mathew's story go to cnn.com. >> and "inside politics" with john king starts right now. >> thank you. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thanks for sharing your time today as we mark ta d25 days to election day. here's what's driving the race and driving or conversation. donald trump says the growing list of women who say he touched them inappropriately are all liars. >> these vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false. these claims are all fabricated. they're pure fiction, and they're outright lies. >> but fresh national polling shows a big hillary clinton lead, and women are the driving force in trump's troubles. >> a candidate for president of the united states has bragged about sexual assaulting women. and i have to tell you that i --

i can't stop thinking about this. it has shaken me to my core in a way that i couldn't have predicted. >> and with the clock ticking we map out the state-by-state race and trump's urgent challenge. >> our campaign represents a true existential threat, like they haven't seen before. this is not simply another four-year election. this is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we, the people, reclaim control over our government. >> with us to share their reporting and insights, lisa lear, jonathan martin and malika

henderson. in a moment, this, president obama scathing review of the gop, and big gains in the senate and house races. >> why did it take you this long? you said you were -- you're the party of family values. what? you weren't appalled earlier? when he was saying degrading things about women? when he was jumping them based on a score of, are they a 2 or a 10? that wasn't enough for ya? you're walking away from him now. >> but first, the central issue in the campaign for the white house now. to the women who say this -- >> he wasn't flirting, and i don't think i was flirting. we were just talking. and it was like -- suddenly he's like encroaching on my side of -- of the seat. and he's -- he's -- his hands

were everywhere. >> did he actually kiss you? >> yeah, yeah. >> on the -- on the face or on the lips? >> all -- wherever he could find a landing spot. yes. >> and to women who speak like that, donald trump responds with this -- >> the establishment and their media enablers will control over this nation through means that are very well known. anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed. they will attack you. they will slander you. they will seek to destroy your career and your family. they will seek to destroy everything about you, including your reputation. they will lie, lie, lie.

>> that's where we are. 25 days out and just before we start the conversation, i want to put up a brand new fox news national poll, race for president. clinton 45, trump 38, johnson 7. plus 7 in the national poll. one week ago, plus 2 hillary clinton. clearly we see what's happening to the race, lisa lear, jump in. women a majority in the electorate. 53%, we expect 53% in 2012 and tleefrt that and look at this among female likely vote igs. clinton 51, trump 32. 19 point difference. anywhere close to that on election day, hillary clinton is the next president of the united states. >> look, we always knew gender would be part of this race if hk won the nomination, first female president, always in the mix. the fact this race has become a war of the sex is is remarkable. like, we are having a national referendum on women's role and sense from men that perhaps fears of being displaced, and frankly, trump is hemorrhaging

women. particularly white, college educated women. that's a problem for him. romney won white women. if he loses them, it's hard to see how he wins this race. particularly in those crucial suburban pockets. suburbs of columbus, denver, philly. a big problem. not clear how you stop the bleeding at this point. >> and not exactly that he wants to. he has embraced an idea of being the alpha male. had these problems come out with all of these women. five or six or seven or ten of them come out and accuse him, and he is -- it's not clear that he's able to deal with it at this point. seems like he goes through these rallies, sees these crowds and some women are in those crowds, too, but there is this kind of alpha male posing he's doing that is resonating with a lot of these voters, particularly working-class white men. >> ten women in the la72 hours t names on allegations. not anonymous women saying

donald trump did this to me. they've had the courage to put their names in the public domain and say this. donald trump says they're all lying, and he says he will prove this, although we're waiting. meantime, jonathan, ais his argument, this is media and hillary clinton conspiracy. threaten them, this is what they do to you. i don't remember us if there is such a conspiracy, if you go to breitbart you'll find it. in the real world, i don't think so. i don't remember us doing this to john mccain or anyone saying mitt romney was a predator? >> not just that, but i will say this about the timing of this. he's in women have come out because trump just said in a -- highly watched national debate that he had never done the things to women that he talked about in that videotape with, billy bush, that came out last week. they were responding to that and outraged, because he had done those things to them, they said, and keep in mind, our friend adviser at "the boston globe"

reported how trump conducted himself with were im. my colleagues in may the next month also wrote in-depth about trump's treatment of women. this is well before the final weeks of this election. put our stories aside. look at trump's own words on howard stern over the years. the republican party nominated a howard stern character for president of the united states. they knew what they were doing. went in with eyes wide open and can't be surprised at this. >> you mentioned howard stern. the keep going through this talked about lindsay lohan during her troubles, disturbed women are better in bed, had says on the tape. >> his words. >> his words. olivia, to this point, one of the women who came forward a correspondent who wrote a profile about donald trump for "people" magazine in 2005. the one-year anniversary with melania, pregnant with baron at the time. took her into a room we're going to have an affair, you know that. tried to kit her and the like. this is how donald trump responded to her on the campaign trail. >> she said i made inappropriate

advances. and, by the way, the area was a public area. people all over the place. take a look. you take a look. look at her. look at her words. you tell me what you think. i don't think so. i don't think so. >> i suspect the ladies will have a stronger take than you or i might have. trying to put this away, i don't think that's the way to do it. >> it's not. >> it really isn't. that's also a substory of this whole campaign. he manages to keep things in the headlines. pour s fuel on the fire as ofte as to douse it. the result, "people," editor-in-chief wrote a second piece saying this is why we ran it. we stand by it. she was brave to do this. a whole other cycle of this. talking about polls earlier. an interesting poll that came out earlier in the week asking trump voters, asking couples, married couples and husbands, say overestimated the -- the degree to which their wives were also supporting donald trump.

you had a gap. husbands saying 45 fr%. 35% of wives. might not be a surprise. >> after the election a lot of interesting t ing thanksgiving dinners. >> and trump made the argument, hillary and bill clinton were diskrez itting bill clinton's accusers and now doing this with donald trump accusers. political whiplash. doesn't comport what they said before. accusers were to be believed and the other problem is that, sadly, i'm sure, i suspect neil would agree on groping, it's a common female experience. so this is something that people can relate to. women can relate to. a lot of women have had these experiences, on public transit in the workplace, wherever. >> we're going to get to more of that. the power of the first lady yesterday. i don't care whether you're a democrat, republican, a martian

from another galaxy. the power of the first lady speaking about these experiences. forgive me, men, listen and learn during this conversation. >> no. that's right. i guess at this point, pence as well as donald trump said have more evidence to come out to, that exculpates donald trump. i don't understand why if there was evidence he didn't talk to the "times" and reveal it then. we're told any minute they'll be information on this. >> he needed that time to say the reporter was the most disgusting person on earth. we do have mike pence talking about it this morning. mike pence is donald trump's running mate, putting his own reputation and dignity on the line backing up donald trump including this, this morning. >> if there is a time to come up with that evidence and show us that evidence, this is the time. has he shown you that evidence? >> well, matt, i think it's coming, and it's coming in -- in, frankly probably in a matter of hours. >> that was early this morning. >> what time is it?

>> 12:10 and 46 seconds here in the east. i don't know what this evidence would be. but if the there is such evidence, again, forgive me, forgive me, the facts back me up on this one. i get a tad skeptic's because in 2011 if the president released his birth certificate i'll release my taxes. a number of times donald trump says, you give me something, i'll give you something. we're still waiting. >> what? a lot of evidence. ten accusers. you need evidence on each case that dates back decades. it's not clear what this evidence would be and you need an awful lot of it. >> obviously important to have these women come out and hear their stories. look at his own words about what he has done. >> right, yeah. >> done himself years ago. in one of the books he wrote he boasted about his, his sexual exploits, and using a word in presence th presence thes parentheses i won't use or the

air, they knew what they were getting. it's a testament to the grip he has on a good chunk of the base of the conservative movement that, the party cannot move away from him. his voters are basically telling republicans there's going to be hell to pay if you move away from me. why you've got a lot of these senators who know that this is a gamble. who are basically now in hiding, because they can't disavoi him fearing the wrath of his own people. the bigger story, the party depending upon the trump base of voters to win general election. >> get to that later. next up, jitters about her e-mail server inside the clinton campaign trying to get her to say i'm sorry. clinton campaign worries, up next. psh psh lunch is ready! campbell's spider-man soups. made for real, real life. thanks mom boost it's about moving forward

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and so when i saw that, that was completely disqualifying.

i'm a republican, but this election is so much bigger than party. my son max can't live in trump world. so i'm crossing party lines and voting for hillary. i don't always agree with her, but she's reasonable. and she's smart. she can work with people to solve problems. i want to be able to tell my kids that i did the right thing when it really mattered. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message.

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welcome back. donald trump and hillary clinton do have one thing in kmocommon. they both need to be pushed to say "sorry." clinton campaign chairman asking a close friend for hem and wrote to him about secretary clinton refusing to apologize for setting um that private e-mail server. from john podesta. e-mail, tell her say it, move on. why get hung up on this? the person corresponding, her take after the e-mail issue. "apologies are like her achilles' heel, but didn't seem like a -- word rhymes with witch -- and said she's sorry and get to a full apology in a few interviews." >> as reporters here, there is something val daidating these e-mails and the colin powell batch a few weeks ago. it reflects what we've all been writing about. it's real. okay. so condi and colin powell didn't like rumsfeld and -- got it.

hillary clinton hates to apologize. press wary. okay. sort of like, it's all of the stuff coming out that is fascinating to look at but reflects our reporting. kudos to. >> they like reading one of the postcampaign books while the campaign is still going on. >> right. >> in realtime. >> behind the scenes sausagemaking. maybe the average voter isn't fascinating, but it is to see all of these e-mails going back and forth. pursing what to do. talk to the press, should he not? >> make a joke? 12 people -- >> used the phrase everyday americans. >> that's who she is. right? she is somebody who is a cautious, careful, at times plotting politician who is definitely afraid of saying the wrong thing. eve rn tweeting the wrong joke d it's reflected in the e-mails's what she is not a radical liberal. seen as more of a pragmatic person trying to balance various

constituencies to get elected. that's the reveal. right? >> not any real bombshells. speech transcripts interesting. the question, what's coming? not a lot of e-mails from hillary clinton herself. you have to wonder. i don't know how savvy wikileaks is about the political system. if e are, maybe a batch they hold off until towards the end. >> exposes her as more of a sen trifrt th a sen trifr centrist. >> you see this going back and forth in the campaign. she does have an honesty and trust issue. in the campaign with legitimate and real problems. brian fallon, chief spokesman going to john podesta during the e-mail. what's in the e-mails? classified material. not think it fine to find something should have been classified at the time. our position no such material exists else it could be said she mishandled classified

information. you can read that knowing, a., some information marked with a c. big debate whether she understood that or not. and retroactively classified. read that as i don't care the truth. until through this tunnel saying she did not mishandle classified information. nothing more classified. >> a plausible reading of that. one of the problems with the e-mails beyond the fact hard to authenticate. the clinton campaign decided not to confirm or deny. some of the threads cut short. back and forths you'd likes to see two more before and maybe two after. it's not clear what they're saying. >> context would help. >> right. there is a major context problem and one of the great things about the apology, at mpr, drafted a script what would have been a short less than ten-mi ten-minute video to try to address this. never happened. the e-mail i want to see, they clearly decide not to can do if and why. >> never mind. >> donald trump has tried to use these issues to his advantage

and to the point you say nothing jumps out -- enormous, oh, my god. but did give a speech to brazilian banks talking about open borders. she meant trade. first say we're not promising, authenticating this was her. if it's her, means trade not immigrants. spin this. blamed the russians. gave a speech positive bankers, would else did you go on advice who should regulate the industry than those who know it best. donald trump takes those and believes this -- >> the clinton machine is at the center of this power structure. we've seen this firsthand in the wikileaks documents in which hillary clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of u.s. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors. >> president obama was just joking about this in this event in cleveland. show you more of that later. hillary clinton meets in secret

with international blanks to plot destruction of u.s. sovereignty. you could find that for years, said breitbart.com now front and center on the u.s. presidential campaign. >> and gave vast majority of money to the republican nominee, this iteration is raling against international bankers. >> financial power to his base and his base only? >> pretty much p. he is basically returns a a more of a nationalist than conservative. two days day raling against hillary clinton, for a limited role in america of america's role abroad. basically the polar opposite of the kind of wall street journal ed tort page of conservatives. >> but some things in these e-mails you could use as smart, tactical weapons but going with thermonuclear. >> elites betrayed you, bipartisan appeal. to be completely clear. this iteration is, a plot

against you. a different kind of message. >> coded. >> the idea of a rigged system. hearing this in american politic as long time. it's not specific to either camp. >> and also donald trump as this kind of messy antic figure, right? the only one standing between the end of western civilization is donald trump, and you have to vote for him on november 8th, otherwise western civilization comes to an end. he essentially said in that speech people thought his campaign was about going to hell, but through his speech we will go to heaven. >> election day back to y2k, see if we wake up the next day? >> a lot of people pointing that coded anti-semitic language r rather anti-semitic rhetoric we've heard in the past and how he flubbed this attack. you're right. there are really good ways for him to go after her in the

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25 days out from when we fill in this red and blue and this map blocking bleak at the moment for donald trump. first national numbers. brand new fox news poll talked about it a bit at the top of the show. 10 points for third party candidates, seven point nationally for hillary clinton. two points a week ago. hillary clinton moving there. look at battleground state polls. a few of them. north carolina, wisconsin, new hampshire, clinton leading. trump in the latest poll in ohio plus one. other poms show that race a tie or clinton up one. that's donald trump defendant state. state of ohio. what's driving this? take a closer look at this fox news data here. all of this controversy about forcing himself on women is driving this. among women, 45 and older, donald trump down 12 points. among, changes since last week, down 12 points since last week. suburban women, down 10 points. white women with college degrees

down 7. republican women, down 6 points since last week. if these numbers hold up you can't win colorado. you lose the denver suburbs. ohio is cutougher. cleveland suburbs and pennsylvania, some the trump campaign think is critical, you can't win the philadelphia suburbsen can you weren't staid wide. dana bash was there just the other kay taking a peek at trump's troubles. >> i think she's a fraud. covers up a lot of things. >> reporter: the other than of his yoga studio says her female clients are more likely to vote hillary. >> i'm hearing a lot of women that are really starting to dig their heels in and feel empow empowered about themselves based on what's happening in the campaign. >> reporter: even some who say she is hardly their first choice. >> any other candidate try to write bernie in. it's not the time for a protest vote. >> the last part, if it were any

other republican candidate. trump's own words, and i think also the democrats speaking out on the campaign trail essentially saying you can't afford to have a protest vote or walk away. doing poorly in the suburbs, game over. >> apparently pulling out of virginia. i mean, this -- he was already flailing even before these tapes were released, but now you have somebody like michelle obama. right? rallying women in that speech. essentially i think crafting hillary clinton as this paragon of the women's movement? right? empowering a figure for a lot of women who didn't see her that way. she was able to connect with women in a way hillary clinton wasn't able to and these tapes. all women that have experienced these kinds of things, a collective experience women have gone through in viewing donald trump. >> listen to the first lady, and continue the conversation. again, sometimes we make politics complicated.

it's simp. arithmetic. who adds up the most joetsvotes? a republican party, a hoard time getting african-american and latino votes, ta the majority of the population, women, a hard time getting this votes you you have a problem, and michelle obama laid it out pretty clear. >> it's that feeling of terror and violation that too many women have felt when someone has grabbed them or forced himself on them and they've said, no, but he didn't listen. too many are treating this -- as just another day's headline. this is not politics as usual. this is disgraceful -- it is intolerable. and it doesn't matter what party you belong to. democrat, republican, independent, no woman deserves to be treated this way. none of us deserves this kind of abuse. >> now, some republicans may feel compelled to say, well it's in the middle of a political campaign. trying to help hillary clinton but you cannot watch that and

not be moved by it. >> it's both, though, right? a compelling speech, at the same time, of course she's trying to help hillary clinton. by the way, not just that, trying to bait donald trump, too, because the democrats know that it would only hurt trump more if he takes that bait and gets into a back and forth with michelle obama. >> probably won't. >> hasn't yet. >> fascinating. >> and also saying what hillary clinton can't. she needs to remain a presidential candidate running a seemingly, a presidential campaign and can't get into the back and forth on this with him and needs voices l s like miche obama to do it. you well know, it's about the map. had a hard map to begin with and every day is closing off options to 270 and has a really, really difficult pathway at this point. >> it matters more now. you got early voting. it's not like -- oh, another twist, and people will come back to him. some of these people are locking in decisions now. you could argue they are the most partisan, most decided but

the hillary camp is locking in gains now. >> you can bet in their data, people are for her but soft, who might go back to republicans are trying to grab them by the ear. >> and barack obama's visit to ohio. >> the question, what do trump supporters say? we played governor pence top of the show. allegations refute is forthcoming. and donald trump words in his own words saying this is what he does on the "access hollywood" tape. says he never did it but his voice saying he would do those things and newt gingrich said i have no reaction to 30-year-old gossip. when is have hillary clinton promising to open american borders to 600 million people. the clinton campaign disputes 600 million part, to the first part. to the first part, you know, and republican party in a demographic ditch to begin with with non-white voters. i have no reaction to 30-year-old gossip. these are ten women who have had courage to put their names. evidence to refute them, mr. trump, send it on in.

ten women who had the courage to put their names to this. what do you do to the -- never mind the election in 25 days. what do you do to the lasting republican party if that's how you describe it? >> a lot of worried about that. talking to female republican strategists and think donald trump set them back. made them look like the party of older white guys who are not in touch with today's reality, which is two income families. a lot of families headed by female bread winners, and that will hurt them. worried about with women going forward. not sure how you regain, make those gains back. >> amend also for donald trump, also undermines an idea she a change agent. right? he's on this tape sounding like a cave man, like someone from the 1950s. sounding very sort of using his power. >> sort of like b.c.? >> yeah, yeah. >> the '50s? >> using hi power and sort of insider star status to gain access to women. so i think, you know, that was a point i think michelle obama

made in her speech, too. >> isn't in a central point? and let's point out on the one side, you have michelle obama speaking on behalf of hillary. said you have newt gingrich talking on behalf of donald trump about this issue. there is just a lopsided disadvantage here for donald trump. >> and giuliani. >> and did an interview talking about viciousness and blood politics but is not directly getting involve ared in the debate. important point. a good point about hillary clinton can't say some of the things michelle obama says but did go on "ellen." clear she doesn't want to be as direct as the first lady, she is trying to send a message to women voters here when she says this -- >> he was really all rot up and you could just sense how much anger he had and so he was really trying to dominate and then literally stalk me around the stage, and i would just feel this presence behind me. and, you know, i thought, whoa. this is really weird.

>> yeah. >> and so -- i was just trying to stay focused. trying to keep my composure. >> reminder, we have a third debate next week. not a town hall setting but one more final debate. >> there's a theory 0 out there and the a theory clinton people bought into, donald trump is trying to drive down turnout across the board. make this race as ugly and nasty as possible so nobody shows up and trying as hard as possible to motivate supporters. part of it. make sure women, minorities, liberals come out and cast their votes for them as herbal as possible to lack those votes in. >> right. >> why you see figures like barack and michelle obama out there so prominent, even more prominent than the candidate herself. she's on the west coast raising more money. here we are 25 days out and the face of the campaign the last couple of days is the current first couple. >> raised alone, california, you

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president obama on the road today for hillary clinton in battleground ohio. you heard lisa talk before the break, some democrats think all of this attacking from donald trump is designed to think, aaargh, ugly election. i'm staying home. president obama saying, don't fall for it. >> now, her opponent's made it pretty clear. he's just going to drag this election as low as it can possibly go. and -- and he figures that if he marks our politics just toxic, then maybe you'll just figure out, you got no good choices, just get discouraged and just don't vote. but don't fall for it! because i'm telling you right now, hillary is one of the smartest, toughest,

best-prepared, most experienced persons ever to run for this job. >> it's an interesting moment. the president's out there making the case for hillary clinton. he's a very effective campaigner, as we discussed earlier. the big goal, motivating the right constituencies to get them to vote as early as possible, but an interesting trajectory in the race. democrats suddenly think, okay. we can get the senate. an outside shot at getting the house if this continues and you hear the president now more and more tying republicans to trump. he's done this from the beginning, but why didn't you run? why wait for this? and you write a story in the paper today about republican donors saying, forget about it. not giving trump more mun and pulling off, because they have to go look at their wives and daughters in the face. >> and among the donors and elected officials. how do we keep trump at some level of support to not tank our house and senate candidates, but at the same time, stick close to him are we turning off more voters, too and hurting ourselves in that way? it's sort of a choice here

they're facing. the democrats from president obama, the hillary clinton campaign are aggressively now trying to move this campaign down the ballot. to win more house and senate seats, and no longer are they painting trump as just some mere anomaly who is not part of the sort of culture of the gop. they are now more sort of painting him as somebody who grew out of the culture of the right here in the last few years. yes, playing offense. the house, i think, is still not quite there, but certainly right now out of balance. >> and the poll, seven points, senate about to happen. makes you at least think about the house. problem for speaker paul ryan who has no unendorsed trump but won't campaign or defend him, what he said on the tapes is reprehensible. problem for him a wave in the house, loses moderates. swings go and conservatives mad at him for not being more trump will abandon him.

paul ryan in his home will speak to college republicans explaining why he's doing whatever it is exactly he's doing and making the case house republicans at least stand for something. >> guess what? we actually are running on ideas in this election. you would never know it. would you? guess what? there is an actual choice between two different schools of thought, two different philosophies, two different agendas before us in this country, but you wouldn't know it if you turn on the computer or the tv. would you? >> no, you would not, mr. speaker. and that's not our fault. to this point, i've talked to people close to the speaker who say they are -- they think they're okay but the fact they're a little nervous is -- quicksand. >> yeah. look, he's going to be facing a vote after the election of his own. >> right. >> and if you have, you pointed

out, diminished moderate wing, his speakership could be in jeopardy and facing a tough decision, do you want to try to win the speakership in the full house come january? with a coalition of democratic voters, i'm sorry, some democratic members in you know, house republicans, how many house republicans is he going to lose in that vote? that's the big question after election day. >> more likely is the battle for the senate. we'll watch the house races. that national number stays at 7% gets more interesting. go around the country, go district by district. key senate races, john mccain, portman, kelly ayotte in new hampshire trying to navigate trump saying they're with him. don't like everything. i'm voting. the last week after the "access hollywood" tape, never mind. can't be with this guy. look here in the new hampshire race, the governor maggie hasan trying to take advantage. the governor trying to take advantage, kelly ayotte might be against trump now but wasn't always. >> i mean, i'd like her right that in fat, ugly face of her.

>> blood coming out of her fromwhere. >> would you tell a child about donald trump, point to him as a role model? >> absolutely, i would do that. . no . >> now even after in a debate, kelly ayotte tried to clean it up, but said it on the stage. absolutely i would say trump is a role model. in ways, trajectory of the presidential race stays where it is, the biggest and hardest to figure out story in american politics. how big a sweep in the other race? >> dynamic jonathan mentioned earlier is obvious. republicans need trump voters to come out and worry about alienating swing voters and independents. saying even if i am done, maybe it's time to take a stand and distance myself just on principle from our nominee. >> the clinton campaign, of course. >> the clinton campaign is, of course, arguing that the time to make that case was months ago,

before he was -- >> right. and bsh bb maarack obama making case since last year. a steady drum beat. >> and notable michelle obama gave that speech where about women and women coming together? in new hampshire. >> excellent point. >> and no more defactions since women came out charges him with sexual harassment speaking to the backlash that took place over the weekend after allowing these folks, defected from trump. >> not shy about calling republicans voicing displeasure. up next a neat spesneak pee notebooks. a few weeks before election day, where's hillary clinton? ( ♪ ) come on, dad. ( ♪ ) ♪ they tell me i'm wrong ♪ ♪ to want to stand alongside my, my love ♪ ♪ whoa, talkin' 'bout my love ♪ ♪ talkin' 'bout my, my love ♪ you ready, dad?

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close as we always do. head around the "inside politics" table, get out the big political news around the corner. >> don't expect to see much of hillary clinton the next couple days.

fund raising out west. dogg down for the weekend dock debate prep. her campaign won't say it's by design, but it's by design. taking a workman-like approach this election. they recognize they can't break through a lot of the trump media storm and don't want to. he's destroying himself. the goal, stay out of his way and plus other powerful surrogates out on the campaign trail. president obama, michelle obama carrying the message for her. the question is whether it will be enough to motivate her supporters to get out to the polls in the midst of a very ugly race. >> the last point, key point, playing it safe. perhaps risky in the end. jonathan? >> how many times have we heard about the two americas in this campaign? how trump has split this country, and there are folks who love him and hate him. nowhere is that illustrated, i think, better than pennsylvania. a state where hillary clinton is now leading comfortably almost entirely because she has a

massive advantage in the philadelphia area. but if you go towards western pennsylvania, it's a very different story. i was talking yesterday to the state chairman of the gop in pennsylvania. he said he thinks that they're going to actually net seats in the state house and state senate. why? donald trump. because he thinks trump is so strong in places like central and western pa that he actually could help the down ticket. the guy squeezed here is pat toomey. guess what? he has to run statewide. >> right and a little all over the place when it comes to trump. >> all right. not playing by your rules, looking backward. not forward. it's friday, americans gauss to happy hour. happy hour trivia. the whole campaign a throwback to the 1990s. figures from the clinton impeachment. kellyanne conway became a household name during that time. a little treivia. the only person to vote three

times on the articles of impeachment? >> i do know the answer. >> in the house and senate. anyone else? incoming democratic leader in the senate. chuck schumer. full house, elected to senate. took office. >> who did he beat? >> alfonse d'amato. >> right. >> boom! >> a little barroom trivia. >> right. back to the future, folks. why you watch "inside politics." right? >> one group that's fascinating to watch is evangelicals. not only leaders but evangelical voters in the aftermath of some of these. you've seen some softening support. white evangelical trump on pace to do a little worse than mitt romney. another fascinating thing that's worth watching is what evangelical women leaders do and say. they have something of a split with some evangelical male leaders like jerry falwell jr. and then the split, the generational split between older v

evangelical and younger evangelicals. younger evangelicals tend to be a little more liberal, but different in issues like same-sex issues. interesting to watch this play out. >> close with this. nervous times for republican senate candidates who decided to yank support of trump because of that recording of him bragging about assaulting women. trump supporters in those states, flooding campaign offices with protest calls sometimes showing up to heck's candidates at rallies. pollsters like to wait several days to test. emotions of the moment settle. nevada a key test. supporter of gop candidate joe heck say so far so good. just completed republican polling heck maintaining a narrow lead in race that could decide which party controls the senate. heck allies say at the moment, little, or no evidence, the anger of trump supporters is hurting heck. though in that race as others, like in ohio, those helping candidates who dump trump remain on edge.

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hello. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. wherever you're watching from around the world thanks very much for joining us. up first, what will paul ryan say about the elephant in the room? the house speaker addressing an audience of college republicans any moment now. you're looking at live picture. we'll take a close look to see how he responds to donald trump attacks on the republican party and accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around the republican presidential nominee. our senior political reporter manu raju join us us from madison, wisconsin with a preview. he's about to seek. what are we likely to hear? >> reporter: this is supposed to be a speech designed to rale against what