>> i'm mark halperin and >> i'm boris johnson. with all due respect to donald trump, it is never a good idea to argue with those who by ink or rocket fuel by a barrel. >> used a hashtag send donald to space. i have a rocket company, so the capability is there. ♪ john: our own special low earth

orbit tonight. the clinton campaign attempts to reach hyperspeed and we are in an alternate universe. first donald trump's supernova of " suspense." off thenee walked debate stage last night having created one mega-galactic problem for himself when he's refused to say he would accept the result of the election. today in ohio, here is how he tried to clean it up. mr. trump: i would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the united states that i will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if i win. would accept a clear election result. but i would also reserve my

right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result. john: so, mark, with his efforts today, do you believe that donald trump has put this matter behind him or not? mark: he compounded one unforced error with another. the story will live on the hope it in the absence of there are no more debates, i do not expect any other big news to occur. he's created a second day problem by saying something that is almost as offensive to people. underneath, like 7 layers of rhetoric, he has got a point. talked about this has offended people across the country. he only compounded his problem today. we dothe reality is, a, not have a widespread problem of voter fraud in this country. it does not exist. the other thing is that we have in many states, we have mandatory recount laws.

if the vote is really close, there is a mandatory recount. you do not need to have to avail yourself of those rights. we have recounts, we have examinations. that is what happened in 2000 in florida. i do not understand why if you wanted to make the second point, which is to say of course i will make everything is legit, why say the first thing? the soundbite that is going to play forever, i will accept the i win.if i which is in some way washed away by what he said the night before. mark: he took a solid b performance and he undermined it by this. verage.ed a lot of co could the storyline change tomorrow? maybe. but this will linger in history and will linger in the new cycle. john: to be clear, there is a reason why it is lingering. republicans, unelected theblicans in office,

former chair of the republican party said it was disqualifying on television, it is something no major party nominee has said or done before which is to suggest they would not abide by the peaceful transfer of power. it is a huge abrogation of the basic democratic norm in this country and we are not just being media phreaks. it is a big deal. mark: i said elites care about this then regular people. elites control the coverage and the political dialogue. care of americans do not about this, the people who care about it, the people who will drive the coverage and shatter for days on end -- and the cha tter. john: i know what you are saying that there are a lot of normal americans upset about this last night when he said it. mark: democrats have no intention of letting this issue go. last night, hillary clinton paid her press corps a visit on the airplane and deemed donald trump's remarks "horrifying." surrogatesnton twisted the knife on the tb airways and on the campaign trail. >> if you question, if you

assert that a democratic election is fixed you are attacking the very essence of the notion we have a democratic system. mark: after a campaign where he has insulted everybody else and now he is going to insult a very central premise of our democracy was a shocker. tosident obama: when you try sew the season down some people's mind about the legitimacy of our elections, that undermines our democracy. then you're doing the work of our adversaries for them. because our democracy depends on people knowing their vote matters. there are plenty of republicans who also are critical of what trump said last night, including senator john mccain who once faced the decision about whether to challenge the results. john, before the debate we agree that trumps chances were between slim and none. does the prospect of a hail mary

comeback now after what he said last night become more remote? john: last night's chances of, back were between slim and none and now slim is packing its bags. again, there are many days, there are still 2.5 weeks before election day and i do not rule out the possibility of some cataclysmic thing happening. in the absence of that, i think this thing is cooked. again, this was his last best chance last night and he has he's one full day and going to spend more days, justifiably, answer criticism for this. mark: he's answering criticism. it's keeping him from having anything positive going on and at least two news cycles and keeping them for marketing he won the debate because he lost the debate on one single remark. been dresswould have of having lost it narrowly somewhat. the reality is that the polling data has gotten worse. i think it will get worse in the wake of this debate. he's got less time.

he has got no other big events. and the other thing is the perception is now among a lot of republicans more than ever is it is done. john: to win the election he needed to gain new votes. the thing he said last night did tes and lostingle voet him some votes and there are some people who looked at that and said, i do not want that as my president. now the split and republican party is even wider because you have down ballot republicans are going to say you are calling into question if i win, my electoral system is rigged. mark: when they are angry at the press, he does not perform well. because you said one thing that was completely out of bounds. john: point to those three democrats. we often talk about why hillary clinton has the advantage because she has these big super surrogates. they now today, they think they have the boot on donald trump's throat. mark: they are trying to end a

de facto right now. john: so, how is the conservative media reacting to all this? mixed. rush limbaugh and gerard baker defended trump saying the mainstream press is overreactive. others like byron york wrote " headed towards his best debate until those few seconds." heura ingram tweeted " should've said he would've accepted the results of the election. there is no other option unless we are in a recount again." all day there were conservative forces on foxnews calling the whole thing a distraction. here is how karl rove summed it up. karl: he could've easily said, of course, i believe in the peaceful transition of power and i will accept the results of the election as they are certified. >> he thinks the whole system is a rate> igged. karl: this white set the good things he said on trade, around

immigration, -- this wipes out all the good things because this is the headline. on the other side of the ideological chasm, progressive pundits hailed clinton's performance as nearly flawless. the performance last night put the finishing touch on "the most effective series of debate performances in modern history." let's pretend we live in a parallel universe where donald the verdictt would be in that circumstance on last night's debate? mark: i think people would have three takeaways. one is that hillary clinton is a masterful debater, and has found her voice last night with some emotion and poignancy as much a she ever has. two, that trump, what might've perform trump if trump that well in the first debate, from that baseline things might've been different. the last thing is that he did not prepare. even by the third debate, he was

nowhere near as prepared as she was. he was dancing. john: i will say in the first 30 minutes of the debate when trump seemed like he was on tranquilizers, he was better than he had been. in the back hour, the same thing happened to him as happened in all three debates which is she effectively not only prepared on policy but she psychologically prepared a strategy of getting out of his skin. every time she would say something, last light said, he choked when he went to mexico. his demeanor changed, he started to get personal. where he calls for a nasty woman, the thing where he said, you are puppet. all, she brought out all of the things she wanted to do, was is to call into question his temperament. by baiting him that way -- i think he lost the debate last night. tape,no excess hollywood no accusations of women, i think the big story what about hillary clinton's evasions,

skillful. chris wallace tried to pin her down to it she did not answer. john: i want to takeaway wikileaks, too, and create a parallel parallel universe. mark: up next, we will break down some of the interesting moments from last nights's debate after these words from our sponsors. ♪

do you make the same commitment that you will absolutely, sir, absolutely accept the results of this election? mr. trump: i will look at it at the time. this: one of the prize of country is the peaceful transition of power and no atter how hard fought campaign is, at the end of the campaign, the loser concedes to the winner. are you saying you're not

prepared to commit to that principle? mr. trump: i will type at the time, i will keep you in suspense. mark: that was the big moment that everyone was talking about and will for years. there were other overshadowed experiences that you get there due. for instance, there were times when donald trump displayed a rare policy focused presence as john suggested earlier that offer a star contrast to his more off message remarks throughout the evening. we need a supreme court that in my opinion is going to uphold the second amendment and all amendments but the second amendment. the justices i will appoint will be pro-life, they will have a conservative bent, and they will be protecting the second amendment. they have gr scholars in all cases and their people up tremendous respecteat. they will interpret the constitution the way the founders wanted it interpreted. it's all about the constitution. heller decision,

she was extremely angry about it. she was very angry what upheld. ond justice scalia was s involved in it was a well-crafted decision. mark: i'm not saying if he had done that for 270 minutes over the three debates he would have won, but it would've been a much different set of context. john: if you try to do that, -- i was surprised he cited a case, he cited heller. he has no depth if you asked him to explain what heller says. tonally, that would've been a very different world. tone many of us said going into the first debate, surely he will adopt. john: the clinton campaign expected them to try to adopt and they spent a fair amount of time to induce him to not adept. let's look sad example of that. hillary clinton was a little out

of character last night as she tried some almost trumpian maneuvers, interrupting, mocking and needling her opponent. mrs. clinton: he had a meeting with the mexican president. he did not even raise it, he chose. ked. mr. trump: from everything or see, has no respect for this person. mrs. clinton: he wants a puppet for a president to this as a person that has been cavalier about the use of nuclear weapons. 10 people who had that awesome responsibility and have come out and said they would not trust donald trump with the nuclear codes. there's only one of us on this day to is actually shipped jobs to mexico because that is donald. he goes around with crocodile tears about how terrible it is but he has given jobs to chinese steelworkers. he was borrowing $14 million to start his business is. what weappy to compare

do with the trump foundation which bought a six foot portrait of donald. who does that? my apartment today on a very beautiful hotel down the street -- with chinese paid steel. he did not get an emmy and he started tweeting the emmys were rigged.you are whining before the game is finished, it shows you are not up to doing the job. just like we went after bin laden. while you were doing " celebrity apprentice." he was criticizing president reagan. social security, payroll contribution will go up as wil donald's assuming you cannot figure out how to get out of it. mr. trump: such a nasty woman. john: there it was. the barb fest. aat last one, you saw in crystallized moment but that is the kind of thing she did for three debates. that is it. mark: i praised hillary

clinton's prep team. they clearly learned how to work with her. to feed her things she would feel, criticism of obama with prewritten lines that she was comfortable delivering with her own attitude. john: it was a sense of almost at least last night joy. she was enjoying herself. mark: she prepared and they gave her a lot of good options. overtly sidestep some tough questions from the moderator, chris wallace. she did it in a way that many people have noticed. >> we've learned. for wikileaks that you said this. "my dream is open borders>' ." mrs. clinton: i was talking about energy. an electric bread, and energy system that crosses borders. the most important question of

this evening is finally will donald trump admit and condemn that the russians are doing this? onis: why isnt' what went between you and the clinton foundation, why isn't it pay to play? mrs. clinton: everything i did a secretary of state was in furtherance of our country's interest and our values. the state department has said that. i am happy, i am thrilled to talk about the clinton foundation because it is a world-renowned charity. the clinton foundation made it possible for 11 million people around the world with hiv-aids to afford treatment and that is about half of all the people in the world who are getting treatment. in partnership with the american -- chris: secretary clinton. : -- tclinton including healthier. chris: this was an open discussion. the pacific question went to pay for play. [talking over each other]

mrs. clinton: some very good work. mr. trump: it is a criminal enterprise. john: that was not h er at her most invasive, if she did not enter this debate on roll, people would focused on -- he handled it much better than some of the other challenges. think about the contrast with her and trump. i agree she's evasive. here is what we talk about -- that is what they're supposed to do. quick answer, do not seem defensive and go on the attack against. another way in which her preparation helped her. mark: you can see why republicans are frustrated. john: up next, the schlapp attack. we will talk to the american conservative union. ♪

john: now it is time for us to have our weekly discussion with our favorite social media app schlapp chat. with this now is matt schlapp, also a big donald trump support. we will ask him whether he still is after last night. matt, there is a big split in the republican party after what donald trump device not, saying he was not sure if he would uphold or accept the election results. where do you stand with those conservatives who are hitting him hard today or with those conservatives making excuses for him? matt: i dont' know. maybe somewhere in the middle. i would not have answered the question that way. i think i would like to see these two get to a point, one of them is going to get elected in 19 days. would like to cds two b -- see these two be able to do

something simple like shake hands on the stage. i think it was ridiculous that the clinton campaign negotiated they do not have to shake each other hand. enoughdo not have respect to shake each other's hand, we are in a pretty bad place. the country is as well. he should also on election day, i'm confident it's donald trump does not win he will -- mark: matt, what was wrong with this answer? matt: i think the only thing that was wrong with the answer is that it overshadowed what i thought was a good debate performance. mark: what was wrong with that particular answer? you said you would not have done it that way. what were the negative implications of his answering that way? matt: i think the negative, i think, i just think it looks more magnanimous to say i want to beat my opponents brains in, but if she wins, i'm going to support that. that makes him look like the better man. i can understand with everything we have learned on wikileaks and

the way the clintons role, he is frustrated. i thought the answer that made that the clearest is when he said, you should not be able to run because of all of the legal problems you are reading about. he brought up the example of the four star general. there is a certain degree of frustration for those of us were seemednton fans she has to find a way out of every one of these legal concerns when others have not. john: you agree that america is an exemplary of democracy for people around the world, right? matt: absolute. john: you do not have any lack of faith in our ability to conduct a free and fair election? matt: i think we have the best selections on the globe. john: don't you think all the ways trump is talking about the suggest he is skeptical of that? he seems to have doubts about the integrity of american elections. is that a helpful thing for a major party nominee to be expressing? matt: i think when it comes down to is this -- if you look at it doeshe polls

not look like this it race is a one or two point race. let's say this race is tied at the end. subjectivity comes in play. andent a month in florida there were a bunch of al gore democrats who did the same. it comes down to a room where somebody has to make a decision as to whether hanging chad result of the vote for one of the other person. all they ran and leading election night into the early morning and after several recounts and lawsuits, all of a sudden they did not win the race. mark: we have got less than a minute. you probably have seen the whiche republican data, shows the donald trump standing and strongholds not as strong as he was a week ago. tell me the states that will put him over the 270 -- matt: i think the states that will tighten he has to win. fiesta think about the electoral main he has to wine new

hampshire.. virginia does not look like it improves, the new have to get to pennsylvania or michigan or wisconsin. he has got to win nevada and he is got to win iowa. i think several of those states are states that will tighten up dramatically over the next two weeks. i think the democrats look good for hi--- the demographics look different him. i agree with the investor business daily poll with it two point race. i think this race is tighter than a lot of polls indicate. john: that was sh lapptastic. we will be back with randi weingarten after this quick break. ♪

mark: with this knowledge was that of the american federation of teachers, debate hillary clinton supporter, randi weingarten. thank you for joining us.

ranid: it is always great to be with you, even virtually. mark: how would you rate hillary clinton's chances of being elected president in november? randi: i am one of those people who it is not over until it is over, but i think she has a pretty good chance now. i'm not, you look at the different up shot and nate si lver. you see all the chances. has changed, but i think what is happening is her trajectory is going higher and higher with a greater and greater percentage of showing she's going to win. and donald trump's trajectory is in the opposite direction. and so, normally at this point, things actually start showing the electric is going -- the electorate is going to i think people are confident in her competence. so, you are seeing not just people who would ordinarily

support a democrat, but you are seeing more and more people saying when they look at these two candidates there is only one of then the has the judgment, the temperament, even if you disagree with some of their positions. john: one of the things the clinton campaign has made clear is that the key to her winning this race would be to disqualify donald trump. and with his help, they have done a pretty good job of that or making him pretty toxic. thee turn this corner into home stretch, what does hillary clinton need to do now as she prepares perhaps to get ready to govern? should she continue to trash trump or start doing something else? randi: i think we have a november 9 problem. i'm a big believer that you lean towards people's aspirations not people's fears. i think we should try to do last night when she had the time to talk and to really debate was aspirations listed

she talked about what her plans are going forward, not how to -- and she did more of that than spar with donald trump. now, donald trump on a debate stage is so reckless it's hard to ignore a lot of the things that he says. but i think that he himself disqualified himself so much yesterday, that her path right now is to connect to people's did,ations, like jfk like fdr, like reagan, and to show as she said in her closing that regardless of whether you vote for her not, her responsibility is to be the president for everyone and to lift everyone and to make those words stronger together mean something to people. mark: you think about your

friends and your family, the people your closest to, who is someone who supports donald trump and what is your understanding of why they support donald trump? andi: so, you know, there are couple of people i know who support donald trump. and their view is that washington is broken. and you need somebody to shake this whole thing up. it is like the people who would say, i need to change that house. so i'm going to burn it all down. it is a level of frustration not, that suggests that would would pierce it. it is a level of anger that is really conducted to a frustration about what happened in washington. and i think he gets routed to the point that what's scary about this is that when you see

donald trump basically not distinguish in between fact and fiction, and living in his own reality of life or whatever it is, people basically -- his supporters believe him. john: are you saying that the 40 or more so people that will vote for donald trump are irr ational? not saying that. i am saying there is a sense of loss that is emotionally moving people to feeling like he is going to be the savior. and that is very scary. sut, underlying it, is thi sense of loss of their lives. very sympathetic to that. that is what the labor movement has fought for all our lives. it is the sense that people felt

like that their lives should be better going forward and they are not. john: there are a lot of people on the left and the democratic party, bernie sanders supporters who have been reading some of the things that came out of wikileaks e-mails that feel like all the suspicions about hillary clinton have been borne out by those e-mails, that she is different in private than in public. she's phony. do you have any sympathy with that view? know, i thinkou there are two things about the wikileaks e-mails. i want to separate them. one is the watergate-type interference in elections this time done by a foreign government. let's put that aside. that is a problem in and of itself. i think that you are seeing here is people are embarrassed but this is what ends up happening in elections. that is what ends up happening in organizations.

there was a really heated debate between bernie and hillary. you see a lot of heated language. there was even one from me where i called somebody sanctimonious. in retrospect, you wonder why you would do that, but you see that kind of, you see that in campaigns. the real issue i think is what we did at the platform which was, after all these leaks, date all of these leaks, and what we tried to do together. rni'es people to create the most progressive platform the dems have ever had. the accountability is what i think she said at the convention, which is when she looked at the bernie people sand this platform together. et'slet's actually, l'e

actually implement this. all of this in the progressive side are going to have to try and make sure we get to rewrite he economy,f t which is what most of us are talking about and what the big difference was between where bernie initially was and where hillary initially was. mark: think you very much. weif you're watching us in washington, you can listen to this program on bloomberg 9 91.1 f.m. we will be right back. ♪

>> you might have heard that last week in new hampshire i gave a speech. [cheering] obama: let me say that

since then my office has been flooded with thousands of letters and e-mails from folks all across the country. speaking out for the values of decency and respect that we all hold dear. men of all backgrounds and walks of life agreeing that decent men do not demean women. [cheering] not obama: we should tolerate this behavior from any man, let alone a man who wants to be the president. john: that was first lady michelle obama criticizing donald trump at a rally in phoenix, arizona, not that long ago that the first lady was one of several surrogates on the trail hammering donald trump. with us from the city of brotherly love is kim alfano and in our studio is democratic strategist mike feldman.

one of the things that has been happening since last night when donald trump made his comment about not necessarily accepting the results of the election, is that people in his camp and in the country have been saying, what is so bad? al gore contested the election in 2000. given your closeness to vice president gore and you are part of that story, explain to us whether they have a point or not? mike: they have a point, but it is the wrong point. this has been pretty well litigated today, but 2000 was a disputed election. as you both know, florida was under recount by law. i think nobody would doubt that it was good to go through every, they could process to determine that the will of the voter was actually honored by the process. but, again, when the highest court in the land weighed in and the stopped the recount, al gore -- and there were plenty

of people encouraging gore to pursue it further, he not only conceded the election but he said, don't trash the court. there is a fine line between anarchy and a disputed print court decision. it was a good moment. what concerned me about last night was people going out and using that example. what mr. trump did last night was the very opposite of that. john: kim, remind everybody where you stand on your party's nominee. are you voting for him? kim: i will keep you in suspense. mark: very f ununny. let's say this program ends and it's steve bannon and they say mr. trump decided that the debate answer is not good. we wants something new to put this behind us. what would you tell him to do? kim: stop trying to be so clever. i think he gets himself in

trouble where he has -- what people who are supporting him and people who are disgruntled with washington and the system want to hear. then he takes it too far. that happened to him a couple of times in the debate last night. he has got good gut instinct about what is going on in the hearts and minds of people who are tired of politics as usual. but then he tries to be too clever and put on a show instead of just laying that out there, and that is because that is who he is. john: when you're watching the debate last night, one of the things we discussed earlier in the show was a moment when hillary clinton made a comment about him not paying taxes and he under his - -he snapped at her and called her a nasty women. i have heard from women who read into that not just a snappiness but a kind of misogyny that them.

them. both as a woman and republican woman, when you heard that, did you goroan? what was your reaction to that,? comment? kim: a suburban pennsylvania woman. look, i think that i don't like the guy. i do not want to hang out with him. but i think that people are getting are panties in a bunch hover a lot of stuff. he says things in an incendiary way. he should not. he treated her like any other guy who might be on the stage with her. if you are woman in a business where you have been where there are no women, i would've taken that as a complement. anyone to would want talk to me that way. i would not have gotten so upset over that. i think that bulk of everything he has been talking about for the last several days, it does turn them into a big jerk. but actions as well are important. if you look back over history there are some twos actions have been pretty gross, too. mark: hillary clinton calls you and says mike, can you come to

headquarters, interview everyone on the staff, make sure we are doing everything we need to do. who would you talk to? mike: i think they are doing a pretty good job. and i think she did it last night but it was overshadowed by these comments trump made. she has got to start and randi alluded to it, she has to start laying claim to the outcome of this election. if the election were tomorrow, people would view as a total repudiation of her opponent and not necessarily mandate. i think you saw her starting to do that last night. trying to talk to independents and moderate republicans and nobody heard very much of it just because of the outcome of the debate. they need to start thinking about how they are going to govern in addition to how they are going to vot turn out the vote. one thing that kim said is important, but the debates -- and it's been said often --

debates do matter and preparations for debates do matter. i think what this debate has shown a lack of preparation and a lack of discipline that is troubling and a potential president of the united states. it is not like mr. trump did not know there was going to be a question about his comments. every single member of his team, including his running mate, was giving him a trail of breadcrumbs for that answer and yet he still dominated the news by day after in the debate making a comment that was clearly viewed out of bounds by even people in his own party. john: i'm going to ask about both the same question. michelle obama is in arizona. they are trying to win arizona. the polls in texas are close, georgia. missouri. there are a lot of places the clinton campaign is play. what now today do you think hillary clinton will win by what? mike: i don't know. john: is it starting to look like a landslide? mike: it feels elect poorly like

she is going to have a very good night. it depends on turnout. her campaign is methodically communicating to their voters they have a good idea who is going to show up. the trump campaign have less certainty about who is going to turn out. i think what you saw today is an example of what the clinton campaign is going to do for the next two weeks -- surrogates, everybody out there trying to energize and let people know what is at stake. john: i'm going to ask you to be a dispassionate analyst in pennsylvania. are you starting to feel a landslide or does this feel at the tie collection to you? kim: i am loathe to predict anything in this election ever, because i was on your show six months ago and got everything wrong. first, i'll lead with that caveat. i think we cannot really predict a landslide, though to start with in any election, the, it is sort of rigged, not in the way that elections don't work, the electoral college leans

democrat to begin with. but i don't think this is a left-right split. i think this is a top-bottom split. how that plays out on election day is going to be new and different for all of us to look at. john: all right. do you think there is any chance donald trump could win pennsylvania? in: um, i will keep you suspense. john: kim's taking a pass on all our questions today. thank you both. we'll talk tickets living in the clinton campaign's arizona ambitions when we come back. -- and ticket splitting. ♪

as donald trump struggles

and some of the key battleground states, republican senate candidates are on the hunt for now is an endangered species in america -- the voter called the ticket splitter. the focus of the latest piece on our 8 week series we call battleground 2016. here to talk to us is our colleague. steve, the country is more polarized. people tend to vote along party lines more than they did a generation ago. why do these down ballot candidates think they can get a lot of ticket splitting ahead of donald trump? steve: it is less common now, 11% in 2012. voted for electorate one party for president and another party down ballot. this year is different because of donald trump on popularity. partially because he has less of a ground grain operation -- ground game operation. he is more reliant on party operations, party ground games.

the problem is is that they have different goals than donald trump does, especially in an election like this where he is so unpopular. i talked to a party chairman in arizona who was for trump but said we are working in the same direction that we have different goals. turn a allto republicans are for donald trump. john: how are campaigns in terms of methodology, how are they trying to find ticket splitters? steve: we try to create this and we took data, two different sets of data. we took the data that shows the voter's to be a republican or a we also check data that show their likelihood to be a trump supporter. in cases where we had republicans voters who look like there were going to be republican, that number looked higher than voters who looks like there are going to be trump supporters. betweenthe difference

us two numbers are the targets that the clinton campaign might want to target. we mapped them, and we found the top three states were new hampshire, but also, arizona and also ohio. in ohio, things are so close that any sort of movement could move the needle in that state. john: arizona huge focus because you have got a lot of her politics there. a lot of republicans who would be mccain voters but not necessarily be trump voters. so, how important is it -- does john mccain need to get a lot of clinton voters if he is going to be reelected? steve: no. the opposite. clinton needs john mccain voters if she wants to have a shot at winning that state. the clinton campaign has made it clear they are making a play there. republicans in arizona have gotten the very next. message. their two senators have been anti-trumjp.

the chairman of the party has been one of the most vocal trump supporters. republican that state, it is not clear and that state what you're supposed to do. john: cook county, key county, what is you find. steve: what we found his most of the voters in the state are from maricopa county, 60%. around phoenix. and so, it's key to any sort of turnout and the state that we found that a huge percentage of these ticket splitters were there. and a lot of them we found were mormon, which is one group. we also found a lot of them followed the same sort of trends that trump has had problems with, women, higher education voters, young people, things like that. mark: thank you very much and we will be right back. ♪

john: will have a new culture caucus podcast. we talk about the cubs and the dodgers now split 2-2. mark: cubs must-win. john: i'm from l.a. but i am rooting for the cubs. we have more on the website, bloombergpolitics.com. coming up, emily chang has more from the vanity fair new establishment summit. till tomorrow, for me and mark are out oflad we vegas and we say sayonara. ♪

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