democracy is a smooth transition. and so given that, do you believe that you and mr. trump will accept the results of this election no matter what? i ve said before, we ll certainly accept the outcome of this election. do you want mr. trump to make that clear. but in the twenty days well he said it in the first debate. and then he took it back. well he said it in the first debate. since then he s been talking about rigged elections. donald trump is going to win this election. i know that now you mention polls and where the polls are. investors business daily just came out, jake, and we re ahead by a percentage point national. i think this is real so we should listen to that poll but not the other thirty. i think the poll that matters is the one we finish on november 8th. but there is something happening in the country. the american people are tired of a weak and apologetic foreign policy. the american people are tired of an economy that only produces 1% growth. th
projection. 307 for democrats. hillary clinton, 179 for the republican donald trump. and anderson as we ve changed this map today. here is what s most surprising. out in the west, utah, arizona, mitt romney won utah with 7 2%. mitt romney won arizona by ten points four years ago. these are reliable republican states. toss ups because of trump s troubles. hillary clinton actualhead in t most recent poll in arizona. this is the most significant. donald trump can t get to 270 without the 29 electoral votes from the state of florida. he s promised he would win it. we moved it to lean democrat today because of the recent polls. this is the biggest change in the map. surprising out here. significant right here. we re also now leaning nevada. democratic as well. when donald trump walks on the stage tonight he needs to fundamentally change the arc of this race. try to get it back to where it was at the first debate. because if it stays like this,
from us and overall we globally improve democracy. at this debate, the commission is hosting over 50 representatives from 24 countries in the debates international network and they ve received a first hand look of what goes on behind the scenes of one of these debates. they are here and i would like to ask our friends from the debates international to please stand up and let s give them a round of applause. [ applause ] finally, there are millions watching and there s one who deserves a special note of thanks. 85-year-old holocaust survivor fred kahn who is out there in tv land. he is the one who originally came up with televised debates fred, look what you ve done.
and much expanded. tonight the presidential debate. what is the most special about the debate is what this does for our students. we ve got a few hundred students working here in the debate hall and the cox pavilion and spin alley. a total of 1,000 students working the debate all week long all across campus. we have faculty that created new courses for the debate for this fall. we have a national lecture years business we re running and many other things on the debate that are going. and probably the thing we re most proud of is the partnership with the clark county school district. our nationally ranked debate team is working with the debate teams throughout all the schools and they ve been watching the debates live and analyzing them. and in addition we have all the students throughout the district writing essays about the debate. so it has been a thrill to participate. it is a great time for unlv. thank you. on behalf of our hotel resort partners, i want to thank all of you for be
the faculty and students of the university. the commission, went into existence in 1987. and since then we ve conducted 21 presidential debates in the general election. we have nothing do with the primary, please, i hope you understand that. and we have done eight vice presidential debates. so tonight is the 30th debate that the commission will have produced in those period of time. [ applause ] and we couldn t do it without the tremendous support of our board. and we have four members of our board here tonight, i want to spruce them to you. i m going to introduce them to to you. i want to ask them to stand and wait until they are all standing to give them the due thanks they deserve. first thegibson, you know him as former anchor on the nbc nightly news and good morning america.