Hey, Kevin. Hey, good to see you. So Trump's getting a little bit momentum. He's got those two charges dropped against him in Georgia case. Probably going to put a little bit of spin on that. Whereas Harris, she's picked up the endorsement of Swift, and that brought 400,000 voters to vote.gov. So what's going to happen next in Trump's campaign here? What does he have to do? Well, I mean, I think he's getting some boosts as far as the law fair, and that's good for him. He can focus more on the campaign. I think the next big event, of course, is the VP debate coming up, and they're going to want a strong performance there. I think the president made a lot of news saying no more debates. And, you know, I think it was a wise decision, Kevin, because, I mean, he's had seven debates since he became a presidential candidate. He's been in the spotlight for decades. People know him. So it's just getting out the vote and getting the small sliver of undecided votes, those people in the middle in those seven battleground states are going to determine this election. And Harris feels like she got a boost out of it because, you know, she is feeling good and optimistic, and she did better than the low expectations were about her. So both candidates, I think, feel like they've got a boost and are moving forward. Yeah, well, is President Trump really aware that he's running against Harris and not Biden? I mean, is he still spinning from this whole changeup that was thrown at him? He talked about it in the debate. I mean, even Harris had to say, hey, he's running against me, not Biden. Kevin, the American people are spinning. I mean, this has never been done before where you have a switch. I mean, Joe Biden has been the president. People were assuming Joe Biden was going to be the candidate. And now it's Kamala Harris, and she didn't go through any primaries, didn't win any delegates. So I think it is sort of quite a switcheroo. The interesting thing is, I'm glad you brought up Joe Biden. I mean, he puts on a Donald Trump hat. That's so strange. He talks about unity when he's been attacking MAGA so much. That sort of took the wind out of the sails of Harris after the debate to see, you know, the president put on a MAGA hat. So this has been the strangest election, Kevin, that we've ever seen. Well, Jeff, let's go to the Sunbelt. Trump's got some efforts in Arizona. We just saw him in a rally in Tucson there, and he's got the turning point action, this grassroots voter movement that's trying to drive up the margins there. There were 230,000 Republicans, reportedly, who didn't vote in the 2020 election, and they're just trying to get them to come out. Is that an effective strategy? That is. That's been a real problem for Republicans. You've had evangelical voters. You've had traditional Republican voters that haven't been voting. Could be because of the division we have in the Republican Party. I think it might be wise for President Trump to try to utilize Nikki Haley more in these last few weeks of the campaign. Try to get her vote on board. She's already endorsed the president, but maybe utilize her more. I think turning point is a big weapon that the Republicans have that they didn't have before. You've got people like Scott Pressler who's doing a good job of registering Republicans and getting them out. Everyone realizes, Kevin, this is going to be so close. Democrats are doing the same thing on their side, mobilizing people as best they can. It's going to be razor thin in Arizona, just like the other states. I just saw a poll for the Senate race in Arizona, and Carrie Lake has cut the margin, so she's only a few points down. Seven states are going to determine the election for all of us in 50 states. That's where the action's going to be over these next few weeks. Let's go back to the debate. They just finished up the second presidential debate. The first was against Biden with Trump, and then now Harris. Trump says that he did well. He won by a lot and that there's no more need for debates, but Harris is calling for another one. How are voters going to view this? I think it's split. I think Harris voters won another debate. I think Trump voters have had enough. There's really a thinking that it was a three-on-one debate, that the moderators were in Harris's camp, and I think there's a lot of evidence for that now. People that really support President Trump are wondering, why subject yourself to another debate that's going to be biased? Now, the one thing that I'm going to throw out there is maybe a possibility. He could be using this as a negotiation to try to see if he can get better terms from Harris as far as moderators, as far as venue, on a network that's not as anti-Trump. We know ABC has not been very favorable to the president. The moderators weren't favorable. This could be a negotiating ploy to try to get a better situation for another debate, but it seems like that that's a remote possibility. The more likely scenario is that we're not going to see him again, and we just have this one VP debate, and that's going to be it. It's going to be advertisements and get out the vote from here until election day. Well, it is a little bit surprising that Trump went through with this in the first place, considering his defamation lawsuit against ABC News surrounding that E. Jean Carroll case. Harris took in about $47 million in the day after the debate. That's a lot of money. The campaign finances are huge in this election, and do you think that that is why former President Trump is a little bit cautious here? Could be. Harris beat expectations, no doubt about it, Kevin, and she got a boost. I think President Trump feels he did well enough to say, hey, no more. Harris has been doing a good job fundraising. The Democrat fortunes have been lifted tremendously with her as the nominee. Remember when Joe Biden was a nominee, they couldn't raise money. They were having a hard time getting their donors on board. Now with Harris, they're enthusiastic. She's raising the money, so we're going to see a lot of Harris ads from now until election day because she's got lots and lots of money. That's right. Well, hopefully we don't get any election stress if people bring this up at work. We're going to talk about that later, but I do appreciate you coming on, Jeff. Jeff Greer, political analyst and TV radio host. Thanks. Thanks, Kevin.