ASKING FOR TWO MORE. GARRETT HAAKE HAS LATE DETAILS FOR US.
>> Reporter: TONIGHT,
AT LEAST ONE DEBATE
SHOWDOWN NOW SET
BETWEEN FORMER
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND
VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS
FOR SEPTEMBER 10th,
WITH TRUMP ANNOUNCING
IN A NEWS CONFERENCE
HE HAS ALSO ACCEPTED
DEBATE INVITATIONS
FROM TWO MORE NETWORKS
AND CHALLENGED HARRIS
TO COMMIT AS WELL.
>> WHEN YOU FIGHT TO
DO THREE DEBATES.
WE THINK WE SHOULD DO
THREE DEBATES.
>> HARRIS TELLING
NBC’S SHAQUILLE
BREWSTER SHE IS
COMMITTED TO JUST ONE.
>> WILL YOU BE
PAURPING PARTICIPATING
IN ALL THREE?
>> I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN
ON RECORD I’M LOOKING
FORWARD TO DEBATING
DONALD TRUMP.
WE HAVE A DATE
DECEMBER 10th.
I HEAR HE FINALLY
COMMITTED TO IT AND
I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO
IT.
>> WHAT ABOUT THE
OTHER TWO?
>> Reporter: TRUMP
ALSO CRITICIZING THE
VICE PRESIDENT FOR NOT
HOLDING ANY NEWS
CONFERENCES OR
SIT-DOWN INTERVIEWS IN
THE 18 DAYS SINCE
PRESIDENT BIDEN
STEPPED ASIDE.
>> SHE SHOULD BE DOING
INTERVIEWS.
SHE DOESN’T WANT TO DO
INTERVIEWS.
AND THE REASON SHE
DOESN’T IS NUMBER ONE
HER POLICIES ARE SO
BAD.
>> Reporter: A HARRIS
AIDE TOLD NBC NEWS
HARRIS AND RUNNING
MATE TIM WALZ WOULD
LIKE TO DO A JOINT
INTERVIEW, QUOTE, IN A
FEW WEEKS.
WHILE TRUMP WAS ALSO
ASKED ABOUT ABORTION
RIGHTS, REPEATING HIS
FALSE CLAIM MOST
AMERICANS WANTED ROE
V. WADE OVERTURNED
WHEN POLLS SHOWED THE
OPPOSITE.
>> I THINK THE
ABORTION ISSUE HAS
BEEN TAKEN DOWN MANY
NOTCHES.
I DON’T THINK IT’S
OF -- I DON’T THINK
IT’S A BIG FACTOR
ANYMORE, REALLY.
WE BROUGHT IT BACK TO
THE STATES.
EVERYBODY WANTED IT IN
THE STATES.
>> Reporter: TODAY
HARRIS AND WALZ IN
MICHIGAN MEETING UNION
VOTERS, PART OF A
FIVE-DAY BATTLEGROUND
BARNSTORM.
>> YOU KNOW WHEN YOU
KNOW WHAT YOU STAND
FOR, YOU KNOW WHAT TO
FIGHT FOR.
>> Reporter: A NEW
CNBC POLL SHOWS TRUMP
LEADING HARRIS
NATIONALLY BY TWO
POINTS, WITHIN THE
MARGIN OF ERROR.
THE SAME SLIM LEAD HE
HAD OVER PRESIDENT
BIDEN.
BUT DEMOCRATIC
ENTHUSIASM HAS SPIKED.
81% OF DEMOCRATS NOW
SATISFIED WITH HARRIS
AS THEIR NOMINEE,
COMPARED TO 33% WHO
WERE SATISFIED WITH
BIDEN.
TO WHAT DO YOU
ATTRIBUTE HER RISING
IN THE POLLS AS
BECOMING A MORE
COMPETITIVE RACE SINCE
SHE HAS TAKEN OVER FOR
BIDEN?
>> WELL, SHE’S A
WOMAN.
SHE REPRESENTS CERTAIN
GROUPS OF PEOPLE.
BUT I WILL SAY THIS.
WHEN PEOPLE FIND OUT
ABOUT HER, I THINK
SHE’LL BE MUCH LESS.
>> AND GARRETT,
TONIGHT YOU HAVE SOME
NEW REPORTING IN THE
TRUMP CAMPAIGN
STRATEGY.
>> THAT’S RIGHT,
LESTER.
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS
STILL VERY CONFIDENT
IN THIS RACE.
THEY BELIEVE THAT
HARRIS’ REACH AND
SURGE HAS BEEN A SUGAR
HIGH FUELED ENTIRELY
BY DEMOCRATS WHO HAD
SOURED ON PRESIDENT
BIDEN COMING HOME TO
HARRIS.
THEY BELIEVE HER
RECORD WILL ULTIMATELY