mark: i'm mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann. "with all due respect" to donald trump, when it comes to message discipline, it seems like someone on your team has you beat. melania: i accept his apology. he cares about women. he is kind. he is a gentleman. he is kind. he is a gentleman. and they wrote lies. i will not allow that. i will not allow people saying lies. it is unfair. it is damaging and it is unfair. ♪

john: we are here in sin city, usa, on the campus of the university of nevada, las vegas. in a little more than 24 hours the center right behind us, hillary clinton and donald trump will take part in the final debate. consistent with the spirit of a town that famously played host to david copperfield siegfried , and roy and penn and teller, one thing to expect from the republican nominee is plenty of that classic old misdirection. plenty of attempts to make his problems poof -- disappear. donald trump continues to complain about a rigged election. more republican voices are speaking out for the integrity of their electoral system. governor scott walker said it is easy to vote, but hard to cheat in his state. the secretary of ohio told cnn that donald trump's repeated claims are "irresponsible," joining democratic officials

across the country that have been arguing the claim for weeks. in a conference with the prime minister of italy, president obama made clear his disdain for trump and his rhetoric. pres. obama: whenever things are going badly for you, you blame someone else, then you don't what have what it takes to be in this job. there is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig america's elections. in part because they are so decentralized. and the numbers of votes involved. there is no evidence that that has happened in the past, or that there are instances in which that will happen this time. and so, i would advise mr. trump to stop whining and go make his case to get votes. if he got the most votes, then it would be my expectation of hillary clinton to offer a

gracious concession speech and pledge to work with him in order to make sure that the american people benefit from an effective government. and it would be my job to welcome mr. trump, regardless of what he said about me or my differences with him on my opinions, and escort him to the capital in which there would be a peaceful transfer of power. john: mark, even donald trump's running mate mike pence has struggled to defend his attempt to pre-delegitimize the outcomes of the elections. i wonder if we are reaching a point where republicans en masse are going to step up and say trump's claims are bogus. mark: keep in mind, republicans have been talking about election fraud for several cycles. donald trump is not the first to do it. they are worried that he will

say the election is illegitimate. they are responsible in saying that if you loses, he loses. this will not cause them to break with him en masse. if he is behind and away way it is spooking other republicans, they are worried it could hurt other candidates and remake the map for the next race. then they will look for excuses to break with him. this could be one of them. but this on his own, unless he keeps it up as his main message, i don't think it will be the breaking point. john: i will give republicans more credit. is the case, i am not giving them credit for the thing i'm about to say, but the thing after that. the thing i want to give them credit for is yeah, they've talked about election fraud as a justification for voter id laws. but in a general sense, "we have to be careful, there could be fraud." right-thinking people have cited the statistics that it has not happened very much. but donald trump is citing it is happening on a widespread basis and of voter fraud all over the

place now, in the past, and in , the future. i want to give scott walker credit -- some of them are just, hey, we run sound elections in my state. i am responsible for the elections. i will not let donald trump trash my ability to run a fair electoral process. mark: this is what is troubling republicans. these are things that trump is saying that are the words of a desperate person that might lose. trashing the media trashing , other republicans, saying that the system is rigged. all of these would be fine if -- you couldng still attack the press if you were winning. it would not be trump against the world if he were five points up. mark: the more he sounds desperate, the more people think he is not going to win. the harder it will be to enthuse everybody. john: analysts have accepted that trump is almost certain to lose. given that they have accepted that on some level, they don't

want to get into a situation where trump has burned the whole place down. they will have to deal with president hillary clinton and a potentially democrat senate and maybe even democratic house. it is not helpful for them to have tolerated trump doing this. mark: while the president was hitting donald trump, hillary clinton spent another news cycle off the campaign trail as she prepares for tomorrow's debate in vegas. and yet her campaign is making a lot of noise about doing something new -- expanding their attempts to win republican leaning states missouri, , indiana, and arizona. arizona is getting particular focus. hillary clinton's campaign will send $2 million there, and the super surrogates including michelle obama, bernie sanders, and chelsea clinton. all three of those republican-leaning states have senate races. democrats are hoping they can pick up the seats currently held by republicans. john, is this relatively late attempt to expand the map smart?

john: something we learned in 2008 and 2012 that barack obama had a more sophisticated polling operation than any media polls. i think the clinton campaign has one that is more sophisticated, doing more calls on a daily basis, then anybody in the press. this is a sign of great confidence. they are looking at numbers that say, we are confident enough we will be at 270 that it's time to spend precious resources to help those downballot candidates and do what democrats dreamed of for a long time. arizona was the one that obama thought about reaching for in 2012. and then decided not to do that , will be first on the list for hillary clinton. mark: they have the surrogate and the money to do it. two, they can help those down ballot races. three, it can help her get a more commanding win. if she does win, and the last reason is, psychological warfare.

if they are playing offense while trump tries to get in inside straight, trump has to worry about that if he somehow wins ohio or arizona and loses utah. it is smart all around i don't , see a downside to it. they know from what we know. arizona is winnable. john: these have been the states in democratic reach state parlance. arizona has been the one that they thought the right circumstances could tip first. georgia likely to tip second. states like missouri are not changing demographically. it is super smart. it goes back to answering your question -- why are they spending so much time raising money? this is why. so they could get to this point and have money to burn if they needed to. in an effort to deflect attention from the controversies plaguing him and offer up a more conventional message to which he might be able to stick donald , trump rolled out a new five

point ethics reform plan, framing himself as a washington outsider that will cleanse the landscape of its endemic corruption. he wants five-year bands on lobbying from branch officials lobbying from foreign governments. and trump called for campaign-finance changes that would prevent foreigners from raising money in u.s. elections. this afternoon at a rally in colorado springs, colorado trump , added a sixth part to his shakeup list. mr. trump: it is indeed time to drain the swamp in washington dc. if i am elected president i will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of congress. [applause] they have been talking about that for years. decades of failure in washington, and decades of special interest dealing must and will come to an end.

john: as we suggested earlier the message discipline is a , foreign concept to donald trump, but if he has any, this is the message he will likely keep driving. do you think it's good policy and good politics? mark: i think it's good policy. i tend to not like percent -- restrictions on the but first amendment, something needs to be done to restore washington's faith. i am generally against stuff like this, but i could live with some of these provisions. i think term limits are silly. he won't have the discipline to keep driving it most of his , surrogates do not believe in it. it is too late. it is not hurt. it is fine, gives him something to talk about, but three weeks to go, this kind of proposal would not make a big difference. john: today, october 18. i disagree with many of these policies for reasons that you do. i think term limits are deleterious in many ways to

those that in office that know what they are doing. just as a matter of politics, for october 18, this is what a normal republican nominee populist reformer would have as a populist reformer would have rolled out in may an talked about for six months at least. even though i disagree on policy grounds this could have been , politically powerful and salient had he has been talking about it not starting on october 18. mark: and there are lobbyists all over the clinton orbit. coming up, senate republican candidates are dancing and tiptoeing around donald trump. melania trump then goes to the media. those stories when we come back. ♪ mark: not a lot of new

presidential polling out, but there was a patch of senate race polls. quinnipiac university has republican senator rubio with a slight lead over his democratic congressman, patrick murphy. in pennsylvania, republican pat toomey is ahead of his democratic incumbent 49 to 45. those races have tightened up over the last two weeks, with republicans still leading in ohio. rob portman, the republican incumbent the star of the cycle , so far, has expanded his lead over former governor ted strickland. portman now has an eye-popping 54% to 41% lead. all three of those republican incumbents have something in common. each has been in a debate, and each has tried some way to distance themselves from trump. >> there is no doubt that there are many things i disagree with in the nominee of my party, and i have taken him on and

condemned him when he said things that are aggressive, outrageous, vulgar, and inappropriate. i will continue to do so. the problem is the other party has nominated someone who has repeatedly violated federal law. it's pretty clear donald trump was not my first choice or 10th choice. 14 million voters in the primary chose differently. one of the reasons i changed my mind and ran for reelection is because i know that no matter who wins, you are going to need people in the u.s. senate willing to stand up to the next president of the united states when they are wrong on policy, or wrong on their behavior. >> i made an extraordinary decision not to support my own party's nominee because i found his words that came out about a week or so ago so offensive and so wrong. i respect voters that take a different position on this. he did win the nomination of our party. i support mike pence. he was also elected by those delegates at the republican convention. again, this election is not about hillary clinton and donald

trump, it is about ted strickland and rob portman. >> i cannot endorse donald trump because i have so many concerns about his candidacy. the things that i have publicly mentioned. i do also acknowledge that gosh, he would sign some legislation that would be constructive. i feel like i'm in the same position as an awful lot of pennsylvanians. we have two badly flawed candidates. i can't believe in a country of 300 million people, this is what we got. mark: which parts of that rhetoric seems effective in creating the proper distance? john: don't endorse trump, kick the crap out of him when necessary, and implicitly concede that he is likely to lose and make the implicit and sometimes explicit argument that you need to vote for me if you want to keep republicans in control of the senate as a balance against democratic overreach. mark: trump cannot wait for his comeback because early voting has already started. the other reason he cannot wait

is because these senate candidates will be producing their final speeches. he needs to come back now, otherwise they will continue to distance. you will see in some states an unprecedented amount of people who vote in the senate race and leave the presidential race blank, the opposite of what you normally see. john: you could see attacks from republican senate candidates if they are desperate enough. rob portman is clearly going to win reelection. but pat toomey and marco rubio race, it is not clear that they will effectively outrun trump or not. if the polls continue to widen, both of those guys could be in serious jeopardy if the polls widen. i could see them resorting to desperate anti-trump measures if they think that is what is necessary to save their own hides. mark: there is a rule i have long believed in if you are an , incumbent senator, you fight

for your seat, you stay in contact with your constituents. unless you are running against a superstar candidate, and you keep your seat. these republican incumbents are doing well. john: everyone is talking about the two silence-breaking interviews with melania trump. one with cnn and the other with fox news. both have given us a full or picture of-- fuller melania's public response to the access hollywood video of donald trump boasting about sexual assault and the flood of accusations that followed to read melania trump was well prepared and stuck to the script more than her husband typically does. in some respects, her words were just as provocative as the donald's often are. melania: it was last week. you could see that. the way that it comes out is that it was organized. because they want to influence how the american people to vote. details checking the background of these women.

they don't have any facts. they were kind of boy talk. he was egged on from the host to say dirty and bad stuff. anderson: you feel the host was egging him on? melania: yes, they were two teenage boys. they should have behaved better. >> he was a 59. melania: correct. and i have two boys at home. i have my younger son, and i have my husband. [laughter] john: there has been scattered criticism of melania trump from what she said, but not as much as you might expect. why is that? mark: i do not know. i think spouses in general get a bit of a pass. she said there is a vast left wing conspiracy against her husband without any proof.

i know they are asserting that. some of the accusers have supported hillary clinton. but there is no assertion of evidence let alone evidence. if she wants to defend her husband, she has the right to do it. but people should be scrutinizing what she said. john: there is implicit sympathy people have for her, but she made her own bed in marrying donald trump. but anthropologically, some people are like look, this woman has been through some horrible things, her husband and has wrong during various ways let us , give her a pass. there is some slightly patronizing sense, that people don't think she fully understands the american electoral system of that well. the fact that she is foreign-born and the way she speaks allows people to patronizingly-- mark: there is one more element the clintons did not want to drive. we will preview tomorrow's debate here in las vegas right after this.

♪ john: we are back on the campus

of the university of nevada, las vegas on the eve of the third and final presidential debate. that arena behind me is the room where it happens. joining us is msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt. we've talked about how the clinton campaign is moving into expansion states. those are georgia, texas, arizona, missouri, indiana -- all talked about. which are the ones where they are going to play? kasie: arizona is the one to watch. a, they think it is winnable. yes it is about the media. , it is something they can win with a small investment.

they don't necessarily have to bet the farm on arizona to make a difference. georgia is a little further out. maybe the next one on their list. texas is a real stretch. if we are talking about texas we are probably buying in a little too much to their spin. utah -- that is kind of an odd one, right? they have their fingers crossed in utah, but it doesn't fundamentally feel the same as arizona. mark: in the wikileaks daily disclosures, there is nothing massive that changes the race. but how are they accommodating to the culture of the daily disclosures? kasie: my sense is that they ready for the next round of disclosures insomuch that they are less surprised from what we are learning. john podesta could give everyone access to his personal e-mails.

i think they are prepared to deal with what comes out. i do think we are operating in a remarkable new normal. their challenge in covering this is difficult for a lot of people in the press. that is a hurdle for them. trying to figure out how to explain it, put it in context when it is easy to have a clickbait headline. john: there is a certain thing going on, not that they think they are going to be bombshells politically, but just the culture of the campaign. are people worried about disclosures, trashing each other -- instead of working towards victory, it's like we could have a bad couple weeks if our bosses find out we stink. kasie: it is incredibly awkward to have this out there, there are many things people are willing to say in private that they don't say in public. it also undermines the ability of her staff to do their jobs effectively.

if you think about how any of us respond if you accidentally e-mailed the wrong person and spend an hour apologizing and worrying -- don't underestimate how that can potentially impact a campaign. especially in a stretch as intense as this one. mark: third and final debate -- i know you've been with the campaign enough to get a sense of their up's and down's. they seem pretty confident. about the outcome, right? kasie: i think they are, yes. they have been careful to approach her prep for this debate the same way as they did third the others. i think they are more ready to take a curveball. they were surprised by the press conference donald trump put together at the last second. they were very focused on making sure clinton was not rattled by that. i think they will be more ready of something like that happens. from that perspective, they are going forward. we would not be talking about arizona if there was not a

durability about her lead that they felt strongly. john: trump has criticized her for taking too many days off the trail. after this debate, is she fully scheduled until election day? kasie: yes i expect the pace to pick up aggressively. i don't think they are making this up that she is preparing. if anything with her pneumonia, we see it is hard to get her off the trail. john: kasie hunt everyone. we will be back with more from my favorite city in america, las vegas, after this. kasie: of course it is. ♪ mark: joining us now, our

coast-to-coast strategists, mindy tucker, who worked for george w. bush and others.

and a democratic strategist, steve mcmahon. thank you both for joining us. let's start form -- with mindy you are a republican. , you are not for donald trump. but give us the state of the race. what are donald trump's chances of winning? mindy: well, first, there are several weeks left in the election. anything can happen. there is a debate left. that could change things. it is not looking good. he has, of his own volition, i do not care how many years ago it was, he has said something that has really shaken things up in the large group of voters will not be voting for him now. i think he's in trouble. mark: what would have to happen for donald trump to win the race? >> the international conspiracy being waged would have to stop. the media would have to stop blocking his path to the white house. mark: give me a serious list.

steve: he needs to give people a reason to be for him. he needs to stop attacking paul ryan. he needs to stop attacking hillary clinton. he needs to get back to a change argument that was very powerful. if he had stuck to it from the downning and not gotten these rabbit holes, he might be in a different position. i think mindy is right. i think what he said 11 years ago shook people to their core. people who were undecided and still considering him, i believe those people have largely turned against him. i think we will see the erosion continue. there'll be more and more republican senators in jeopardy. i think democratic chances in the house have improved dramatically. it is tough, but now it is possible because of donald trump. john: we all assumed there would be more hacked e-mails coming up between now and election day, that wikileaks would be a factor. most of this stuff has not

broken through with voters, especially compared to the controversies around trump. what kind of revelation would it take to really have political impact on the race? steve: it would take a real revelation that goes beyond the normal gossipy stuff that has come out of the campaign. what has come out of wikileaks, to a voter, is not interesting or newsworthy. in order for something revelatory to occur, it would have to be something that stops the news cycle in its tracks like donald trump's tape did, and that gets people to ask about hillary clinton, is this really what we want to do. they were asking that question at one time. i think she has answered a pretty effectively. i think her campaign has done a good job of minimizing the noise, and it's really just donald trump stepping all over himself for the last two weeks.

mark: mindy, we talked about melania trump doing these interviews last night and today. to me, the trump campaign recognizes that it still has a problem as a result of the access hollywood tape and the women who have come forward and continue to come forward to accuse donald trump. doesn't look like that to you? is that when you send your spouse out? when you realize you are hemorrhaging support? mindy: that is what it looked like to me. they thought it would go away. they tried to blame bill clinton and all of his women problems. it's not going away. it's bigger than they anticipated, which shows how disjointed he is from reality, that he can say these things and it would not be a big deal. they trotted her out. i don't know that it will help at this point. it is not big enough to overcome

what he said. we are still talking about it a week later. the problem is not going away. i don't have any great advice for him, nor would i give it to him if i did, to change this around. mark: does it matter if hillary clinton starts talking more about her agenda for the country and bringing the country together? does that make a difference to her chances of winning? mindy: i think it's helpful. what michelle obama showed us last week is that her surrogates can be really powerful. the anger against her has not changed. people in america are angry and do not trust her that , still exists. but as other people are able to come out with a bigger message about america that goes beyond party, i think that goes a long way for hillary clinton. michelle obama knocked it out of the park last week. she changed the face of the election for a lot of people, especially women.

if they can continue to make moves like that i think that will be helpful to her and very smart. steve: i think mindy is right about what michelle obama was able to accomplish, but i also think, mark, that you are right when you started to talk about the turn hillary clinton can begin making toward a united country and a hopeful future for everybody, a willingness to work with republicans when appropriate and fight them when necessary. she will be elected with a pretty substantial electoral college majority, but i don't see any harm in reaching out her hand and saying, i understand it's my job to make this country work. i know the republicans controlled congress for the moment and i will work with whoever is there to move this country forward. i think a lot of people would like to hear that. apecially people who until week ago were on the fence, they would like some reassurance. mark: chris wallace is a pretty aggressive questioner. if you were hillary clinton, steve, what topic would you be

most worried about him raising? steve: i would not want to be talking about any allegations about the clinton foundation, the quid pro quos. you cannot really disprove a negative. any time spent talking about that is off message. i presume chris wallace will ask about that stuff i think donald , trump will press it. i think hillary clinton would be wise to step out of it and look to the future. she is going to be the next president of the united states, the first woman, coming into office very polarizing with low approval ratings. it's her job to bring the country together and she can start that tomorrow by looking like a grown up and moving past these childish questions. john: do you think democrats will control the senate and/or the house come november night? -- november 9? mindy: i am sort of on the

fence. i think there is a chance, given what's going on, and if hillary continues to snowball her lead. she's going to arizona. who knows what other states we will talk about a week from now? i am aware of the anger out there and the frustration. i am hopeful that in some way that manifests itself in a bipartisan result where we have checks and balances in terms of party in washington. i am not going to predict. if you had asked me a year ago, i never would've predicted donald trump would be the nominee, and here we are. i have given up predicting in this election, it is crazy. mindful ofneed to be the sentiment and how crazy people are. we could end up with anything in november. mark: mindy and steve, not angry. thank you both. we are going to check in with some presidential reporters when we come back after this. ♪

john: welcome back to sin city. we are here at the site of the third and final presidential debate which will be held at this campus in las vegas tomorrow night. we are joined by two reporters. gentlemen, good to see you both. kevin, give us a window into the state of mind of donald trump's world as he arrived in a city with a building with his name on it. >> i spoke with a senior trump advisor. he told me we are going to see donald trump use the same strategy used in the second debate.

he will use that same line of attack, very aggressive against hillary clinton. he is being advised by the rnc chairman reince priebus as well as governor chris christie. john: will there be a pre-debate press conference with women alleging wrongdoing by bill clinton? what will happen this time? kevin: we walked into that blindsided last time. anything could happen. john: what do you think about this argument that trump is making, as a matter of politics? doesn't make any sense? >> it makes sense to mobilize his base. he has in making this argument consistently since he lost iowa to ted cruz, he said there were something fishy going on there. after the convention, when he was slipping, he made the same argument. it's popular with his base. they like it. and it is showing up in the polls, 41% of the electorate thinks there is a decent chance of this election could be stolen from him, including 73% of

republican voters. for the people he needs to win, i do not think it will work. mark: let's talk about wikileaks. how much is the rnc relying on a gift from wikileaks to change the race? >> that is where they are right now. all of the sources in the trump campaign are realistic about a narrowing path to victory, but are adamant that things like a rigged election are playing well to the base, things like term limits in congress, and wikileaks. they have doubled down and we reported this on bloomberg, that in their minds, has not placed emphasis on this. from a turnout perspective, they think that could give them a boost on election day. a columnist from the new yorker said a lot of people are not motivated to get to the polls if they are independent. they feel this could help them as well. john: do you think it is a fair critique of the press that we have not covered the wikileaks revelations enough?

>> i think they came out within an hour or so of the trump tape. i think there would have been more wikileaks coverage of not for the trump tape. it's a sexier story. a lot of press has been focused on it. mark: of all the things that have come out since the wikileaks disclosure last friday, are there any that should break through to voters? >> i think some of the transcripts of her speeches to goldman sachs would have been a problem. they would have been explosive in the hands of bernie sanders in january. and they are talking about public and private positions, they are painting or has -- painting her as cozy with big banks. this will feed that narrative. it is standard for a lot of politicians to have a public and private view. negotiate one way, believe another way. it will matter to a point, but

they have to get this out of the headlines. and he cannot keep talking about conspiracies. it doesn't win him any one doesn't already have. john: he is trying to extend the map primarily in arizona with , michelle obama. they have hillary clinton going there. various other states are doing big and small things. what do you make of that strategy, the wisdom of it, and the potential efficacy of it? >> i think it's psy ops. they are trying to project an air of confidence. when you look at the polling averages, it is looking pretty bad for trump right now. right now, hillary clinton has a better shot of winning texas and arizona than trump has of winning colorado, virginia, or pennsylvania. there is an element of yeah, we are so far ahead and we are sending one of our best surrogates there. it doesn't necessarily mean they are going to win, but they are trying to psych them out.

when the trump campaign sees that, does it psych him out or who cares? what is your view? >> i think they love fighting. any other candidate would be out of this race or trailing even more significantly than trump is right now. he likes to fight. i think you will see that tomorrow night. but let's be realistic. he is down in the polls. john: when they see hillary clinton and arizona, do they think we have to get back to arizona again or do they think it means nothing? >> i think on arizona they think they need to mobilize the grassroots. the other side has mobilized on the issue of immigration. but arizona point-blank is all about immigration.

and the sheriffs diminished role within the republican party. mark: there was a new policy proposal yesterday on ethics, lobbying, term limits. are they going to continue to talk about policy? >> yes, and i think specifically in regards to the rigged election. onch again, it was advocated -- for years on wall street. this is not a new, populist tone. it is in regards to elections. they are pivoting using that specifically about term limits, which is very popular. john: thank you both for coming on the show. you are both fantastic. we are going to head out to colorado. you can listen to us on radio bloomberg in addition to watching us. we will be right back. ♪ mark: welcome back to las

vegas. with us now from colorado, where donald trump is currently holding a rally, she has one ear on us and one ear on him. i will talk loud, you will listen quiet. katie, what does the trump campaign think is going right these days? katie: that's a good question. they think their rallies are going right. they like that. they are still getting pretty large crowds at various places around the country. fundraising is going well. small donor contributions are coming in pretty hot on their website.

they're getting a lot of money. but certainly, the headlines are not going well for donald trump. there are the sexual assault allegations. they are talking about election rigging, trying to hit that hard. but the headlines coming out are that donald trump is saying if he doesn't win it's a rigged election, and now we have president obama telling him to stop whining. the good news for the campaign is not quite as dominating as the bad news at the moment. john: donald trump keeps making the rigged election argument. people around him have tried to say what he means by rigged is that the media is against him. he is not talking about electoral fraud. then trump comes out and tweets or says no, i am talking about

electoral fraud. why is there so much disjuncture between what everyone in the trump campaign is trying to say he means on this issue? katy: this has happened in number of times, where he says one thing and his surrogates say another. in this case it is particularly glaring. they have said he was just talking about the media, but the same day donald trump will come , out and tweets something like the polling is rigged. he said this on the campaign trail quite a bit as well, talking about it in pennsylvania quite a bit, we need to watch communities in philadelphia. he's talking about how dead people are still on the voting rolls and voting. that's a message resonating with his base.

they believe in some way the books were cooked against him. in terms of the disconnect between he and the campaign it , goes to show you that donald trump is the ultimate voice for his campaign. and nobody can tell him what to do if he has an idea in his , head, he's going to say it. that's why lewandowski said let trump be trump. i am not going to try to speak for him. ultimately, he will go out and contradict everybody anyway. in nevada, most polling suggests trump is way behind. they are still looking for the right inside stray combination to get to 270 electoral votes. talk about the event you are at right now, the staging of it, compared to some other states where he spent more time. katy: trump got on stage and to the first thing he said was make sure to mail in your vote. that's what you do in colorado. you mail in your vote.

they are trying to get on the ground here with the rnc, team up, and go door-to-door. andrado is a tough state, donald trump has not had a good operation here from the start. during the primaries, he basically did not show up for the convention, and they all but handed it over to ted cruz. donald trump talked about the gop convention being rigged against him then. this is the home of the never trump movement. colorado has not been easy from the start. he has vocal supporters here, and you can hear them behind me. but for the most part, his support in this state is not as large as we see in other states, states they were specifically hoping to turn red after being in the democratic category. it's interesting that he spent so much time in colorado. he's down eight points in the quinnipiac poll. especially since a state like arizona he is hoping to keep red

, could be slipping away from him. hillary clinton is running a close race down there, we are seeing chelsea clinton there, michelle obama there, bernie sanders going there next week. it is unclear when donald trump would go back to arizona, but that is a state he clearly needs to focus more on if he wants to maintain his lead there. mark: less than 30 seconds to go, and insights to how trump is approaching the debate tomorrow? they are not telling us exactly what he is doing, but i can tell you that there will be the mother of somebody who died in benghazi sitting in the front row, the same mother who spoke at the convention. they clearly want to put hillary clinton in an uncomfortable position like they did at the last debate and try to get some sort of confrontational position out of it. mark: thank you very much. we will be right back in vegas after this. ♪ john: so, tomorrow night

there's a debate. also, britney spears coming back to play. what is more exciting to you? mark: i am looking forward to the debate. john: that is it for us today. we will be back tomorrow. you can see coverage on twitter. sayonara. ♪

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