hillary clinton. he's doubling down on whether he will respect the final election results. here's what he said. >> i would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the united states that i will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if i win. >> there he is in ohio. we're also looking ahead at a bunch of other events happening in the next 60 minutes here. ivanka trump and vice president joe biden are set to speak for their candidates. let's talk about the fallout after the debate from both campaigns. just 19 days until election day. let's start with ckaty tur in ohio and kasie hunt is in vegas.

c katy, let's start with you. give us a wrap-up of what was notable to you and his remarks. >> reporter: he said he had a major announcement and very slowly and deliberately said that he will accept the outcome of the election after a dramatic pause, if he wins. that elicited a giant round of applause from this crowd who were i guess at one point worried that he might say he would accept it no matter what. his supporters clearly very energized by the fact that donald trump refuses to accept nothing other than seeing himself in the white house. that's a bit ironic considering he talked about imposing term

limits. and now he's claiming that hillary clinton got debate questions beforehand. not last night or any of the previous debates but at a cnn town hall. take a listen to how he described it. >> i believe that, first of all, as a former attorney general, that he should accept the outcome and that this is important. >> i think it's a stupid comment. i mean, come on. get over yourself. >> reporter: that was clearly the incorrect bite. donald trump a few minutes ago was talking about wikileaks revelation where he said that donna brazile got the questions for the town hall and in effect gave them to hillary clinton beforehand. donald trump is running with it to his own advantage saying that if it was found out that he got any questions before a debate, they would reinstitute the

electric chair. he's hitting the idea of a rigged election hard once again saying that any other outcome, other than the one that puts him in the oval office, will not be one that he accepts. he went on to later say if it's fair he will accept it. unclear what fair will mean for donald trump. he's trying to spin it saying that al gore did the same thing in 2000 during the recount. it's important to note that al gore never said during the course of that campaign that he believed the election was rigged against him they are trying to rig that to spin his answers saying why he would say anything else before the votes are cast but obviously, hallie, not only

from members of his own party once again but both sides of the political i'll. >> let's take a deeper dive, katy, to what you're talking about. the condemnation from people inside his own party. i want to play this one more time and listen to this and then i want to have a conversation because we have kelly ayotte, john mccain, paula page weighing in. listen to this. >> i believe that, first of all, as a former attorney general, that he should except the outcome and that this is important. >> not accepting the results i think is a just a stupid comment. come on, get over yourself. >> that's from lepage, a big backer of trump, defending him on these controversial issues. here's what john mccain said within the last 40 minutes. john mccain saying essentially

we should always respect election results. he's saying that when he ran, he conceded that this is a nation in which the loser says to the winner, yes, mr. president. kasie, is the clinton campaign going to capitalize on this, the backlash from republicans against the latest comments? >> reporter: i mean, look, i think there's a looming -- a significant division between these establishment republicans and donald trump that really threatens to tear the party apart. i think a lot of republicans have been looking past this election to see how do we knit this back together and rebuild? this narrative goes to the heart of it and the party may never be able to recover from this. that's part of why you're seeing so many republicans come out now and saying this is absolutely not what's going on. i think for the clinton campaign, this is part of why you've heard them start to talk so much about some of these red

states. they've also cited al gore who graciously conceded the race even though it was so, so close. brian fallon said if donald trump is really within 500 votes in one swing state that decides the election, possibly we'll have a conversation about this continuing past november 8th. but if the polls hold and this election comes out the way we might expect, we're looking at an overwhelming and clear victory for hillary clinton. i think they are feeling a lot of pressure to make that as clear as possible. so there are instances of voter fraud but they need to be enormous to have the results of this election be questioned. that said, they've always felt all the way along that running

against donald trump is different or jeb bush or mitt romney in 2012. they've always believed and put a lot of pressure on themselves to not screw up this campaign because they feel like electing donald trump would be apocalyptic. and because of the way that this conversation is playing out from donald trump not accepting these results, they feel like they need to win in a more convincing way, hallie. >> kasie hunt, thank you very much. katy tur, thank you as well. within the last couple of seconds, we got new reaction from democrat barbara boxer who said, only a dictator will say he accepts the results only if he wins. all of this is triggering a big conversation within the republican party about what happens next, what is the fallout going to be? and the trump campaign, as we've seen in the past, defiant,

essentially. you ask a trump surrogate whether they will accept the results and you get the same answer, al gore. listen. >> my first reaction was al gore 2000. i thought, well, it wouldn't be the first time. >> well, i think he made clear what he was saying, that he expected to be treated fairly, he's not going to be unfairly treated or he will contest it like al gore contested it in 2000. >> all right. i'm joined by former press secretary for the r nchlnc. al gore is kind of having a day. i want to get your take on this because the bush/gore fight was not about voter fraud, it was about recounting ballots. is this an apple to oranges comparison? >> it is. for the life of me, i don't know why the trump campaign would choose to persecute this argument now 19, 20 days before the election. he should be talking about why

he's a better candidate than hillary clinton like he did during the first 20, 30 minutes which i thought was the most effective of his campaign to date. if he continues to go down these allies and follow these distractions, he's not going to win this election and it doesn't matter if it's rigged or not, he's not going to win. >> the strategy for him, though, has been to turn out his base. i was texting with folks who were watching and they felt energized and loved early on that he was talking about supreme court and gun rights. when it comes to undecided voters, saying later on that he may not accept the results, do you think that will sway people one way or the other? >> it's an example that he's

tempermentally unfit to be commander in chief. he's not trying to figure out how to win votes in the suburbs of philadelphia. and i for the life of me don't understand his strategy and, quite frankly, what he's saying about honoring our election results is dangerously unbecoming of someone who is a major party nominee and i think the fact that he would not honor the will of the american people and undermine our democracy is stunning, is absolutely stunning and there is no precedent for it and i think if you're a republican running on the ballot with him this year, you've got to be terrified what this man is doing the last three weeks of the campaign. >> alex, you know someone else running with him, senator marco rubio. how worried should senator rubio be about donald's comments given what we've seen over the last 15

hours? >> i'm advising a couple of senate candidates and for the most part or senate candidates are holding strong despite the headwinds from the trump campaign in almost every single state. >> so you see it as headwinds? >> voters recognize that donald trump is not a typical republican and don't want to give hillary clinton a blank check. so in places like florida, pennsylvania, indiana, you're seeing republicans overperforming donald trump by significant margins. it's why i'm confident we'll keep the senate regardless of what happens on the presidential ticket. voters don't want to give hillary clinton a blank check and recognize they elect democrats to the senate, a majority in the senate, that's what you'll have. >> let me just say this. alex is one of the best in the

business and i respect him a lot. for his candidate marco rubio and senate candidates to still stand by trump after everything he has said, i don't get it. at some point, when do you say that for the good of the country i need to say that this man is just not fit to be president and some of these republicans are still standing by him. paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, marco rubio. i don't understand the strategy there. this man is not fit to be the president of the united states and they've got to ultimately stand up and say that. otherwise, what message does that second to the voters in their states? >> certainly we can argue that hillary clinton should not be president of the united states after her actions over the last several years, including how she handled classified e-mails. obviously, that's been litigated endlessly in this campaign but remains to be an issue for her. >> right. i know you don't need me to have a conversation, which i kind of love, but i want to talk about paul ryan because we see new

numbers coming out from bloomberg showing that trump's views, more republicans view that donald trump's views match theirs than paul ryan's. my colleagues framed it very interestingly. the big day is not november 8th. it's what happens november 9th when the gop wakes up. >> speaker ryan will be the speaker the day after the election. he'll be the speaker in the next congress and lead the republican opposition to hillary clinton if in fact she wins this election. i am very bullish on the future of the republican party, regardless of what happens this fall. and here's why. if you look at every level of government, other than the white house, republicans are dominant. and we have a great next generation of leadership rising through the ranks. if you look at all of the great

40 something-year-olds around the country in positions of leadership, nikki haley, tim scott, marco rubio in florida, this is the next generation of american leadership. they are all republicans. that's why i'm very bullish of the midterms in 2018 and beyond. >> alex, i would note that's an argument i heard from you back in the primaries when you were working with senator rubio's campaign and donald trump trumped that idea. doug, quickly, before i let you go, i've got to ask you, when clinton was asked by chris wallace about these pay to play allegations were valid, we didn't hear her say a simple no. do you think she's being too lawyerly? >> i think the clinton foundation have done great work. 90% of the funds go out to important efforts. it's got a strong rating. the trump foundation is a slush fund which has been used to buy

portraits of donald trump and potentially try to influence cases that are being launched against him by trump university. so i don't think there's anything to apologize for as it relates to the clinton foundation. let me just say one last thing on alex's comment. >> go ahead. >> he said that republicans need to be talking about leading the gop opposition. what's really important here is voters don't necessarily want a nonstop opposition to the president, whether it's a republican or democrat. i think they want washington to work and folks, whether they are in the senate or congress, to go to washington and work together to get things done. they don't want this nonstop political battle. that's a message that i would -- if i was republican, i would be concerned about. >> we could talk for 45 more minutes. they are making me go to commercial break. we have to hit the time slots

and all of that. alex, good to see you. and doug, appreciate it, guys. >> thanks. did last night's debate change who you will vote for in november? head over to pulse.msnbc.com. let us know what you think. and coming up next, the first day of early voting happening right now in north carolina. this is a battleground state where the race could not be closer. we're checking in at one of the most heavily trafficked voting sites in raleigh. we're at the stunningly beautiful hoover dam. our producer is up on that bridge. stay with us. before taking his team to state for the first time... gilman: go get it, marcus. go get it. ...coach gilman used his cash rewards credit card from bank of america to earn 1% cash back everywhere, every time. at places like the batting cages. ♪ [ crowd cheers ] 2% back at grocery stores and now at wholesale clubs.

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that have been coming out to the polls, right? >> reporter: yeah. and they have wanted to be here. believe me, you have to want to be here because the sun is blazing, especially now that it's midday and this line is long. i haven't seen a single person leave this line. one woman who recently had knee surgery couldn't stand it anymore. they insisted on staying. we gave her a chair. that's how committed a lot of these folks are. so we wanted to talk to some of the voters and ann and zach are up here and the dog. i should have asked the name of the dog. >> this is ari. >> reporter: how long have you guys been in line? >> about an hour and a half? >> reporter: why? you could probably wait a week or two and not be in line so long. >> it's important to be here especially after last night's debate. >> reporter: what about last night's debate? >> it was too much for a candidate to say he would not accept my vote. i need my voice to be here.

>> reporter: why did you tell me you wanted to move to north carolina? >> so i wanted to be closer to my folks and they are in georgia but i wanted to move to a southern state that was moveable politically where we could be involved and have our voices heard and this was the southern state where we thought we could make the most difference. >> reporter: you guys wanted to move because you wanted to be in a state where you could become more democrat? >> yes. absolutely. >> reporter: this is a heavily democratic area. take a look at the numbers when you look at how important this early voting is to both campaigns. 61% in 2012 voted early. we've already had 50,000 mail-in ballots before in-person voting started this morning. and they can both register and vote today. obviously for all of these folks, both campaigns, as you

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we are back at the hoover dam. you're taking a live look and we've put up a makeshift set right here on the nevada/arizona border. these are the two western states proving critical. really interesting stories by each of these places. let's start with historically red arizona. clinton is ahead by 5 percentage points and underscoring the state's importance of the first lady campaigning at a rally in phoenix later on today. joining me now is jim sharp on ktr 92.3. thank you for joining us here. >> you bet, hallie. in arizona, you're avoiding the debauchery of nevada, right? >> no comment. i can't talk badly about nevada or i get in trouble. set the scene very quickly here. what are you hearing about last night's debate? give me a quick sense of the

pulse of the folks you're talking to. >> there's a lot of undecided people. there really are. you mentioned the arizona republic poll. i dug into that and their methodology is off. they've overcounted the democrats by 20 percentage points. it's probably closer to that. it is neck-and-neck which is crazy because no one has won here as a democrat in the last 20 years since bill clinton. >> why are you seeing this race so close in this state? >> i think you've got to say it. donald trump is a very flawed candidate. a lot of republicans are like, i don't know about this guy and hillary clinton is not great but, gosh, maybe it's evil versus crazy? >> a person said they attributed the closest of the race to two things, a large hispanic population in the state and the

millennial vote as well, which is interesting. do you see some truth to that? >> absolutely. there has been a demographic shift towards making arizona more blue but i really think that there's a trump factor here and that is that hardcore republicans are having a hard time casting a ballot for the guy. >> know senator john mccain withdrew his support for donald trump and he's ahead of his democratic challenger now by 11 points. he was up 16 a few weeks ago. do you think it's hurt john mccain that he's officially unendorsed trump? >> i don't think he had any choice. i think he might have actually seen a more precipitous drop. it was a lukewarm endorsement to begin with. he rarely says trump's name.

he'll say "the nominee". >> right. >> he never really was enthusiastic about donald trump to begin with. >> how do you see his race playing out? what does he have to do now? >> i think he can kind of do a little bit of what hillary clinton is doing right now, which is run the clock out. >> defense kinds of thing, right? >> exactly. and take a knee. maybe not quite at that point but he can let the clock run a little bit. >> jim sharp, host of the arizona morning news, thanks for joining us here. i'm going to your arch nemesis now over to nevada, john ralston, msnbc contributor. hi, john. i already know you're going to be happy that i'm pronouncing nevada correctly. >> i already knew you would, hallie. >> thank you. let's pull up the biggest newspaper in nevada. one calling it ferocious and the other brutal, the debates last night. give me a sense of your reaction

to what people are saying? we always call them the real people, not the pundits? >> nevada is not that different than any other place, hallie. listen, most voters are decided already. the problem for donald trump here is the problem that he has nationally. he now has to change minds, not just get undecided voters and there was nothing that happened last night, i think, to allow him to do that. it was a toss-up state for a while, as you know. but hillary clinton leading outside the margin of error which shows trump moving away. obama won this state twice, once by double digits and then a decisive margin which is what hillary clinton is leading donald trump now in three recent polls. >> you talk about the polls and hillary clinton has pulled ahead by donald trump and she was trailing him in the state.

so you talk about -- what do you attribute that to? why is she doing better and can she hold on for another 19 days. >> trump was doing well here for a while. he set it up on caucus night. you may remember, i love the uneducated voters and there are a lot of uneducated voters, voters without college degrees, even high school degrees here in nevada. he was polling really well there. listen, the democratic machine here that has registered a lot of voters, they are going to have about a 90,000 statewide lead by the time the final numbers are tallied and let's just face it, what happened with the "access hollywood" tape, the national implosion is reflected here. and i think the real danger, and you alluded to john mccain earlier, the senate race here is even more important, as you know. what's the impact on the one seat that the republicans have a chance to take, harry reid's seat. >> what do you think the impact

is going to be? >> i think if this lead is real and gets closer to double digits here in nevada, i think joe hack, a very good republican candidate who liked john mccain but in stronger terms recently disavowed donald trump, i don't think that's helping him. i think all of the odds are going against him. the one thing that hack has going for him, he's very good on the stump and hasn't had a kwhal fr challenge from democrats. he's reached out to the key demographic that you alluded to earlier which is hispanics. a recent poll shows that a democratic candidate would be the first latina ever elected to the u.s. senate, only at 54% of hispanics. if that number is right, then joe hack still has a chance to hold on. >> jon ralston, i have about 35 more questions for you but we'll have to hold it there. thanks for being with us. donald trump stepping up his

game in ohio but we're looking first to another event where ivanka trump will be later on this hour. we expect her in the next 15 minutes. we'll monitor that and bring you any news there as her father campaigns in the buckeye state. we want to dig into ohio a little more. new poll out showing the race neck-and-neck. why is clinton struggling to win a state that voted democrat the last couple of elections. let's get an update on today's poll question. we're asking you, did last night's debate change your mind, who your going to vote for in november? 82% said no and 18% of you said yes. we've asked this question after past debates and the answer has been more lopsided. we have a lot ahead from the hoover dam. some of the tourists coming to check out the dam are checking out our set as you see them driving over there. beautiful shot here on the arizona/nevada border. hang out. to folks out there whose diabetic nerve pain...

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>> reporter: we thought he was going to make some news here because he said i have a major announcement and said i promise to totally accept the results of the election and the crowd cheered and then he said, if i win and then the crowd went wild and they just loved that. and then he went on to talk about keeping his options open because if there was a questionable result, he wanted to be able to bring a lawsuit. he talked about people who were dead and on the voter rolls. he's in step with his voters there. we've talked to dozens of them today. they believe he's right in that he should wait and see the outcome of the election. i believe we have a couple of those supporters now. take a listen. so you think he will concede if he loses? >> if he loses, he's going to concede fair and square. >> oh, i agree, completely, heck yes. we want him to check into it if their any corruption. >> there is corruption. >> he has a right to challenge

that. politicians have done it before. why should it change for him? >> reporter: now, i would say that there are some in the crowd who seem to believe that he has to do more, more than excite his base if he wants to win and a conservative radio host that i watched the debate with last night said he did great, stood his ground but didn't bring any new members into the church. hallie? >> interesting stuff. jacob rascon, thank you. we're looking at ohio and we have this new poll out this afternoon showing clinton and trump tied at 45% in the state. you heard jacob talking to trump supporters outside his rally. here's what some folks were saying, more than ever, about the prospect of a clinton win. >> reporter: if she wins, will you accept the outcome? >> no. no. that's fate of my children and their future. >> personally accept it? there's no way. >> we won't like it. >> i dislike the woman so much

that i may go underground. >> joining me now is jesse balmer, political reporter for the national enquirer. thank you for joining us. >> hi. >> let me get your take on the trump rally that just wrapped up out of delaware county. you heard jacob talk about the mood and energy in the room, what his supporters were saying. what do you see as donald trump's chances come november 8th? >> well, ohio is always a very close state and it's going to be really important for donald trump to win the election here just because no republican has ever won the presidency without winning ohio. but he's going to need to get more people excited than just his base and that was what was happening at the rally here today. >> there's a ton of tension, as you know, between the state party on the gop side and the trump campaign. there's been a lot of back and forth between the executive

director with the trump team in ohio and the state party, the state chair. do you see them mending out their differences? >> i think the ohio republican party is willing to work with the trump campaign. there's been a lot of back and forth and this was another example of the infighting going on between republicans and the state. but i think they are willing to mend the fences and to make it work for republicans up and down the ticket. they have an important senate race here with rob portman and so that's something they are incredibly focused on here at the state republican party. >> jesse balmer from the cincinnati inquirer from the cite of the trump rally that just wrapped up. thank you. coming up, we have a republican strategist accusing donald trump of throwing away the final debate. how his performance could be hurting other republicans

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. this is where vice president joe biden is currently on stage. he just walked up to the microphone within the last four minutes. we're going to be listening in to see if he has any reaction to the latest comments, donald trump talking about whether he will accept the results of the election. we want to see what the vice president has to say. we'll bring it to you if and when it happens. in the meantime, let's bring in political reporter with politico. alex, how are you doing? >> hey, how are you? >> good. listen, throughout these last 18 hours that the debate has been happening, you and i have been talking to republicans outside the campaign. to me, it's been described as

the ecstasy in the first half and agony in the second half. where do they go from here? >> there's a really broad sense, an increasing sense that this presidential race is just about over. it's not that donald trump can't win. it's just that his path to 270 votes is really narrowing and growing dimmer and dimmer by the day. the focus is moving to the house and senate races and balance of power in washington which is a big deal. people are starting to wonder how can republicans in these crucial down ballot areas survive an election that is coming on november 8th. >> do you think a wave election is going to happen? >> not necessarily. you talk to republicans around town and they tell you that they are looking at closely at internal polling numbers and what they are seeing is that a lot of down ballot republicans are being able to sort of get

distance from donald trump. >> yeah. >> for being able to distinguish themselves and establish their own personal brands. and it's really going to -- that's what's going to depend on whether they will be able to be successful or not in november. >> and it's interesting, you talk about these down ballot races. we saw today kelly ayotte, john mccain condemning this rigged election rhetoric that he's been talking about and accepting the results in november. are they going to have to spend the next 2 1/2 weeks here running away from donald trump in order to lash through election day even as we see their challengers taking aim at them based on trump's remarks? >> that's something they have been doing for some time but republicans have been exploring another option, which is to start running as a check and balance to a potential hillary clinton presidency. >> this is kind of new messaging, right? >> it's something that they did back in '96 back when bob dole

was on the verge of losing to bill clinton. and so republicans now are talking about, what if we start to present ourselves as a backstop to hillary clinton and a check on her presidency. >> do you see that being an effective message? >> well, you know, it's tough because it's a subtle message and it's one that potentially could depress our republican turnout. it's not necessarily something that excites the republican base but, look, it's something that they are talking about. for now, though, you're right. when you saw john mccain, who is in a really tough re-election race right now in arizona, which is a state you've been talking about a little bit, you know, he's coming out and distancing himself from donald trump's remarks last night. >> alex isenstadt from politico, thank you. >> thank you. make or break for donald trump. dew did he win over any voters?

we'll hear from them, next. check out this time lapse from producer frank at the debate last night, filling up all those busy reporters getting their stories in. we'll be right back.

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he will be holding a rally tonight. a policy focus speech. as we talk about the effects of donald trump on campaign 2016, he's not been shy about in the past. we are getting new reactions now from the vulnerable senator that we are talking to. he believes he has full faith in ohio. in nevada, across the colorado river from where we are right now, we find jacob soboroff, he talks about the comments that

donald trump made. interestingly, when it came to that debate, it sounded that some of these voters are met. >> reporter: that's a good way to describe it. yesterday when i was talking to you at this exact time, i was standing at trump's tower, there was a protest of donald trump's immigration proposal. last night of 20% latinos mirror the operation. this is what they told me during the debate. >> reporter: have you voted before? >> never ever. >> reporter: are you going vote this time around? how come? >> i should since i became a citizen of united states. >> reporter: when did you became a citizen? >> g?2013. >> reporter: do you have a preference of who you are voting for? >> i am studying them now. >> reporter: okay. so you hear donald trump talking about border security earlier in the debate and you hear him

talking about deporting, undocumented immigrant. >> he's the reason why i was motivated to be a citizen. >> reporter:ecame to leave the country. president that i would be forced >> reporter: it is interesting to hear you say that, i met other people in this room who are not going to vote for don't know who they are going to vote for. you got a specific reason. >> yes. funny you said that, i just had a conversation with my sister and she's one of those people are not really engaged and it just seems that if we are going to have a president here making decisions for our lives, we should be aware of what's going to affect us and what's coming for our future and not surprise us. >> reporter: halie, donald trump spent at least one night at

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remember we told you early in the hour vice president, joe biden, speaking on stage. he reacted to donald trump's comment. he attacked of the notion whether we have a democratic process, making some news where

he is and where we are at the hoover dam wrapping up at this hour of msnbc, we are getting on a plane and going back to my hometown of pennsylvania, outside of philadelphia. that's where the show will come to you tomorrow. in the meantime, we'll leave it to my colleague, thomas roberts, covering the rest of this afternoon. hi thomas. >> hi halie, we get back on track of donald trump's message today that he will accept the results only if he wins. he made that stunning announcement. a