leaders pushing back on donald trump s unfounded claims that the electoral process is, quote, rigged. they certainly want him to stop talking about it when he s out on the campaign trail. but donald trump kept pushing the idea anyway. the moment is going to be november 8th. it s very simple. and we will. we ve just begun to fight. they even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths where so many cities are corrupt. and voter fraud is all too common. and then they say, oh, there s no voter fraud in our country. there s no voter no, no, there s no voter fraud. take a look at st. louis. take a look at philadelphia. take a look at chicago. and then i have even the republicans saying, oh, this is a wonderful look, look. if nothing else, people are going to be watching on november 8th. reporter: trump holding the media responsible for what he
be, quote, interesting. certainly, a number of his supporters want him to stay on message during the debate and while he s out on the campaign trail. having said that a number of gop leaders pushing back on donald trump s unfounded claim that s electoral process is, quote, rigged. they certainly want him to stop talking about it when he s out on the campaign trail. but donald trump kept pushing the idea anyway. moment is going to be november 8th. it s very simple. and we will. we ve just begun to fight. they even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths where so many cities are corrupt. and voter fraud is all too common. and then they say, oh, there s no voter fraud in our country. there s no voter fraud. no, no, there s no voter fraud. take a look at st. louis. take a look at philadelphia. take a look at chicago. and then i have even the republicans saying, oh, this is a wonderful look, look.
colorado on the way here to las vegas. he urged his supporters not to believe these new polls. and he delivered a warning about what he thinks a clinton presidency will look like. history will record that 2017 was the year that america lost, truly lost, its independent. truly lost its independence. and by the way, this is our final shot, folks. in four years it s over. you re never going to be able to win. you re never going to be able to win. it s going to be a one-party system. is this your final shot. he had two events in colorado. colorado springs and grand junction. trump renewed his pledge to build a wall along the border with mexico. and he described himself to voters in colorado as a unifier. let s get more now from cnn s jason carroll. reporter: john and christine, donald trump had very little to say about the debate to the crowd here in grand junction, colorado. he did say that the debate would
i want to bring in cnn politics reporter eugene scott for a preview of tonight s event. eugene, we just heard from jeff zeleny about what hillary clinton might do differently leading into tonight. the big question is, what does donald trump do? i ve heard from a lot of republicans who say they actually want him to stick to policy. he s been at his best in debates, they say, when he talks about trade. when he talks about issues. what do you expect to see from donald trump tonight? well, considering the amount of prep he s receiving compared to what has happened the last several days we do expect him to focus on trade because as you said, this san issue that you highlighted he has a lot of success with. this is an issue that voters are concerned with. and it s an issue that sur fashioned in the wikileaks e-mails that he s bound to focus on this debate. trade, national security, terrorism. the economy. these were things again and again voters have said they trust donald trump to try t
and she plans to go after donald trump for repeatedly claiming that the election is rigged. all right. clinton v. trump part three. this time, it s personal. the candidates face off for the final time tonight, 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. we will be here on campus at unlv all day long. christine romans. john berman thank you for that. the operation to liberate mosul could take two months, that the assessment from a kurdish military commander during day two of the offensive. nearly 100,000 troops are marching on iraq s second largest city. and overnight, iraqi forces find themselves surrounded by extremists. we want to go live to erbil, iraq, bring in cnn s michael holmes. what s happening? what are you hearing from the front lines, michael? reporter: yeah, occurredish and iraqi forces are pushing in from the east and heading south towards mosul. some units we re told as close