system or washington, d.c. the new focus is unsettling politicians on both sides of the aisle. it is a dark turn to the campaign in closing weeks. >> remember this, it's a rigged election. a conspiracy, keep him out of the white house. >> the election is being rigged by corrupt media pushing completely false allegations and outright lies in an effort to elect her president. >> reporter: rally after rally, tweet after tweet, trump pushing the theory without any reason or that the electeral results will be rigged. trump's running mate, mike pence, trying to tone down the rhetoric saying trump doesn't meaneral electoral rigging. >> people are tired of the bias.

that's where the sense of a rigged election here. >> reporter: but trump undercutting that very message moments later tweeting that the election is, "absolutely being rigged." at "many polling places." this part of a trump twitter storm against multiple attacks against house speaker paul ryan. ryan pushing back on trump's rigged election theory. the speaker is fully confident the election will be carried out with integrity. hillary clinton's running mate tim kaine calling on more republicans to speak out against trump's allegations. >> he started to make wild claims. kind of scorched earth claims about the election being rigged, et cetera. we have to keep putting out a message and we need to call on everybody to speak out about the fact that we run elections and we run them well here. we ask gop leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the electoral process. >> reporter: trump also continuing to fire back at allegations of sexual assault and unwelcomed sexual advances.

now, now accused by nine women. trump attacking their veracity, their character and their looks. >> believe me, she would not be my first choice, that i can tell you. >> reporter: and unleashing one new line of attack on hillary clinton, that she's taking performance enhancing drugs. >> we should take a drug test because i don't know what's going on with her. >> reporter: the clinton campaign calling this a shameful attempt to undermine the election. and, guys, as chris noted, just a couple days away from that debate and donald trump taking a rare day off the campaign trail on sunday to do debate prep. hillary clinton doing the same and doing what her team worked so well for her in the first debate. two days at a hotel just a few minutes away from her home in chappaqua. all eyes will be on las vegas on wednesday. a crucial debate with only 22 days left.

guys? >> phil, thanks so much for that. let's talk about all the new developments with national political reporter from "the new york times" alex burns and cnn bureau chief jackie kosinich. a new argument from donald trump that the election is rigged ever since his poll numbers have faltered. back when his poll numbers were high and he was doing well, he said that he would have set the election results. let me remind our viewers and you what he said during the first debate at hofstra about the election. >> want to make america great, again? i'm going to be able to do it. i don't believe hillary will. the answer is if she wins, i will absolutely support her. >> i will absolutely support her if she wins. so now what's happening? >> what a difference a couple weeks make. we saw him throw out the rigged election talk before and the last time was back in august when he was previously down by a

massive margin in the polls and he was making the same kind of incendiary warnings that he went into central pennsylvania and said they're going to rig the election. you know where i'm talking about. for a lot of civil rights groups, they hear that and think it is insigcitement for rural a suburban areas to go into philadelphia and hassle people at the polls. they're concerned about this a hispanic civil right group said he's going to contact the justice department to get involved in this preemptively because who knows what could happen on the day of the vote. >> in terms of the substance of what he's saying, we direct people to the brennan center for justice, 2007. to news 21. all of which have vetted the idea of there being rampant fraud at the polls and the

conclusion of each and all is it's just not true. what is your take? >> well, right. there's also that study that loyola did where it found maybe 30 instances of voter fraud out of billions. this isn't a thing, but that's not stopping donald trump and mike pence, frankly, from spreading this. yesterday on "meet the press" mike pence was asked whether they would accept the election results. but he said, yes, but almost in the next breath he went back to the fact that this election is being rigged. >> let's play it for people, jackie, so they can get a sense of what trump's running mate indiana governor mike pence. here's how he dealt with it. >> we will absolutely accept the results of the election. look, the american people will speak in an election that will culminate on november the 8th. the american people are tired of the obvious bias in the national media. that's where the sense of a rigged election goes here. one of the great traditions of

america is the peaceful transfer of power. >> peaceful transfer of power. that's not what you're helping to motivate when you keep spreading doubt about the legitimacy of the process. >> to alisyn's point earlier, they haven't offered any evidence. people are filling in the blanks themselves. that's why you see people quoted in various states that there might be violence. they're going to make sure that people who don't look like them are vetted or that they're going to watch them. it really is, it's a troubling, troubling rhetoric coming out of the trump campaign and coming from down on the ground. going in to election day and let's not forget people are actually voting right now. so, it's not that there might be some fro some at the polls, but this is already happening. >> let's dive into the facts, okay, because as chris said, there is this organization, this

group, news 21. all the top journalism students from universities around the country and they did this exhaustive study to look at one issue for the year. they looked at it over a decade of voter fraud. and they really dove in and here's what they found. you know what's interesting is, yes, there is. there are isolated incidents, alex. everybody has an anecdote of some kind. maybe an urban myth but some anecdote of seeing a bus full of people across a state border and here's what they truly found. let's put it up for people. 106 million total registered voters. out of those, there were 2,068 alleged voter fraud cases. it does happen. >> the allegations have. >> okay. the allegations have. and then ten cases of voter impersonation reported. that's what voter i.d. is supposed to -- >> dead people voting. >> so, ten ases. okay. out of the 146 million people.

there's more. they drilled down on arizona, ohio, georgia, texas, that's where attorney generals actually prosecuted cases. they prosecuted 38 cases of voter fraud. 38 out of millions. in arizona there were 13 cases of people prosecuted for double voting. 13. and this is over ten years, by the way. this isn't one year, over ten years. then the national republican lawyer association looked at it themselves and they found 200 allegations of voter fraud, again, over ten years. >> reported by news s outlets. >> from around the country, 50 states and they found 200 cases. so, does it ever happen? okay. occasionally it does happen, but it doesn't happen on a national scale. >> doesn't affect the outcome. >> it would affect the outcome. >> when it happens it's usually not the kind of voter fraud that people imagine when they think of what happens when somebody steals an election.

not people in a county courthouse stuffing ballots in a box and me showing up, hi, i'm chris cuomo. i'm here to vote. people voting in a jurisdiction where they're no longer technically registered or they're in a primary where they're not supposed to be voting in a primary. each of those infractions is something authorities ought to be looking at. no indication that there is a systemic problem with voting in this country. i spoke to the ohio secretary of state yesterday who is a republican who says we're trying hard to run a fair election here and this kind of talk just it takes time away from doing our actual and difficult jobs. >> alex, jackie, thank you. in other news, federal authorities are investigating the fire bombing of a republican county headquarters in north carolina. no one was in the building, thank god. but there was some flammable substance thrown through a window. the vandals also spraypainted a message on the building. get out of town or else. there have been no arrests and

police have not said anything about any suspects affiliations. but in a tweet, donald trump pounced on it saying, animals representing hillary clinton and dems in north carolina just fire bombed our office in orange county because we are winning. meanwhile, hillary clinton condemned the attack calling it "horrific and unacceptable." very grateful to see everyone is safe. raising thousands to help reopen the gop office. the next debate is just two daze away. what's changed in this race since that lewd video, the audio of trump talking has come out. plus, the growing list of accusers. our political panel will weigh in on what the latest polls tell us, next. prepare for challenges specific to your business

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points behind. clinton has gained two points. trump has dropped two since the last poll of polls. let's bring out the state of play here with our panel alex burns, jackie kosinich. poll of polls is just the average. you know, most of them are around four points. it's stable to growing. do we believe that this is the cause of the impact of the tape, somewhat cemented arranged between the two candidates? >> we sure do. i think when you look at each poll that comes out, you can see a varying lead for clinton four points in one and 11 points in another. that's a stark difference. the trends that we've seen all along that trump is stuck in the high 30s, low 40s and clinton is stuck or happily stuck in the mid-40s to high 40s. not over 50%. which would be the point at which we really say, stick a fork in, trump has no path to victory. at this point in the race only one major event left that would help trump break out of that zone that he's been stuck in.

that's the final debate on wednesday. >> unless there is a surprise. >> certainly. there could be unaccepted events. but that's the last arena where a candidate based on his own superb performance could change the base. >> if clinton fails the drug test. >> exactly. >> if they get her on the roids and she's somewhat suspended. >> jackie, let's dive into the polls. about whether or not voters believe that women who have come forward to say that trump made these unwanted advances. 68% say, yes, they do. 14% say, no. 19% say they have no opinion. but it, you know, when we've heard from republicans who have been interviewed about this, voters for trump supporters, they sort of say, i'm still voting for him. >> well, right. and one of the striking things in these polls is that it showed that the tapes really didn't make much of a difference. the allegations of these women

coming forward seem to have and people believe them, but on the other hand, it's not the tape that seems to change our mind. one of the polls, forgive me, is about 53% said it didn't make any deiferanifference. much less said it did change their opinion. >> this makes more sense. you get no and no opinion together. you get 67%. that seems closer to what could be the truth to me because if you go to trump supporters, i haven't met one, my sample is only like 15, 20 people. but none of them moved off of him and 88% was reported this morning on the news that 88% are locked in to their choice, jackie. they're not going anywhere no matter what happens, i guess. >> we're at the point in election, let's not forget, this always ends up a fight over a sliver of voters. that seems to be the point where we see them ticking back and forth between the two of them.

and, absolutely right. the debate is really the only expected thing that we know in between now and election day. i mean, who knows this race has been so crazy that he could sort of use to get those numbers turned around and get those people who maybe aren't so sure what happened with the women and this tape back to his side. >> yeah, let's look at the all-important women's vote because we have that from nbc/"wall street journal." 35% say they support donald trump. what does that mean on election day? >> well, it's very, very hard or maybe impossible for a candidate who loses women by that kind of margin to somehow make it up with men. we've never seen somebody in a presidential election overcome a deficit of that size. and, alisyn, i think when you go through the fundamentals of the poll, what you really see is think back four years to 2012 coming out of that election. the message that republicans felt they took is we need to do better with women. we need to do better with hispanic voters, black voters,

young voters. you go down those categories and in almost every single one they're underperforming romney in 2012. the one exception is young voters and that's really a function of clinton losing support to third-party candidates and not to daunld tru trump. >> we have a couple indicators on that, as well. a dip in honesty, a dip in -- the excitement was over 90% and now 79%. his honesty number took a hit, as well. jackie, these personal indicators are probably more relevant for trump because the choice seems so personal for people. >> absolutely. you've seen clinton's enthusiasm pick up. and, you know, we talk a lot about the ground game and voter enthusiasm and at the end of the day, on election day, that's whatmatter to get out and vote. people are feeling discouraged

as well as the allegations as a result of some of his debate performances, that's going to aifect him. i am going to say it, again, people are already voting right now. every day matters in this race. increasingly. >> so, let's talk about debate prep, alex. both candidates yesterday spent a chunk of time preparing. it's going to revert back to the format of the first debate. the lester holt debate where they're standing at the podiums. what do we think they're doing differently or how are they preparing? >> if you're hillary clinton you don't do anything particularly differently. her folks did very well the first two debates. if anything you're preparing for the difficult portion of the debate about trump's personal conduct and his conduct towards women. but that's a tough thing. >> does she go after him harder on this than she did in the second debate where people felt like she was hands off. >> there is more information than there was at the second debate. at the time of the second debate we heard the "access hollywood"

tape and not the sexual advances from nine women. if you're hillary clinton, you know, that's something you have to be comfortable talking about. i do think it's probably a safe bet that the moderator brings it up and the burden is on donald trump to explain himself in a convincing way. >> alex, jackie, thank you very mu much. appreciate it. wikileaks has a new batch of offerings, stolen from different private servers of accounts. we will take you through them. what they say and how they're being used. often a great disparity. meanwhile, the battle for mosul begins. iraqi forces backed by u.s. coalition troops to wipe out the stronghold. we are live for you on the frontlines, next.

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retake the last isis stronghold in iraq is now under way. iraqi forces and the u.s.-led coalition being called a defining moment months in the planning to retake this strategic city of mosul. cnn senior international correspondent nick panick paton walsh. >> just meters away from the main road and it leads right down to that city where the u.n. fear 1.2, 1.5 million people could be caught as this assault gets under way. desperately in need of assistance. a long morning so far. they began at dawn and spreading out amongst the desert and eventually moving down to this road here. when we got here, though, two

staggering scenes emerged. but, in fact, a firefight broke out between the kurds and isis pockets that are seen around this town. another very bizarre moment occurred 30 minutes earlier on the hill behind us here. it appears an isis fighter popped up from somewhere and chased and then as far as we can tell prom this distance, blew himself up and then they continue to search foxholes here. this is potentially a lengthy assault. they hoped moving along the plains would have been easier and that optimism may be misplaced. a lot of coalition air power in the sky and a lot of isis suicide bombers. and while the pentagon says there are no troops on the ground here, i've seen this morning a lot of foreign presence within the convoy. certainly an assistance given as they remove, this is a volatile

place in iraq. when they were kicked out of mosul the prize of their caliphate here that is really the end of them in iraq. we are beginning that lengthy, bloody process, chris? >> their concern is at what price victory when it comes to the humanitarian situation, you reported over a million people may be locked in or trapped here. are there any situations being set up in advance to help those people? is there any aid at the same time as the military action? >> yeah. there are counts all around the city that hopefully will find going into them. the route out is unknown. you can see the vast potential corridors and given the brutality of this fight and the nasty sectarian of the war here and the major concern is which particular militia end up doing the fight here if it doesn't end up being the iraqi army and

paramilitaries as the u.s. and iraq had hoped would be the case. a million lives in the balance here, chris. >> nick paton walsh, thank you for all of that reporting. we couldn't get it without you there. please stay safe. this mosul offensive is being called a decisive moment in the fight against isis. why is mosul so important? our military experts are here to explain, next.

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retaking the city from isis. the u.s.-led coalition is working closely to support this effort. let's bring in former army commanding general lieutenant general mark hurtman. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> you, yourself, have conducted multiple patrols in that city. tell us why mosul is so important today. >> yes, indeed. it is part of my area of operations when i was a commander of multi-national and a critically important area and city, alisyn. first of all, an unbelievable history. it is where abraham was born. a population of 1.2 million. it is considered somewhat the unofficial capital of the north. you know, baghdad is truly the capital of iraq, but mosul is considered the province, but most people see it as really the central point of northern iraq because it has roads and access to turkey and the trade, both

oil going out and food going in and all other kinds of supplies that iraq needs. but it also connects the eastern part with the kurds and the western part with syria. so it really is a centerpiece of strength in iraq. and more importantly, isis wants it. this is their caliphate capital as they proclaimed in iraq. and it's critically important to get rid of the isis fighters from this very important city. >> general, i don't know if you have a monitor in your studio where you can see this. but i want to show our viewers what has happened there in and around the area in iraq in the past year. this was january of 2015 on your screen and the red that you see there is the isis-controlled area. you see mosul and you see that all the way to tikrit and baghdad and ramadi. and you look at this month, october, 2016, the progress made

in terms of territory. now, those two red splotches around the mosul and just above tikrit are no longer connected. there has been a break in terms of isis control. are you saying, general, if it is successful today and in the weeks that follow that red around mosul will be gone? >> well, i'm not sure completely gone. it will take a while, alisyn. this will be a tough fight. the early indications are most of the iraqi insurgents inside the town, i'm not talking isis fighters those contrary to isis. doing a good job in terms of getting intelligence out to the security forces and the air campaign that is contributing to this. the iraqi people want isis out of this town. that's what is important. but, yes, those splotches will eventually go away. unlike u unlike others, i'm not so sure.

we have a little way to go on this. i carry some battle scars by saying it was the end of al qaeda or sadr when those rose up. there is a lot of fighting left to do as we saw with car bombs exploding in baghdad. isis will still be present and it will take a generation to get rid of these ideidealogs. michael is peshmerga prepared for what the situation is there? >> i think they're prepared for military capability, what they're not prepared for is the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees. reporting done by this and the daily beast just ran a piece, an aide official saying if the worse-case scenario happens and you're talking about half a million people flooding into the

kurdistan regional government this is the worst humanitarian crisis since rwanda. that is the real crisis here. the real struggle is not to route from mosul, although that is a certed campaign. the real struggle is for the day after scenario. a consortium of factions vying for control of this territory. shia militias backed by iran and turkish fighters and sunni tribesmen and the turks which are training up their own in a military camp that the iraqi government says they have no business being in and then a rival kurdish group or the workers' party. the chances that everyone is going to get along nicely once the terrorists are gone is slim to none. this poses the real challenge, right?

the reason that isis was allowed to return to iraq with that lightning into mosul there was a breakdown and the rise. now the current prime minister is a vast improvement on his predecessor but internal challenges, including what happened is happening in the shia political spectrum? there are shia nationals particularly in the form of al sadr who want to go to war. the coherence and the integrity of the iraqi state. this is, to me, the bigger issue. >> michael, we can count on you for giving us the larger context and letting us know how complicated this all will be. thank you very much for being here with us this morning. we will cover the story throughout the day. chris? >> this is going to be a bloody battle. so did you watch the game last night? the dodgers clayton kershaw

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the only run they needed in this game with a solo home run in the second inning. dodgers win 1-0, even the series at 1-1. game three tomorrow night in l.a. the alcs continues tonight. indians and blue jays going to get things started at 8:00 eastern on our sister station tbs. most people turned off sunday night football with the colts beating the texans. to force overtime. then in the extra period, the texans would kick the game-winning field goal to get the win, 26-23. incredible comeback for the texans. odell beckham breaking out of his slump. 66 coming on this play right here. this touchdown proved to be the game winner for the giants late in the fourth quarter after scoring a touchdown, beckham

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three men in kansas are facing domestic terrorism charges. federal authorities say the men were plotting to bomb an apartment complex filled with somali immigrants. ryan young is live in chicago with more. what's the latest, ryan? >> really chilling details, alisyn. these three men are accused of using a weapon of mass destruction. curtis allen, gavin wright and patrick stein. what the plan was according to the fbi they were going to pack explosives into several vehicles and then put them on the outside of this apartment complex. four vehicles and then blow it

up. all this was supposed to happen the day after the election, but according to the fbi investigators, they started finding out that this group was compiling the weapons and they put a stop to it. you can see why people, obviously, would be scared about this. the chilling details of the men who packed the weapons in garden city, kansas, and then go outside this somali apartment complex and target it and blow it up. something the fbi has stopped. >> ryan, thank you very much. a new batch of e-mails released over the weekend by wikileaks. again, hacked from the inbox of clinton campaign chairman john podesta's inbox. that means whoever did this committed a crime. but we do believe that there is a public interest in it. let's see what's there and how these e-mails may be distorted. we have editor in chief of "daily beast" john avlon. this is one of those difficult situations. the fruit of the poisonous tree that we're going through here. >> that's exactly right. not only leaking documents is

completely legal, hacking, as you pointed out, is criminal. the added element saying that russian government officials instructed this hack in order to disrupt the election. we do not know what, if anything, is doctored in these e-mails, as well. all that being said, to your point, we have an obligation at this point of the election to show what is out there in the spirit of transparency. >> here is some of the interesting items being used by trump and his campaign. the first one, of course, as john was referring, the speeches that hillary clinton gave to goldman sachs and other banks and transcripts out and we remember the allegation. >> to wall street and international banks that she hid from the public and which were exposed by wikileaks. and, by the way, just as i'm walking on to the stage mayor giuliani said, you're not going to believe this. look at this. we have all of these new charges. did you see it just came down

today. wikileaks some brutal stuff. just trust me, it's real bad stuff. >> okay. there are no charges, obviously. these are just things the e-mail suggest assuming that they are not doctored in any way. we have not heard from the people they were hacked from. what do you pick up in these? >> first of all, it's fair to say the campaign because he is splaying to the crowd in these speeches. >> that means? >> she's saying that dodd frank, that's something she had to support politically, vaguely apologizing in the wake of the great recession. that would have been political poison in a primary. but no smoking gun here. >> what about this. now, everybody can't help th themselves. she seemed to be apologetic at the banks for regulating them. is that the right gesture you want. when people do things for the system for their own gain all the time and never get

prosecuted? >> no, that is the problem. she is playing to the paying crowd in these speeches. >> now, you can see those for yourself. they're online. we don't know if any of the language has been changed or anything like that, because it would have to be verified by the people that wrote them. all right, juanita broderick. >> struggling to get the media to pay attention to her for many, many years. last night i decided we would y media and the clintons. >> what he's calling hypocrisy, they're going after my accusers, but not dealing with their own. juanitsi tr juanita said something happened in 1998 and ken starr looked at her and decided not to use her in the impeachment of bill

clinton. what do you see in the e-mails? >> the clinton campaign was concerned. they knew these problems would come back and basically exchanged legal documents, clinton's lawyer exchanges legal documents giving the background on broderick. this is the legal record to begin preparing a defense for what they knew was coming. >> you didn't see it as a smear. okay, the media. >> they show how the media collaborates and conspires directly with the clinton campaign. >> all right. good. short and sweet. the first thing, john, we only have one side of the e-mails here. if we had the trump side, reporters work with him all the time. maggie haverman is here, we had a very good relationship with her over the years and killing it in this election. we had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed. nobody is more wire under to the trump campaign than she is.

>> maggie haberman. these e-mails are showing one side of the conversation. but relationship between political reporters and politicians are as old. the reporters reaching out and campaigns working with reporters. but that's true on both sides of the aisle. important to know. >> did you see anything in here? how about the harwood. the cnbc guy. >> i think where you can cross the line is when it appears that people are working with reporters are working with campaigns too closely or there is a degree of a little bit too much sucking up and trying to get an interview. that looks bad optically, but it doesn't really cross an ethical line unless you see collusion and none of these e-mails show that. >> i can't tell you how many times i had discussions with trump's people why did he argue this, instead of this. now, is that me giving him advice? no, actually asking questions. just trying to get inside the mind of the campaign. we want to understand their motivation so we can pass it to you. the last one. this is the trickiest read if

you watch it on wiki. under an alias was e-mailing with hillary clinton and this is a reason why obama, the president of the united states, somehow stopped the doj from prosecuting the e-mails because he was on the threads. >> right. so, this is where you really need the reality check especially. first of all, we don't have the e-mails. we do know there were apparently eight e-mail exchanges between the president and hillary clinton that were caught up in the benghazi inquiest. those were private due to presidential privilege, but released eventually. the conspiracy theory you just said is that the president basically squelched the investigation for his own purposes. moreover that is the way the presidents generally operate when there are special investigations. so, this is, this stuff can become sort of fodder for fever dreams, but this is not anything

that we can see from these e-mails that shows any degree of collusion yet alone getting involved in an investigation from the oval office. >> john avalon, thank you very much. we'll be reporting on what wikileaks puts out but try to make sense if it is being used accurately and is helpful to you. so, tweet us, post your comment on facebook.com/newday. there is a lot of news. the election has taken yet another turn. let's get to it. >> donald trump has kind of started to go wilder and wilder. >> we should take a drug test because i don't know what's going on with her. >> this election is incredibly painful. >> it's a rigged system. >> we will absolutely accept the results of the election. >> it isn't easy running against someone who is so negative, dark and dangerous. >> this is the last chapter of isis in iraq. >> battle for mosul begins.

>> 1.5 million people at risk. >> this is a battle that promises to be very, very difficult. this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. a big day, a scary day. an assault of mosul iraqi forces aided by the u.s. and others being called decisive moment and definitely decisive for the million plus people trapped there. >> we have our reporters on the front lines. we'll bring them to you momentarily. welcome to your "new day." now donald trump is intensifying his charnel that the election is rigged. blaming democrats and a corrupt media are conspiring against him. trump's running mate, once again, playing cleanup. saying they will "absolutely accept the election result." >> what result is this having on the polls? the cnn poll of polls the compilation of all of them together shows hillary clinton widening her lead over trump to

eight points. 47% for hillary clinton and 39% for donald trump. so much is at stake. only two days until the final debate. 22 days until election day. so, let's begin our coverage with cnn's phil mattingly. phil, give us the latest. >> no shortage of issues that donald trump has pushed throughout his campaign as rigged. whether it's the media or the political establishment. the iowa caucuses. but this pushing the electoral results as rigged in its entirety is a new and very dark term. one that is unsettling, even some of his republican supporters. >> remember this. it's a rigged election. >> reporter: for donald trump there is only one reason he's trailing in the polls. a conspiracy to keep him out of the white house. >> the election is being rigged by corrupt media pushing completely false allegations and outright lies in an effort to elect her president. >> reporter: in rally after rally, tweet