hello. i'm wolf blitzer. 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 8:00 p.m. in mosul, iraq. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. up first heading into the home stretch of a very bitter presidential campaign here in the united states. we're less than 15 days and counting until the november 8th election, and the candidates, they are beginning their closing arguments to voters. take a look at this live

pictures coming in from manchester, new hampshire right now. hillary clinton is out there on the campaign trail with senator elizabeth warren. they'll be speaking shortly. we'll have their remarks live right here on cnn. nationally, hillary clinton has a 12-point lead in the latest national poll. the abc news/"washington post" poll shows her at 50% compared to donald trump at 38%. trump continues his campaign swing right knew across florida with stops in boynton beach, st. augustine and tampa. early voting, by the way, got underway in that crucial swing state today. at last count, more than 5.1 million americans have cast early ballots around the united states. any moment now, once again, hillary clinton will step on to the stage in manmanchester, new hampshire. along with senator elizabeth warren who's unleashed fierce attacks against donald trump at several clinton rallies overish these past several weeks. our senior political

correspondent brianna keilar is onthe scene. looking to fire up the base, lend support to governor democratic maggie hassan. update our viewers. >> reporter: right, wolf. in talking to clinton campaign aides they think hassan at this point is actually besting ayotte according to their polling, but what they're also seeing is that hillary clinton is performing better in new hampshire than hassan. so they are here and this is not always the case, but they are here to sort of pull along, if they can, governor hassan in the hopes that she will oust the incumbent republican kelly ayotte and be another democratic member of the senate. so important for hillary clinton if she is to win the white house is to have at least some cooperation in congress. so, also, the other thing is, they're trying to get people out to vote, and they're here trying to attract support of young people at the college. many here at this rally, a lot

of confidence from hillary clinton supporters and from those in her campaign. they'll tell you they're not counting the chickens before they hatch, wolf, but i think they're certainly feeling good, as you see them trying to bring along these down ballot democrats, and not just hillary clinton but we saw that with president obama in nevada over the weekend as well. >> brianna, stand by. live coverage of elizabeth warren and hillary clinton. they will fire up that crowd, no doubt about that. hillary clinton right now looking beyond donald trump and lending her support to what are called these down ballot candidates, attack teaming with president obama who endorses 30 more house candidates across more than a dozen states today. let's talk about that with our senior washington correspondent jeff zell teny and dana bash an senior political reporter man meuh raju. dana, a handful of senate races are very, very tight right now.

how much weight will president obama's endorsement actually carry? will it make a major difference? >> it certainly could. especially in states that are not battlegrounds on the presidential level, but more are -- are more so on the senate level especially. because in the battleground states where you see donald trump and hillary clinton, new hampshire where brianna is, is a perfect example. everybody is getting the message on all sides of this. but the states, for example, like missouri, if barack obama goes there, tries to help the democratic candidate, who has a pretty good shot of winning and unseating the incumbent republican there, roy blount, but not a real battle on the presidential level, could make a real difference. no matter where they are, it's about enthusiasm, wolf. the democrats, particularly the hillary clinton campaign and of these senate democratic candidates believe there is nobody at this point like the

democratic president to go out, to get people fired up, to get them to tell their friends, this is important, and we need to get to the polls. it is about enthusiasm and they think he's the best messenger. >> dana, you know, president obama really ripped into some of those down ballot republicans in nevada on sunday. listen to this -- >> now the excuse they're using for why they should be elected is, well, maybe we did support trump and now we're being kind of quiet about it, but you should vote republican anyway, because we'll -- we'll check hillary's power. we'll -- we'll be a -- we'll be a counterweight. no, no, no, no, no. no. listen, they've been in charge of congress now for the last -- six years, basically. and what have they gotten done? >> i suppose in the next two weeks we're going to hear a lot more of that.

is that right, dana? >> absolutely. he is right. republican on a national lettve and key swing states where senate republicans are neck and neck with democratic challengers, people have sort of signaled to voters, we don't think that it donald trump is going to win. we they hillary clinton is going to win. therefore, you've got to vote republican on the senate level for that check and balance. now, democrats are trying to make the case that that doesn't really work with voters, but the fact that you have the president of the united states out there trying to push back on that notion tells you that there's a little bit of concern that that message could work in a place like new hampshire, for example, where the chamber of commerce is running an ad saying that very thing, and voters in new hampshire tend to kind of go independently and are ticket splitters. >> and jeff zeleny, we're also hearing hillary clinton is sort of quietly reaching out to some

republicans. why is she doing that? and which republicans are we talking about? >> wolf, hillary clinton is known to be a planner. she thinks ahead and she -- you know, is planning her next move. she has aggressively campaigned, no question, but i am told she's beginning to turn her attention towards what comes next, should she win. and that is the difficult task of governing in the aftermath of this divisive election. regardless of the senate majority, it is going to be very narrow here. so i am told by people who are close to her that she has been reaching out to some of her old allies on capitol hill. a couple of them, john mccain among them, is locked up in a tight fight of his own in arizona, but he is likely to survive that fight, strategists on both sides believe. so he could be an ally. but she also is, you know -- very close to lindsey graham.

lamar alexander. some others. it's no republican wants to be dents phied as having a conversation with her at this point, but i am told in recent days she has been extending a hand and doing outreach to some of her old friends on capitol hill. and it's part of what is slowlying becoming her planning for the transition. that's not to say she's getting ahead of herself here. donald trump has a transition team in place in washington as well. it would be malpractice not to, because the reality is, the winner of this election here suddenly has a very big job on the morning after the election, but she is beginning to concentrate more on that. even as she campaigns aggressively and as democrats try to do something they didn't think they'd be able to do and run up the score helping democrats down the ballot. at the u.s. senate and also in house races as well as state legislative races. we'll see president obama play in state legislative races and has making up to do. so many seats were lost during his time in the white house.

more than any other recent president, wolf. >> manu, with so many senate races pretty tight right noi including new hampshire. the senate race in new hampshire, how could this impact the power in the senate, say hillary clinton wins, democrats need a net gain of twour seafouo be in the majority? >> democrats could get a majority with a 50-50 senate presuming hillary clinton wins and tim kaine as vice president would break the tie. now, i was here 1350speaking wi the two senate candidates earlier, maggie hassan, democratic candidate and kelly ayotte, republican senator. both expect this race to be very, very close, one that could tip the majority. both making different calculations how they deal with the top of the ticket. kelly ayotte said earlier she supported donald trump but would not endorse him.

now endorsed him. here's why. >> you got a lot of attention at the first debate, donald trump you could see him as a role model for your children then took it back. what happened at that debate? >> i made a mistake. debates, many people are -- you're asked a lot of questions at a debate. what's clear to me is that neither donald trump nor hillary clinton unfortunately are role models. >> kelly ayotte's sticking with donald trump for most of this entire campaign. on 35 different occasions. saying that she was supporting him, voting for him, no matter what he said, and so her political calculation in deciding to disavow him truly at the 11th hour, i think, just really reflects that all of her judgments are political calculations, and this entire campaign for her has been one attempt to walk back from her washington record just as she's now attempting to walk back from donald trump. >> now, kelly ayotte sharply shifting messaging saying she would be a check on a clinton

white house and that voters here in new hampshire should elect a republican to keep a positive democratic white house in check. trying to make that case to voters, and maggie hassan for her part earlier this year, i asked her about whether or not she trusts hillary clinton. whether she finds her honest or trustworthy and would not answer then. now says i do think that hillary clinton is honest or trustworthy. showing, wolf, democrats are trying to run or the top of the ticket's coattails and republicans are trying to run way from the top of their ticket, woman. >> manu raju, thanks very much. coming up, donald trump flip-flopping on a central issue in this campaign. back in 2012, in an interview emerged, that intersviewed showd a softer stance on immigrants here in the united states. and live pictures coming in from st. augustine in florida, where donald trump will rally with supporters later this afternoon.

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hillary clinton and senator elizabeth warren will be taking the stage in the battleground state of new hampshire momentarily. right now maggie hassan, the governor, running for u.s. senate is speaking. we'll have coverage of elizabeth warren and hillary clinton. stand by. it that's coming up momentarily. meanwhile, a rail moment from the trump campaign. rails against what he says is a rigged election system here in the united states, but his campaign manager concedes what the polls are showing. >> we are behind. she has some advantages, like 66 million dollars in ad buys just in the month of september. thereby doubling her ad buys from august. most of those ads are negative against donald trump. classic politics of personal destruction, cesspool kind of ads, and tremendous advantages. she has former president that happens to be her husband campaigning for her. the current president and first lady.

much more popular than she can hope it be, but seen at the incumbent. >> listen to this. donald trump said this. >> i believe we're actually winning. now, the press -- i believe we're actually winning. >> we're up in ohio. we're up in iowa. we're doing great in north carolina. i think we're doing great in florida. i think we're really -- i think we're going to win florida big. i think we're going to win florida -- >> all right. bring in the panel. gloria borges start with you. a business disconnect here? >> kellyanne conway is a pollster, let me point out, and she knows how to read polls. she knows which, how much weight to give certain polls and how much weight to give other polls. so i think she was -- she was trying to be hon effoest and fl it to talk about how much money xlin spending which is saalso

true. raced a lot more money than donald trump. spending it in the campaign. donald trump lived by the polls. remember the primaries, everything he talked about was the polls. we're doing great. it's difficult for him to make a transition saying we've got to get our voters out there because we're having some problem. so he isn't making that transition. he's continuing to say we're winning. i think it would be better in a way for him to say, these things are so close. i need every person i've got to get out there, because that way he could get his base aroused and more enthusiastic about going out to vote. it would be a natural thing for him to do. say, we're the underdog. we can win this thing. >> we've seen david gergen, you've been around with me a long time. this is the race for the white house right behind us, but we've seen in the final two week was, tomorrow two weeks exactly until election day, people can change their minds. people can come around. even if the polls are showing one thing today, two weeks is a

long time in american politics t. is fluid, wolf. i think we have to acknowledge that in many states. the new poll out today in north carolina showing republicans making gains. you'll see that in other states. it may close down some. i actually thought kenny ann conway was smart to acknowledge they're behind. throughout this campaign, the trump people vaucoften talked a living in a different universe. living in a different reality. makes her look more credible, the campaign look more credible. and rally your base, get them out there. their votes are important. >> north darcarolina, new monmo poll, hillary clinton ahead only by one point. 47% to 46%. >> look at that senate race, too. >> right. that's a very close race buy burr. >> with burr. >> not a blue state. not a natural -- >> suggesting fluidy.

>> exactly. >> and from the "washington post," matteo, a lot of viewers in europe, brexit vote. >> right. >> people reluctant to tell pollsters how they would vote on brexit, if they were in support of leaving the european union. you hear trump people saying, a lot of people are reluctant to say they're going to vote for donald trump to a pollster but will go out and do that. do you buy that? >> always a possibility we're missing some of the electorate in the polls. one thing that is important to keep in mind instead, i hear from trump and his supporters. look at my crowd sizes. she's not getting crowds like this. it's misleading. date myself and i recall coving howard dean's campaign innian 2004, very cold and 800 people turned out and we thought north dakota is going for dean. 1,200 for the veet.

sa vote. sometimes that's the sum total of your vote. >> and polls are all over the place. like they always are in elections elections. to me the most telling in the last 48 hours is what democrats are saying and doing. i watched barack obama last night in las vegas. it was supposed to be a rally for hillary clinton. he's spent 20 minutes talking about the senate race there. he would not be doing that if they weren't confident that nevada is likely locked down. today in new hampshire. probably spend a lot of time focused on that senate race. hillary clinton and the clinton campaign would not be allowing that if they felt this was that tight. they have such an utmost amount of confidence. not can they win, now about the margins and deliver a considerable senate majority. >> trump is reacting to that. he's always spoken about himself. interestingly enough, just over the weekend and today, you've heard him talk about, we've got to elect republicans. we haven't heard that from donald trump, and as a reaction

to -- >> gloria, hold on. senator elizabeth warren is speaking now in manchester, new hampshire. a battleground state. she's introducing hillary clinton. >> -- hanging out with our neighbors! you know, i've been traveling all around the country for hillary clinton and for our senate candidates. i've been to missouri and ohio and wisconsin and colorado and pennsylvania, and i've got to say, it is good to be in a place where i can say, go pats! go pats! all right. now, it really is great to be in new hampshire. it is great to be in the home state of my dear friend and your senior senator jeanne shaheen. it is great to be in the state that is going to send carol shaye porter and annie custard to the united states congress! it is great to be in the state that's going to elect colin van

ostern as its next governor! it's great to be in the state that is going to send maggie hassan to the united states senate! yes! oh, and just one more. it is great to be in the state that's going to send hillary clinton to the white house. yes! yes. yes! that's why we're here. [ chanting "hillary" ] >> okay. so i just want to be official here. i'm with her. are you with her? look, we're here today with someone who gets up every single day and fights for us.

someone who has spent her life fighting for children, spent her life fighting for women, spent her life fighting for families, fighting for health care, fighting for human rights, fighting for a level playing field, fighting for those who need us most. hillary clinton fights for us. it is now time for us to fight for hillary! now, i want to talk for just a minute about values. i grew up in a family that didn't have much. my daddy sold fencing and carpeting, ended up as a maintenance man. after he had a heart attack my mom worked a minimum wage job at sears to keep our family above water. all three of my brothers went into the military. me, i just wanted to be a teacher. all of my life, i wanted to be a teacher. can we hear it for america's teachers? yeah! now, i had the calling early on.

i used to line up my dollies and teach school. it was tough being one of my dollies. i don't think you did your homework last night. it was tough. it was tough. my parents would have given me anything they could, but they just didn't have the money to send me to college. and the only way i could get to be a teacher is that i ended up at a commuter college that cost $50 a semester, and it opened a million doors for me. the way i see it, i am the daughter of a maintenance man who ended up as a united states senator. hillary clinton is the daughter of a factory worker, granddaughter of a factory workers and she's going to be elected president. we believe in that america. that is the america we fight for! we believe but we are worried.

worried that those opportunities are slipping away. in fact, a lot of america is worried. worried and angry. angry that far too often washington works for those at the top and leaves everyone else behind. you know, for 30 years now, republicans have pushed trickle down economics. and they've done one thing -- they've helped the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful. and they've stepped on the faces of everyone else who's trying to get a fighting chance to succeed. you know, donald trump talks a big game about how the game is rigged. let's be clear. donald trump is right. the game is rigged. it's rigged for guys like donald trump. and i say it's time to fight back. maggie says it's time to fight back. hillary says it's time to fight back. yeah.

we start our fight right here on college campuses. education builds opportunities. but not if people are getting crushed by student loan debt. right now it's a one-two punch. the high cost of college and the high cost of student loans. the federal government is making billions of dollars in profits off the backs of our students. it is obscene to make money off people who are trying to get an education. but i want to be clear on this. we know where kelly ayotte stands. she voted against refinancing your student loans. and donald trump, we know where he stands, too, on higher education. you know, colleges need more money to bring down the cost of tuition. his plan is to get rid of all federal student loans. abolish the whole department of education. i think his plan is to set up

another fake university, cut out the middleman and cheat the students directly himself. that's why we fight back. that's why we fight back. look, college alone is reason enough to get out and vote. it is reason enough to get out and volunteer. hillary and maggie and i are determined to make debt-free college the law of this land. that's where we want to go. we are determined to refinance that 1.3 trillion dollars in student loan debt. yes. help us do that. help elect hillary and maggie so that we can make college a pathway of opportunity. not just for rich kids, but for all of our kids. yeah! look, we want to build an

america that's going to work. but that isn't going to happen with donald trump. donald trump cheered on the 2008 financial crash so he could scoop up real estate on the cheap. he stiffed small business owners, plumbers and the painters and construction workers, when he built his casinos and golf courses. and donald trump disrespects aggressively respects more than half the human beings in this country. he thinks that because he has money that he can call women fat pigs and bimbos. he thinks because he is a celebrity that he can rate women's bodies from 1 to 10. he thinks that because he has a mouth full of tic tacs that he can force himself on any woman within groping distance. well, i've got news for you, donald trump --

women have had it with guys like you! and -- and nasty women have really had it with guys like you! yeah. get this, donald -- nasty women are tough. nasty women are smart. and nasty women vote. and on november 8th, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes to get you out of our lives forever. yep.

you bet. yes. you know, for more than a year, donald trump has made headlines almost every day, and where has senator kelly ayotte been? donald trump, calls latinos rapist and murderers. kelly stuck with him. called african-americans thugs and kelly stuck with him. trump attacked a gold star family and kelly stuck with him. trump compared himself to dictators, and praised vladimir putin. kelly stuck with him. trump even attacked kelly ayotte, and called her weak. and kelly stuck with him. you know -- during a debate a couple of weeks ago when she called donald trump a role model for kids, you just can't believe this. but now, donald trump's not

doing so well, and kelly is running as fast as she can away from him. i will say one thing. donald trump sure has made kelly ayotte dance. day one she loves him. day two, hates him. day three she's back with him. boy, spins around and around. but one of the things i love about the people from new hampshire that you value guts. you make the right decision and then you stick with it. donald trump is right. kelly is weak. and that's why a tough, smart fighter like your governor maggie hassan is going to win on november 8th. yeah. i love being here with smart, tough women. with hillary, with maggie, with carol, with annie, and with friends of women, colin!

you know, just look at hillary's history. she's been on the receiving end of one terrible right-wing attack after another for 25 years. but she has never backed down. she doesn't whine. she doesn't run to twitter at 3:00 a.m. to call her opponents "liz lo "losers" or "dummies." she doesn't even cry that the election is rigged. no. hillary is the kind who just gets up every day and she keeps on fighting. fighting for children. fighting for women. fighting for families. fighting for health care. fighting for human rights. fighting for level playing fields. hillary fights for us! that's right. [ chanting "hillary" ]

all right. so we're with her. there are two things we've got to do. first one, we've got to vote. new hampshire has same-day registration at your polling location. so no excuses, anybody. go to iwilvote.com. make a plan now how you're going to cast your vote, and cast your vote for annie, for carol, for colin, for maggie and for hillary. are you going to do that? good. second, do more than vote. volunteer. we need you in this. democracy needs you in this. you can knock on doors. you can make phone calls. you can mont emonitor the polls. lawyers can help us here. anybody, if you have any time over the next 15 days, please, volunteer. you can go to hillaryclinton.com. go to maggiehassan.com and i

guarantee, we will use your time and we will use it well. please, make this investment in democracy. get out there and volunteer. we need you on that. yes. okay. so it is so good for all of us to be here. this is -- this is fabulous. you know, the way i see it, watn elections are about, they ultimately come down to our values. it's not about one person or one candidate. it's about a movement. it's about a strong, powerful movement to make real change in this country. the kind of change that we make together, and since we're here together, let us remind ourselves why we get up in the morning. why we work hard all day. and why we're still working late at night. because of what we believe. we believe that every person should be able to get a college education without getting

crushed by student loan debt, and that means refinancing our student loans and debt-free college. yes! we believe that no one should work full time and live in poverty, and that means raising the minimum wage, and we will fight for it. we believe that workers should be able to organize for better pay, for better working conditions. unions built america's middle class, and unions will rebuild america's middle class. yes. you bet. we believe that after a lifetime of hard work, people are entitled to retire with dignity, and that means protecting and expanding social security, and we will do it. you know, you may have heard.

wells fargo -- cheated tens of thousands of people. giant banks brought down our economy. well, we believe in tough rules, real accountability, and if a ceo breaks the law, they ought to go to jail, just like anyone else. yeah! some beliefs are controversy. i want to throw this one out there. we believe in science. we believe that climate change is real, and that we have a moral obligation to protect this earth for our children and our grandchildren and our grandchildrens grandchildren. yes. boy, and i can't believe i have to say this in 2016.

we believe in equal pay for equal work, and a woman's right to decisions over her own body. yes. we believe that equal means equal, and that's true in marriage. it's true in the workplace. it's true for every place. and we will fight for equality for all of our people. you know, donald trump calls african-americans thugs. he calls muslims terrorists. he calls latinos criminals. he brags about sexual assaulting women. well, we believe that racism and sexism and bigotry have no place in our country. we believe that black lives matter, and that we won't build donald trump's stupid wall. we believe diversity makes us strong. yes. yes.

you do know i could do this all day? but we've got a great speaker here. so -- i'm going to do one more, and then i'm going to quit. we believe that millionaires and billionaires and giant corporations should not be able to buy our elections and our politicians. corporations are not people. we will overturn citizens united and bring democracy back to the people. yes. this is hillary's agenda. this is maggie's agenda. this is colin and carol and annie's agenda. it is an aggressive agenda, it is new hampshire's agenda. it is an american agenda. yes. hillary is ready to fight for us. are you ready to fight for hillary?

then let's welcome to the stage hillary clinton, our next president of the united states! [ cheers and applause ] >> that was great. that was great! thank you! [ chanting "hillary" ] >> thank you! wow. i don't know about you, but i could listen to elizabeth go on all day. it is so great being here back in new hampshire. i -- i have a significant unruly group of women i went to wellesley with back here. oh, and it's wonderful to be on this college campus and to see so many young people here as

maggie and elizabeth and i were walking out to the stage, a lot of folks were hanging out of the windows, and we're glad that you've got the best view of what we're doing here. it's also exciting to be here with two weeks left, because this is the most consequential election of our lifetime, and to see the energy and the enthusiasm that this crowd displays, i saw it yesterday in north carolina. i saw it the day before in ohio. it really does demonstrate that americans are looking at what's at stake, and are coming to the conclusion that we all have to be involved. involved in the remaining days of the campaign, and then everyone needs to turn out to vote. and here in new hampshire you have a lot of reasons to vote. you've got great candidates for the congress, annie custer and

carol shaye porter who deserve your support. and you've got a great candidate for governor. colin van ostrin. thank you. i know that, you know, maggie and elizabeth and i have been out here giving the full dose, but i hope you will also make sure people know what's at stake in the governor's race and in sending these two extraordinary women to the house. and, boy, it is exciting to be here with maggie and elizabeth, because they are people who fight for you every single day. i know both of these women, and it is a privilege to be on this stage with them. now, elizabeth warren has a track record of making it her mission to stands up against wall street. and she's going to make sure

that wall street never wrecks main street again. but you may not know that she was the person behind setting up the agency that protects consumers. the consumer financial protection bureau. and -- it was set up to stand against and do something about the kinds of fraud and abuse we've seen from wells fargo. and they are on the front lines of returning billions of dollars to americans who have been cheated and defrauded by big companies, by banks, and others. you know, in fact, i think it's fair to say some of the best tv that you can see is on c-span when elizabeth is going after a bank executive or a regulator.

she -- she's refusing, refusing to let them off the hook, and she's not just speaking for herself, is she? she is speaking for every single american who is frustrated and fed up, and i am so looking forward to working with her, to rewrite the rules of our economy, to make sure we both grow it and make it fairer for every single person. working hard, here in america. i don't know. we're up here without our phones. so, you know, we can't check tweets, but -- i kind of expect if donald heard what she just said, he's tweeting away. she gets under his thin skin like nobody else. whether she's calming him out about his mysterious tax

returns, she exposes him for what he is. temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the united states. and maggie is going to be a great united states senator for new hampshire. you know, you don't have to take my word or elizabeth's word. look at what she's already done. under maggie's leadership, new hampshire has the lowest unemployment rate in the entire country. during her governorship, it was ranked as the best state in the country for business. and -- and she's done it the new hampshire way. she has brought people together, democrats, republicans and independents. i think she has the biggest legislature probably in the world that she has to deal with.

so she has really honed her skills about listening and then trying to work with people, and she's taken on issues that really do keep families up and night, from the skyrocketing costs of college and prescription drugs to helping students figure out ways to afford to get their education, to helping those suffering from addiction or mental health, to raising wages for hard-working families. what i love about maggie is that she's independent. she knows how to find common ground and how to stand her ground, and that is exactly the kind of leader we need in the united states senate. because we've got to break through the gridlock. and the dysfunction that has unfortunately marred washington. we've got to get back to listening respectfully.

we can disagree without being disagreeable, and that's why we need leaders like maggie, and unlike her opponent, she has never been afraid to stand up to donald trump. she knowing he shouldn't be a role model for our kids or for anybody else, for that matter. so i hope in these next 1 d4 da you do everything you can to support her and i want to say a word about colin, who i've also known for a number of years now, and maggie's leaving some big shoes. she doesn't look like it, but she is. she's leaving some big shoes to fill at governor and colin is the person for that job. you know, as a member of the executive council, and i remember this, because it took a lot of guts, he helped lead the fight to protect funding for planned parenthood in new hampshire. against his opponent, by the way, and he has shown that he

will stand up for women's health 100% of the time. not just when it's politically convenient. he also worked with maggie to cross party lines to help expand medicaid to more than 50,000 granite stators. and colin wants to do more to invest in clean energy, like wind and solar, to hold down energy costs, to create more good jobs here in new hampshire and to protect the beautiful environment of this state. and he will fight to put into action the promise of higher education within reach for more families. so, please, during these next days, make sure you're doing everything you can for colin, for carol and for annie. now, did anybody see the last debate? you know, i stood next to donald

trump in three debates for 4.5 hours proo s proving once again the stamina to be president. i tried to use the time i had in all three to talk about what people talk to me about. starting here in new hampshire and going across the country, because i take it really seriously. i think the problems that keep you up at night, that stand in the way of your getting ahead and staying ahead, of providing the best opportunity of a good middle-class job with a rising income for you and your kids, those are the problems that someone running for president should actually listen to, pay attention to, and come up with solutions for. so, you know, i do have a lot of plans. i do. and i get criticized for having so many plans.

tim kaine and i have actually written a book. oop. there's one copy right there. it's called -- oh, another copy. it's called "stronger together" and we lay out all of our plans for what we want to the do if we're so honored to be president and vice president. i do have this old-fashioned idea that if i'm here asking for your vote to be president, i should tell you what i'm going to do. maybe as i said yesterday in north carolina, maybe it is a bit of a woman's thing, because we make lists. we do. we make lists. and we try to write down what we're supposed to do and then cross them off as we go through the day and the week. and so, i want you to think about our plans as our lists. our lists as a country. we are going to get the economy

working for everybody. not just those at the top. we are going to make college affordable. we are going to lower prescription drug costs. and we're going to do everything we can to keep faith with what we have said we're going to do. what a novel idea. we're actually going to try to deliver results for you. [ applause ] but i got to tell you, during that debate, donald said something -- well, he said a lot of things that were troubling, but he said something truly horrifying. he became the first person running for president, republican or democrat, who refused to say that he would respect the results of this election. now, that is a direct threat to our democracy. i'm not going to try to call it

anything else because that's what it is. all this talk about the election being rigged, trying to stir up people who are supporting him at his rallies. that is a direct threat to our democracy. and i got to tell you, as your secretary of state, i went to 112 countries. and i went to countries where people were jailed for being political opponents, where this were exiled, where they were killed. i take this really seriously. and for me, the peaceful transfer of power is one of the things that makes our country great. something that -- [ applause ] something we can't lose. something we shouldn't even doubt. we cannot give in to cynicism.

and i don't think we are. i'll tell you what's exciting to me, that across this country, the very moment when donald trump is making this unprecedented attack on our fundamental values, our institutions, millions of people are standing up store democracy, registering, volunteering, voting early. . so, when you get a little discouraged or get frustrated by what you see in this campaign, think of this. we have just reached an historic milestone. more than 200 million americans are now registered to vote. and most exciting, that includes more than 50 million young people, the biggest number ever.

now, you only see numbers like this when people are standing up for what they believe in. and i'm proud to see americans coming together, democrats, republicans, independents, to reject hate and division. and, you know, we're seeing that in new hampshire, too. we are more than our disagreements, we americans. there is so much more that unites us than divides us. i'm proud to have the support of more than 150 republican leaders in this state who put country before party. but this energy we're seeing is not just because of what we're against, as important as that is, it's because what we're for. it's about fighting for a future where everyone counts, where everyone has a place, and no one

is left out or left behind. because to me, and i hope to you as well, this is about more than winning an election. it's about the kind of country we want for our kids and our grandkits. that's what this has to be about. it's about the lessons we want to pass on to our sons and our daughters. we believe we should honor the men and women who fight for our country, and that america is safer when we work with our allies to lead the world with strength and intelligence, yet my opponent attacked a grieving gold star family whose son died in iraq. he has no plan to defeat isis. and just last night, he tweeted that the new effort under way to push the terrorists out of the

key city of mosul is already, and i quote, a total disaster. and that our country is, quote, looking so dumb. imagine, imagine, this is a sgi who says he knows more about isis than the generals. i don't think so. he's basically declaring defeat before the battle has even started. he's proving to the world what it means to have an unqualified commander in chief. it's not only wrong, it's dangerous, and it needs to be refute ated on november 8th, here in new hampshire and across america. but just in case you think this is new for donald, it shouldn't surprise you or surprise anybody

else. and i'll tell you why. he has been denigrating america for decades. it started before he ran against me. it started before president obama took office. in fact, back in 1987, he he spent 100,0$100,000 on an ad in new york times" criticizing president reagan. he said, and i quote, the world is laughing at america. does that sound familiar? this is someone who roots for failure and takes glee in mocking our country no matter who our president is. now, that may be who donald trump is, but this election is about who we are. and i want us -- i want us to remember, america is great because america is good, right? as our wonderful first lady, michelle obama said right here in new hampshire, when they go

low, we go high! this election poses a very clear choice on the economy. when the middle class thrives, america thrives. as elizabeth said, she is a perfect example of how that works in america. so am i. so are every one of you here. that's what i want for every single person, especially young person in america. with your help, we're going to not only have elizabeth back in the senate, but send maggie, send carol, send annie and make the biggest investment since world war ii. right does that mean? that means jobs in infrastructure, our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our ports, our mass transit, our water

systems. there is a lot of great work to be done here. and guess what. those are jobs that can't be exported. they've got to be done right here in new hampshire and across america. i want us to invest in advanced manufacturing. and there are -- i know a lot of skeptics about that. they say, well, we can't compete in manufacturing anymore. i'll tell you what, i don't want us competing with low wage jobs. i want us competing for the high wage jobs. germany is a major exporter. advanced manufacturing products. i want to compete with germany and countries like that, precision machining, 3d printing. . i want us to invest more in technology, innovation and research and, yes, clean energy, because we're going to make america the clean energy super power of the 21st century. i think we can deploy half a

billion more solar panels within the first four years and enough clean energy to power every home by the end of ten years. that's what i want people to be working on and thinking about and striving to achieve. and i am really excited about what we can do to make sure every young american is prepared. i want to start in the early years of life, in early education, universal pre-k. i want kids to be prepared to succeed because we are in a competition. you know what, i want us to step up to compete and win. in our schools, i want our kids to have good teachers and good schools in every zip code. and i want to be a good partner with our teachers and our educators here in new hampshire. and i want to bring back technical -- >> we're going to pull away