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The game hes actually trying to put policy out there, because it is something that undecided voters desperately want. they want to see that theres some substance. ive been going around to seven battleground states with a british polling company and doing these focus groups, and there are so many undecided voters who really want to vote for trump but he doesnt give them enough substance. he should have been doing this for the past six months. hes throwing out the half-hearted policy. >> hes going...

Paying for the wall. and, in the first 100 days, most muslims apparently will continue to pour into the country, because banning them, like the wall, is no longer a top trump priority. joining us now, elysse jordan, and crystal ball, former candidate for congress, democratic strategist and a senior fellow at the new leaders consul. the first 100 days doesnt have the biggest items that donald trump has pushed in his campaign. >> well, its never been about policy for donald. its kind of, its a lit...

Toomey in pennsylvania, well, if trump loses that by eight points, then self-evidently, toomey has to outperform his -- the guy at the top of the ticket by nine points. thats a big ask. and i think this kind of speech would be something that strategists would quite like to see, but the big question is, is it just too late in the game. >> in fact, chris, can you answer that question? i know youve done focus groups, talked with independent voters. will it be swayed by anything trump said? >> i mea...

But the message that he sometimes does say -- even today, when he talks about trade deals, i mean, i can tell you, in these focus groups, including the one i did on debate night, people -- especially in some of these rural states like ohio, you know, they react to it in a positive way. but they cannot divorce the message from the man. and that is the -- at the end of it all, going to be the trap that the trump campaign cannot get themselves out of. and as much as they try to give a speech in a n...

In the 19490 the, i went to beijing. i was hosting the celebrity apprenti apprentice. >> focus groups said that his interje interj interjexs were worse than annoying. >> my social security payroll contribution will go up, as will donalds assuming he cant figure out how to get out of it. >> such a nasty woman. >> earlier in the debate, hillary clinton tricked donald trump into in effect admitting that he doesnt pay any income taxes. and there she was, reaching back with this reference to his tax ...

Own focus groups, they believe if we were to interrupt trump a bunch of times she would be criticized. voters wouldnt like it. voters would dial her down in the polls. so theres that sort of -- theyre almost trying too hard in some ways to play this safe toward the end. >> take risks when youre way ahead. i think thats -- >> so weve talked a lot about substance during these past four hours about all of the different policies that were laid up. lets talk a little bit about stage craft. >> right. ...

Workers. >> his answer to that was, well, you didnt change the laws so i did it. >> thats not a really good -- >> which is what has provoked the gasps from focus groups in previous -- previous debates. when he said not paying taxes makes him a good businessman. i think that was a "washington post" story. a bunch of up decided voters in north carolina actually gasped. this sort of shows this candidate not only didnt necessarily prepare well enough for the debate last night, he didnt prepare to ac...

>> giving up this talk or talked about it being rigged and when you have republicans coming out saying, enough is enough, we should not do this, like john kasich. >> donald trump has two focus groups, the mirror and everybody that comes through his ralliera. that line that he has about the election being rigged gets the biggest applause in the rally. >> this is the problem that we have for the whole campaign. hes talking to the people that love him the most and does not have the capacity to reac...

Extent that the house could go democratic? >> i think theres certainly a possibility. i mean, paul ryan is doing everything that he can to make that differentiation, says and it has been interesting to me going out and doing these focus groups in battleground states over the past two months just how easily republicans have been able to separate themselves from donald trump. it really is a pulling down the down ballot tickets as much as i had expected, and thats simply because donald trump isnt c...

Taste of what were going to get. i think that last weeks debate, with that whole spectacle, the clinton accusers, is going to look like a dress rehearsal to what well see tonight. >> the accusers turned out not to be the headline from that debate. in another world if someone had carted out, you know, these women who say they were victimized by the president of the united states, it would have been a number one story. that was not the case. >> it was not the case. as uncomfortable as it is, the "...