clinton. so i think that sort of feeds into the mentality of a lot of his supporters who are prepared to do sometimes or at least say they are willing to do violent acts. always grit to see you, matt. go, patriots. thanks for being with us. we want to hear from both sides now. basil is executive director of the new york state democratic party. amy is the co-chair of women vote trump. amy, i want to start with you. to this point, if november 9th, like donald trump doesn t win the election, it s a possibility, if he doesn t win, will you accept the outcome of the election? well, thanks for having me, john. but you know, yes, i would accept it. i would think that we would move forward as a country. but what donald trump is talking about is something that many people across the country are concerned about. it s about election integrity. voter integrity. ballot integrity. i mean, are you against election
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thursday this week in south carolina. and if you think the field of candidates will be getting smaller, you d probably be wrong. you know there s a running conventional wisdom about you with some in the establishment to say, if he doesn t win iowa, he ll leave. he ll leave the race? no. i m not leaving. you and i had this discussion two months ago where you said would you leave? i ve been in front since june 16th. we ve had a lot of fun. but you asked me that question and i started talking about, well, maybe here, maybe there. there s no maybes? there s no maybes. you re going straight to the convention? all the way. win or no win. let s get to our political team, katy tur and steve kornacki in new york. steve, let me start with you. you ve got the new poll numbers. let s take a look at them, jose. this is a marist poll in those two key early states. in iowa, donald trump is not
but that is his strategy, that s what he does, regardless of what the polling is saying. he knows that ted cruz is eking him out in iowa but for donald trump, it s about repetition. does it seem as though he s going to maintain this kind of strategy and hoping that at somehow it will influence, if not the iowa caucus, some of the polling? absolutely. i mean, he s a salesman, right? what he s doing is hitting cruz where it hurts. he s trying to say that, maybe cruz isn t eligible to run for president be maybe there are questions about him. he s trying to raise those questions because cruz, as we saw in the numbers you showed, cruz is ahead of trump in iowa. cruz needs to win iowa. he doesn t win iowa, he s down in new hampshire, he needs iowa, a win under his belt, and trump s trying to prevent that. what we re seeing is trump continuing to attack cruz. cruz taking a different tact. he s saying i m not attacking
you were in lowell. they would get more violent and more violent the more protester that s would interrupt. you were at lowell. there s a video going on of two folks sitting there quietly in lowell holding a sign and people just basically ripped up their sign and bullied them. an interesting point today. suppose he doesn t win iowa. and it s possible he won t. and he s got a ready-made excuse because it s a very weird system. he says why don t people actually vote i? don t understand this. if he loses iowa and somehow reacts badly i don t mean seriously. if he really trumps it up after losing iowa, then maybe that throws him off a little bit in new hampshire. i don t know what he could say. being a loser it s not going to be something he says. charlie pierce, katy tur, howard dean, thank you for being here. thank you to the folks here at the vermont pub and brewery for hosting us. to the fine citizens of burlington and vermont, thank you all. wonderful being in your s