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Supporters in new hampshire at a speech meant to highlight the state's drug problem. >> i think she's actually getting pumped up, you want to know -- she's getting pumped, you understand. we should take a drug test prior, because i don't know what's going on with her. at the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped up at the beginning. and at the end it was, like, oh, take me down. she could barely reach her car. >> nbc's hallie jackson is following the trump campaign from washington, d.c. good sunday morning to you. what trump said there, do you think he got off script when he made th...

Hope for a voter suppressed turnout. right? independents -- has the campaign given up trying to sway independents? >> reporter: it depends who you talk to. i have one source who tells me that the campaign is looking at the undecided voter, the swing voter, realizing the writing is on the wall here. that said, the strategy is to deploy mud. it's fighting mud with mud is the stated motto within the campaign. this idea that trump will continue to go after not just hillary clinton but bill clinton as well and continue deploying these attacks we have seen him deploy over last week. >> okay. hallie ...

Joining me now is one of the biographers, michael dantonio. michael, with a big welcome to you. let's look at what you and the other biographers have suggested. that is that trump will be dangerous during the final stretch of the election. why? what makes you think that? >> he comes from a long line of flame throwers. this is a person who will reach for any clot of mud available to him and fling it if he feels threatened or like a loss is on the horizon. the idea of losing is so horrifying for donald trump, especially losing with a woman opponent and in this case a lot of women coming forward,...

He said -- i'm paraphrasing here, i'm taking hits for you. he's sort of showing himself to be in some ways a martyr. listen to this sound bite. >> they knew they would throw every lie they could at me and my family and my loved ones. they knew they would stop at nothing to try to stop me. but i never knew as bad as it would be, i never knew it would be this vile, that it would be this bad, that it would be this vicious. nevertheless, i take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you. >> reporter: so a source close to the campaign tells me the strategy now the motto is keep fighting mud with...