What are the possible ‘speed bumps’ for the Harris campaign?

>>> I BELIEVE THAT KAMALA HARRIS IS WHATEVER SHE SAYS SHE IS, BUT I BELIEVE IMPORTANTLY THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RIGHT THAT SHE IS A CHAMELEON. >> J.D. VANCE DOUBLING DOWN ON THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S ATTACK ON KAMALA HARRIS'S RACIAL IDENTITY. JOINING US NOW, FORMER RNC CHAIRMAN AND HOST OF THE WEEKEND, I HATE TO SAY DOUBLING DOWN BECAUSE WE'RE ALWAYS DOUBLING DOWN ON SOMETHING IN POLITICS. ALL RIGHT. SO THIS IDEA THAT SHE'S NOT WHO SHE SAYS SHE IS OR SHE'S TRYING TO PLAY THE RACE CARD. IT'S BEEN WIDELY SEEN AS RACE BAITING FROM DONALD TRUMP. THEY ARE JUST DIVING BACK INTO IT. THEY ARE, AS I'M GOING TO SAY AGAIN, DOUBLING DOWN. >> THEY ARE. THEY'RE TRIPLING DOWN. SHE'S A BLACK WOMAN. SHE'S ALSO AN ASIAN WOMAN. SHE'S GOT THAT, YOU KNOW, HEY, YOU KNOW, J.D., AND TRUMP. PEOPLE CAN BE MORE THAN ONE THING. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, YOU'RE MAYBE PART IRISH, AND PART GERMAN. >> EXCUSE ME, NO, I AM CREEK. YOU CAN SEE IT IN MY CHIN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> EXACTLY. KATE. THAT'S THE POINT. HERE'S THE UNDERLYING NARRATIVE. THIS IS NOT PLAYING TO THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS. THIS IS PLAYING TO A VERY ISOLATED FACTION OF THE COUNTRY THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT TO. THEY'RE NOT ENTHRALLED BY A BLACK WOMAN RUNNING FOR THE OFFICE, SO WE WANT TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE IT A PEJORATIVE. WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT IN A NEGATIVE WAY. WE DON'T WANT TO LEVEL IT UP AS, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT IS, YOU KNOW, SMALL P PROGRESSIVE FOR THE COUNTRY TO HAVE AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN WHO IS THE CURRENT VICE PRESIDENT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. THAT'S A DIFFERENT STORY LINE. SO, LOOK, WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON HERE. WE ALL GET IT. DONALD TRUMP AND J.D. VANCE ARE GOING TO PLAY IN THAT CESSPOOL OF STUPID, THINKING THAT THEY'RE SWAYING PEOPLE MORE BROADLY. THIS CAMPAIGN HAS PROVEN ITSELF TO BE ONE OF CONTRACTION, NOT ADDITION, NOT MULTIPLICATION. IT IS DOUBLING DOWN, TRIPLING DOWN AS YOU NOTED ON THAT CORE BASE VOTE. DONALD TRUMP'S THINKING, HIS LOGIC, BECAUSE HE'S SUCH A POLITICAL GURU IS THAT THE MORE OF MY MAGA COMES OUT, THE GREATER MY CHANCES OF WINNING, WHICH TRIGGERS, ODDLY ENOUGH, THE WHOLE FIXATION ON CROWD SIZE BECAUSE THE CROWD SIZE HAVE DIMINISHED FOR HIM. KAMALA'S HAS NOT, AND THAT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IS WHY HE DID THAT PRESS CONFERENCE TO SAY TO HIS BASE, Y'ALL NEED TO GET BACK IN THE GAME WITH ME BECAUSE I NEED YOU. AGAIN, THIS IS NOT ABOUT ADDITION AND MULTIPLICATION, IT IS ABOUT CONTRACTION AROUND GETTING HIS BASE TO PUSH OUT AND WIN THE ELECTION FOR HIM. >> THE DEMOCRATS -- I'M CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE IN FRONT OF HIM. "THE NEW YORK TIMES" IS REPORTING THAT DONALD TRUMP DOESN'T QUITE KNOW HOW TO RUN AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS, AND WE HAVE SEEN OBVIOUSLY EXAMPLES OF THAT, THE WAY HE'S TRYING TO GRAB BACK ATTENTION IN THE HEADLINES WITH ALL THE VOLATILE STUFF HE'S SAYING. LOOKING DOWN THE LINE, LESS THAN 100 DAYS LEFT FOR THE ELECTION, WHAT ARE THE SPEED TRAPS YOU'RE SEEING AHEAD FOR THE DEMOCRATS? >> THERE ARE A NUMBER OF SPEED TRAPS, AND A LOT OF THEM IRONICALLY ENOUGH ARE GOING TO BE ON POLICY. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ON THE STYLE AND THE ENERGY AND THE INTEREST IN THE CAMPAIGN, WHERE THE DEMOCRATS HAVE NOW GOT TO BEGIN TO ALIGN ITSELF WITH THE VOTERS IS ON THE NARRATIVE OF OKAY, WE DIDN'T HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT A SECOND BIDEN TERM LOOKED LIKE, YOU NEED TO FILL IN WHAT A FIRST HARRIS TERM WILL LOOK LIKE. THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE GETTING A LOT OF PUSH UP FROM MEMBERS OF THE PRESS, YOU WON'T SIT DOWN WITH US, HOWEVER YOU TALK TO US. IT'S BEEN THREE WEEKS, FOLKS, GIVE HER THE TIME TO PUT THAT TOGETHER. ABSOLUTELY, BY THE TIME SHE ROLLS INTO CHICAGO, AND CERTAINLY WHEN SHE ROLLS OUT OF CHICAGO. SHE WILL HAVE TO HAVE BEGUN TO LAY THE SEEDS FOR NARRATIVES ON HEALTH CARE, CHILD CARE, THE BORDER, FOREIGN POLICY. HOW MUCH OF A DISTANCE IS SHE GOING TO CREATE BETWEEN HER ADMINISTRATION AND THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION RELATIVE TO ISRAEL, RELATIVE TO THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION. THERE ARE GOING TO BE A NUMBER OF THINGS WRING THERE'S GOING TO BE POTENTIAL SPEED BUMPS THAT COULD IMPACT MOMENTUM, COULD IMPACT THE ENERGY, AND CERTAINLY RE-ALIGN THE NUMBERS AS YOU WERE TALKING WITH OUR BUDDY MARK ABOUT SOME OF THE POLLING EARLIER, REALIGN THE NUMBERS, MAKE IT TIGHTER THAN A 4, 5 POINT RACE TO A 2, 3 POINT RACE. WE'LL SEE, A LOT OF IT IS DEPENDENT ON HOW SHE APPROACHES POLICY ON HER SIDE. >> APPARENTLY WILL BE COMING OUT WITH A POLICY NEWS CONFERENCE OR EVENT SOON. ONE OTHER QUESTION, THOUGH, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE WORD WEIRD, AND HOW TIM WALZ WAS ABLE TO USE IT AND THE DEMOCRATS ATTACHED THEMSELVES TO IT. IT'S WORKING. IT MAKES DONALD TRUMP NOT SEEM SO POWERFUL, BUT LESS THAN IN THE DEMOCRATS' EYES. SOMETHING THEY HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS, CAN THEY OVERDO IT ON THE WORD WEIRD. IS THAT POTENTIALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM. >> CAN TRUMP OVER DO IT -- >> NO, CAN THE DEMOCRATS, I WAS LISTENING TO AN EZRA PODCAST TODAY WHERE HE WAS WARNING AGAINST ALL OF THE DEMOCRATS COMING ON AND OVERUSE WEIRD. IT WORKS FOR TIM WALZ BECAUSE HE'S A MID WESTERN GUY FROM A TOWN OF 400. HE'S AT THOSE THANKSGIVING DINNER TABLES WHERE SOME OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS ARE TRUMP SUPPORTERS. IT WORKS FOR HIM. BUT WORRIED THE DEMOCRATS HAVE STARTED USING WEIRD TOO MUCH MIGHT GET THEMSELVES INTO TROUBLE, MIGHT TAKE AWAY THE POWER OF THAT WORD. >> NO, THAT'S THE NERVOUS NELLY SIDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. LEAN INTO THE FIGHT FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE. GOOD GOD, SECOND GUESSING A STRATEGY THAT'S WORKING. EVERYONE PICKS IT UP AND RUNS WITH IT. YOU'LL KNOW IF IT BECOMES TOO MUCH. IS IT TOO MUCH, LOCK HER UP, WAS THAT TOO MUCH. ALL THE CRAZY STUFF THAT COMES OUT OF TRUMP LAND, I MEAN, ALL THE TIME WE SPENT, YOU HEARD OTHER PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT SHARKS AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES, ELECTRIC BATTERIES. THE REALITY OF IT IS IT WORKS. THERE'S SOMETHING DOING WHAT TIM WALZ DID WAS HE CRYSTALLIZED IN ONE WORD WHAT PEOPLE ALREADY BELIEVE. BUT NEVER REALLY HAD THE WORD TO FIT IT. AND SO THAT'S WHY IT WORKS. THAT'S WHY THE WHOLE NARRATIVE AROUND J.D. VANCE STUCK THE WAY IT DID BECAUSE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WHAT THEY WERE SAYING ON TWITTER ABOUT J.D. VANCE WAS TRUE, WHAT WAS IMPORTANT AND WHAT PEOPLE MISSED WAS THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY BELIEVED IT. AND THAT TELLS YOU A LOT ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THESE CANDIDATES. SO IF YOU LEVEL UP A WORD LIKE WEIRD AND IT TAKES OFF AND PEOPLE ARE, LIKE, USING IT, YEAH, THAT'S WEIRD. THEY'RE WEIRD, THAT'S BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THEY'RE WEIRD. THAT'S GOOD NARRATIVE. YOU DON'T WANT TO OVERDO IT LIKE EVERY WORD OUT OF YOUR MOUTH SHOULDN'T BE WEIRD BUT IN THE CONTEXT OF A CONVERSATION, EVERY