Trump surges ahead of Harris in new poll

>> Kayleigh: HELLO, EVERYONE. THIS IS TO BE 26. I'M KAYLEIGH McENANY HERE WITH MY COHOST HARRIS FAULKNER AND EMILY COMPAGNO. ALSO JOINING US, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND "THE FEDERALIST" EDITOR IN CHIEF, MOLLIE HEMINGWAY, AND FOX NEWS NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT GRIFF JENKINS. WE BEGIN WITH BRAND-NEW POLLING SHOWING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP PULLING AHEAD OF VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. MAYBE A SIGN THAT HER MOMENTUM HAS STALLED. "NEW YORK TIMES" SIENA COLLEGE POLL SHOWS TRUMP LEADING HARRIS BY ONE POINT IN THIS SUPER TIGHT RACE. THE NEW POLLS SHOW THAT TRUMP REMAINS POPULAR WITH A 46% APPROVAL RATING. THAT'S BIG, BETTER THAN WHERE HE STOOD IN EITHER OF HIS LAST TWO PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS. THIS POLL IS BEING CALLED ONE OF TRUMP'S MOST OVERLOOKED ADVANTAGES. VOTERS SEE TRUMP AS CLOSER TO THE CENTER THAN HARRIS, AND NEARLY HALF OF ALL VOTERS SAY THAT HARRIS IS TOO LIBERAL OR PROGRESSIVE. THAT EXPLAINS ALL OF HER FLIP-FLOPPING. THIS POLICY SIMPLY WON'T GET HER TO THE WHITE HOUSE. BUT JUST AS BRADY SANDERS. HE SEEMS TO KNOW THIS. >> YOU HAVE DESCRIBED VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AS A PROGRESSIVE. SHE HAS PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED MEDICARE FOR ALL. NOW SHE DOES NOT. SHE HAS PREVIOUS SUPPORTED A BAN ON FRACKING. NOW SHE DOES NOT. THESE, SENATOR, ARE IDEAS THAT YOU HAVE CAMPAIGNED ON. DO YOU THINK THAT SHE IS ABANDONING HER PROGRESSIVE IDEALS? >> NO, I DON'T THINK SHE IS ABANDONING HER IDEALS. I THINK SHE'S TRYING TO BE PRAGMATIC AND DOING WHAT SHE THINKS IS RIGHT IN ORDER TO ENACT THE ELECTION. >> Kayleigh: REPUBLICANS EVERYWHERE REJOICED WITH THAT SOUND BITE. MOLLIE, THIS REMINDED ME OF THE ETCH-A-SKETCH COMMENT FROM THE SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN, WE SET A GENERAL ELECTION IS AN ETCH A TAKE IT UP AND YOU CHANGE EVERYTHING AND HE GOT WIDELY DERIDED FOR THAT. THAT SHE'S JUST HIDING IT. IT BEARS ASKING ALL THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, THAT SHE STILL SUPPORT ALL OF THIS? HER 2019 POLICIES, MEDICARE FOR ALL, BANNING FRACKING. THE LIST GOES ON. GRAINY DEAL. AN EXTREME LIST. >> Mollie: FIRST OFF, I THINK IT IS WORTH POINTING OUT THAT SHE ACTUALLY HASN'T CHANGED HER POSITIONS ON ANYTHING, ACCORDING TO HER OWN SPEAKING. SHE HAS HAD ANONYMOUS SOURCES IN YOUR CAMPAIGN COME OUT TO COMPLIANT REPORTERS AND CLAIMS SHE HAS CHANGED HER LONG-HELD CONSISTENTLY HELD POSITIONS FROM WHEN SHE WAS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA, WHEN SHE WAS SENATOR, WHEN SHE WAS RUNNING FOR VICE PRESIDENT, OR EVEN AS VICE PRESIDENT. SO SHE'S GOT A LOT OF CONSISTENCY. BUT IT'S TRUE SHE IS WILLING TO SAY ALMOST ANYTHING TO GET ELECTED, AND MY FAVORITE EXAMPLE OF THIS IS BACK IN 2020. IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY DEBATE, YOU MIGHT RECALL SHE CALLED PRESIDENT BIDEN A HORRIFIC RACIST. SHE WAS ASKED ABOUT IT ON A LATE-NIGHT SHOW LATER AND SHE SAID -- THEY WERE LIKE, WHY WOULD YOU BE ON THE SAME TICKET AS SOMEONE YOU SAID WAS THIS HORRIBLE PERSON? AND SHE KEPT SAYING, IT WAS JUST A DEBATE. SINCE SHE HAS A TRACK RECORD OF BEING ABLE TO SAY WHATEVER IS NEEDED, THE VOTERS WILL LOOK AT WHAT HER ACTUAL POLICIES HAVE BEEN OVER THE COURSE OF THE ELECTION. >> Kayleigh: TO THAT END, EMILY, SHE FINALLY PUT UP A POLICY PAID ON HER WEBSITE. BUT IF YOU WANT SPECIFICS, YOU JUST DON'T GET THEM. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN SHE TALKS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, SHE DOESN'T TALK ABOUT FRACKING. WHICH TALKS ABOUT THE BORDER, SE DOESN'T MENTION DECRIMINALIZINGR CROSSINGS. SHE HAS FLIP-FLOPPED VERBALLY, BUT WHY NOT COMMIT TO THAT ON YOUR WEBSITE? >> Emily: BECAUSE I THINK, FRANKLY, THE CAMPAIGN AND SHE LACKED THE INTELLECTUAL DEPTH TO DO SO. FRANKLY, I DON'T THINK SHE COULD HAVE THAT CONVERSATION IN ANY TYPE OF DETAIL, NOR, CLEARLY, CANDOR CAMPAIGN. ALL THEY HAVE FOCUSED ON, TO MOLLIE'S POINT, IS REDEFINING HER IN SOUND BITE INCREMENTS THAT WILL RESONATE WITH YOUNG VOTERS AND PEOPLE'S VOTES CAN BE BOUGHT. BUT THE REALITY IS MOST PEOPLE FEEL THEY CAN'T BE BOUGHT, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THEY CAN'T BUY GROCERIES OR BABY FORMULA. THEY REMEMBER BACK TO THE HORRIFIC THINGS YOU HAVE SUFFERED UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION, AND THOUGH SHE HAS PROMISED. I THINK, MOVING FORWARD, WHAT THESE POLLS SHOW OUR THAT RACE TO DEFINE HER, THAT HER CAMPAIGN IS LOSING. IT IS THEREFORE INCUMBENT UPON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN TO FILL IN THE GAP. SHE TALKS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, BUT HERE WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT CONSERVATION, AND HERE'S WHAT THAT MEANS. HERE'S WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. HERE ARE THE INDIGENOUS TRIBES THAT AGREE WITH US. THEY NEED TO FILL IN THOSE GAPS THAT HER TALKING POINTS AIM TO CALL IN WITH PEOPLE, BUT IT IS INEFFECTIVE BECAUSE IT IS BASED ON NOTHING. TO ME, THIS JUST SHOWS HER ENTIRE SITUATION IS FRACTURED. >> Kayleigh: MENTIONED TRUMP. GRIFF, IF I'M THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN, I'M FEELING REALLY GOOD THIS MORNING. NOT JUST BECAUSE OF THIS POLL, BUT I WAS DIGGING THROUGH NUMBERS AND REAL CLEAR POLITICS. THIS IS WHERE NATIONALLY THE REAL CLEAR POLITICS STANDS. YOU CAN SEE HARRIS HAS A 1.4% ADVANTAGE. BUT COMPARE THAT TO BIDEN, 7.5% ADVANTAGE. COMPARE THAT TO HILLARY, 2.7% ADVANTAGE. FLIP TO PENNSYLVANIA, WHERE IT IS A TIDE. LOOK AT THE ADVANTAGE. RUNNING BEHIND BIDEN BY 4.5 POINTS, RUNNING BEHIND CLINTON BY 6.5 POINTS. SHE IS NOT STANDING UP TO THE NUMBERS ARE PREDECESSORS PUT UP. >> Griff: THAT'S A GREAT POINT, KAYLEIGH, AND THERE'S A LOT TO BE EXCITED ABOUT IF YOU ARE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. BUT THE THING THEY MAY ALSO BE HAPPY ABOUT HIS COME ACROSS THE PULLING IN "THE NEW YORK TIMES," AMERICANS DON'T KNOW WHO SHE IS. IS SHE THE PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL THAT ESPOUSED ALL THOSE THINGS IN 2019 AND THE PRIMARY? ISSUED THE CENTRIST? BERNIE SANDERS PERHAPS SAID THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD THERE, THAT HER VALUES HAVEN'T CHANGED. THAT'S THE ONLY THING SHE SAID IN ONE INTERVIEW SHE HAS DONE SINCE SHE BECAME THE NOMINEE. WHEN YOU LOOK IN THAT POLL, 27% SAID THEY NEEDED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HER COMPARED ONLY 9% IS THAT THEY NEEDED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT TRUMP. WHICH MEANS THEY DON'T REALLY KNOW WHERE SHE STANDS, AS YOU POINT OUT. THE POLICY PAGE IS AS BIG AS CAN BE. THERE'S NO SPECIFICS TO DIG INTO. I THINK THE MOST DAMNING NUMBER IN THAT POLL IS 56% OF VOTERS SAID THAT HARRIS DOES NOT REPRESENT MAJOR CHANGE. SO SHE TRIED TO SEPARATE HERSELF FROM SPECIFICS TO NOT NAIL HER DOWN. TO BE THE CUMULATIVE CHANGE, MORE THAN HALF OF THE VOTERS IN THAT POLL SAY WE DON'T SEE HER AS A CHANGE CANDIDATE. >> Harris: I SEE SO MUCH IRONY IN WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. DONALD TRUMP NOW IS A CANDIDATE FOR CHANGE, AND THE CHANGE IS WHAT HE HAD THAT WAS WORKING. THE CHANGE IS WHAT PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY SEEN. AND THAT'S IRONIC, BECAUSE USUALLY PEOPLE WANT YOU TO IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF IT WERE THEN, AND THAT'S WHAT SHE'S TRYING TO DO. YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE TO IMAGINE WITH HIM. YOU CAN HIT THE POST AND THE TWEETS AND BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BUT YOU GOT TO LOVE THOSE GAS PRICES. YOU GOT TO LOVE THOSE FOOD PRICES. YOU'VE GOT TO LOVE A GUY WHO'S GOT A PLAN FOR TACKLING INFLATION THAT ACTUALLY IS ABOUT TACKLING INFLATION. >> Griff: TO THAT POINT, 51% IN THAT SAME POLL DID SEE TRUMP AS A MAJOR CHANGE CANDIDATE. >> Harris: IT'S FASCINATING. CHANGE TO WHAT WORKED. REAL QUICKLY, YOU HAD THAT SCROLL ON BEFORE, AND I CAUGHT IT, THE VERY FIRST ITEM. STARTING I.C.E, U.S. IMMIGRATIONS AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, FROM SCRATCH. THIS IS THE WOMAN WHO FAILED AT THE BORDER. YOU WANT TO TAKE ONE OF THE INFRASTRUCTURES AND KEEPING US SAFE IN AMERICA, THE CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENT -- AND WE CAN HAVE ALSO IT'S OF TALKS AND ARGUMENTS ABOUT HOW MUCH LONGER THEY NEED TO BE, ESPECIALLY RIGT NOW, WITH MAINE'S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS UNACCOUNTED FOR, PARTICULARLY CHILDREN IN THIS COUNTRY AND POTENTIAL SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS. BUT IS THAT WHO YOU WANT STARTING SOMETHING FROM SCRATCH THAT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH NATIONAL SECURITY? AND WHERE IS SHE ON FOREIGN POLICY? THAT'S ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE RAILS THAT AFFECTS NATIONAL SECURITY. LOOK, MAYBE SHE CAN COOK. SHE'S BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT FOOD. KEEP YOUR COOKING FROM SCRATCH IN THE KITCHEN FOR ALL OF US. I WOULDN'T BE DOING IT, EITHER. I'M NOT THE HARRIS WHO IS RUNNING, EITHER. BUT WE NEED SOMEBODY WHO CAN TELL US AND ARTICULATE EXACTLY WHAT IT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE, NOT BUILD CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT FROM SCRATCH. >> Kayleigh: I WANT TO PULL UP THAT CHANGE NUMBER THAT'S BEEN MENTIONED REPEATEDLY. YOU CAN SEE IT HERE. MORE THAN 60% OF VOTERS WANT CHANGE AND ONLY 25% SAY HARRIS REPRESENTS THE CHANGE. 53% SAY TRUMP DOES. THE REASON I WANT TO FOCUS ON THIS IS BECAUSE, IF I'M KAMALA HARRIS, MY JOB ON THAT STAGE IS NOT TO CREATE A LEGACY FOR BIDEN THAT DOESN'T EXIST. IT'S TOO WIN AND ELECTION. THAT BEING SAID, I STOOD UP TO HIM HERE, I STOOD UP TO HIM THERE. THIS IS WHERE HE'S WRONG. IT MEANS BEING TOUGH. I DON'T THINK SHE CAN DO THAT. >> Mollie: SHE'S GOT A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION WITH THIS DEBATE SHE'S GOING INTO. SHE HAS TO RUN AGAINST EVERYTHING SHE'S EVER SAID OR DONE AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL. SHE'S ALSO GOT TO RUN AGAINST HER CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. SHE IS THE INCUMBENT, AND THAT EFFORT THAT HAS DEFINITELY BEEN MADE TO BAMBOOZLE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC INTO THINKING SHE'S NOT THE INCUMBENT HAS CLEARLY FAILED, PROBABLY BECAUSE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT STUPID. AND SHE ALSO HAS TO RUN AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. I THINK WE CAN'T UNDERSTATE HOW DRAMATIC THESE "NEW YORK TIMES" POLL RESULTS ARE. YOU POINTED OUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING FOUR YEARS AGO. THIS POLL FOUR YEARS AGO HAD BIDEN UP EIGHT POINTS. SHE IS DOWN ONE. THAT IS A 9-POINT SPREAD. REMEMBER, 2016 AND 2020 WERE ESSENTIALLY TIDY ELECTIONS. ONE THAT TRUMP NEARLY WON AND ONE THAT TRUMP NARROWLY LOST. IF SHE IS RUNNING EIGHT POINTS BEHIND HER PREDECESSOR, THAT 6 THE BAD NEWS AND CLEANS WHY DEMOCRATS ARE IN A BIT OF A PANIC MODE TODAY. >> Kayleigh: I THINK IT IS TRUM