for 90 sad minutes. yes, a debacle. yes, both men tossed insults. >> you're the worst president america has ever had. come on. >> did you use the word "smart"? ah, so you said you went to delaware state but forgot the name of your college. you didn't go to delaware state. you graduated lowest or almost lowest in your class. don't ever use the word smart with me. don't ever use that word. >> but it was the president who from the beginning took this event off the rails refusing to abide by time limits. refusing to heed the moderator's appeals for fairness and decency, refusing to let the former vice president finish moats thoughts and answers. >> the question is -- >> radical left -- >> will you shut up, man? >> who is on your list, joe. >> this is -- >> gentlemen, this is -- >> this is -- >> there were many, many lows

including the president of the united states telling a far right extremist group to stand back and stand by. instead of condemning it. voters looking for clarity about policy, how each candidate might plan to guide the country through national turbulence, little, or couldn't hear it over constant cross-attacks and stumbled, courtesy aboby the president, security of the vote and whether you can trust the election. >> i hope it will be a fair election. >> or what? >> i am 100% onboard. if i see tens of thousands of ballots manipulated, i can't go along with that. >> unseemly, chaotic, messy, bellicose, unpresidential. some of the unflattering words used here in washington in the analysis and conversations about last night's debate. what matters more, much more, is how the event is sbernt interpr communities by those likely to

decide the outcome. and detroit carried twice by barack obama then flipped by donald trump in 2016, part of his michigan upset. our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is in michigan talking to voters. jeff, here in town, a lot of buzz about the debate? how about out in america? >> reporter: no doubt voters here are talking about this debate. we are actually at the site of where people are actually voting. we do know every day now is election day in many parts of the country between now and november 3rd, and that certainly was the case here. you see empty hind me someone literally casting her ballot as we see. did you watch the debate last night? what did you think? who did you vote for this morning? okay. so, john, you can see right th, live here on cnn, casting their vote. we've seen a steady stream of cars coming through -- throughout the morning here. we have heard the words "despicable, disgusting,

un-american, not appropriate for children" by supporters of both donald trump and joe biden, explaining their view of the debate last night. but we did not hear a lot of minds changed, because of watching that debate. take a listen to our conversation with a couple voters earlier this morning. >> i'm not in love with trump, that's for sure, and some of the things he says come off as crass and crude, but i don't believe all the negative press about him either. >> to think that my grandson had to watch the president of the united states argue, interrupt, it was despicable. it was not a debate. it was a brawl. >> reporter: partisans on both sides casting their ballots here this morning. we've had conversations with many and it is clear people are, a., frustrated by tone and tenor of this debate and, brchlt., re

for this to be over in some respects. this is a central part of this election. on election night we'll watch this county, you will be i know, to see if president trump is able to win it by as big a margin as last time. he only carried the state of michigan 10,704 votes. the woman behind me said she voted for joe biden but we saw a stream of donald trump voters as well. will the they ching their minds or fed up by all of it? more debates? split with the voters i talked to. if it's like last night, probably not. john? >> well, a little less than five weeks to go. jeff zeleny counting votes already in mccomb county, michigan. continuing the conversation. julie pace from the associated press, and from the "wall street journal" and another from the "washington post." start with you, julie. take fundamental dynamics, take

as few days to sort through polls and may take extra days because of so much chaos and wreckage after last night. joe biden, show you the polls, leading in pennsylvania, leading in wisconsin, leading even in ohio, leading in michigan, a very close race, slight lead or statistical tie in iowa. conventional wisdom tells you, come in front-runner, donald trump didn't change the basic dynamic of the race. joe biden wins instant polls after. is that the right a morning-after analysis? >> i think it is. you're right. it was donald trump who i think has the burden to shift the dynamic right now. he's the one who is behind in national polls. also behind in a lot of these battleground state polls. so it was up to him to try to build his coalition, broaden it out, appeal to voters who have maybe moved away from him to really win in independents toned off by his tone in particular over the last four years.

you saw him leaning into that tone even further and using the same tact tick tactics that pus away from him. hard to see how he actually made up ground to the voters he needs to appeal to now. >> you could see throughout the debate, the former vice president, joe biden now democratic nominee's frustration who wanted to talk more in deal about health care and the coronavirus and talk in more detail about climate change. as he tried to speak, especially started to criticize the president, a lot of frustration, constant interruptions. let's's listen. >> donald, when you -- >> folks, do you have -- >> folks do you have any idea what this clown's doing? will you shut up, man? >> that was really a productive segment. wasn't it? keep yapping, man. hard to get any word in with this clown -- excuse me, this person. >> shush, clown, shut up.

never thought i'd hear any of those words spoken to the president of the united states. i'm not necessarily blaming joe biden but do they worry about that on the biden campaign that they got dragged into it? >> well, we know that joe biden had been doing intense debate prep and preparing for personal attacks from donald trump, preparing for donald trump to heckle him as we saw in the 2016 debates with hillary clinton. i don't think that anyone was really ready for this level of interruptions and heckling and i think that there is some concern that maybe it's to some voters, seems like joe biden got dragged down, but in that situation hard not to get frustrated and i think a lot of voters probably understood that. we also know heading into the debates thwas a very small liberal group of undecided voters and based on "wall street journal" polling only 70% of those surveyed, that the debates

would factor into their decision-making. a lot of polling done in the aftermath of this debate, but you know, it's unclear if joe biden actually lost any support or, you know, had any impact in the way that he spoke back to donald trump with those lines. >> you know, running for president is complicated because the country has 50 states. many have very different views politically. some issues are complicated. one in a should be, when you're president of the united states or whether you're a plumber, in dubuque and asked to condemn white supremacists, easy question. say, no. if you're president of the united states, he should say i condemn it and condemn any of them if they try to wear my hats or affiliate with my this. >> say it, sir. do it. say it. >> you want to call them -- what do you want to call them? >> white supremacists and --

right-wing militia. >> stand back and stand by. tell you what, somebody's got to do something about antifa and the left. >> he always tries to, somebody's got to do something about -- there are fine people on both sides -- but stand back and stand by is not, i condemn you and everything you stand for. >> yeah, and if you want to understand how this was received all you have to do listen to how the proud boys group welcomed the president's comments on social media. talking about how this was an embrace, endorsement of source from the highest position in the country and in terms of the president essentially saying that these people should be standing by and they use this and made logos and memes on social media, yes, mr. president, we're standing by. groups that engaged in violence in the streets, gone out to protests with long guns, and gotten into brawls with

protesters and activists on the other side of the political spectrum. the president could have tried to calm things down and said, yes, people on the left need to calm down and not riot and not get involved in violence. he says it regularly. he could also have been presidential and reined in some of his own supporters saying, listen, people who support me, engaging in violence, i do not want your support and i want you not out in the streets attacking people. instead said, "stand back and stand by" reading to a number of headlines essentially giving this group more prominence and adding to the longest times the president has not denounced white supremacists and extremists within his base. >> and so it is one of those things, julie pace, that makes you sort of strach your head, shake your head and wonder. totally right. this is the president's history. he does it routinely. accepting the narrative only thing trump cares about is himself, told going into the debate la to improve standing

among suburban women, among independence, try to reach the tiny slice of people undecided or open to changing their mind. the republican pollster, a veteran, loves to run focus group, a group of independent voters last night talking to and that answer from the president, refusing to flat out say, i denounce the proud boys. i denounce white supremacists. the president wouldn't do that. it befuddled voters. >> definitely worst moment of the night. that moment. that's the easiest thing he could do, it would be a home run. >> i don't know why he misses these layups. why? why? what i kept saying after he didn't answer that question. >> why? that's a fair question. th specks of th on specks of thpecifics of the and the president knowing the two or three things try to broaden his coalition, didn't go there, didn't really try. >> i think the voters are quite

astute in raising the right political question, which is, why does he seem incapable, particularly on this issue, this question of condemning white spr supremacis supremacists. why not do the thing that would play to his political add javan. peoplen both sides of these protests, it hurts him with voters he needs. this is one of the great kind of mysteries of this presidency and you can only conclude he either doesn't understand the politics or absolutely supports these groups >> his reflex, clear from the history. one of the challenges for the president heading into this debate. look, losing in the national polls on average by eight points. went through some of the battleground state polls. at the top. not insurmountable, fewer than five weeks left a giant, steep hill for the president to climb. one challenge for any incumbent, i want four more years because,

if you elect me i will do this -- chris wallace gave the president a couple opportunities to talk in detail about policy. here's what we got. >> my question, sir, is, what is the trump health care plan? >> first of all i guess i'm debating you, not him. cutting drug prices going with favored nations which no president has the courage to do going against big pharma. >> what will you do in the next four years to confront them? >> i want crystal clean water and air. i want beautiful, clean air. we have now the lowest carbon. if you look at our numbers right now, we are doing phenomenally. >> ah, you, i can tell our viewers, whether watching in the united states or around the world, go online and find many fact checks going through what the president said there. thwas not a re-elect me and you will get this anywhere in last night's debate. >> the president has now struggled for months in articulating a clear second-term

agenda. we've seen this, saw it over and over again in interviews over the summer. in an interview with the "wall street journal," a reporter asked him if he could name one new initiative he would push for in his second term and he failed to do so. what the president has done in the past is usually piv itots t what he thinks are his accomplishments. last night didn't even really do that. he talked a little bit about nominating justices to the bench, but didn't really get into talking about trade deals or any of the other things he usually likes to tout. not only not really talk about a second-term agenda, didn't even talk as much about his accomplishments in the first term. >> thank you all for joining me. reporting and insights on this morning after. up next for us, the president had clear debate goals going in. especially to try to win over more suburban voters. did he meet them? that's next. i had this hundred thousand dollar student debt.

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look on twitter. team trump says the president turned in the greatest debate in history. that same team trump told us he had the largest knob gratiinaug crowd in history. headed into the debate for the president, make the race more about incumbents and less about joe biden and improve his standing with women. accomplish either goal? republican strategist is with us. good to see you. apologies. joe biden is on the campaign trail in ohio. if we go there live, i apologize in advance. reading you this from amy walter you know and respect. tweeted the reason trump is losing women independent and suburban voters, independents, exhausted by the chaos and drama. leaning into all that in this debate. agree, one, and does that disappoint you as a republican?

>> well, john, yes. i agree, respect amy a lot and i have to agree with her. look, women voters, the target audience for last night and the undecided voters, a lot of them are tired with the tone and tenor of this administration and this president, and they wanted to see a little softer tone, and unfortunately, they did not get that. i feel as though the constant interruptions and fighting and the going against not just joe biden but chris wallace was something really off-putting for the voters that needed to be swayed, but the point in terms of his base, his team, and people that support him, they loved it. they loved the bull in the china shop. they loved the fact he took on not just joe biden but chris wallace saying he's going to fight for us and jobs and the kmoi just like with them. that is well and good, but the goal is to broaden the base and bring in these people that felt as though this president did not connect and that didn't happen.

i think joe biden did a good job with that. his ability to look directly into the camera and convey a message directly to the voters, that goes to show he's not only trying to connect but conveyed a feeling of everi empathy what af voters, women voters want and he did great service with himself trying to communicate and reinforcing that, layering of the campaign talking about it on the debate stage and doing it today out there on the campaign trail. >> you worked in campaigns in arkansas, in presidential campaigns. so you know how this works and know sometimes getting the candidate to do what you think you need him or her to do can be difficult. especially in this case. this president has proven to be someone who does things his own way and sometimes obviously he's president. worked to his advantage in 2016. the question, look at numbers. "washington post," abc news poll, suburban women likely voters. president gets 34%. one-third of the suburban women

vote. joe biden, 66%. the president narrowly carried this four years ago. here's a piece of the campaign debate last night, joe biden, to your point, trying to make the case when the president appeals to you in the suburbs don't listen. >> if he ever got to run this country, and they ran it the way he would want to run it, we would have -- >> no way. >> suburbs would be gone. by the way, our suburbs would be gone and you would see problems like -- >> he wouldn't know a suburb unless he took a wrong turn. he would not. >> i was -- >> one minute. >> i was raised in the suburbs. this is not 1950. all the dog whistles and racism doesn't work anymore. suburbs are by and large integrated. >> what did you make of the exchange? especially the idea the president believes law and order helps him particularly with white suburban voters. the former vice president trying to make the case it's not the 1950s. who won that exchange?

>> i do think with regard to the president making the case he is the candidate for law and order, he did win, in my view, that exchange, because what we're seeing right now is a president who does support law enforcement, does support law and order, who does support, supporting our police and then you have joe biden who is the face of the democratic party, as he said, and we have democrat-led cities across the country on fire and many supporting defund the police. from the argument that the candidate who supports law and order and keeping our suburbs safe, that was a good and convincing argument, but even more so than that, a couple points the president made with regard, what he's going to do to help continue to turn the economy around after covid. what

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ñus, our white house correspondent kaitlan collins. interestñi to watccñ the president goes to minnesota, polls suggest it's a giant challenge, and joe biden is the candidate leading inwc/x @ohio, telling me everything we need to the president witho carrying ohio goes on to pennsylvania. joex9çó can win thasá 20 electoral votes blocking the president's path and upbeat the morning after the debate. what's the mood inside team fá trump? if you lookok a- twitter and tv appearances they are chest thumping. one said greatest presidential debate performance in american history. tha

that's not what the president said last night when pressed on this during that debate. one of those standout momentsc when the president said, told by. something he is now facingxd criticism even from people typically his allies over this. let me let you listen to what some of+ the advisers who work with the president are sayingg publicly about how they felt the debate went and then is i'llko tell you what they're actually saying behind the scenes. >> i don't think that there'sing in to clarify. he's told them to stand this presidentqçócñi sent help leaded. >> in very good spirits and american people wanted to see. >> reporter: maybe thew3 presidt is in good spirits butçó that's not how his campaign aides and allies, those who work for him and his supporterád view him today based on the severalw3 conversations i had with people who do not think the president delivered the performance needed

and pennsylvania,xdpn,ñ the sta he's been losing moderate support to come over toqi his se last night, because they believe he was basically tooc aggressiv, ut to the too few of his accomplishments. barely bringing in tradexo9 anyj(%ng like that and then tried to get the president to bring up what they were doing debate prep with him over the last few weeks, that they weren't and don't think he juq" a clear line of attack on joe biden and throwing erg he had atfá joe biden but not( int juq" a clear line of attack clear coherent manner t%]t( sti withxdxd voters as he did with hillary clinton in fá2016. they thought he lacked that last night. so that's a concern inside the campaign and inside trump world today, because time is growing  short. they know that. they don't have a lot of time before the election. theyqçó already know et voe evo castingñrñr ballots now. the nextñ debate, ap, town hal setting with voters asking questions not just chris

ñ thatñiok he cantor lash out on like last night. publicly saying the presitzq did a great job but not what we're hearing from politicalko advisers in trump worldñi today >> who is the person who, if there's more than one in that "cm=i tim scott, republican of south carolina only african-american republican senator ont( the republican sid saying he sent a message.ok asked to comment. believed the president misspoke or cmisunderstood the question. te sent comments to the chief of staff. can they get thet( particular e to say i should have said it this way or will the president stand his ground? >> reporter: wait to see when h3 leaves the white house heading to minnesota if he'll back offe that statement or attempt to clarify. it's 12:55. almost 1:00 on the east coast and theyc have not clarified wht the president said. aides didnótb believe therefá w anything tofá clarify. whether the presidente1 undercu

them he actually comes out and says something is another question0c time andxd time again the president or aides have to clarify his remarks when he's pressed and white supremacy. a pattern here at the white house. >> appreciate is;ñ thank you for spending timeg us. continuing our coverage after a quick break, brianna keilar. have a good day. it was 1961 when nellie young lost her devoted husband. without him, things were tough. her last option was to sell her home, but... her home meant everything to her. her husband had been a high school football coach and it turned out, one of his former players came up with an answer. a loan, created just for older homeowners.

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