Trump will show up at the debate ‘from a position of strength’: Gov. Sarah Sanders

she's in Pennsylvania and she's practicing for the debate she's locked herself in a room she got a lot to learn she shouldn't even go to the debate she should go back to Washington DC and fix all the things she's complaining about are you ready to Donald Trump yes I am what's the one thing you want to really get get across toight well there's a lot but um look it's time to turn the page on the divisiveness um it's time to bring our country together that was Donald Trump and KLA Harris on this week's debate Arkansas's Governor Sarah Sanders joins me now uh Governor Sanders thank you for being here and I people may not realize this but as I understand it you actually played kamla Harris in the debate prep uh for the vice presidential debate four years ago isn't that right I I did um it's been quite a while i' almost actually forgotten that I had that and participated uh but uh you know it was very difficult to get in that mindset but uh was glad to be helpful in the process and glad to see this debate finally take place and see this match up between Donald Trump and Cala Harris uh I think it is really important for the American people to see the big contrast that exists between these two candidates and I want to get to what Liz Cheney had to say in her endorsement but before I get to that on the debate what do you do you think the stakes are how important is this uh for former president Trump oh well I think it's actually more important for vice president Harris somebody who doesn't speak to the media doesn't take questions in fact at the end of this interview John I will have done more interviews during this election cycle than she has since becoming the Democrat nominee for president it is absurd that she does not take questions from the Press from the American people and so I think this is actually a much more important night for her CU it's so rare that we hear from her that we hear her take questions or that we know anything that she actually stands for how how is uh the former president preparing for this what's your sense you've been with him before big moments he likes to say he doesn't need to prepare for a debate but what what is he doing he prepares every single day not only uh I I think the biggest way that he does that is by traveling around the country and actually talking to voters he takes questions from the Press on a regular basis so I think every day is debate prep for Donald Trump he'll go in Game Time ready just as he does for every interview uh every rally that he does this is uh not something that is a heavy lift for him I think that's why you're hearing so much about the preparation for vice president Harris because this isn't something she does very often and I think she has a lot to get ready for um and I don't think that she's up to the challenge in large part not just because I don't know that she's a great debater but she's so wrong on the issues that Americans care about and she has a terrible track record to talk about Donald Trump has a good story to tell he shows up at this debate from a position of strength she shows up from a position of weakness the administration that she is totally responsible and accountable for has been an abysmal failure the economy is bad inflation has Skyrock you go to any grocery store or gas station as a family as an American you're feeling the failures of this Administration she doesn't get to run away from that you look at the crisis at the border they have opened it wide up allowing millions of people to come in they don't know who they are where they're going or what they're coming for we actually had taken steps and made significant progress on securing the border under President Trump we actually had a safer world we didn't have conflicts left and right all over the place she has to be held responsible for these things she doesn't get to run away for them and I think that's what makes this debate so difficult for her this week well you heard uh from Liz Cheney and obviously she's not not alone among prominent Republicans that are uh that are supporting KLA Harris or simply saying that that Donald Trump is unfit for office how do you square that that record that you just talked about which is obviously debatable and will be debated with what happened at the end of of of of the Trump presidency where you know he did try to overturn a presidential election tried to overturn a democratic election I I do think she actually is significantly in the minority here you look across the board prominent Republicans are supporting president Trump But ultimately I think she's a non-factor I'm not trying to be rude but you don't get to call yourself a conservative or republican when you support the most radical nominee that the Democrats have ever put up that doesn't make you a conservative it certainly doesn't make you a Republican I think it makes you somebody who wants to protect the establishment frankly I don't think this is news it should come as no shock that Liz Cheney is not supporting the president but what should come as a shock is that she is trying to call herself a Conservative Republican uh or either one of those two words while supporting somebody who so clearly does not represent conservative principles well well on one specific that that she pointed out and others have too uh you know Donald Trump is talking about you know widespread tariffs tariffs on virtually every that is important into the United States big tariffs uh it's become almost a centerpiece of his economic message right now how is that conservative I mean I've been covering politics for a long time conservatives usually don't like taxes uh don't like tariffs now Trump is talking about them all the time this is a president who uses that as a tool to hold others feet to the fire he wants to make sure that we're actually making things in America there's nothing more conservative than empowering Americans and American companies to build things here versus building them overseas we have to quit becoming completely dependent and riant on people who hate us people like China people like Russia people like Iran we have a president now who has allowed himself to be completely walked all over and a vice president who has been right there by his side allowing other countries to take the lead as we move into the next four years in the next Administration we have to decide who do we want to be the world leaders do we want it to be the United States or do we want it to be our adversaries like China like Russia frankly I don't want it to be them I want it to be the United States and there's only one person and one president and one Administration who's done that before and we'll do it again and it's Donald Trump we certainly cannot count on vice president president Harris to build back American strength when she's never de demonstrated a a capability of doing that in the past all right well sen Governor Sanders thank you for joining us on this week we'll see all those issues debated out right here on ABC on Tuesday thank you for joining us