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00:00We can now bring in our international affairs editor, Angela Diffley.
00:03Angela, you were rolling your eyes there when during that report
00:07for some of the things that Donald Trump was saying
00:09when he's now clearly shifting his focus of his attacks to Kamala Harris.
00:14Yeah, Eliza Herbert, they're saying likely unsettled Trump.
00:17He looks increasingly desperate.
00:20That was a willful, massive distortion
00:24of Kamala Harris's position on abortion.
00:28And it shows that he is rattled by this.
00:31Suddenly, the landscape has completely changed.
00:34The race has completely changed and the Democrats have been newly energized.
00:38They have new groups of people, non-whites,
00:42more women who are getting excited about this campaign, donors coming back.
00:48And that is an indication that the Trump campaign,
00:51who felt euphoric at the end of that convention in Milwaukee,
00:55everything has suddenly changed and they're battling to find a new strategy.
01:00Lying is one.
01:02Another thing they are trying to do is
01:06paint Kamala Harris as the DEI candidate,
01:10the diversity, equality and inclusion candidate,
01:13suggesting that any job she has had in the past
01:16and this position as the presumptive Democrat
01:19nominee is simply because she is a non-white.
01:23She is a woman.
01:24It has nothing to do with her capacity to do the job.
01:27There is a danger in that because that can provoke a backlash.
01:31Non-whites and women do not particularly like to hear that sort of thing.
01:35So they need to be careful with that.
01:37They might and are being advised to increasingly.
01:39But of course, Trump doesn't do what his advisors say always.
01:42But his advisors are reportedly telling him to concentrate on policy issues,
01:47to concentrate on her widely perceived as poor handling of illegal immigration.
01:53That was the job she was given initially by Biden as vice president.
01:57She certainly didn't excel at the beginning of that,
01:59although illegal immigration is now relatively low
02:03compared to that surge at the beginning.
02:05But his advisors were advising him to concentrate on areas
02:09where she perceived to be weak.
02:10I want to talk about that comment where which Donald Trump made
02:14about late term abortions, eight or even the ninth month,
02:17even after the baby is born.
02:19This is something he actually said on the debate stage next to Joe Biden.
02:22Joe Biden never attacked him for it.
02:24He never took him to task for it.
02:26Yet he keeps repeating it now.
02:28Now we have Kamala Harris, who is, of course, going to be fighting
02:31and be very fierce in her attacks, especially when it comes to issues like abortion.
02:36Indeed. And this is an area where the Democrats are strong
02:41and she is a woman.
02:42And it J.D. Vance,
02:46Trump's running mate, his VP,
02:50if they win, has said in the past that he favours a national ban on abortion.
02:56Now, unlike Hillary Clinton,
03:00Kamala Harris can point to real events.
03:04Hillary Clinton predicted that Roe versus Wade would be overturned under Trump.
03:09Trump appointed those Supreme Court justices
03:12who eventually did overthrow Roe versus Wade.
03:15So Kamala Harris can point to the real concern
03:18that this is just the beginning and that, for example, the morning
03:22after pill birth control, other areas which women are used to seeing
03:26as their rights in the United States are under threat.
03:30They're already being reconsidered in some Republican states.
03:33She can point to real threats and she will.
03:37And it's a very different scenario.
03:39We now have a real event that happened.
03:43Roe versus Wade was overturned.
03:45That has big implications.
03:47Earlier, we played a soundbite from Joe Biden and in his speech last night,
03:51he said his record merited a second term.
03:56What happens if Kamala Harris actually loses?
03:59Will people actually point the finger of blame at her or at him
04:01for stepping out too late, down too late?
04:05There will no doubt be many people who say he stepped out far too late.
04:09That said, it has caught the Trump campaign on the hop.
04:14They have spent all of this time preparing for a candidate.
04:17They thought they could easily beat.
04:19They simply had to talk about mental acuity, declining health,
04:23and they didn't really have to try very hard.
04:24And had they known earlier on that they had a different candidate,
04:28things might have been very different.
04:29So there is an argument that actually,
04:32I'm sure it wasn't planned that way.
04:34But Biden's decision to withdraw very late in the campaign
04:39has upturned things in a way that could be very beneficial to the Democrats.
04:43If they don't win, there will no doubt be people saying
04:46that Kamala Harris was perhaps not the best candidate,
04:50that there was no time for a primary contest
04:53and that she was bounced into this and that it all goes back to Joe Biden.
04:59You know, that's politics.
05:00It's very difficult to know cause, consequence, why.
05:04Wasn't it Nikki Haley who said the first
05:06party that retires an 80 year old candidate wins the election?
05:09Let's see if she's proven right. Absolutely.
05:11Thank you very much for that, Angela. Angela Diffley there.