Harris Appears on ‘60 Minutes’ as Trump Heads to Florida: Election 2024 Live Updates
Harris Appears on ‘60 Minutes’ as Trump Heads to Florida: Election 2024 Live Updates
    Posted on 10/08/2024
The special did not include an interview with former President Donald J. Trump, who backed out last week.

Ms. Harris, whose media tour began in earnest on Sunday’s episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, is scheduled to follow “60 Minutes” with a series of interviews on Tuesday: “The View” on ABC; Mr. Stern’s satellite radio program; and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS. (Mr. Walz is set to be on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Monday night on ABC.)

Also today, Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump both commemorated the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Ms. Harris said the United States was “doing everything we can possibly do to get a cease-fire and hostage deal done” during a memorial tree planting at the vice president’s residence. Mr. Trump visited the grave of a prominent rabbi in New York and was set to attend an event in Florida at one of his golf courses.

Here’s what else to know.

Trump’s Gaza claim: Mr. Trump told a radio interviewer on Monday that he has been to Gaza. No record of such a trip exists, and an aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, pointed to the former president’s trip to Israel. But Gaza is not in Israel.

Musk dangles millions: The super PAC set up by the billionaire Elon Musk is offering $47 for each referral of a voter who signs a petition that will help identify potential Trump voters. Federal law makes it a crime to pay someone to vote or to accept payment for registering to vote or for voting, but it is not illegal to pay money to voters to sign a petition or to the people persuading them to sign.

On the trail: Ms. Harris is set to participate in a town-hall event with Latino voters on Thursday in Las Vegas on the Spanish-language channel Univision. Mr. Trump, whose own Univision town hall was postponed until later this month because of the hurricane approaching Florida, is scheduled to hold a town-hall event on Tuesday on public health with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the former presidential candidate who has campaigned against vaccines. On Thursday, Mr. Trump is scheduled to address the Detroit Economic Club while former President Barack Obama campaigns in Pittsburgh for Ms. Harris.

The running mates: Mr. Walz and Senator JD Vance of Ohio also marked the anniversary of the attack on Israel. Mr. Vance attended a rally in Washington organized by Christian and Jewish groups, and Mr. Walz, in California, attended the Nova exhibition, dedicated to the music festival where more than 380 people were killed in the Hamas-led assault. On Tuesday, Mr. Vance will campaign in Michigan and Mr. Walz will be in Seattle and Sacramento.

Hurricane Helene: North Carolina will allow 13 western counties affected by Hurricane Helene to modify their voting procedures, including by changing locations for in-person early voting sites and Election Day precinct voting sites. And as Georgia was to begin distributing absentee ballots, officials there said they did not expect the storm to significantly disrupt voting. Here’s a look at key dates for early voting across the country.

The price of Trump’s plans: A new analysis found that Mr. Trump’s various economic plans could add as much as $15 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade — nearly twice as much as the economic plans being proposed by Ms. Harris. Another found that his tax and tariff proposals would, on average, amount to a tax increase for every income group except the top 5 percent of highest-earning Americans. Read about the analyses.

The Gaza Strip is not part of Israel and has never been, though some Israelis have called for annexing it. It was occupied by Israel from 1967 until 2005, when Israel unilaterally withdrew from the territory. In 2007, after Hamas took over Gaza, Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade that restricted access to the area.

There is no record of Mr. Trump ever being in Gaza, during his time as president or as a businessman. In 2017, his first year in office, Mr. Trump visited Israel and traveled to the West Bank — a separate territory that is some 20 miles from Gaza at the nearest point — for a meeting with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, in Bethlehem.

In the interview, Mr. Hewitt asked Mr. Trump, a real-estate developer, if Gaza, wide swaths of which have been destroyed over the last year as part of air and ground strikes in retaliation for the Oct. 7 attack, could “be Monaco if it was rebuilt the right way? Could someone make Gaza into something that all the Palestinian people would be proud of, would want to live in, would benefit them?”

Mr. Trump replied, “It could be better than Monaco. It has the best location in the Middle East, the best water, the best everything. It’s got, it is the best, I’ve said it for years. You know when — I’ve been there, and it’s rough. It’s a rough place, before the, you know, before all of the attacks and before the back and forth what’s happened over the last couple of years.”

Asked later what Mr. Trump was referring to when he said he had “been there,” a Trump campaign official did not provide a comment on the record. Speaking only on the condition of anonymity, the official said, “Gaza is in Israel. President Trump has been to Israel.”

The comment renews questions about how Mr. Trump would approach the region if he wins another term. Some in Israel, including hard-liners in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, favor the idea of reoccupying and annexing Gaza.

Mr. Trump has made supporting Israel a centerpiece of his campaign over the past year. His supporters have praised several policy decisions he made as president, including the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv and the historic Abraham Accords that normalized relations between Israel and some Arab nations. Those efforts were pushed by Mr. Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman, and Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

But Mr. Trump has made plain that he thinks Jewish voters in the United States should support him for those and other policies.

“I think that Israel has to do one thing, they have to get smart about Trump, because they don’t back me,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Hewitt, referring to Jewish voters, when he was asked whether Israel would “recover fully” from the attacks. “I did more for Israel than anybody. I did more for the Jewish people than anybody. And it’s not reciprocal, as they say, not reciprocal.”

On the Screen

The advertisement opens with an image of Ms. Harris and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont clasping hands and smiling during a Democratic primary debate in 2019, under the headline “Co-sponsored the Green New Deal,” citing a National Public Radio report.

A photo of Ms. Harris is shown alongside the phrases “expansive new taxes” and “increase energy costs,” citing a 2019 New York Times article. A photo of Ms. Harris, in a protective mask, filling up an electric vehicle is shown under the headline “Ban gas-powered cars,” citing a 2019 Sacramento Bee article.

The ad then plays a clip of Ms. Harris with Jimmy Fallon from an appearance on “The Tonight Show” taking part in the late-night show’s recurring “Slow Jam the News” feature.

Three men in work clothes are shown with skeptical expressions on their faces, under the headline “Kamala’s scheme: ‘Kill jobs,’” and a gas station is the backdrop for the headline “Kamala’s scheme: ‘Raise gas prices.’” And a video clip shows Ms. Harris giddily dancing with the talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres.

The ad closes with images of Mr. Trump shaking hands with a variety of blue-collar workers, some in protective gear, under the headline “The economy was stronger,” citing CNN.

The Script

Narrator

“Kamala Harris pushed the far-left Green New Deal. That means huge new taxes, increased utility bills and banning gas cars.”

HARRIS

“That’s why I am committed to passing a Green New Deal and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all.”

FALLON

“Mmm, mmm, mmm. Mamala Kamala just don’t give a frack.”

Narrator

“Kamala’s fracking ban would kill jobs and raise gas prices. Kamala doesn’t give a frack about you. Only President Trump will bring back Trump’s strong economy.”

Accuracy

Ms. Harris, as a senator in 2019, was an original co-sponsor of the Green New Deal, a nonbinding resolution backed by liberal Democrats that called for the United States to transition fully to clean energy within a decade. It guaranteed high-paying new jobs in clean-energy industries and outlined a plan to address climate change that would have required changes and investments in the economy. Many energy experts and economists agreed that getting to the future it imagined would involve new taxes and could increase energy costs, depending on how it was enacted.

During her 2019 presidential campaign, Ms. Harris backed phasing out sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035. She also supported a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process used to extract hard-to-access oil and natural gas from bedrock by injecting water and chemicals underground at high pressure; environmentalists say it pollutes the air and groundwater.

But Ms. Harris says she no longer supports either of those positions, and she has expressed support for developing more oil and gas.

The clip from “The Tonight Show” was also selectively edited to delete Ms. Harris’s emphasis on job creation. She had actually said, “I am committed to passing a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all.”

Some of the citations are misleading. Two quotations, attributed to Reuters and E&E News, say that her plan would “kill jobs” and “raise gas prices,” but those opinions were expressed by Mr. Trump’s allies and were not independent analyses. And the CNN quotation, “the economy was stronger,” came from an article about voters who held that view.

The Takeaway

Michigan and Pennsylvania were critical to Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 and to his defeat in 2020. This ad paints Ms. Harris as overly liberal and ties her to policies that could increase energy costs and taxes.

Mr. Trump and his allies have repeatedly pointed to positions Ms. Harris took during her failed 2020 primary campaign, when she courted liberal support, as evidence that she is too left-wing for the country. The edited clip from “The Tonight Show” uses Ms. Harris’s own words, making it hard to disregard, though it also snips away three words that would have lessened the clip’s impact.

Pennsylvania is crucial to both candidates, and Mr. Trump plainly hopes to use fracking as a wedge issue there. The state is actually facing a gas glut that has led to slower drilling and fewer jobs. But energy costs are a major issue for voters.

Similarly, the shot of Ms. Harris with an electric vehicle advances Mr. Trump’s aim of tying the vice president to a push for electric vehicles that he has warned could lead to job losses for union autoworkers.

“We must work to ensure nothing like the horrors of Oct. 7 can ever happen again,” she said. “And on this solemn day, I will restate my pledge to always ensure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself, and that I will always work to ensure the safety and security of the Jewish people here and around the world.”

While Ms. Harris did not call for a cease-fire in Gaza during her prepared remarks — as she has in the past — she acknowledged the more than 41,000 Palestinians who have died, according to local health officials, in Israel’s campaign to eliminate Hamas.

“We must work to relieve the immense suffering of innocent Palestinians in Gaza who have experienced so much pain and loss over the year,” she said.

During the vice president’s remarks, protesters could be heard chanting in the background.

The brutality of the Oct. 7 attacks and the mass death and grave humanitarian crisis in Gaza caused by Israel’s response have complicated Democratic efforts to win support from Jewish, Muslim and Arab American voters, groups that have reliably backed the party in past elections.

Republicans have tried to use Israel as a wedge issue with Jewish voters, although former President Donald J. Trump has sometimes seemed to hamstring those attempts by claiming that American Jews who support Democrats hate their religion or are disloyal. And many Muslim and Arab Americans, particularly in the battleground state of Michigan, say they will not vote for Ms. Harris because she has not spoken out more strongly against the United States’ military and financial aid to Israel.

On Monday, all four candidates on the Democratic and Republican tickets publicly honored the Oct. 7 anniversary, as did President Biden, reflecting how deeply felt the attacks have been in the United States.

After Ms. Harris and Mr. Emhoff shoveled dirt over the base of the newly planted pomegranate tree, the vice president said in response to a reporter’s question that negotiating a cease-fire in Gaza was “one of the highest priorities of this administration.”

“We are not going to give up,” Ms. Harris said. “We are doing everything we can possibly do to get a cease-fire and hostage deal done. It’s one of the most important ways we will be able to end this war and bring any type of stability to the region.”

Earlier in the day, Mr. Biden participated in a candle-lighting ceremony at the White House to remember those killed on Oct. 7. He lit a yahrzeit candle and briefly crossed himself without making remarks.

Also on Monday, Mr. Trump observed the anniversary of the attack by visiting the grave in New York City of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, an influential leader of the Lubavitcher movement, a Hasidic group, who died in 1994. Mr. Trump is also scheduled to travel to Florida for an event on Monday evening with Jewish community leaders at his resort in Doral.

His running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, attended a memorial in the shadow of the Washington Monument in the U.S. capital, and used the platform to criticize Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris for their policies in the Middle East, asserting that they “haven’t done a thing” to bring home the hostages still held by Hamas. He also denounced pro-Palestinian protesters as “pro-Hamas,” saying that their calls for a cease-fire were equivalent to calling “for a unilateral surrender.”

Ms. Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, who was traveling in California, marked the anniversary by paying his respects at the Nova Exhibition, an installation that moved from Tel Aviv to New York to Culver City and is dedicated to the music festival where more than 380 people were killed in the Hamas-led assault.

Reporting was contributed by Michael Gold , Chris Cameron and Katie Glueck .

He described talking to young voters and said: “Young women between the ages of 19 and 30, abortion is their No. 1 concern. That’s all they want to talk about. They are single-issue voters. And it’s all about pro-choice, pro-choice. ‘Well, Republicans are pro-life, they want to take my rights away and lock me up and throw me in prison.’ And I said, ‘Well, are you familiar with what the Democrats’ position is on abortion?’”

He then repeated the false claim, made by many Republicans, that legislation proposed by Democrats would allow abortions “up to and including the moment of birth” and “after the moment of birth,” and said: “That’s not an abortion after they’re born. It’s called murder. Like, that is the political position of the American Democrat Party.”

No state allows doctors to kill infants after birth, and no proposed legislation — including the Women’s Health Protection Act, which Mr. Sheehy appeared to cite with a reference to the “Women’s Health Care Act of 2021” — would change that prohibition. While the Women’s Health Protection Act would not ban abortion after a gestational cutoff, it would allow states to restrict it after fetal viability as long as they included exceptions for medical emergencies.

Mr. Sheehy is challenging Senator Jon Tester of Montana, who appears based on polls to be the most vulnerable Democratic senator up for re-election this year. Coupled with the seat Republicans are expected to gain in West Virginia, ousting Mr. Tester could give Republicans control of the Senate even if they don’t defeat any other Democratic incumbents.

The abortion segment of the recordings was publicized by The Daily Montanan on Friday, and a short, edited clip of it was further disseminated by the Montana Democratic Party on Monday. (That clip cut straight from the “Are you familiar” question to “It’s called murder,” omitting the reference to the Women’s Health Protection Act and supposed abortions after birth.) The party said Mr. Sheehy’s comments reflected “his plans to put politicians in charge of Montana women’s health care decisions.”

A spokeswoman for Mr. Sheehy’s campaign in a statement didn’t specifically address the comments in the recordings, saying, “Tim has been crystal-clear that he is pro-life with exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother.” The statement also criticized Mr. Tester, blaming him for the state of inflation, home prices and security at the southern border.

Mr. Sheehy’s comments on abortion, an issue that has helped to fuel Democratic victories since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, were in some respects similar to those made last month by the Republican Senate candidate in Ohio, Bernie Moreno.

Mr. Moreno, who is challenging Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, described many suburban women as “single-issue voters” on abortion. He added: “It’s a little crazy, by the way, especially for women that are like past 50. I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s an issue for you.’”

The recordings of Mr. Sheehy also included remarks in which he promoted racist stereotypes about Native Americans, who are a significant voting bloc in Montana. Among other things, he said he had roped and branded cattle on the Crow Reservation and that it was “a great way to bond with all the Indians out there while they’re drunk at 8 a.m.”

The goal is “to get 1 million registered voters in swing states to sign in support of the Constitution, especially freedom of speech and the right to bear arms,” the petition says. If recruiters managed to find 1 million people to sign the petition, Mr. Musk would be on the hook for a staggering $47 million.

The petition, which is also being circulated to Mr. Musk’s 200 million followers on his social media platform X, is meant to identify voters who are particularly energized, a common list-building activity at all levels of politics. Those voters, who have taken the initiative to sign a petition affirming their conservative views, could then be especially targeted by Mr. Musk’s organization, America PAC, to turn out for Mr. Trump.

Like other online list-circulation efforts, this one collects data on signatories. The website asks for the signer’s name, email address, cell number, mailing address and the referrer’s information.

There appears to be no limit on the number of registered voters that someone can refer, raising the possibility that the referral program could be gamed. But the super PAC says that it will check: “Eligible people may only list one eligible person as their referrer. Before payment is made, America PAC will verify the accuracy of all information of the referrer and referee.”

The $47 payment is presumably a nod to Mr. Trump’s desire to become the country’s 47th president.

Federal law makes it a crime to pay someone to vote or to accept payment for registering to vote or for voting. It is not illegal to pay money to voters to sign a petition or to the people persuading them to sign.

Brendan Fischer, a campaign-finance lawyer who has been critical of other work at Mr. Musk’s super PAC, said the effort did not appear to be legally problematic.

“The fact that they are only paying the referrer rather than the signatory further insulates the PAC from any accusations that they are buying votes,” he said. “Ultimately, what America PAC is doing here is spending money for voter data, which PACs and campaigns do all the time.”

Mr. Musk has always been a believer in the power of referrals, most notably deploying them to build the payments company that began PayPal and to increase sales at Tesla. He has told people that he sees the most effective type of political campaigning to be by word-of-mouth, envisioning a conservative movement where voters, two-by-two, tell their neighbors about why they should vote for Mr. Trump.

The petition effort is one of several maneuvers by Mr. Musk in recent days to publicly attach himself more closely to the super PAC he created.

The top of the super PAC’s website now identifies the group as the “PAC founded by Elon Musk.” Over the last few days, the group acquired the @America handle on X, which has pushed out Mr. Musk’s messages, and Mr. Musk has encouraged his 200 million followers to follow the account and the website. Mr. Musk’s bio on X now says, solely: “Read @America to understand why I’m supporting Trump for President.”

The center of the super PAC’s website features a carousel of tweets from conservative personalities, including Mr. Musk, on the topics of “Secure Borders,” “Safe Cities,” “Free Speech,” “Sensible Spending,” “Fair Justice System,” and “Self-Protection.”

Mr. Musk and his political advisers spent the past few days in Pennsylvania, a state where Mr. Musk said he was “focusing heavily.” He spoke at Mr. Trump’s Saturday rally in Butler, Pa., and he attended the Steelers-Cowboys game in Pittsburgh, which his super PAC drew attention to on X.

Mr. Musk is also preparing to spend more of his money on door-knocking across the country to help Mr. Trump. The group, which has hired thousands of canvassers in recent months, now says it will offer them $30 per hour, an increase from what some of its previous contractors were paying, about $25 per hour on the high end.

“Voting will start on time,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said at a news conference at the State Capitol.

Mr. Raffensperger’s office said at least three of Georgia’s roughly 2,400 polling places would be relocated, but Blake Evans, the state elections director, said there were “minimal, if any, power outages” at elections offices and that pre-election training and testing had largely resumed. Voting equipment, Mr. Evans said, had been “safe and secure the entire time.”

For elections workers, voters and campaigns alike, the greater challenge may come with absentee ballots. Although Georgia voters are expected to vote by mail in far smaller numbers than in 2020, when many people stayed home because of the pandemic, the state is so closely contested in the presidential campaign that even minor disruptions could have enormous consequences.

Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer for Mr. Raffensperger’s office, said that elections officials had received about 220,000 requests for absentee ballots as of Monday morning and that they were particularly focused on fine-tuning plans to deliver “a little less than 700” in areas that remain upended by the storm.

Mr. Sterling added that voters who receive their ballots by mail should consider returning them by hand.

“If I’m getting an absentee ballot and I feel like I have to vote that way, either I will take it or have somebody who can legally carry it for me to take it,” he said. “That’s what I would recommend doing, because why take the risk with your vote?”

Georgia’s voter registration deadline is Monday at 11:59 p.m.

Mr. Kim approached, braced the lectern momentarily and asked if his opponent was OK. Mr. Bashaw responded with a wan smile. Aides escorted Mr. Bashaw, 64, off the stage, and the 8 p.m. debate, which aired live on C-SPAN, halted temporarily.

Mr. Bashaw returned about 10 minutes later, appearing rejuvenated, and the event continued uninterrupted for the next two hours. He said he had not eaten enough before what was his first-ever debate.

“I just felt a little lightheaded because of, I think, the day, the buildup, the campaign and a lack of food,” he told reporters after the debate.

Emergency medical personnel who had been called were waved off and did not enter the auditorium in Nutley, N.J., where the debate, sponsored by The New Jersey Globe and On New Jersey news sites, and the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University, was held.

Mr. Bashaw said he was aware of no underlying medical issue that might have led to the episode.

Mr. Kim, 42, and Mr. Bashaw are competing for a Senate seat vacated by Robert Menendez, 70, a Democrat who resigned in August after being convicted of peddling his political influence for bribes of gold, cash and a Mercedes-Benz.

Mr. Bashaw, a hotel developer from Cape May, at the southernmost tip of New Jersey, is running his first race for public office.

The debate itself continued as cordially as it began and offered a sharp contrast between the two men on issues that ranged from the escalating war in the Middle East to abortion rights.

Mr. Bashaw criticized Mr. Kim’s call for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas, an Islamist military group that led a deadly attack on southern Israel a year ago.

Mr. Bashaw maintained he is “pro-choice,” but has also said that the Supreme Court got it right when it abolished a woman’s constitutional right to end a pregnancy because the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling returned the decision to the states.

“I just fundamentally have a problem with you using the term pro-choice to describe yourself when you have talked about the importance of the Dobbs decision being correctly decided,” said Mr. Kim, a staunch supporter of abortion rights.

Mr. Bashaw said he would vote for bipartisan federal legislation enshrining a right to abortion nationwide. But he has refused to say until what point in a pregnancy he believed the procedure should be allowed or whether he would support legislation that is more restrictive than the current law permitting abortion in New Jersey.

Mr. Kim, a third-term House member who represents a district in southern and central New Jersey, previously served on the National Security Council advising President Barack Obama on Iraq.

He won the Democratic primary with nearly 75 percent of the vote and is far better funded than Mr. Bashaw, making him a heavy favorite in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 930,000 voters.

It has been 52 years since New Jersey voters elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate. But a poll released last week found that neither candidate was well known in New Jersey. Mr. Bashaw has said that he considers the Nov. 5 election a “sleeper race” in the Democrats’ struggle to retain their narrow majority in the Senate.

“I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble,” Ms. Harris told the host, Alex Cooper. “Two, a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life and children in their life. And I think it’s really important for women to lift each other up.”

When the conversation turned to attacks by Republicans against “childless cat ladies,” Ms. Harris called the criticism, popularized by past comments by Senator JD Vance of Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, “mean and meanspirited.” Ms. Harris referred to her stepchildren, Cole and Ella Emhoff, as her children.

“I love those kids to death,” Ms. Harris said. “And family comes in many forms. I think that increasingly, you know, all of us understand that this is not the 1950s anymore.”

The “Call Her Daddy” interview was part of several appearances that Ms. Harris will make this week with news outlets and niche podcasts or radio shows. Several of the platforms are considered to be friendly to her, or at least far less probing than a traditional news interview would be.

Ms. Harris will sit for an interview with the news program “60 Minutes,” which will be broadcast Monday evening. But interviews with personalities like Ms. Cooper, Ms. Harris’s advisers insist, are part of a strategy that will target groups of voters who may not be television watchers and may not be getting their information from mainstream news platforms.

In Ms. Cooper’s case, she represents a generation of women who were of reproductive age when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the ruling that had provided a constitutional right to an abortion. But, as she told the vice president during their 40-minute sit-down, her listeners also feel disillusioned and distrustful of politics.

“Why should we trust you?” Ms. Cooper asked Ms. Harris at one point.

“You can look at my career to know what I care about,” Ms. Harris said, referring to her roles as a prosecutor and politician. “I care about making sure that people are entitled to and receive the freedoms that they are due.”

Their conversation was largely focused on reproductive rights, sexual abuse, student loans and debt. (Ms. Cooper joked in a note to her listeners before the episode ran that she was not the right person to have a discussion about fracking with the vice president.) Ms. Cooper said she was given 40 minutes to talk to the vice president and “no topic was off limits.” A spokesman for the campaign said Ms. Harris did not receive any questions in advance.

Ms. Cooper and Ms. Harris talked at length about how post-Roe abortion bans and restrictions in 20 states have affected women.

Ms. Harris pointed out that she was the first person in her role to have ever visited a reproductive health clinic, and said that many critics of those facilities do not understand the full range of care provided to patients. (She visited a Minnesota Planned Parenthood last spring.) Across the country, dozens of reproductive health care clinics have shuttered or reduced their services since Roe was overturned, forcing many patients to cross state lines or try to find treatments online.

“You know what those clinics also do?” Ms. Harris said. “They do paps, they do breast cancer screenings, they do H.I.V. testing, and they’re having to close in many places with these bans.”

When discussing the economy, Ms. Harris highlighted policies she has promoted on the campaign trail, including a $6,000 tax credit for families with children under 1, and down-payment assistance for first-time home buyers. She also said she would keep fighting for student debt relief if elected, calling college debt “a huge issue” that is “a barrier to people being able to even think about starting a family, buying a home.”

In a note to her listeners before the show, Ms. Cooper said she debated whether to have Ms. Harris on her podcast. In the past, she had stayed away from politics, and had even implied that she had turned down appeals from the White House to have the president and vice president on her show. Ms. Cooper also said she had invited Mr. Trump to go on the show to talk about reproductive rights, but did not say whether she had heard back.

Ms. Cooper first made her name in the podcast world by discussing sex and relationships, but has slowly waded into talking politics, particularly in the post-Roe era. She recently signed a $125 million deal with SiriusXM. On Sunday, “Call Her Daddy” was ranked 15th among the most popular podcasts on Spotify.
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