polls show Donald Trump still has an edge and is in a better place than he was in 2016. And by some metrics, 2020. Still, the race in the key battleground states has tightene Trump and Vice President Kamala which is not where we were just over a we before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. You might remember back then, all of 8 or 9 days ago, battleground states were slipping out of Biden's rea Democrats were sounding the alarm that even second and t purplish blue states could fall to Trump, including New Hampshire and New Mexico, Virginia and even Minnesota. That internal Democratic polling we told you about two weeks ago at the Republican convention had Biden with only a point four percentage point advantage in Minnesota, 8.4 Minnesota now, according to a Fox News poll, shows Harris up by six percentage poin in Minnesota. Nonetheless, Donald Trump, who was in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, Saturday night, told his supporters this falseho if they don't cheat, we win this state easily, okay? They ch They have no shame. They cheat. They understand that you crooked people that are most they cheat. They cheated in the last electio and they're going to cheat in this election, but we're going to get them. Donald Trump, of course, lost the election fair and square in 2020. And for the record, the state of Minnesota has not voted for a Republican for president since I was three old, since Richard Nixon in 1972 And yes, that even includes when Ronald Reagan won a landsli electoral College victories. Do we have we have those 1980 and 84 maps h Look at that. That's the 1980 looks. All. See that sea of red? And then that top at the top in the middle there. That's little Minnesota. That's One of the very few states in 19 that did not vote for Reagan, then 1984 Minnesota, besides D.C., literally the only Democratic ho in the Reagan landslide of 1984, Trump himself lost to Hillary Clinton in Minnesota by 1.6 percentage points in 2016 the year he won, and he lost to President Biden there in 2020 by seven percentage points. And yet Trump, who has also never won the popular vote and lost the electoral vote in 2 is out there saying that if he loses Minnesota, it's because of cheat It's not true. And more importantly, we have seen this movie before. We know that lines about electio fraud are not harmless. When Trump falsely claimed repea that the 2020 election was rigge his fervent supporters believed And this is what those lies wrou so I got off the hook. Trump supporters, so enraged by those election lie that they believed they took matters into their own They were willing to violate law They were willing to violate the US Constitution by attacking the US Capitol on January 6th, one of the most shameful days in this nation's history. They were attempting to stop the certification of an that President Joe Biden won fai Three of Trump's supporters died of America's apparent medical emergencies one Trump supporter was fatally shot by police as she approached the floor of the House of Representatives, along with a violent mob. A U.S. Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, later died of his injuries withstood on that day. And then four other officers who defended that Capitol that defended the Capitol that d and were traumatized took their own lives. And it all began with this lie that the election was stolen. You know, who didn't believe Trump's lies? As it turns out, Trump's 2020 campaign manager, Trump's White House counsel, Trump's attorney general, told the president in no uncertain terms I did not see evidence of fraud. hand up. You know, that would have affected the outcome of the election. And frankly, a year and a half l I haven't seen anything to change my mind on th You know who else didn't believe these lies about the election being stolen? Trump's daughter, Ivanka. How did that affect your perspec about the election? When Attorney General Barr made that statement, it affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr. so I accepted what he was saying People in Trump's orbit then knew the truth, that widespread election fraud was simply not a thing. And here we are again in 2024 with just 99 days to go until the election, listening to Donald Trump stick with these same fabricated claim that he can only lose Minnesota if Democrats cheat. Now. Now, look, Donald Trump may very well win the election. He may well lose the election. But these lies, they literally h a body count. All of this is playing out as Trump and Harris are out ther making their case to voters. And as CNN's Kayla Township reports, they're trying out new attack li With 99 days till Election Day, both parties racing to sharpen their attacks. The most incompetent, unpopular and far left vice president in American history. Probably the most far left perso in American history. The American people are never going to elect a wacky, out-of-touch San Francisco liberal like Kamal You may have noticed Donald Trump has been resorting to some wild lies about on recor and some of what he and his runn are saying. It's just plain weird, weird and extreme, the Harris campaign now says, as it warns voters on Trump's record on abortion rights. 1 in 3 women of reproductive age in America lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban. For Harris, a critical stretch ahead set to clinch the official nomin and soon to name her running mate contenders auditioning on the st and across the airwaves. I think we've seen over the last well, decades that who you pick as your vice president doesn't determine whether you're going to win a st or not. That is weird behavior. And I, I don't think you call it anythi It is simply what we're observin He's not just afraid to debate h because he knows she's going to kick his ass in the debate, Trump says he'll head back to Pennsylvania as the battleground travel heats Harris making a renewed push in Georgia with the Tuesday and both campaigns holding dueling events in Nevada. Recent polls show the race tightening, with Harris beginnin to close the gap with Trump as her favorability rises and the race enters a high drama homestretch. The Harris campaign also says that the vice president is heading into this home stretch with $200 million that s just in the week after Joe Biden withdrew from the race. Jake, we're also learning from s that the Harris campaign plans to beef up its fundraising staff to try to capitalize on that mom and build an infrastructure that is more in Harris's image than Biden's. Jake. All right, Kayla toasty at the white House, thanks so mu My panel joins me now to discuss I want to play this other moment from former President Trump on S They say, he is not for democrac I took a bullet for democracy. He didn't. I think talking about the assass attempt is something he, he, he frequently talks about, don't you know, and I think we'll hear a lot mor about it. And it was a terrible thing for our democracy and for any type of political violence is terrible for our dem but when Paul Pelosi was savagely beaten in his house by someone who was targeting Nancy Pelosi because she was standing up for democracy, Donald Trump mock When John McCain, who was literally shot down defending democracy, Donald Trump mocked him. Donald Trump has a long history of mocking people who are standing up and fighting for democracy. And frankly, Donald Trump is the only candidate in this race who inciting an ins against those who were trying to uphold democr So we'll see how it holds. But yeah, I think he's going to talk about a lot, John. It's been a it's been a I think it's fair to say objectively, it's been a rocky start for JD Vance as a, as the running mate, even if even those who love him might acknowledge that, he's faced backlash for the childless, childless lady's comment, his abortion sta previous criticisms of Trump face criticism. Here's the Wall Street Journal editorial board. Donald Trump's choice of 39 year old JD Vance as his running mate was supposed to present the GOP as modern and looking to the fut Instead, the campaign has found playing defense against Mr. Vance's censorious views. Did I pronounce that correctly? Close enough. Close enough. about women who don't have child what do you make of it all? I mean, it seemed as though it was a it was a real a pick born from the campaign. Feeling very confident, that Biden was, was going to be easily defeated. Do you think that Trump would pi JD Vance, given today's givens? I don't get that vibe. I can put that out there. yeah. Look, I think it was a confidenc a lot of people said Trump, doubling down on all that I think the problem is there were a lot of people in so-called MAGA world who thought because they liked Trump from the beginning, and the people who didn't like m were proven wrong. And Trump won and all that. That meant they actually had a really great grasp of poli and it turns out they don't have a great grasp of politics either. And, the truth of it is, is that, you know, Vance leans into the understandi of the Trumpism. The point of Trumpism is the is the insults, right? It's like you can't just be for good polic You have to make sure that the t that you're drinking the left's Right. You know, liberal tears are delicious kind of thing. So his whole thing about the context of the shadows Cat lady is about, the child tax credit, right? Child tax credit is wildly popul and he has managed to frame it in a way to make it unpopular. and that's because he doesn't ha you know, it doesn't have the freedom that a cult of personality that Trump has to sort of just be able to speak freely about these things because no one holds Trump accou the way they hold normal politic When normal politicians try to imitate Trump, they're un