Richard Arnold: US correspondent says new polls finds no clear leader ahead of televised debate

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are gearing up for this weeks’ presidential debate.  

This will be the first time the pair have come face to face. 

US correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking a CNN Poll of Polls finds a tight race with no clear leader ahead of the televised showdown. 

“In almost all of these places – Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Nevada, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia – the margin’s about a point either way.” 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stay inside. Richard Arnold morning, Hey, Mike, Mike's muted was standing.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
By two days of the big debate. Yes, stakes could
not be higher. A New York Times poll out today
shows Trump ahead nationally over Harris by one point, forty
eight to forty seven. The Democratic surge that we've seen
in recent times has given way to this pause. In
a CNA, CNN Pollar polls out today, Harris is ahead
by forty nine to forty seven percent. But none of
this really is a clear indicator, and neither is polling

(00:27):
in the various battleground states in a way that is persuasive.
In almost all of these places Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Nevada, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia,
the margins about a point either way, except for Wisconsin.
With the polling is Harris a larger lead, but they
undercounted the Trump support last time, So Nick and neck,
Harris says of her debate theme to try to peat

(00:51):
to move on from the visit of government. She's saying.
Harris met with voters in Pennsylvania, where she's been camped
out since last week. Basically that's prior to express so
far well, Donald Trump is threatening to go after his
opponent's campaign donors in quote retribution if they play a
role in what he's already taking a possible election Steel

(01:11):
and he says, we're run by stupid people, stupid, stupid people,
and we found that out at the debate with Jill.
How did that work out? So this could be the
most important presidential debate in the US of A well
since the last one. Right meantime, there are remarkable political
terms almost daily. Former President George W. Bush says he

(01:33):
will not make any formal endorsement this go round, so
Trump not being backed by the only other living Republican
former president, and Liz Cheney and her father Dick Cheney,
who used to be called course Darth Vader by Democratic foes,
now say they will vote for Harris. In an interview today,
Liz Cheney says this.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
I've never voted for a Democrat. It tells you I
think the stakes in this election.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
She says also that if Ronald Reagan still was alive,
he would not be on the Trump train either.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
In her view, there is absolutely no chance that Ronald
Reagan would be supporting Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
And she says of Trump himself and his policies.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
She's not a conservative. The policies that we're seeing him
put forward, including you know, again on an almost daily basis,
This notion of embracing global tariffs will choke off global trade,
will likely lead us down the path that we've seen before,
for example, in the nineteen thirties, lead to at that
point it was a depression.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, she calls Trump a deviant and says he would
bring quite catastrophe on the as if reelected. In his statement,
Dick Cheney says, quote, there has never been an individual
who is a greater threat to the Republic than Donald Trump.
He adds, quote he tried to steal the last election,
using lies and violence to keep himself in power after
the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted

(02:52):
with power again, so says Dick Cheney, who now says
he too will vote for the Democrats. So, Mike, what next?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
And hey, listen, I'm watching the video. So he's on
the ground and the cops are on top of him,
and they.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Look at what happened. We don't fully know, but this
is certainly stirring up the start of the NFL season.
Right before the Jacksonville Jaguars versus Miami Dolphin's name game
and the Miami's best player, Tyreek Hill was stopped at
a traffic stop for some moving violation. We don't know
the details from the police siders yet, but a thirty
year old Dolphins star was handcuffed and forced onto the ground.

(03:26):
As you say, police appeared to scream at him. His
agent Drew Rosenhaus is saying this.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Apparently he got a ticket for moving violation entering the stadium.
How things escalated into the situation that they were in
handcuffs and being held on the ground with polices mind
boggling to me. I'm deeply concerned by that very trouble.
We will be looking into it. We will be investigating this.
We will look out for Tyree.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Like I say, make not all the video is released yet,
but there is said to be a clip showing a
police officer kicking Tyreek Hill. He was shaken but went
on to play the game. This is a fellow who
was in the winning Super Bowl side Kansas City Chiefs.
He's just in his third season with the Dolphins. It
was the top receiver in the league last season. Halftime
Dolphins trailing jag he was seventeen to seven, So we

(04:14):
don't know how much status are playing to This brings
to mind doesn't know what happened to golfer Scotty Scheffer,
the top rating golfer who was detained by police while
trying to get to a PGA event in Louisville a
few months back. Police say they are investigating this latest
see Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Richard Darnold states, side just on that poll, by the way,
which is the New York Times Ciena poll, so forty
seven forty eight. I mean, you know it's time. What's
interesting is the right track wrong track numbers. And you
go back to June, twenty two percent of people thought
the country was on the right track, which is not
many twenty two to sixty nine wrong track. It's now
up to twenty eight on the right track. So they're
thinking things are improving. If they think things are improving,

(04:51):
that would generally correlate with things improving for the Democrats camp,
because they are, of course, as we currently speak, in
charge of the economy.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
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