Trump is already scrambling the map this year. In utah where the Mormon Electorate is especially unfavorable to trump his lead is down to 5. 5. Prompting the campaign to dispatch mike pence to Salt Lake City less than two weeks before the election to do damage control. Hes there tomorrow. Mitt romney himself a mormon won utah by 48 in 2012. Given trumps Polling Deficit his lack of ads it came as a surprise that according to the Washington Post trump has stopped holding highdollar fundraisers and relying on online donations which tend to be much smaller. Thats after Campaign Financial reports show more money spent than raised in the month of september. Reports add to growing speculation that donald trump is not in very deep psychological Sense Running to be president of the United States so much as hes running to build up a fan base for donald trump. With the advent of trump tower
and then i could advertise a project that im doing. Like doral or something. And spend half a Million Dollars on it or a Million Dollars. Or i can do the show and spend nothing and be on for a lot longer. On the very day those tapes went public, thats exactly where trump was, doral. His resort and golf club outside miami. The event was ostensibly a Campaign Photo op with a group of employees, many who are hispanic and support the republican nominee. It sounded like this. 800 acres in the middle of miami. If you look at the ballroom, that was brandnew that didnt exist. Its one of the great places on earth. We had a Construction Crew here of 1600 people. We rebuilt the whole place in 14 months. We did it under budget although i did increase the scope of the work because we decided to use the finest marbles. While trump was hanging out at his golf course with the finest marbles, Hillary Clinton was holding an event at broward
alternative, which it is a Business Proposition, a poor Business Proposition and hes handling it terribly because hes incompetent at doing the one thing he says hes good at. Thats a possibility. I think hes far too smart for that and at 70 years old as a billionaire mogul. Well have to see the tax returns. Thats not on his agenda right now. I dont think anyone can doubt this. Even if you have the most malicious and nefarious view of donald trump you cant doubt that hes poured his Body And Soul into this campaign. Everyone who runs for president does that. No, no. Its incredibly special. If you were to compare his schedule to Hillary Clintons you would see a frenetic campaigner on one side, a man who could be my father all the time, yeah. I could never keep up his schedule versus Hillary Clinton who campaigns every few days. But you realize this is like one of trumps sons said this is
a huge step down for him to run for president. Hes not doing it donald trump isnt doing anyone any favors for running to be the most powerful person on the planet, right . I disagree by saying a step down the presidency is never a step down. Good, im glad we agree on that. I think he misspoke there, chris. Having said that, i truly believe this, i did, and i came to the trump train late. Im a convert to the trump train. I havent been drinking trump koolaid since the very beginning but ive become a true believer. I really believe this. This man, do you think that at this stage of his life, of his fortune, his career, he needs any of this . No, he doesnt. He is doing this because he sees that our country is gravely ill. We are economically and nationally sick i understand that thats the theory of the case for Trump Supporters and its what donald trump says and its possible that that is actually the case. The other theory of the case and its not just one that
people opposed to him politically believe, but people that share the Republican Partys beliefs but dont like donald trump is hes fundamentally a narcissist who has become addicted to the attention, is sort of compulsively driven by attention and this has given him an outlet for that attention and crucially doesnt actually care about the party that he is nominally representing in two weeks. Thats an important point. Chris, to your point, and i will concede this to you, there are some people whom i respect who hold those views. I would counter that by saying that generally they are part of a washington establishment that exists for its own selfaggrandizement yes, i get that. We are the outsiders and the establishment cant stand what we represent. And by the way, im glad they cant because were not coming there around the edges. I can say i get that argument. Theres some truth to that. Youre talking about this wired part of the establishment. But the random mormon voters that wanted nothing to do with the guy are now part of the establishment have come to the same conclusion. Thank you. Congratulations the Campaign Just bought a bunch of copies of that book. Thats money in your pocket. Well, no, it isnt. Ive given away so far 85,000. Is that true . 85,000 in royalties so far this year and ill continue to give it away to anti proimmigration causes. Trying to make sense of hes going to this hotel. Hes at doral today. Weve got the tape saying hes going to his hotel tomorrow. Theres a sense in which it could be the case that the incentives of running for president and getting maximum attention for yourself sometimes align and at some point they stop aligning and you just keep going with the incentives for maximum attention for yourself. Thats the only incentive he has. So what you said poor steve cortez, what a horrible,
horrible job to have to defend this man. And you can see how impossible it is at this point. Let me just note on steves behalf and steve believes in what hes saying and i dont doubt for a moment all the people you see on donald trump have not been drafted into it. Everyone has entered into it of their own i dont mean hes doing it against his will. Its a crappy job. No, so i think the point you were making about his need for attention, listen, he has kept upping the ante in terms of getting attention. The New York Times peace about michael dantonios interviews really brought that up again, this desperate feeling that if im not getting attention, that i barely exist. Hes like hes rowing the boat across a river and the Promised Land is on the other side but theres a hole in the boat and hes bailing, bailing, bailing, and hes bailing so much that he cant actually row the boat. So the Promised Land is never
going to be reached. Its funny you said that because the way this gets understood in the Campaign Context oh, theyre not doing the blocking and tackling, the organizational operational things they need to do in this election, why is he going to his hotel. Thats called lack of discipline. If you were just lazy, you would offload that to someone else and let them do the work for you. His incentives are not aligned with the Republican Party. They are part of the time but not all the time. I also wonder if at this point, given his noted inability to deal with shame, humiliation and loss and what seem like epically deep psychic wounds that he carries around, he just wants to go and be in a place that he feels like he created and right. Go back to home. Go back to somewhere, something that he maybe can feel good about. Yeah, he did End Todays Doral Event by just Muttering Rosebud Over and over again. No, i think the fascinating several different pieces of the trump psyche revealed by what happened today and one of them is this decision not to hold more fundraisers. Whats that about . Thats very simple. Hes already in revenge mode. Desperate. He wants to get the Republican Party. And if it means blowing up the Republican Party, the democracy, whatever it takes, donald trump is going to try to get back some semblance of selfworth. And to me, the biggest lesson ive learned up till now with two weeks to go before the election and the thing i have to take myself back to kind of parse is just how powerful a personality can be when it is as not worried about norms or shame as a normal person. Like thats been the big lesson. Like, wow, you can really go pretty far and you can get away with a lot. At the risk of violating goodwins law, this is the big lie, thats why its so powerful. That most people will not accept the fact that you are who was it that said that eventually donald trump will go on television and insist he never ran for president . His ability to be so shameless, i think that its impossible for most people to parse. They assume that there must be something to his grandiose selfpresentation because who could be a con man on that big of a scale . Well yeah, go ahead. My question to you is the other thing you have to remember about this guy is hes not been a politician. Running for Electoral Office is deeply humbling, not in the way like im deeply humbled. You go and shake hands and beg people for your vote and you lose races. Hes not gone through that. So huh reacts this last two
weeks is a totally open question. I think its pretty clear how hell react. Hell keep doing those things that make him feel like its somebody elses fault that this has happened and hell keep doing those things that serve his selfinterests. The Clash Of Civilizations that really this represents is between selfinterest and a greater interest. Its between me and we. Thank god it looks like we is going to win because if it doesnt win, the planet isnt going to survive. And if trump i really believe that. I believe that were at a Turning Point here. And there are concentric circles of we, the we of the planet, the we of a whole bunch of stuff. Thank you both. The early returns from early voting. President obamas Battleground States Director on what early
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we get to the early voting data. Its important for folks to understand when you were sitting at your perch in the 2012 campaign and folks were running the operation in clintons campaign, youre not looking at the real clear politics or 548, you have internal data. What is that made of and what does it say and tell you that we on the inside dont know . You have a voter file that has all kinds of different Data Information on these specific individuals. Their vote history, likely candidate preference. All kinds of things that you can look at. What you get then from the County Auditor or from the Secretary Of State are individual level returns. So you know exactly who voted early, and many times you know how they voted early, either in person or by mail. Then you can imagine that back to your existing database or voter file. And you know enough about those people you sort of profiled the them whether its
through their age, their education level, their ethnicity to be pretty confident who theyre actually voting for based on the models you have. No, exactly right. You look at two separate data points. The first is what we call a preference candidate model. Every voter will have a score from 1001. Out of 100 Mitch Stewarts, barack obama would get 1 vote. Ten people would vote for barack obama. 90 for mitt romney. You look at that and then you also look at your turnout score. How likely are you to vote if somebody were not to remind you . You have a score of 1001 on every single voter in that state. What you want to do with early vote, in most states, you want your supporters who have a middling turnout score, folks you Arent Superconfident they will vote on election day unless you remind them. You want them to vote early. If somebody lass a high turnout
score, irrespective if you remind them or not. You have the two scores. How likely am i to support the candidate that Mitch Stewart is supporting which would be barack obama you want people you are sure will vote for your candidate but in the middle of the propensity to turn out bau you can work on them in this sort of sustained fashion for this period and make sure they get in their own time and choosing. Thats exactly right. Not only do you measure your success from a field operation, you also measure your opponents success and who are they getting to turn out early . Are these getting out Election Day Voters and just doing it early or are they reaching into the people who would be less likely to participate so theyre growing their pie . So you look at both. You can do Something Like in 2012, say in a state like nevada, your campaign basically knew who won nevada before election day. You will have 80 of nevadans
vote early. We had about a 12point lead with 80 of the electorate in. The republicans would be literally like a 7030 win on election day to make up for that early vote deficit. Iowa is another example. Just 40 voted early and we had about a tenpoint lead. On election day republicans had almost an insurmountable gap to fill. You felt very, very comfortable with a couple of those states or you knew that this could be really, really close like florida. So it does provide you some assurance of whats going to happen on election day. But more importantly from a campaign perspective, it allows you to allocate resources more efficiently. So we stopped spending a ton of money in nevada once we realized that 80 of the electorate voted. We wind down the budget there and focus on a state like virginia where 90 of the state
will vote on election day because theres very little vote happening there. Well check in on Elizabeth Warren who is speaking moments ago. Take a listen. She gets up every day no, i hope you heard donald trump in the debate when he said that he was smart not to pay any taxes. Thats right. He is smart and all of you who pay taxes are dumb. Everyone who pays taxes. To keep our roads and bridges working is dumb. Everyone who pays taxes to support our world class military is dumb. Everyone who pays taxes to support medical research and Scientific Research is dumb. Dumb because donald trump doesnt plan to pay. He just plans to use all those things you paid for. What kind of man does that . A selfish little sleazeball. A man who will never be president of the United States. You bet. Now, Donald Trumps been out there. He hasnt been hiding who he is. Hes been out there from the very beginning. Hes been out there and where has your senator, richard burr, been all this time . I wanted to look this up, make sure i got this right before i came here. Richard burr said make no mistake, i am fully supportive of donald trump. No dancing around that one. So donald trump called latinos rapists and murderers and burr fully sports trump. Trump called africanamericans thugs and donald trump and
burr fully supports donald trump. Trump attacked a Gold Star Family and burr fully supports donald trump. Trump praised Vladimir Putin and compared himself to dictators. And burr fully supports donald trump. Trump calls women fat pigs and bimbos and brags about sexually assaulting women. And richard burr is like a puppy on a Leash Sticking right there with donald trump. You know, if richard burr is just going to be Donald Trumps lapdog, then let him go off and do that, but the people of North Carolina need a strong, independent voice to fight for the families of North Carolina. And that is deborah ross. That was Elizabeth Warren speaking in North Carolina just a few moments ago in support of deborah ross who is the Democratic Senate candidate challenging richard burr in a tightly contested race, yolking him to trump. As you just saw. Spent many years as a Nuclear Missile launch officer. If the president gave the order, we had to launch the missile th. I prayed Tt Callwould Ver come. Self control m be all at keeps these misses frofiring. I ulbomb the s[ be ]ut of ebe all i want to unpredictable. I lovear. The thoughonald trump with Nuclear Weapons scares me to death. It should scare everyone. IHillary Clinton and i approve this msa. Donald trump has spent his entire president ial xap both obsessed with Media Coverage and harshly critical of the press. His rhetoric has grown ever harsher in recent weeks as his poll numbers collapsed. These people are among the most dishonest people in the world, the media. They are the worst. Theyre trying to fix the election for crooked hillary. The media is entitled, condescending and even contemptuous of people who dont share certain elitist views. Reporters are ritualistic booed when theyre escorted into the trump rallies where they stand in pens and heckled while they cover them. This video shows the view from the press area. Reporters describe did vitriol they face at trump rallies as increasingly hostile with people flipping middle fingers at them. A trump rally in cleveland buzzfeed Reporter Rosie Gray reported that two men outside the press pen were quoted picking up after one of the men said the word lugenpresser. Lugenpresser. You said it right. Thats right. The word that man there was so excited to learn, lugenpresser means lying press in german. And its the term the nazis used to demonize and the media and stir antijew hatred. While trump has traveled further into the factfree swamp and a cocoon where he doesnt like anything that he says is false. It must be cured if the party is to be saved. Well break down her diagnosis next. [baby talk] [child giggling] child look, ma. No hands. Children i, j, k. [bicycle bell ring [indistinct chatter] [telephone rings] man hello . [boing] [lghter] man You May Kiss The Brid [applause] womanahh. [itit conversation] annouou a ll life measured in seats srtwith the right on early on. Car crashes are a leading killer of children 1 to 13. Lea how to prevent deaths d injuries by using the rht car seat for yo childs age and size. Is clean was le pow o everything well . It added ts othe level of clean to. 6xaning my teeth are glowing. They are so white. 6x whitening a i actuallyeally like the 2 sps. Step 1, cleans step 2, whitits. Evy ti i used this together, it felt like leaving the dentisoffice. Evy ti icrest hd. S together, 6x cleing , 6x whitenga the dentisoffice. I would switch to crest hd ov what i was using before. Crest. Healthy, beautil sm for life. They also claim that, in fact, hillary did in fact have a romantic relationship with vince foster. That, you know, that was pretty much of an open secret in our circles. Lead story on hannity on fox news in primetime last night
beamed out to million of viewers. A fixer for Hillary Clinton named jack rogan was recently featured as hillarys hit man in a National Enquirer cover story claiming that clinton is a quote and im quoting here a secret sex freak who paid fixers to set up elicit romps with both men and women. Hes an editor of the weekly world news that printed news Of Hillarys Alien Abduction complete with photographic evidence. Hannity gave rogan a primetime platform in spite of admitting the network could not verify his claims. Rush limbaugh claimed the Mainstream Media would not ignore this if it was about trump. Would you think that the
National Enquirer allegation of a guy saying hes procured women for hillary would even make its way well, of course not, but if the story was about trump, it would. This less than impeccable source makes the rounds of the right, limbaugh, drudge, hannity. Championed by drudge and who today called into the limbaugh show to complain of what of all things, the Mainstream Media. Hethese are vicious people. These are lying people. Theyre evil people, the press, the media. Theyre bad people. And nobody, nobody lies like they do. Joining me now catherine rampell. The only way to save the Republican Party drain the rightwing media swmp. When trump gets the trouncing that erybody expects, the Republican Party will regroup and say, whats our autopsy this time around . If theyre going to lay it at the feet of donald trump and say, you know, if wed only had
a candidate with maybe the same package or policies but a little more empathic gloss, a little less boorish, less bigoted, hadnt been caught on tape saying he harassed women. Thats wrong. The problem is not donald trump, the problem is that a large share of their base believes completely bonkers bigoted things. Theyve been fed this again and again over year business the right wing what do you mean by bonkers bigoted things. Birtherism, data trutherism. Is that like large significant parts of fox viewers and conservatives and republicans that think that all the Economic Data is being juiced. The polls are skewed. Even the fox news polls are skewed these days according to the republican base. Beyond that, you know, that the Weather Numbers that we get are wrong. You know, that matt drudge had recently said that nobody should evacuate their homes when a
hurricane was coming. Right, a liberal media conspiracy. It was a conspiracy. The numbers were made up, the projections were made up to gin up fear about global warming. The idea is that theres this sort of Context Tu Wal Environment in which trump has flourished and the environment is more important than trump because the environment is the environment thats so selfcontained and untethered from connections to external reality that you can have a candidate like this yes, basically the altright for years has created an alternate reality that has ultimately led to trump. You mean the right. The altright. I think i would say that theres a selfidentified white nationalists of the altright. Its larger than that. I dont mean to paint all conservative leaning journalists with the same brush, those that are pedalling crazy Conspiracy Theories saying that obamaas not born in the United States, there sort of thing. Thats part of the issue
because theres tons of conservative journalists and writers and folks at fox. There are places that people have integrity. Theyre opinionated with an ideological ax to grind but who doesnt have one. Phil klein has been reporting on obamacare, conservative, doesnt like obamacare, is embedded in the facts of What Obamacare is, theres subject matter, knowledge, theres expertise, all these things. Thats a very small group of these folks with a very small and my concern is that Republican Leadership has been playing along for years with these conspiracy theorizers. Theyre controlled by them. Theyre terrified of them. Look what happened to eric cantor in his primary race to david bratt when basically right wing radio decided to take him on. So i think there are two issues going on here, why they havent been willing to take on the crazies essentially. One is that they desperately need the imprimatur of these places because theyre influential, handy is
influential, drudge, whoever else, if they tick them off, theyll potentially lose those voters. To some extent the Conspiracy Theories have served their interests, in the short term. The popular mandate of the first black president , maybe that was useful to their cause in the near term, but in the long run it stoked a lot of racial resentment. The same thing with clinton voter fraud. It has been extremely useful. But in the pretext by which they passed actual pieces of legislation that made it harder for actual populations that actually vote for democrats in large numbers to vote. Yes, and in the long run it set the stage for a president ial candidate to explain to his many voters that the election will be sto stolen from them. Today a large share of republicans in particular believe that that election will be stolen. I think that its absolutely the case and youre seeing it in
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its costing jobs within your business itself. Specifically how . Obamacare, i must be honest with you, because its so bad for the people and they cant afford it. Im at Trump International doral in miami and we dont even use obamacare. We dont want it. Joining me now political reporter for the New York Times and msnbc contributor. The Perfect Moment to me for two reasons, one it displays Donald Trumps general level of sort of policy expertise. And number two, most Americans Still now in 2016 dont know What Obamacare is, couldnt tell you what it is, or who it affects. Its become this kind of Culture War Issue or symbolic thing. Can you put a creche in the Public Square . You know, and if you called it trumpcare, it would probably poll better or call it like powellcare, its the social with
President Obama that drove down the approvals. Obviously for some people the premiums are going up, it will be a hardship, but much more than the exchanges. The gaurns on coverage and parents plans. Youre saying the bill itself, the law itself. You can stay on till youre 26 theres a whole lot of laws about pushing the cost down and innovation in medicare and medicaid delivery and Health Systems and integrated care and theres no lifetime maximums, yada, yada, but a tiny percentage of voters are in there. But if were dealing with a candidate who had any grasp of Public Policy or the idea of how to talk to voters 13 days before an election, we might see someone who could frame could make that argument. Very clearly. This is a horrible day for sort of obamacare and ergo Hillary Clinton. Trump cant help but make everything either, a, about himself or he doesnt much knew,
know about obama, the language of this man is deplorable. He didnt seize the opportunity to break it down to the public. Everyone is there asking him questions about it. He could have walked them through it briefly. To me it remains so we were talking about theres 3 of the people who are roughly insured should get their insurance through the exchanges. 80 of them are subsidized, more or less, were talking about 1 of people that get the full heft of this subsidy increase. There are 7 Million People who are not on the exchanges but are buying plans, individual plans or small plans so theyll also see the premium hikes. This is the a small percentage of voters. This law as controversial as the day it passed is actually a thing out there in the world which i have to say continues to astound me. Because i dont think that was the expectation. I think President Obama was
not great about selling it in the early years. Thats one problem. They tried to rectify that. I do think that the reason the focus is on the exchanges is that the exchanges are the broken part. And the interests that want to kill obamacare would not want to focus on the parts that are very, very popular, such as you cant be denied coverage for a prior condition and if the conditions were such that you could focus on the popular part, it would probably be a different conversation. Kind of weird that none of the democrats or the gop has managed to really steer that conversation in the president ial election. But heres what i want to ask you as a political scientist, i sort of feel in the long run that the sort of lines of politics and policy should converge, right . If theres something that theres a lot of Scare Tactics and it will destroy america and turn us into this socialist monster and the thing happens and its not that but maybe has some broken parts but opinion would converge on it but instead a Health Reporter called it like roe v. Wade, theres no convergence on the sense its
just as polarizing. People have their fixed views about these things despite the fact that its an Operating Thing that you can empirically assess. That goes back to nicks point when obama did something that fdr couldnt do, something Lbj Couldnt Do and William Jefferson clinton couldnt do and he passed obamacare and put his name on it. He took the negative. They put his name on it. Exactly. But he never framed this. We saw it with the Stimulus Package and the Affordable Care act. Theres still so much confusion and misinformation from the very beginning were still sort of seeing how this has played out eight years after the fact. Theres fascinating science that shows peoples perceptions of what it is and what it constitutes and who it helps are crazy skewed. People perceive the Stimulus Bill and obamacare to be aimed at black people that its not true which accounts for the hatred and resistance to it. Who benefits from it. Hes done very few racially targeted policies. You know, he is under the for better or worse, but you know all what is it, all tides lift all boats . Yes, so theres going to be certain segments of the population that are disaffected good or bad but this is not a racially targeted policy by any stretch of the imagination. But that doesnt mean the perception of it perception becomes reality. Democrats thought this would be a real boon to them. Bill clinton said pass it, people will love it. That will be a political boon. Thats not been the case. Its not the kryptonite that republicans believe. Republicans keep Thinking Obamacare is so terrible. You want to reject this. Look at the demographics. Not getting republicans rich. There are certain republicans who are destitute and they realize a small segment realize that this is actually whats been keeping them afloat. Thats true. So many people are one injury away from yeah. But also like with people on the exchanges, the people