Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigning in Nevada, Stop the Steal campaign, and Trump suing CBS for $10 billion

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are both campaigning in Nevada tonight.

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson tells Heather du Plessis-Allan the Republicans have a stronghold on the state but that Harris is coming up.

Meanwhile, Trump supporters are ramping up their ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign as they spread the belief that Trump can only lose the election through fraud.

And, Donald Trump is suing CBS for $10 billion over the editing of a Kamala Harris interview, saying the network practiced deceptive conduct.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Stan Mitchinsonello. Hello, Heather, so hose winning Nevada.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
You know, I mean, like you say that the Republicans
have had a stronghold on that, but Kamala Harris is
coming up, and I mean they both were, and well,
Trump was in Henderson, Nevada, which is is a massive
growing suburb just southeast of Las Vegas today and he
was in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, and Harris was
at Reno in Las Vegas. And this is a I mean,

(00:28):
these are battleground states that they're at right now. Harris
was releasing a couple of new ads today VP candidate
jd Vance. He was on a podcast for another three
hours with Joe Rogan, just like Trump was earlier in
the week, saying that Trump can win the quote normal
gay guy vote, whatever that means, and that the quote

(00:48):
and this is a quote, the normal gay guy vote,
what is that? I wish I could tell you, he said.
He said, I wouldn't be surprised if and this is
a quote, not me with poor english, this is I
wouldn't be surprised if me and Trump won just the
normal gay guy vote because they just wanted to be
left the hell alone.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I'm gonna have to google this now. I have to
know what a normal gay guy vote is, So we'll
come back to that. Okay, So you think Harris has
got you think Harris has gotten a hotisode up yet?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, I don't know. I think she's I think she's
closing in right now. I mean there's still a lot
of questions about this. I mean, can can she make
enough ground in the state and the other half dozen
key battleground states. How long is this going to take?
Two once? I mean the next time that we talk,
most of the polls next week will have closed across
the US. Here in the Pacific, they'll still be open
for about another half hour, but we may not know
who has has won the presidential race till the next

(01:43):
day or maybe even forty eight hours after this, and
then of course it could be contested.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Dan listen, I want to know why this stop the
Steel movement has come back, because I've noticed in the
last few days it's really rammed up. What spacked it?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, you said to stop the steel? Yeah, yeah, Well
basically they're trying to. I mean, you've had these activists
for months and months that have been you know, I
guess getting Trump supporters ready to believe that he you know,
if he loses in this election, it's going to be
through fraud. That is the only possible way that he
could lose. So they have laid out these proposals to

(02:19):
to thwart Kamala Harris from winning. They've had a former
Green Bray that's kind of led this operation up. And
he says, and again this is a quote, January sixth
is going to be pretty fun. Now today we started,
we in the media started getting notices from law enforcement
here in California as they are across the rest of
the country right now, preparing for next Tuesday, and they're

(02:41):
looking at worst case scenarios. They're hoping for the best.
But you're seeing beefed up security. You're going to be
seeing more barricades and officers around all of the state
and the federal offices. And you know, even the media
is on alert because we know when they're out covering
events like this, they get caught right in the middle
of you know, the news cycle, just like we saw
back in January the Capitol a few years.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
You're fair enough now on Donald Trump's suing CBS over
the quote doctoring of Kamala. Harris's answer was when they
cut the answer down, did they only cut it down
for the trailer or did they cut it down for
the actual interview that went to air.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I think it depends who you ask, because, like you said,
Bill Whittaker, who was the person who was interviewing on this,
They did a preview clip that aired on one show
on Face the Nation, and Harris was asked, as you
heard on your show just a short time ago, why
it seemed like a Prime Minister Benjaminina who wasn't listening
to the US. So she gave this long, rambling explanation,

(03:36):
and then on sixty minutes it was a much shorter
and more abbreviated answer. Now, some may say, well, you're
trying to change the context of what she said, and
others may say, which, we know in this business that
is done. You try to shorten an answer, You don't
intentionally take it out of context. But sometimes there are
rambles and ums and ah's, and it's what you do

(03:57):
to edit an interview down into a certain time that
you have. So CBS is refusing to turn over the
raw tape, and Trump is going for a ten billion
I don't know where he came up with this number
ten billion dollars in damages, saying that they practice this
deceptive conduct. So again he's making news for the sake
of making news, I guess, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
But he's also feeding into something which is very important here,
which is the suspicion amongst voters that there is amongst
some voters there is the media bias where the media
preferred Karmela and want to protect her. You know, like
you've got the examples of the debates where he gets
fact checked constantly and she doesn't get fact checked.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
You're yeah, yeah, You're absolutely right. And CBS and sixty
minutes has long been accused of being very much left
and leaning. ABC was when they held the presidential debate.
And you're right, and I think, you know, viewers are
just looking this is another left leaning attack on well,
maybe not on Trump, but something that's more favorable towards

(04:58):
Kamala Harris and just were trying to polish her up
and make her look good.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, Dan, thanks very much, man. Not long to go?
Not long to go, Dan Mitchison our US correspondence. For
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