Kamala Harris reaches out to Mamdani ahead of possible 2028 bid

I'm Chad Pergram at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Of course, the founders met here to sign the Declaration of Independence and 250 years later something else went down that was very big here. The moment we've all been waiting for. We will now lower the time capsule into its home for the next 250 years. They buried a time capsule is to be opened in 2276. It contains items from all 50 states. My hope is that when we open this time capsule during America's 500th anniversary, they won't simply discover artifacts, they'll discover us. Chad Pergram, our thanks to you. I can only imagine what folks are going to think when they open that time capsule about what's going on now in 2026. So let's talk about that with our Sunday group. Axios politics reporter Steph Kites, Democratic strategist Leslie Marshall, former White House deputy chief of staff under George W. Bush, Karl Rove, and former communications director to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Mark Bednar. Welcome to everyone. Happy birthday, America. Great to have you here with us this weekend. All right. A lot of festivities and speeches this weekend. We heard from the president. We'll hear more of that later, but I want to play a little bit from New York City Mayor Mom Donnie, his take on where we are at 250. The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. Karl, your response? Baloney. I mean, what does he think? This is a great country in which he got elected mayor of New York. If the rich and powerful in the most powerful city in America, one of the wealthiest cities in America, were controlled by the people at the top, he wouldn't be mayor. It's controlled by the people. And the people in this country get to express their views, right or wrong, different or indifferent. That's the way it goes. Well, and he had great success with the candidates he backed there in New York just a couple of weeks ago. Clearly that there is a segment of the country that wants those specific candidates. Yeah, let's be clear about the segment of the population that wants these people, these democratic, self-proclaimed democratic socialists. Take a look at the districts, New York 7. Donald Trump got 19% of the vote. He ran 60 points behind Kamala Harris in that district. Remember, he won the presidential election with 49.8% of the vote. She was 1.5% behind. There's a 60 point margin in the third, a 70 point margin in the 10th, a 77 point margin in the 13th district. Colorado won where a long time and come we got knocked off in the democratic primary. Donald Trump got an amazing 21% of the vote. So what is happening is in those most blue parts of America, we are seeing the democratic socialists win. It's not that that's to be expected. The outrageous left is going to win where they are. You're saying these districts are not your people. These are not your voters. They're not representative of the country. One of the key races this fall is going to be in Colorado 8 where a democratic socialist won the democratic nomination for congress against an incumbent republican Gabe Evans and Donald Trump won that district by two points, roughly his national average. That's going to be the real test for the democratic socialists. Can they win outside of places where they dominate to the exclusion of everybody else? Yeah, well, in the meantime, they're having a conversation about who are the leading voices. What are the leading policies for their party? We've got former vice president Harris Fox News dot com reporting this week that she's been reaching out not only to Mayor Mom Donnie, but others in the latest sign that she is shoring up support for a possible 28 bid. Leslie reaching out to Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, also reaching out to these pro-Palestinian groups in that uncommitted group that was very anti-Biden because of the way that he handled Israel and Gaza. She's visited South Carolina. She says she's keeping her options open, but she clearly thinks this part of the party she needs to have on board. Well, she does, in a sense, because, you know, I hate to agree with you, Carl, but I would agree with you. This this is. Wait, I'm putting it down. Now, the Democratic. Leslie and Carl, same thing. Democratic socialists are not our party. They're a faction of our party, just like the Tea Party was a faction and still is of the Republican Party. And I want to be clear when I talk to people out there, especially young voters and especially independent voters, they don't even know what democratic socialism means. They don't know the difference between democratic socialism and communism, for example. And Republicans love the word communism. And they're throwing that around. And we're going to hear it every day a lot on a loop until the midterms. But the bottom line is what they like is the message. They like universal health care. They like free daycare. They like free lunches for their kids at school. They they feel the government should help them with health care. They feel the government should help them with education. But to your point about Kamala Harris, we all know she's going to run. We all kind of know who's going to run on both sides, regardless of what they say. But and she does need that support. I'm going to get in so much trouble for saying this, and Carl's going to be happy that I'm saying this. But, you know, I don't think she's our strongest candidate. I didn't before. And I don't know when you say that people were angry with Biden, they were angry with her, too. And that, again, is another faction of our party, you know, with what's happening in the Middle East. So, you know, we'll have to see who's going to be out there. I say I want the candidates that's going to win. And again, I'm going to get in trouble for this. America seems to have a problem with my gender. We're not ready for that. Maybe put out the guys. OK, well, we'll see what they do. In the meantime, we have these candidates that you talked about in so many of these interesting districts. Washington Post has an opinion piece this here. Democrats are facing their MAGA moment. Good luck kind of gets a mark to what Leslie was saying about the Tea Party and how these parties can shift based on the internal conflicts that are going on. The Washington Post says established Democrats are leery of openly attacking these socialist candidates. It's hard to fight an invasion when the defending forces let them land on the beaches. They're trying to figure out where this fits in their tent. Well, it's it doesn't matter if they have to figure out if it's going to fit in their tent. They're coming in the tent no matter what. I mean, we've even seen over the course of the Fourth of July weekend, it's it's sad and it's unfortunate, but happy Fourth of July is the new Merry Christmas, where you have D.C. liberals saying happy holidays instead. We have we've seen this throughout just in the cultural expansion of the far left. This is where they are. You even see Hakeem Jeffries putting out tepid endorsement, little infographics four days after the primary. He doesn't know how to deal with this fact that Kamala is going around Schumer, around Hakeem to talk to the real power brokers of the Democratic Party, Madami and AOC. That shows you where the center of gravity really is. They have no leadership, no message, but this really shows they do have energy and Republicans need to be aware of that very much going into the midterms. Yeah. And for the most part, that energy, that specific energy seems to be in house races and that side of the ledger. But we want to put up a couple of polls here we have in Senate races because control of the Republicans felt good about it a few months ago. It is now upper grabs in many polls. But our polling this week on the Georgia Senate race has John Ossoff up by 13 points. He's the Democrat incumbent in Maine, where Graham Plattner has attracted so much attention for all of his controversies for all voters. Susan Collins, the current incumbent Republican, is up by three points. But when you when you dig into extremely motivated voters and turnout is going to be key, he's actually up by nine points. Yeah. And I do think that that points to the broader situation we're in right now. There is a lot of energy on the Democratic side against Donald Trump. We know that the president tends to be a motivator even when he's not on the ballot. Right. We're seeing a backlash to that. His policies have been unpopular for a long time, and that's why we see some of those polling. I will note in Maine, that's one of the hardest races to poll. And Senator Susan Collins is often behind at this point in the cycle. And so that's one to watch closely. And we could see, you know, that race shift moving forward. And Georgia also is a situation where Republicans took a very long time to figure out who they were going to get behind. And I think that only bolstered Ossoff Ossoff going into this midterm cycle. And he has so much money on his hands. So these are broader trends where Republicans are fighting against some serious headwinds this cycle. At the same time, these are unique candidates who are bringing in a lot of money in a unique race like Maine, where Senator Susan Collins is one of the is the only Republican who has a chance. Well, you talk about the money and there was a ruling this week from the Supreme Court that lifted kind of the restrictor plates on parties being able to coordinate with their specific candidates in that ruling. The majority said we're putting the RNC and DNC on equal footing here. They all have to play by the same rules, but, you know, they can do more coordination. Punchbowl writes this on Friday. The decision issued Tuesday will level the playing field by allowing Republicans to effectively close the gap with Democratic candidates who restore historically raised more cash than their GOP counterparts. Carl, at last check, the RNC has one hundred and twenty five million dollars cash on hand. The DNC has 15 million, but also 18 million in debt. So how does this level where Democrats, maybe they're individual candidates, do better on raising money? Well, this allows the national committees of both parties to basically coordinate with the candidates and get the lowest unit rate for the for television advertising. So it's it strengthens the parties. I'm all in favor of strengthening parties. I helped found one of the largest super PACs on the Republican side, American Crossroads Senate Leadership Fund. And we had to because that was the rules that were set in motion by Citizens United. But it concerns me because most super PACs are run by and for the consultants. And I want parties to be stronger and not independent groups led by consultants, oft times double dealing for themselves. We want adults in charge and the parties tend to have adults in charge. So this will this election help the Republicans. But but in a future election, which the the conditions are reversed and Democrats have more money cash on hand, it's going to help them. But but on the long haul, it's going to help parties. And that's good for our political system. All right. I want to touch on something nonpartisan that hopefully we all as Americans can agree on, which is the victory of Team USA in World Cup soccer and just how much this continues to shine a light on the good people in the heart of America who are welcoming all these foreigners. The Federalist says this awestruck World Cup tourists should remind us what makes America so great. Listening to the heartwarming testimonies of foreign tourists visiting this country is edifying and unifying, says the fact that these good people are believing what they see and not what they've heard suggests the miracle of America is obvious to just about anyone who takes an honest look, even Americans. I want to get a quick comment from each of you, Steph. I mean, I think what's great about being an American is you can take the good and the bad together and still be proud of the place you live. And I think that this is an important moment and it's always fun to cheer on your nation's sports team tomorrow night. It's incredible. We have Elsa from Frozen. I have two little kids, so I can it's OK that I know who that is singing the national anthem. You have you have the fly. You have flyovers that occurred over the past couple of days. This is such a great time to be an American. It's so exciting. Yeah. Leslie, final word to you. Living in Los Angeles, I love that they're not just seeing Skid Row and MacArthur Park, the two things media likes to show, because people that came to Los Angeles and most of the liberal cities in our nation found how wonderful our cities are, even when they're led by Democrats and that it's the people, not necessarily the policies of the administration that make this country great. And Bucky's also makes America great. And Waffle House, too. Guys, thank you so much. Good to see all of you. Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch full shows streaming now on Fox one.