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Theres only two names on that ballot that have a chance to be president of the united states of america. and while ill always respect the right of any man or woman to cast their vote in the manner that may seem best. a vote for any candidate other than donald trump, bottom line, is a vote to make hillary clinton the 45th president of the united states. its a hard truth. so its time to come home. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was donald trumps running mate, of course, mike pence, campaignin...

Post" today, a growing number of prominent republican women are worried that as members of their male-dominated party step up to defend donald trump against accusations from sexual assault, they are causing a irreparable damage to the gops deteriorating relationship with female voters. ironically, continuing with the post, ironically, it is trumps candidates rather than hillary clintons that has brought sexism to the forefront of political debate. katie packer, she was on the show recently, the ...

Mr. trump says. >> i think shes got a beautiful face and i think shes a beautiful woman. >> good for carly fiorina. anyway, trump went after hillary clintons stamina again today. she seemed to imply that hillary clinton was so tired after their second debate, she almost collapsed. lets watch this argument. >> shes definitely a low-energy person. i said, where is hillary? i watched after the last debate. and after the second debate. she was tired. wow. she walked off that stage, of course, she ha...

>> this went over the line. and ambassador determiner erdurmer made that very clear. it was not appropriate. >> does a comment like huckabees help the democrats in this sense? >> it sets up a clear contrast. thats for sure. as we saw with -- by what the president did overseas he seized on governor huckabees comments not only as a way of smacking back at the governor but also making once again the pitch for his -- for his iran deal by talking directly to the american people about how uncivil gove...

They take -- when 2016 happens and they decide whether theyre going to run for president when the base of the party starts smacking back, will this leadership theyre showing, however nuanced, will that be the case when they decide to run for president. thats where the rough will be. i am not convinced that the courage we see now is what we will see in a year when they have to say to voters look, youre killing our party. we have to change. you must follow me. it requires leadership. im just not c...

The president -- i will beg to divider with the the swagger back this week. i think the president got his swagger back on september 8th in a joint session of congress when he changed the dynamic and presented for the first time a piece of legislation to congress and said, get this done. the american jobs act. and he has been fighting fighting fighting in a manner that progressives and liberals and democrats have been wanting the president to fight for years now. and this is just one more in a co...

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Taking time from the campaign to go open up a hotel. it was a fair question. of course, it was a little bit provocative, but thats the idea of these questions, you provoke the candidate. and he was provoked. anyway, your thoughts? >> look, i dont speak for all women, obviously, but the women who are pronouncing themselves divorced from the republican party, prominent women, women who are republican political professionals, theyre not doing this because they disagree with republican positions. th...