Say that no matter what was said during the Campaign Trump would have to reconsile his view of the world with the reality hed face in the oval office in january. Regardless of what expereince or assumptions he brought to the office, thsi office has a way of waking you up. Right after trump was elected the American Civil Liberties union jumped right into action sending an open letter to president elect trump saying theyd fight just as hard if he away the rights of individual groups of people in the united states. The response theyve gotten has been impressive. Impressive. The aclu says 400thousand people saw that open letter. Letter. And that in five days theyve increased their facebook followers 25percent to nearly a million people. People. Their mailing list has drastically increased and more than 120thousand donations have added up to more than 7point2 million dol. Dollars. They say its the biggest show of support in history. Protestors in iowa city are falling in line behind groups
In for lester who is getting ready to moderate tonights president ial debate. The stage is literally set right behind us. There are the two podiums where Hillary Clinton and donald trump will take their positions in just a short while from now. And the stage is set in every other way. In expectations, in stakes, in suspension, in importance to the choice voters make in 43 short days. Tonight, a string of new polls shows the race is nailbitingly close for both candidates. Our new nbc News Survey Monkey poll shows Clinton Holding on to the lead by five points. Other polls show a tie and some in key battleground states as well. Some are estimating a total audience on the order of 100 million tonight and thats super bowl level. We have our Political Team assembled and ready to go. Nbcs Hallie Jackson won the coin toss, and she starts us off this evening. Good evening. Reporter good evening. And if were sticking with the football talk, put it this way, donald trump cannot afford a fumble to
Reporter my sources say things are not bad right now, things are very good. They point to the july fundraising numbers, 82 million. They say this is not a campaign in turmoil. But lets be honest about it. Donald trump has been jumping from one controversy to the next. Hes not doing well in battleground state polling right now. And he is chasing an onslaught of criticism from his own party, and threats even from republicans to unendorse him or not vote for him come november. So things are not as fine as they may make them out to be. That being said, the campaign is adamant that they are the anti establishment campaign, that they dont need the endorsement of other politicians, and frankly, when you talk to voters and i have been talking this morning, the endorsement of other politicians does not seem to matter. And this idea that there might be an intervention against donald trump, well, Rudy Guiliani pushed back against that this morning. Take a listen. There wasnt a meeting. I meet wit