quote, utah weeps for them today. this war is once again cost us the best blood of a generation. we must a rally around his family. we wish his family and friends peace and strength and thank them for his service and the words he left us on the eve of this important election. the news continues now. i'll be back live at 11:00 later tonight. >> anderson, thank you very much. we're also live in washington d.c. on election eve. i'm chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. these are the final hours. president trump's fear and loathing is about to be put to the test. the president himself has said vote as if he is on the ballot. well, that's exactly what's going to happen, and we'll game out the various scenarios. on the democrat's side, they're making a bet that trumpism can be defeated. the question why if some decided on the democrat's side to ignore the president altogether in these closing days not taking

him on toe to toe about all the lies about the migrants. might that cost them? we're going to bring in the head of the party and get a sense of where their collective head is. on the republican side, if they lose control of the house but keep the senate, what is that going to mean? will it be even worse? will the partisan warfare be more intense? how do we come together if the parties are divided? the one thing that will help is you going out and voting. everybody everywhere. what do you say? let's get after it. all right. here's what we know. here's the good news. you guys are amped up whether you're red, blue, purple, you want to vote. everybody's number is over 80% in terms of passion to get out there. you don't see that, especially in midterms. we already have over 30 million people who have voted early. and there's some tight races.

there's obviously a lot at stake. both sides are trying to get as many of their people out to vote as they can. that's what midterms are about. unlike a presidential year, midterms are about intensity of base. so let's go to the head of one of those bases, the dnc chair, tom perez. it's good to have you back. >> reporter: always great to be with you, chris. >> quick question. we're talking act who is going to win. what it will take to win, how many seats. all this. let's just jump ahead one step. to you, what is success after tomorrow? what does it look like? >> well, i think we're going to take the house. i think we're going to surprise a lot of people in the senate. is the pathway narrow in the senate? absolutely. what's talked about less than it should be is all the opportunities we have to win up and down the ballot in states across the country. i'm in milwaukee. i've been in ohio, florida, and

georgia in the last three, four days. we have opportunities in all those states and then some to win governor's seats. these are 12-year elections. the next governor of wisconsin, and i think it's going to be tony e vers, it is an opportunity to ensure we have fair maps . that's why our focus has been on the 50-state infrastructure. i'm proud of the fact that we've become a 50-state party. the proof is in the pudding. we're competing in kansas and iowa, places where you think democrats couldn't win, i mean, there's two seats in kansas for congress where we've got a real fighting chance of winning. that's, to me, success is that we have this opportunity everywhere. are there close races? absolutely? do people need to vote? absolutely? >> so this is about getting out the base. you're doing that with the infrastructure and trying to do that with message. i'm going to talk to you about that in a second. you think you're going to have a

surprise in winning the senate. one of the legacies of the last ten years is the democrats getting outsmarted on the state level. wee talked about this before and in the debate when you were making the case to chair the party. they focussed on the state legislatures. they turned a lot of them red. that's hurt your party and continues to do that. when we look at why the base will come out, different story on the right and the left. on your side we do see the most important issue for the democrats is health care. 7 1% saying that corruption, 5 4%. president trump, 53%. the russia investigation, 53%. other than health care, pretty tight nucleus of concerns. i get you focusing on health care on the left. but republicans, their top issue is immigration. i don't know if that was true before the president went on his fear and loathing campaign or after, but that's why i asked you last time and i want to ask

you again tonight, you hadn't made a decision to go toe to toe with him on immigration. all the lies about the migrant caravan, scaring people about who they are. why didn't you take that fight up? >> we have a proposal on immigration. it passed in 2013. it was a proposal that passed in a bipartisan fashion. we believe we can be a government of laws and a government -- and a country of -- nation of immigrants. the reason they want to talk about immigration is because they are hemorrhaging on health care. they have said, and ask leader mcconnell. he had said if we have majorities in both houses, we're going to go after medicare and medicaid and social security. that's terrible. preexisting conditions exist in red america, blue america, and they can't possibly compete on this. so what do they do? they change the subject. that's distracting donald at his worst, and fear mongering, lying, all of the above and it's

all because they want to change the subject. we saw this in virginia last year. you remember at the runup to the virginia election, ed gillespie went on the fear mongering immigrant bashing band wagon for the last two months, and he lost by nine points because the voters understood health care, health care, health care. and they elected democrats up and down the ticket. i think the same thing is going to happen here. we've got so many governors and candidates who are talking about the fact that health care should be a right for all and not a privilege for a few. they're talking about medicare and medicaid and social security. they're talking about a sound education for our children. and they're talking about our democracy, and the character of our democracy. when you have leaders like we do now who -- i don't really understand the word dog whistle. dog whistle implies a subtle reference to race. there's nothing subtle about what the president is doing or

what brian kemp is doing in georgia. there's nothing subtle about what the governor candidate is doing. that's america at its worst and i think americans want leaders who unite. that's why i have confidence going into tomorrow. >> do you think that the ad the president put out, cnn wouldn't take money for that ad, the boss says he wasn't going to take money to promote somebody's racist values and that's what that ad is. nobody can look at it and see anything else. and yes, he blames the democrats for why a man like that would be able -- and we know there's just as much blame on the republican side. that was never the point. now you see different media agencies following what cnn started. do you think that ad may have been the one step too far that makes people even on the right side of the ball say this is not the way we want to play this game?

>> i think there are a confluence of forces, chris. and i think that's one of them. but i think it started in charlottesville. charlottesville was a layup for the president. there was nothing ambiguous about what happened. it was a hate crime. it was a mob of far right people who killed someone and injured others. that was a layup, and people see the president blew a layup. and then you fast forward more recently, and you see what happened down in florida, and the man arrested ten days ago or so, and you look at his van, and you see someone who is following through on the president's completely consistent invitations for people to take action that that person was taking. and you just see it more and more again. and then you see the senseless hate crime in pittsburgh, and you see the defendant there was

spewing these conspiracy theories about jews and the caravan, and where's he getting this from? and there's this confluence of forces. we saw it to a lesser extent in virginia. voters were saying that gillespie, we reject the politics of division. i think there are a lot of people tomorrow who are going to the polls to say our leader with the biggest mega phone in the world is engaging in conduct unbecoming of a president. it is beneath the office of the presidency. it is undermining our national security. it is undermining our character as a nation. and i don't think there's any one particular event, but i think when you layer that on top of the fact that health care, health care, health care is the first thing on people's mind, and then we now have a commitment from republicans to cut medicare, medicaid and social security, and here in wisconsin and elsewhere, people want a better public education for their kids. the lowest paid professors in

the big 10 are at wisconsin. and that's because this governor, scott walker, has cut funding. now he's talking about how i'm going to fight for preexisting conditions. it's a joke. he ran for president saying the first thing i'm going to do is repeal the affordable care act. people are sick of leaders who lie. people are sick of leaders who divide, and people want leaders who are going to fight for the issues they care about. health care, education, good paying jobs. not jobs that have you just spinning your wheels. that's not what they want. >> well, tom perez, it will all come home one way or the other tomorrow. and we'll be watching every hour. the american people are going to give one side a mandate and then the test becomes what is done with this new opportunity by the american people. tom perez, thank you. i brought up the ad because when fox stops running an ad, you know you've reached a new normal. take care. >> get out there and vote, like

you said at the beginning. everybody has to vote tomorrow. >> i'll give you that word for the last word every time. because we all know that, red, blue, or purple, get out and vote. everywhere in the country is relevant right now. our thanks to tom perez. battle grounds abound. some hold crucial keys to 2020 not just what's going to happen tomorrow. which races are we watching and why? what's the overunder on election eve? you saw tom perez say he thinks they can take his senate. that's his version of we're going to shock the world tomorrow. we'll see. we're going to play magic wall with our wiz, next.

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all right. so what do we think going into tomorrow? look, everybody has to go slow if for no other reason than what we saw in 2016. polls help with a moment. but the most recent polling shows the democratic party with a lead over likely voters. that last phrase, likely voters, you know how many people in races like this with this kind of emotion and partnership were not likely voters two days ago but today they are? they heard something. something clicked. they're triggered. you don't know. you can't really predict how many of you are going to take your civic duties seriously tomorrow and that is the big x factor. it's something you heard today. is the president's final push,

this ad that nobody should have been airing. there's a lot to watch and we have the right man on the job. what races are you looking at on the house side? >> let's start big picture. this is a visual of all of the house races. there's a lot of them. it can be a little confusing. if you want to know why democrats have optimism, it starts here. there's 31 tossup races. 30 in republican-held seats and democrats probably only need to win a hand full. let's narrow it down. there's a road map, especially early in the night that's going to give you a sense of what kind of night democrats are having. start with the races they have to win, republican seats they have to flip. one of them is virginia 10. jennifer wexton and barbara comstock. republicans have essentially conceded this is probably going

to be a democratic seat. the question is two-fold. one, can republicans hold onto that. that's a huge jolt for their chances to hold on to the house. if they lose, what's the margin? you need to view these in tiers. go to the next tier. democrats think they -- know they need to pick that seat up. this is another one of the districts hillary clinton won in 2016 but this one is dicier for democrats. put this in the second tier of seats they want to or need to win. carlos kervelo is a good candidate. while there's heavy democratic optimism in this district, he will be a difficult candidate to defeat. he is also considered part of the fire wall. these are seats republicans absolutely have to hang onto if they want any chance of holding on to the majority. that's why he's on this list as well. if you want to expand it further, here's yhow you know democrats are having goo a good district. if they flip the third district

in new jersey, if this district goes early in the night, democrats may be on a pathway to expanding the majority quite a bit. >> let me ask you something. you're talking about curbelo. i was googling to stay with you. he is more than just a red wall, more than just a fire wall. he's an interesting choice for that. he's not someone who stands lock step with trump. so it's interesting that the party needs somebody to hold that isn't necessarily beholden to trump the same way that many others are. it's interesting. tom perez was just on the show, dnc chair. he says we've going to shock the world and beat the senate. he sees what he calls a narrow path, but he sees a real path. do you? >> it's narrow. anybody you talk to knows it's narrow. when you went into 2018, you knew democrats were defending not only a lot of seats, more than 20. they were defending 10 seats in

states where president trump won handily in 2016. i'm watching for indiana. we're going to find out early on where indiana stands. donnelly, this is a state president trump won by 20 points. if joe donnelly hangs on in indiana or rolls up in indianapolis or gary, that's a good sign for that very narrow path. it's all about defense. particularly early in the night. and then always you go to florida. this could keep us up late. in this case follow where the presidents went. president obama going to miami. that's democratic base. president trump going to pensacola. that's republican base. turnout as always is the paradigm that that's what matters. if they can turn out their bases in the election, whoever wins, it's going to be a huge sign for what's to come in the senate. >> wow. is there a lot of alchemy going on with this. tomorrow night, a lot of pieces to watch. phil, thank you very much. all right. now, look, midterms, they're not as jazzy as those main elections are. this one is different. i'm going to bring in a great panel for you.

same guy as last night. there's some things that happened just today that i've never seen before. i just saw the party and the president split on what the closing argument should be. he just said something about himself, the president, that i haven't heard him say since he's been president, and the media just did something i've never seen this close to an election day. we have our a-team here with their crystal balls. we'll get after what that means next. let's say it in a really low voice. carl? lowest price, guaranteed. just stick with badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com welcome to emirates mr. jones. just sit back, relax and let us entertain you... ...with over 3,500 channels of entertainment, including the latest movies and box sets from around the world. ( ♪ ) we even have live sports and news channels. ( ♪ )

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three things i've never seen. first one is not the gender stuff. i'll put that second. first one is the party says got to do our closing argument. here's what we think it is. they put it out in the name of the president. he says i don't like it. his own party's closing argument, he says immigration is not in there. his own campaign. >> yes. >> i've never seen that before on the eve of a midterm in a way that was made public. >> look, you can't argue that trump doesn't know his base. he knows his base. he knows what they want to hear. >> and they do poll immigration as the number one issue? . >> i think that's true of republicans. i think that's true of the party. that issue works. we can talk about how he goes about that issue. that's another thing. that issue, for sure works. he knows his base. if he sees what i assume was a staid, normal kind of sanitized campaign ad about the economy, i'm sure he was like no, they're not having it. but this is sort of emblematic

of where paul ryan has been. >> quiet paul. >> you know why? >> i hear you. >> he's too quiet. >> he's been trying to hammer this economic message to everyone who will hear it. the 25 candidates he's campaigning for, anyone that will listen. he thinks this will work with more voters than trump's nationalist campaign. >> and you know who did like this ad that came out a week ago today? $6 million from the trump campaign which was very touchy feely. we had it here on cnn. >> the vote republican ad. >> vote republican. paid for by trump's campaign because they've raised over $100 million. that's a whole different segment about republicans being mad about him gobbling up the money for a campaign that doesn't start until after the midterms. the people who liked the touchy

feely ad about a woman talking about keeping her daughter safe and taking her to violin lessons, the house republicans. why? because that's exactly the turf on which house republicans are fighting all across the country. in suburban districts, that's where they think they are going to lose the house. the -- >> the number in the poll -- >> the idea was do that in this ad and have the president scream and yell about immigration on the stump. >> can i give you -- >> he didn't like it. >> can i give you another enterp ration? >> always. >> maybe the numbers justify his approach. i don't think you can justify morally the nativist approach he's made, but politically if that's the gender divide, and there's a similar gap among latinos and people of color, maybe those votes were never up for grabs for republicans in the midterm and consequently doing what he did was the only way in which to protect the senate and energize the base. i don't know whether those numbers are the way they are

because of his close or if that's the way they were throughout the course? >> i think he's had trouble. he's been making his own trouble for a long time on top of anything endemic to the party. >> why did he do that? >> today you have kellyanne conway. you have sarah huckabee sanders and i think there was a third -- oh, and his daughter. his daughter comes. now they have the problem, not supposed to go to a political rally. the women come out. they say we're here on our own time. and then he says my tone is a regret. i've never heard him say he regrets anything in his life. this is the man who said i've never had to ask god for forgiveness. in fact, many of you may not believe me. here's what he said. >> is there anything as you look back at your first almost two years, that you regret that you wish on you that you could just take back and redo? >> well, there would be certain things. i'm not sure i want to reveal all of them, but i would say tone. i would like to have a much

softer tone. i feel to a certain extent i have no choice, but maybe i do, and maybe i could have been softer from that standpoint. >> look. it's not the cleanest thing i've seen. it wouldn't get him through a therapy session. >> it would, actually. that was remarkable. >> they hit you with this do you really mean it? >> you know this isn't actually a therapy session. >> every night it is. every night they come out with new problems. so he says that i have regrets. my tone. i would want to change. we've never heard him say that. so to counter the contrary notion, is he aware and is he trying? >> i think he's responding to the conversation that we're having and that so many others are having who are looking at this and saying is this campaign malpractice, the way he's approached the closing argument. and this is his response now to those critics. >> i don't want to mention all of them. that's the part that wouldn't fly in a therapy session. it's got to all come out to get

absolution. the third thing i've never seen before, the new willie horton ad comes about the man from mexico, the murder. they say it's the democrat's fault he got out. the counterfacts is you got blame on both sides. that was never what the ad was about. it was about the feeling. cnn won't run the ad. i played it in parts, but we don't take money for the ad. what's that about? >> including fox. >> even fox. that's the kicker. including fox. >> who have been saying it was true. the trump trio that might said this was the medicine. >> yeah. that there was backlash. that's the -- i mean, that's the answer. that there was backlash among viewers. and that is the reason why they did that. and it really does speak to the disconnect between what donald trump does on a daily basis now on the stump which is basically

a trump version of that ad, you know, except that it had the images to go along with it which were incredibly powerful. and the disconnect between that and what is and should be acceptable for networks, cable broadcast networks to accept money for, and these three networks starting with cnn, and again, remarkably including fox, felt that went over the line. >> you have to wonder what bill shine is thinking. now, with that, but let me just make a quick point. this idea that women can't silo off the gross rhetoric from policy priorities. i think that's going to really come into play tomorrow. we're going to see how that works out. i did a very unscientific call today reaching out to a bunch of suburban white well-educated women voters in ohio, arizona,

kansas, north carolina, michigan, massachusetts, and florida. >> busy day. >> it was. i spent all day doing this. not scientific, again. these were all women who lean right, don't love what trump said. all plan to vote republican down the line because they like the policies. so i think we're -- we decided that women as a monolith will be turned off and flee the other way. i think women are turned off, but many i think will still vote for the policies. >> he may be lucky he's not on the ballot. turnout is the key tomorrow. we're looking eligible voters, not registered ones. do you think we get at 40 or above in terms of eligible voters that vote in the midterm? >> i think we can. what's surprising is the early voting. i offer i don't know that it necessarily translates to this exceptional turnout at election day. maybe they've taken the easy rutte of casting the ballots

sooner. >> what a great panel. thank you. i could do it forever but i'm getting yelled at. thank you very much. all right. you hear what we're talking act. this ad was a really offensive ad. so much so that even fox pulled the president's ad. now, the president approved the message. it's on the tape of the message. he's still not backing away tonight. and what does that tell you the voters? we have former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski to make the case on the eve of the election next. hard to keep up. in washington, one party is calling the shots and the middle class isn't being heard. we need a new congress that will cut taxes for the middle class, ensure coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, and protect social security and medicare. vote for a democratic congress; for an economy that works for everyone. independence usa pac is responsible for the content of this advertising.

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president trump is defending his controversial ad that's been rejected by all major networks for playing to racist themes. even fox pulled it. why? well, republican officials tell cnn the hard line immigration message was all trump's idea.

the president's aides wanted a closing ad featuring upbeat 2450e themes about the economy, but trump reportedly hated it. corey lewandowski is here. this is a rough thing to have happen on the eve of an election that you have the party and the president at odds about what the message should be and ads so ugly even the mother ship pulled it. >> the party wants to talk about the success this president has had on the economic side. that makes a lot of sense. from every measure, things are better today than two years ago. of course they want to talk about that, particularly with smaller house districts who don't have an immigration focus. that being said, what this president has campaigned on and made a platform of his first two years of the administration is the issue of illegal immigration. so he wanted to remind the voters that his policies, not

him, but his policies are on the ballot tomorrow. >> he's on it too, and he's said it many times. >> immigration is on that ballot. >> but he's on it, corey. keep it clear. he's said it many times. a vote for corey is a vote for me. he tried to move away from it, though, when it started to get through to him that he might be in trouble tomorrow on the house side. now it's not about him. that's for trump to say, but the ad, i got to go back to it. if you don't want to say the party's at odd with trump, that's fine. the president says the economic message is boring, and it seems he made a trade. forget about the facts. go with the feelings. scare them. the brown menace. they're coming. they're going to invade us. that was his call. he's gone long and strong with it. a lot of people, your own candidates aren't echoing it the way the president is. do you think he's made a bet that's going to break against him? >> i watched a story this week. they said six out of ten people

who they polled are in favor of sending troops to the border. 51% of the people are hispanics who are also in favor. tonight, i'm sure you saw this, the democratic candidate for the u.s. senate in the state of arizona has come out and said she favors sending u.s. troops to the border to stop the caravan from coming. that's a far cry from what the democrat's traditional message has been. >> obama sent troops. >> troops to make sure the caravan doesn't get through. >> obama and bush sent troops. they sent national guards. trump is trying to send active duty troops. >> today is a close senate race in the state of arizona. today the democratic candidate came out and said i support the president for his position on immigration. she's the first democrat i know of who has said that. she understands exactly what takes place in arizona. they're on the front lines as it relates to the issue of illegal immigration coming in. they've seen what's happened to the local communities. she said that today.

i think the ad was a very strong ad, but clearly in those states that are impacted the most and arizona is one, she has made the decision politically to support the president. >> but what you see is the ad didn't say we got to make the border safer. it's no good. we need more money for i.c.e. and the border. we need all this. got to figure out a way to work with mexico. we have to get with congress. those are all real issues. that's not what that ad was. that ad was fear the mexican menace. and the democrats are the ones who let him come in. now, we know now that factually, there's plenty of stirng on the republican side. that's the truth of this problem as we both know for 30 years. both parties own it. but it seems that the president got bitten here by his own bitterness that i'm going to try to scare you for fox to pull the ad, corey, we would have bet money all day long they would

never do that to the president. what does that tell you? >> you know what's better than paying for the ad? the free advertising you get -- >> this is good? >> i think when you put that up, his only regret was he didn't kill more police officer police officers and want to kill more. people say that's not the values we want in our country. >> right. but that's not why people pulled the ad. why did they pull the ad? because it's a racist ad. that's why. >> i don't think it's racist for the individual's words to be used. >> you're projecting that he's the norm. that this is who gets in if you go with the democrats. that's not just a lie. that's a bigoted message to send about this group of people. it just is by definition. they're not all murders like this guy. >> of course they're not, but unfortunately the footage they used in the ad was from a courtroom where this individual came into the country illegally. said his only regret was he couldn't kill more police officers.

look, i believe it's be president's job above all else to keep each american safe from all enemies northern and domestic. if you have killers coming into the country, then we have to do everything we can, and he has to do everything he can to make sure we don't have more people coming in who want to commit those acts. >> what's the difference between this guy and all of the other killers in this country right now? all the unsolved homicides y the disproportionate killings of the lower on the economic scale and of african americans? those are all way bigger problems than the brown menace coming from the south who are these hordes. he's not worried about them. if he wants to keep us safe, keep us safe from the people who have the best chance of killing us. that's not this group. he's demonizing them, and the media said we can't run this ad anymore. you don't see that as a rebuke? >> i see the issue of the caravan has become politicized.

what we saw originally was it was a 3,000 person caravan -- >> by him. he said he has a good eye for numbers. >> the argument has been made on the caravan, they're coming to the united states to seek asylum. the way the process works is if you're seeking asylum from your country, it's the first country you cross into you seek asylum. you don't have the privilege of walking into a country, then walking 500 miles to the next country to seek asylum. >> that's an issue, but you can't fix it when mexico won't work with you because they think your president is a punk. these people who have come have not sought political asylum in mexico because mexico could grant it to them. >> yes, they can. >> they have the legal right to do that. they've chosen not to seek that. what this president said, and it's fiair, and it goes back to what members of the majority party, the democrats, barack

obama or harry reid said, we have to secure the borders. >> everybody said you have to secure the border. nobody says they don't want to secure the border. i've never heard anybody say it. the i.c.e. stuff, you guys can be left about and say you have to figure out who you are. fair criticism. do it. do it candidate by candidate. nobody says they want own borders. >> how come we can't get it done? >> because when you would rather paint them as the brown menace than work with congress and make a deal. when you leave the table after promising you'd stay and start bashing the democrats and anybody who doesn't stand with you and anybody who tells the truth about the lies about the migrants, you're never going to get a deal. and now you have mexico, who i guess the president thought he'd never need for anything holding the key for the correction. you need to work with them. they clearly don't want to go out of their way to help us and the people keep marching this way, and the people we need to help us won't walk to us on a

real level because of what the president said about them. >> this president went to the table and said if you give me the money to the wall, i'll grant citizenship for all the people in this country through no fault of their own, basically daca. >> and you have to let me pull the strings that let my wife and her parents get into the country. >> what's amazing is that was more than any president preceding him offered. not barack obama offered that. >> sure. there was no wall involved then. >> the president said -- we don't know how many illegals are in the country. the president said if you're here through no fault of your own, a dreamer, i'll give you a path to citizenship -- >> schumer took the deal. >> but they never built the wall. >> they gave him as much money as they could, schumer said. here's the good news. tomorrow we know. tomorrow we know the next time you're on the show you'll be able to say you know, chris, you were chasing me around about all this. the american people voted. we kept the house. whatever happens in the senate. that's the mandate.

shut up. let's see what happens going forward. and if it changes, there's a new mandate, we'll have a new conversation. either way, good to have you here. thank you very much. like we were talking here, i've never seen this before on the eve of an election. ads can be negative and out there. nbc, facebook, fox, the mother ship, stops running that trump immigration ad that was slammed as racist. what's the response? the president says, well, a lot of things are offensive. is that the new standard? d. lemon, next. ed? let's say it in a really low voice. carl? lowest price, guaranteed. just stick with badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com

the midterm elections, not as a democrat or a republican -- i've been both -- but as an american who is deeply concerned with the direction of our nation. like you, i've watched the recent bombings and mass shootings with growing alarm. political violence tears at the heart of our democracy. and violence against a religious group, in a house of god, tears at the heart of our humanity. at these moments of great national tragedy, we look to washington to lead... to offer solutions... to bring us together... and to appeal to all of us, as americans. we are a nation of builders and doers. we know that there are no easy answers or quick fixes. but we expect a plan. we expect to be called to a higher purpose.

we expect to work together. i don't hear that call coming from washington these days... do you? in fact, i hear the opposite -- shouting and hysterics instead of calm reasoning. pointed fingers instead of open hands. division instead of unity. we see this most dramatically with the fear-mongering over immigration. americans are neither naive nor heartless. we know that we can be a nation of immigrants while also securing our borders. sadly, our greatest threats today can be found from within our borders, from a government that is constantly on the verge of shutting down over partisan bickering, that is accumulating record debt, and failing to address our most urgent problems. i've never been a particularly partisan person, i've supported candidates from both sides. but at this moment, we must send a signal to republicans in washington that they have failed to lead, failed to find solutions, and failed to bring us together.

that's why i'm voting democratic. america is the greatest nation on earth and for all our sakes we must start becoming the united states of america once again. thank you. independence usa pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. and i found out that i'ma from the big toe alian. of that sexy italian boot! so this holiday season it's ancestrydna per tutti! order your kit now at ancestry.com thiuninterrupted streaminglogy brilliant sound clarity and life-like color. experience dell cinema on the xps 13. get up to $200 off select xps 13 laptops at dell.com (intel chime) the president is doubling down on his anti-immigrant commercial even after it was pulled from the air waves first by us here at cnn.

we rejected it from the outset, period. then you had nbc and now even fox is saying they won't run the ad. think about that. don lemon is here. >> we never ran it. i'm glad. out right. >> i used it when it came out. >> i meant we never ran it as a tv commercial. >> we didn't get paid to run it. >> i'm hearing you in my ear. can k you guys stop that? >> who are you talking to? crazy don. >> i'm going to take this out. >> what does it mean to you that this happens on the eve of the election? i've never seen something like this. >> it means the ad is what it says it is. >> is that your fan club? >> we have hecklers in the audience. >> that's how bad it's gotten. >> it means it's racist. look, you know the saying. you know what can see that, right? anyone can see it's racist. it's obvious. i'm glad we and our management said we're not going to do it.

it's interesting nbc did it after about 20 million people saw it and they took the membershmoney, and for fox to say they're not going to run it says a lot about this ad, and it must say something about how it's being perceived by the people watching they must have had some complaints or even the people who work for their company, they may say, we don't like this. we're either aware of how racist it is, and/or there are minorities offended by it. >> i'll tell you what. the truth is tomorrow. we will see. >> not on whether the ad was racist but whether it's effective. >> right. in part because there may be a recoil. we're going to see trumpism tested like never before. once he's president, it matters a different way. a mandate will be delivered in all likelihood tomorrow and everything begins again thereafter. what do you have? >> ryan lizza has an amazing piece. did you read that? >> no.

>> what happens if democrats lose? >> oh. very interesting. >> what does that mean for the country? what does that mean for this president? does it mean he says, i've got a mandate. i can do whatever i want. truth doesn't matter. we're going to discuss that. >> good stuff. thank you very much. we're talking about voting because, again, left, right, reasonable, wherever you put yourself, you have to vote. you have to exercise the franchise. otherwise not just that you can't complain, but you don't have any control in what happens, and everybody wants a little bit of control. so the closing argument is a reminder from a man who is much better to hear than me. a life example and a lesson, next. ♪ (electronic dance music)♪ ♪

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taylor sent a message from afghanistan that was meant for all of us. take a listen to a little bit of it. it was beautiful to see over 4 million afghan men and women brave threats and deadly attacks to vote in afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in eight years. i hope everyone back home exercises their precious right to vote and that whether the republicans or the democrats win, that we all remember that we have far more as americans that unites us than divides us. united we stand. divided we fall. god bless america. now, taylor's job was to secure those parliamentary elections in afghanistan, and he saw that struggle, literally life and death, and it made him appreciate what so many here take for granted. taylor knew our political system well not just as a soldier but as a poll tigs. he won the race for mayor for his town, ogden utah. i have three arguments for listening to the major.

first, he's right. barely half of the eligible pop lapgs here votes. that is embarrassing in a place that is supposed to be a bastion of democracy. second, taylor is a reminder that our current leaders have thousands of our men and women in afghanistan. the place is called the graveyard of empires for a reason. and what they're telling you are advise and assist missions, that may sound benign, but it's a deception. know that, that our leaders are giving us an idea that is false. now, the biggest reason of all is that the facebook message that taylor sent us is the last one he ever sent. major taylor was killed in afghanistan in what they call an insider attack, meaning that one of those he was advising and assisting took the life of this 39-year-old national guardsman, this public servant. they stole a husband from jenny, his wife, and a father from those seven kids. now, by all accounts, taylor did not consider himself special, but he was.

he served country and community and family in a way that few of us could ever match. and his last message was done to awaken a sense of duty in all of us. we don't have to go fight like he did. we don't have to be heroes. we get to do something easy. we use the precious right that we take for granted. you know, when we lose people who matter to us, we often struggle with how to honor them in their passing. we did that after the synagogue shooting most recently. we talked about the jews' deep beliefs in making the world better and charity, and maybe we should consider thinking more about how we direct our own energy in positive directions in their memory. well, given this loss, i can't think of any more powerful gesture than honoring taylor's sacrifice by doing what he asked. vote. let those elected know we bring you in, and we'll take you out. and maybe, just maybe, if you come out in big numbers, not only will we prove to ourselves

that we're respecting our hard fought franchise, sending a message to lawmakers that we, the people, are their proper focus. but hopefully a family in utah whose husband and father and mayor were taken far too soon, the message will also be that his sacrifice mattered back home. thank you to major taylor for the message and for the service and the sacrifice. may he rest in peace. our condolences to jenny, his wife, and to his children, megan, lincoln, alex, jacob, ellie, jonathan, and 11-month-old caroline. you should all know and tell your sister when she gets older, your father is a hero. for the rest of us, tomorrow go vote. i'll be back at midnight eastern for a special late night edition of cuomo prime time. "cnn tonight" with d. lemon starts right now. >> i can't think of a better way, you're right, to honor him. there have been many people who have died for the right directly and indirectly. this is an indirect way because

he's overseas and he's fighting for our freedom. he's on the front line in a different way than the folks who were on the front line during the civil rights movement, fighting for the right for people to vote. so that would be the best way to honor him and all of our service members, right, is by -- >> they're there fighting for our freedoms. we should exercise those freedoms and show them that their fight is worth while. and for the rest of us, it just matters too much right now. >> yeah. >> everybody's got to do what they can, exercise the franchise. let the chips fall where they may, but everybody's got to be involved. >> seven kids. >> seven kids. very young. 11 months old is the youngest. he was only 39. he had everything going for him. he had no reason to put himself on the line the way he did except because of what he believed. >> yeah. and believed in something that was obviously bigger than ginning up fear as we have been