'Searching for bright spots': CNN's Abby Phillip describes Harris team's silence

'Searching for bright spots': CNN's Abby Phillip describes Harris team's silence
Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at North Western High School in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., September 2, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign has fallen into radio silence as they search for any remaining path for outstanding votes to deliver them an election victory, CNN's Abby Phillip told Jake Tapper on Tuesday evening.

"Let me just give you a gut check here about what we are hearing here, as we've been sitting here reporting from the Harris headquarters," said Phillip. "And I think the operative word right now is silence. There's not a lot being said, because the Harris team appears to be searching for bright spots in the map, as these results very very, very slowly come in."

At the moment, she said, some Harris aides still believe she has a path to pulling out a win in Georgia, "but it is very, very close."

Ultimately, Phillip added, "the blue wall still remains the best option for her in this moment. That's just, Jake, where things stand right now. Usually, as the night goes on, the campaign is trying to spin these numbers as they come out ... there's been a slowdown in that spin, because they really are digging into these numbers as they are coming in and trying to understand what's left out there for them, especially in these big urban centers, Jake."

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A former top MAGA White House aide warned that Trump is headed for "five-stage denialism" after his biggest flop yet.

Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former White House communications director, made the prediction during an interview on The Daily Beast Podcast while talking about the recently announced Iran deal.

"You've heard of five-stage clingers? He's gonna go into five-stage denialism," Scaramucci said. "And he's gonna triple down on this. And he's gonna start saying things to people that are absolutely not true."

Scaramucci admitted that "the denialism of Trump" has been "the cornerstone of his success for his entire public life," but said that it's "now what's kicked in."

The deal, which reportedly includes a $300 billion fund for Iran, was an "abject failure," Scaramucci said. "In his quiet moments in his mind, he understands that this has been a disaster."

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President Donald Trump got his chosen candidate in the U.S. Senate race in Georgia, where Rep. Mike Collins clinched the nomination last night — and he plans to go all in on supporting him.

In the same post where the president trashed incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and came up with an obscene nickname for him, Trump vowed that he will be holding campaign rallies in the state to help Collins, saying, "I’ll be doing Big TRUMP Rallies for Mike in Georgia!"

This earned a wave of mockery from commenters on social media, as although Trump narrowly carried the state in 2024, he isn't popular there in current polls, and his presence would likely just drag down the Republican ticket there.

"Jon Ossoff just ordered another bottle of scotch," wrote The Independent's Eric Michael Garcia, adding that Trump rallies would be "Risky no doubt. Collins is already considered very right wing and Trump is underwater in Georgia."

"LMAO yeah sure, bring out the super unpopular president in the middle of a race," wrote the Polling USA account. "Even Bush knew better than this."

"'Please don't throw me in that brier patch.' - Jon Ossoff," wrote Middle Georgia University professor Christopher Lawrence — a reference to the story of Brer Rabbit.

"Ossoff might win by double digits," wrote political analyst Andrew Donaldson.

A recently leaked list of the members of a MAGA billionaire's secret society looks a lot like the Epstein files, one columnist warned.

Wired published a list of more than 200 of the world's elite who are part of a secret society, Dialog, run by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. A list of events at a retreat for the group included sessions on "Navigating WWIII" and "How's Your Sex Life?" Wired reported.

However, progressive writers Wajahat Ali and Danielle Moddie said in a recent episode of "The Left Hook" podcast that they were more freaked out by how names from the secret society had connections to Jeffrey Epstein or appeared in the Epstein files.

"When you look at the list, all you have to do is then like cross-reference it with people in the Epstein files," Moddie said. "Looking at it and reading it, I was just like, 'Of course.'"

Ali pointed out that Peter Attia, the physician and longevity expert, is listed as part of Thiel's secret society, adding that Attia allegedly "did horrible things with Jeffrey Epstein." He also called out author Jonathan Haidt and venture capitalist and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale as being in both Thiel's secret society and the Epstein files.

On top of that, Epstein himself was invited to the 2014 Dialog retreat, Wired reported, and Thiel is also named in the Epstein files as he exchanged emails with the sex criminal until early 2019. "It's all a big club, and you ain't in it," Ali said. He and Moddie also noted how the Epstein files and Thiel's secret society list are both "bipartisan."

Moddie said it's proof "these people have no problem with each other," while Ali called both lists proof of "the Epstein class and how the world's worst people all know each other."

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