Of bounds. One more item for those urging him to stay on message and today in daytona beach, florida, he did for about half an hour and he pivoted litigating some key moments in it. She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions and you know, you can see there was blood coming out of her eyes and blood coming out of her wherever. Heres what he said. Heres how he explained it today. Hillarys commercials, theyre so false. Theyre so false like shes got the one with blood coming out of her eyes. And i meant her nose or her ears or her mouth but these people are perverted and they think it was another location. Unbelievable, and you know the truth . I cut it short because i was talking about either taxes or economic development. So i said or whatever. You notice he used the word whatever to change the subject when. In fact you heard him say wherever and all of the rest. Trump revisited this moment which was also shown in that attack ad. Right after a couple of good paragraphs talking about northern new jersey draws the nice reporter and you have to see this guy, oh, i dont know what i said i dont remember trump has maintained that he was not mocking the disability of the reporter and that he did not even know the reporter. The Washington Post fact checker gave him four pinocchios on his claim. Heres what he said. He was graveling at trying to change his story and maybe not, and im not doing it. But just listen to this so i didnt know the reporter and then he came out that the reporter said he knew me, he met me, he met me, 1988, he met me, and i know who he was. I didnt know who he was. I didnt, and if i did and he was handicapped. He had a problem with something, and he was handicapped. Must be a nice guy. I didnt speak to him. Whatever you make of this its hard to argue hes entirely letting go of past grievances and staying completely on message and well talk about that with roar reporters after we get the latest from cnn jim acosta traveling with the trump campaign. Jim . The latest from cnn jim aco traveling with the trump campaign. Jim . Reporter you just played a couple of clips that donald trump is trying to play clean up today and that is not all. At this rally, one of the very first things that donald trump had to say to this crowd here was that he met with six goldstar families before he came out and began speaking to this crowd. He talked about how he feels that these families are incredible people. That is, of course, doing some damage control after that very damaging confrontation that he had with the khan family. Weve been keeping track of the fact that donald trump has not apologized to the khan family since the entire controversy flared up and that may be the closest hes going to get and he talked about how he received that purple heart from that veteran in virginia at the Campaign Event in virginia. He said it was easier to have a purple heart gifted to him than earning it in combat. That purple heart was one of the most beautiful gifts hes ever received. When you talk about the people inside the trump campaign, you talked to a voice inside the campaign within the last hour. We are pushing back on this notion that there is no turmoil or disarray inside the campaign and there was one source that i talked to just a while ago called it nonsense. Getting back on message will be a work in progress. Reporter i think thats right, and you saw that in vivid detail yesterday when donald trump decided to go after the speaker of the house paul ryan and we have not gotten a sufficient answer from this campaign explaining at all why donald trump decided to do that and nobody has spoken out on the record as to why donald trump decided to say this openly about the speaker and he has this primary battle coming up next week, but i did talk to a surrogate from inside the campaign who told me they received talking points earlier today and the talking points were all about turning the page and going after Hillary Clinton and one surrogate conceded to me that it was difficult when donald trump goes out there and gets off message as he did earlier today trying to relitigate the issue with megyn kelly and its just a sign that that ad which shows a lot of those clips that you ran earlier in this program is having an impact on this campaign and its potentially getting under Donald Trumps skin, as well. More now on how the campaign is judging it and dana bash has been talking to her sources and she joins us now. Growing frustration about getting donald trump back on track. What are you learning, dana . Reporter well, so far and the night is still young as you were just talking about with jim, donald trump is still speaking in his second rally, but so far there is a very, very small sigh of relief. When i say very small its because, yes, as jim was just saying it is clearly hard for trump to let go of things that he is now seeing come back at him on the Television Screen in Hillary Clintons ads and things are that clearly not playing withel with women, the megyn kelly issue, with disabled people across the country and those who have loved ones who are disabled even though donald trump denies that. Those are things that he cant let go. However, the bar is very low here, but it is a bar that republicans are looking at him to do which is dont pick unwinnable fights with, lets see, crying babies and goldstar parents or the Republican House speaker who has been reluctant to support him, but has done so anyway. He has not done that so far and more importantly, i think, he did start the rally earlier today and this one now in jacksonville talking about Hillary Clinton and why he thinks that she is wrong for the country and she would be a third term of obama which Hillary Clinton has embraced and didnt spend a lot of time on that, but certainly more than he has before. You are getting pushback from the campaign itself. What did they tell you . As we reported here on this program last night i was hearing there was growing frustration from within the campaign, never mind outside the campaign which i heard a lot about this morning, but most importantly within the Campaign IncludingPaul Manafort about the fact that donald trump was not controllable and it was hard for him to keep him on message. I got a call today from basically the entire senior staff of the trump Campaign IncludingPaul Manafort to push back on the notion that theyre frustrated saying theyre not frustrated. Paul manafort says its the media in general were frustrated with and not our candidate and went on to make clear that they hoped and thought that trump would be more on message about Hillary Clinton today. So they are definitely pushing back on that notion. I will say that the people who i talked to last night who were in touch with them stand by that the frustration was real and it is easy to understand given the fact that, you know, they have a strategy, they have something that they think can do well against Hillary Clinton and its hard to employ that when donald trump is making so much news on things that really dont fit the bill in terms of reaching out to voters who are not yet on his side. Right. Dana, thanks very much. I want to bring in our panel and political director paul chalian, and consentive trump critic, new york one political anchor errol lewis who has covered donald trump for many, many years, and especially in light of this evenings town hall joining us from d. C. This latest fox poll showing Hillary Clinton picking up ten points in this poll. Similar to what we showed earlier this week and weve seen in other polls and you take the polls together and you see she emerged from her convention with a substantial lead and the big question is can she sustain that and is she experiencing right now a bounce out of her convention and given how rough these last few days have been for donald trump, one might imagine that even if it doesnt sustain forever she will ride this distance from donald trump for a little bit. So interesting, meeting with goldstar families, focusing on Hillary Clinton and talking about this the latest news about the 400 million sent to iran which were going to be covering later in the broadcast, those are all things in a Traditional Campaign, probably, the meeting with the gold star families probably would have been done days ago in a Traditional Campaign and the latest story on iran is perfectly served up for a republican candidate and yet donald trump has also today focusing on talking about relitigating the megyn kelly thing and whether or not he mocked a disabled reporter. From my perspective, strategically these are all missed big, big opportunities. I hope that quickly theyll turn this ship around. Theyve had a bad few days, no question. They have favored hillary coming out of her convention but they still have time. Theyve just got to get back and focused on what really gets people excited and and some of these side issues arent what unites republicans, independents or moderate democrats to come out to the polls and he has great softballs he can knock out of the park if he gets focused on them. One of the strange irony is as a freeform speaker, if you will, he could focus on this exclusively on the clinton stuff and the iran stuff probably to great effect. He could, but he hasnt, and hes had an opportunity since may 2nd, basically, when he became the presumptive fom me to do that and to zero in on Hillary Clinton and to focus that and hammer away. She is so weak on so many issues and yet he squandered this opportunity over ask over and over again. I think the last week has really been a turning point for a lot of people. The fact that he would stab paul ryan in the back the way he has by deciding that he doesnt want to endorse him now or hes playing coy with that. Hes pretty frontal, actually. Im being kind. Donald trump expects everyone to compromise their principles and cast aside our basic republican principles and accept him for unity, but then as soon as hes challenged he turns around and stabs them in the back. This is outrageous. You go after paul ryan and you go after mccain and kelly aillot and its important for republicans to keep the senate and here he is jep art iedzing that and no wonder you have representative Adam Kissinger who said i just cant do it. Trump didnt add any more fuel to the fire against ryan or mccain today which i guess is better than adding more fuel to it. Im not entirely sure that the phrase getting off message really applies here. To the extent that the man is the message. Youre saying that maybe this is the message. This is the message. Its a message to his base that i dont care what the consultants say, and i dont care what the media says for sure. I dont care what political prop righty would dictate. Im going to be me. Im not going to back down and im not going to apologize and you hear him say this once in a while. I will fight just as hard for you and that seals the deal with his base. The question is should he be trying to rev up to the base or should he try to broaden his appeal . All of the consultants say broaden his appeal and hell say i have a different plan. Gary johnson, the libertarian candidate that will join me at the top of the next hour. Have you lost any hope that the gop can rein trump in to be more traditional or more disciplined . Lost all hope of that probably seven or eight months ago now, quite candidly. Its amazing to me that anybody is still having a discussion about having some sort of intervention or bringing him back on message. I think as errol just said this is his message and his message is being a loudmouthed [ expletive ] basically and airing of grievances and thats what he has, and the Republican Party has a message and he has no interest in carrying it and quite frankly, i think what were going to continue to see throughout this campaign is were going to continue to see the republican nominee basically acting as if hes on a Suicide Mission and aiming to take the whole rest of the party down with him. So, liz, when conservatives or Trump Supporters say a vote for the libertarian ticket is a vote for Hillary Clinton you say what . I say those people cant do math and they need to go back to first grade. The reality of the situation is at worst, if you vote for gary johnson, what youre doing is splitting your vote between donald trump and Hillary Clinton and i say at worst because i feel pretty bad about anything that would amount to splitting my vote between these two people. Theyre both terrible, terrible people and i dont want either of them to be president , but the reality of the situation is at least by voting for gary johnson i am able to do something that more or less according with my conscience. I can vote for someone that i more or less agree with and i can vote for someone that is not going to be wearing an orange jump suit in the next ten years which is a big question with the other two and im pretty confident that im not going to be voting for someone that will Compromise National Security which say real question for these two. At the end of the day, i do think those are reason yes you will see more and more republicans taking a close look at the johnsonweld ticket and probably starting in, i dont know, 45 minutes at the rate donald trump is going today. 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About 40 minutes or so until the cnn libertarian town hall and the gop and the trump campaign. Pence is breaking with the campaign. I strongly support paul ryan. I strongly endorse his reelection. Hes a longtime friend and we need paul ryan in the leadership in the congress of the United States. Our gary tuchman caught up with senator mccain and has this report. Reporter right away, john mccain made it clear he preferred not to talk about issues involving donald trump. Before you go any further i have said everything that i want to say. Reporter but there were certainly questions to ask the arizona senior senator after trump said he would not support john mccain in his reelection later this month. My question is if the president ial election were today. I said i would support the nominee of the party and let me just say to you, that is the last time, if i change my view or my position then you will be among the first to know. Okay . Donald trump has not treated john mccain with a lot of respect during this campaign. The former vietnam pow was not a hero. I like people that werent captured, okay . Many republicans denounced trump at the time for saying that and many of them are not supporting trump and john mccain, the chairman of the sen adarmed Services Committee is not one of them, at least yet. Are you comfortable with donald trump possibly having control of the Nuclear Arsenal . I anyone that the people of this country choose to be the commander in chief and the president of the United States, therefore can lead this country and will lead in a responsible fashion, anyone who is elected president fairly of this country and thats the way that our democratic system works. Thats who our government works. The American People select the next president of the United States knowing full well what the role of the commander in chief is. Therefore, i have the utmost respect for the verdict of the people. And gary joins us from chandler, arizona. Did mccain have anything else have to say about that governor pence and trump dont always agree with what they have to say with pences endorsement of ryan . You can see that president ial politics was not john mccains favorite subject today. Clearly. Very much so. We did ask him about both the candidates and he said its not his job to critique trump and pence. He did say, however, its his job to focus the state of arizona which is not an unusual for a senator or congressman or governor to say when they are running for reelection. It is important to tell you, though, anderson, while he said nothing negative anything about donald trump to us, he also did not say anything positive. Thank you very much. Back with the panel. David, it is so interesting because donald trump has continually gone after john mccain on the things that john mccain is best known for, his Heroic Service during the vietnam war and his being held as a p. O. W. , and yet john im just how is it that john mccain can continue to say he will is it just politics . It is because john mccain needs Donald Trumps base of support to help him win this election for reelection. Hes got a primary coming up. He has a primary and he needs it also in the fall. He needs that core base of support that are fans of donald trump and that has to be part of john mccains Winning Coalition and he doesnt want to do anything to offend them and you saw that pence came out to endorse paul ryan. I dont know that that will happen with mccain and you see pence playing the into Donald Trumps yang and doing clean up. That seems to be mike pences job these days on the campaign trail. If donald trump continues to have the kind of week and im a supporter of donald trump, does that give cover to more republicans to back away from him or yeah. Does it give cover for more republicans, do you think . Do you think you will see more republicans to back away. If he continues and the media has pounded on him. And hes taken a lot of hits and the more hits you take the easier it is for someone to get off the train. If he rebounds quickly and inserts himself as a real leader it probably diffuses the last few days and you cant continue the downward slope without pumping the brakes. Do you think mccain will stand by his endorsement of trump . Probably so. M cane is a shrewd politician and hes been there a long time and hes done very well with how he handled himself and hes a gentleman and i endorsed him the first time he ran for president and hes in a tough spot, in a quagmire. And hes got this tough primary errol, on the august 30th. How does he continue to walk that line . Well, he has said, in fact, that it will be one of the hardest races hes ever had to run, no question about that and he and other downballot candidates have found a way to rhetorically separate themselves from trump and ill tell you, one thing that makes it easier for them is that the comments are so outrageous and so distant from what any elected official would say or has said that its believable when they say this guy doesnt speak for me. It was very hard to sort of find somebody that everyone can point to and say thats a trump republican. Teara, youre a republican ad not a trump fan. Do you want others to pull from donald trump . Yes. Absolutely. Because . What do we stand for as a party if we continue to support what donald trump is doing. You think that for long term yes, for the health thats right. For the health of the Republican Party and for the conservative movement, donald trump doesnt represent anything for the conservative movement and even if he god forbid gets elect asked you can forget it because hes gone after conservatives and hes shown he has absolutely no respect or regard for what real conservatism means and ive always said that people like paul ryan and others should have stood by and said he should earn our vote and unless he does, im not giving it to him and here is a perfect example of that. Andgovernor perry said the number one issue is the Supreme Court so im giving it to donald trump even though he was one of the first to blast donald trump. Called him a cancer. As a republican and as a conservative, do you worry about a longterm damage to the party if donald trump continues if donald trump implodes in some way or does a bad job . There say doubleedged sword. Hes bringing new folks to the party which is what atwater tried to do and he has a lot of new excitement from the party from folks that are involved and havent been in the past and hes also alienating the core base that says these are two outlandish issues for me to digest. But you dont think it can do permanent damage and the party is stronger than that. Were a twoparty system and the parties gotten further and further apart. I can Say Something really quick about that . Cbs came out with a poll that showed 55 of republicans are willing to support donald trump where you have george bush and m mccain and romney and the conservative movement are being pulled apart by donald trump and as far as the Supreme Court is concerned, the senate is the most important aspect of the Supreme Court. A president can nominate whoever they want, but they have to be approved by the senate. 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And six is greater than one. Flonase changes everything. Welcome back. Weve been talking about the turmoil in the Republican Party and what one veteran republican operative calls a new level of panic over the state of Donald Trumps campaign. Trumps staples what many see as selfinflicted mistakes has shown how predictablpredictably unpredictable he is, so much that theyre working on a plan for what to do if trump were to drop out of the race. Gop sources say they dont expect it to happen, but some are working on a what if scenario. It would be possible to come up with a nominee who could get on a ballot in enough space to win. Tom foreman will show us how it works. Donald trump received more than 14 million votes during the republican primary and that translated to 1,725 delegates at the convention, but if the Republican Party needed a new nominee, that decision could come down to just 168 people. How could that be . The key lies in rule number nine of the Republican National committee. It says the Republican National committee is hereby authorized and empowered to fill any and all vacancies which may occur by reason of death, declination or otherwise of the republican candidate for president of the United States. The rule goes on to say the committee can call everyone back together for a second convention, but the committee can also make the pick on its own and that committee is just 168 people. Anderson . So how are the members of the Committee Picked . First of all, i find this whole thing, i dont believe this is possible or going to happen, but how would the process actually work . I would agree. Its an incredible long shot for this to happen, but if somehow it reaches that point, the rules do not seem designed to push a nominee aside, but theyre also pretty vague. So who knows how it can play out . The committee is comprised of three people from each state and u. S. Territory who were chosen by republicans back home and they vote with the power of their entire original delegation. For example, nebraska had 36 delegates and its three Committee Members would have 36 votes and california, for example, has 172 delegates. They would have that same clout in their three Committee Members, and the vote of this committee, this much, much, much Smaller Group is exactly the same as the convention and as they rendered the vote needed to win is 1,237. Whoever gets this would be the nominee whether or not he or she was even in the race prior to this time,and son. Tom, thanks very much. Back with the panel. Cnn political commentator angela rye and former member of the congressional black caucus. This seems as some sort of democratic fantasy or i dont know why this republican source would have leaked this, but it just seems totally unrealistic. It does, we dont have an ounce of reporting that donald trump is considering leaving the race. Theres nothing to suggest that is in the works and it is so against the grain of everything we know about donald trump. Is this some sort of shot across the bow . If hell stay on message and if hell take the fight to Hillary Clinton nonstop every day and when they see that going off course, i think someone comes and says we are looking, if he drops out of the race we would be prepared. Yes, i agree it is a shot across the bow and i dont think it will happen at all, but if for some reason there was this vacancy, anderson, i dont think we will see a reconvening. It really would come down to these members of the Republican National committee. To go directly to governor pence . Not necessarily because names will be placed into nomination for the committee to vote on. To me, this is one of those conversations, who is stronger . Superman or batman . Its a ridiculous conversation and yet here we are having it. Its been a ridiculous race. Right. Yes. We all know superman is probably stronger, but i mean, do you think this is some sort of shot across the bow on message . There are a lot of talking heads within both parties and people always like to be heard and think that they have knowledge. Im not sure somebody over a beer just said it. Because the idea that this would upset a lot of the new voters who have come into the Republican Party and sort of, you know, donald trump could again say this thing is rigged and theyre pushing me out or theyre agitating to move me out. It really breaks up the Republican Party if in any way they try to push him out. Hes won fair and square by the rules and hes the nominee whether you like it or not. And they cant. Theres no mechanism for him to be pushed out. It would essentially seal the election for Hillary Clinton. It would, but again, as much as i would like to see this happen i dont think this is going to happen at all and in fact, this is the only time youll hear me yeah. As a democrat, do you prefer donald trump stays in the race or do you think or do you think hes doing harm to himself . Currently, if we continue to see him kind of unravel, i would hope that thats what happens, but i also think there are enough people around him and you heard Newt Gingrich and others who are strong republican establishment leaders saying youve got to get it together and youve got to get on message and whether or not this come to jesus meeting happens, i dont know, but what i will say is the only thing that you will ever hear me quote sean spizer on hes the nominee full stop. Donald trump likes to wib, if for no other reason his ego is not pushing him out of the race so hes staying. Its interesting, was there a palace coup possibility early on. It was strictly local and some Republican Leaders went to the head of the manhattan Republican Party and said, you know, you can unenroll him of the party and that would derail his entire candacy and she, of course, said nothing to it and weve got voters and democracy and we have people playing by the rules and just because you dont like the outcome and this is the thing with the never trump folks and you have to find the right people who feel as strongly as you do and that is something, that theyre not able to do. The 400 million cash payment and mike pence speaking out moments ago about that and well show you what he said and more polling showing Hillary Clinton widening her lead and she blasted trump while landing a republican supporter, meg whitman now vowing to do everything she can to elect hill reclient. Gary johnson and his running mate, william weld will be taking questions and ill be moderating and thats at the top of the hour at 9 00 p. M. Ionel . 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Donald trump speaking right now in jacksonville, florida, not always staying on message as weve been reporting and republicans are pleased with the progress he did make today on that front. Mike pence is also on the stump and very much on message campaigning in colorado springs. He had an especially sharp indictment to hellory clinton over the 400 million cash payment the u. S. Made it iran at the same time they released heres what he said. And just this morning, just this morning we found out that this administration transferred 400 million in cash on a pallet in an aircraft at the very same time iran was releasing four american hostages. Hillary clinton and barack obama have essentially put a price tag on the head of every american traveling abroad. They have abandoned our longstanding opposition to negotiating with terrorists and paying ransoms and that is judgment this country cannot stand for four more years. The white house disclosed the payment back in january as part of the Iran Nuclear Deal and critics including pence and donald trump have seized on a new report describing details of the cash delivery and our Foreign Affairs correspondent elise labott joins us now. This transfer of 400 million approved by the president , what are the details that are known . Reporter anderson, its a remarkable story one we hear about in movies. Just as they were boarding a swiss plane bound for germany, an unmarked plane was landing in iran with wooden pallets with shrinkwrapped euros and swiss francs and other currencies and 400 million worth in cash. Why did they have this hard cash . Because iran didnt have access to international banks. It was under u. S. International sanctions and it was all skirting u. S. Sanctions by taking the money from the Central Banks of the netherlands and switzerland because u. S. Sanctions dont allow transactions with iran in dollars. Right. This goes back a long time. This was all part this has been negotiated for quite a long time, but the administration is saying that the timing of the money arriving just when the prisoners that it was just coincidence . Reporter well, thats what they say. This was a decadeslong claim by iran for a failed arms deal that took place in the 1970s under the shah of iran, but these negotiations started picking up last november as the u. S. Started negotiating with iran about the iran deal and then they started negotiating about the prisoner swap. Those four americans for seven iranians in u. S. Jails. And so all of this kind of dove tailed at the same time and they saw that this was all going to be resolved at the same time. Officials do concede that iran wanted this payment to coincide with everything coming together because they wanted to show that they were getting some deliverable, something tangible for this and iranian officials even touted it as such, but the administration said this was not a quid pro quo and this was not a ransom and they were negotiating an end to this claim that was in mediation in the hague and they say the iranians were claiming 10 billion. So this would have really saved the american taxpayers some money, anderson. But it certainly, at the very least looks like it was a quid pro quo, that it was a ransom payment reward for releasing i mean, if the u. S. Didnt want it to look like that, they couldnt they have tried to do it not at the exact same time . Think everyone realizes the optics were pretty awful, but Officials Say they needed to be creative to kind of seize the moment of all of these negotiations to get this all done and they say they were able to do that. Elise labott. No doubt more on this ahead. The breaking news ahead in the wake of the Democratic Convention and Hillary Clinton widened her lead over donald trump in a threeway race with gary johnson while trump has been having one of the worst weeks of his campaign, clinton has been staying on message and staying clear of drama and landing bigname republican supporters. On the trail today she and tim kaine took aim at trumps outsourcing. Here is joe johns. Reporter the democratic ticket barnstorming swing states today blasting donald trump on the economy. If he wants to make America Great again, he should start by making things in america. Reporter behind the scenes her campaign is trying to capitalize on her opponents stumbles, stepping up efforts to encourage disaffected republicans to renounce donald trump. 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No Third Party Candidate has ever reached the oval office but that doesnt mean they didnt have a hand who did. Teddy roosevelt left the Republican Party ask ran on the Progressive Party or bull moose ticket. Roosevelt essentially split the republican vote with incumbent William Howard taft. It likely cost taft the office. Handing to it Woodrow Wilson i know stead. Fast forward to 1968. Another Third Party Candidate shook things up. This time it was george wallace. Wallace has the courage to stand up for america. Give him your support. The former governor of alabama was considered a segregationist democrat. Opposing civil rights and fueling fear in america. A sad day in our country that you cannot walk even in your neighborhoods at night or even in the daytime. Wallace ran on the ticket for the american independent party. You by pulling conservative democratic votes, he cost democrat Hubert Humphrey the election. Richard nixon walked away with the win. In 1992 it was ross perots turn to shake up the race. Good afternoon. The volunteers in all 50 states have asked me to run as candidate for president of the United States. He ran as an independent and focused his president ial campaign on the national debt. Decide who you think will do the job. Take that person in november. Believe me, as ive said before, the party is over and its time for the cleanup crew. On election day, perot snagged 19 of the popular vote. Likely costing republican george h. W. Bush a second term. Then governor bill clinton got the win. Bush refused to discuss perot years later in the hbo documentary, 41. Can you talk little about ross perot . No. Cant talk about it. I think he cost me the election and i dont like him. Ralph nader played a spoiler in 2000. He won just 2. 7 nationwide but pulled in more than 97,000 votes in florida. Republican george w. Bush beat democrat al gore in florida by just 537 votes. If most of naders support hers voted for gore instead, gore would have won florida and been elected president. Just moments ago, i spoke with george w. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. When nader was questioned about his campaigns floel gores loss, he brushed it off. By the way, i do think al gore cost me the election. Especially in florida. And thats a far greater concern than whether i was supposed to help elect al gore. In 2016 in an Election Year where both candidates have a likability problem, theres an opening once again. And the Libertarian Party nominees will take stage behind me very soon. The town hall begins right after this short break. Just when you think you know what a computer is. You see a keyboard that can just, get out of the way. And a screen you can touch. And even write on. When you see a computer that can do all that, it might just make you wonder. Hey, what else can it do . He wrecked the rec room this summer. 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