qualified to be president. that is the reality he faces. i think everything that he is doing in his last few weeks says he has given up on persuading many of the dubious of his personal qualifications. instead, he's trying to animate even more turnout from the dissatisfied voters. >> the issue is he doesn't need the voters he's speaking to with statements like this. they're already on board. they're his loyalists. what he needs is others that he hasn't gotten on board yet. what does this do to get him that? >> i don't know that it does very much. i mean, i think donald trump is -- clearly, there is a base of people that are very supportive of him and will be supportive regardless. some of the polling that's come out this weekend suggests his support amongst republicans may be softer than he originally thought. part of this may be to animate more republicans. but that's not enough as ron eluded to, to get him across the finish line. he needs to be speaking to independent voters. nothing we've seen in the last