even the person who introduced him noted he supported donald trump and the crowd erupted in applause erin. really interesting point he just made about the claude erupting in enthusiastic applause. my panel is back. phillip bump joins us as well. phil, putting the voters aside for a second because there may be a real split here. many republicans who are running for offers, who are in the power positions in the rnc are running scared. they don t want to be linked to donald trump. why is that? i would say that is because at this point two things are about equally likely to happen in the presidential race. either donald trump will eke out a win or donald trump will get totally blown out. the odds are good he ll us lose regardless. and there is going to be a long term repercussion to people who were outfront advocating for donald trump among non white voters. when you are in florida that is a problem. you don t want to be the guy to
it. you have different ways that the trump dynamic is playing out. in nevada, heck is being punished on the right for backing away from trump. and then in missouri, you have the opposite thing happening with roy blunt where he s not really getting any of the trump bounce despite not distancing himself or not being critical of trump at all in the hope of hanging onto those more hard right grassroots conservatives. so this is just playing out in the worst way possible it appears in a lot of different states. all right. jeremy peters, thank you very much. phillip bump, thank you for being on. coming up, the latest over outrage of national guard members being asked to pay back enlistment bonuses. now congress is looking into it. that s ahead on morning joe. using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the fruit.
people about the tenor of the campaign. truth, you guys are the pigs. reporter: now wait a minute. that s not nice. so it s sort of stuff like that. you know, as you talk to people as to why it is this election is so dirty or so mean or so ugly in the way that people speak and i m talking on both sides. people will say because there is so much at stake. and so if you talk to republicans and democrats, they may disagree as to who is the right leader. but they will say they can never remember a time when there was a more important election. and that is why the passions are so high and the talk is so low. thank you martin. outfront now scotty nell hughes. van jones, phillip bump and jonathan mart reason still wiin me. scotty, one of trump s supporters warning of a civil war if clinton wins and another one predicting the democrat wills kill trump if he wins. does this sort of rhetoric
i have tremendous respect for women and women have respect for me. i will tell you have you done those things? no, i have not. was that the moment that now has more and more women coming out accusing donald trump of unwanted contact? welcome back to morning joe. it s thursday, october 13th. with us we have the new york times nick confessore, writer for the fix, phillip bump, bloomberg s josh green, a a lot of people. i ll start with josh green and ask a question a lot of people want to know. have you called your mother, josh? i e-mailed her last night. she knows you re on the show? she knows i m on the show. she appreciates your concern. i m more concerned about you.
especially ted cruz, who this week has practically made it his campaign platform. the democratic debates are primarily moderated by liberals, and the republican debates are primarily moderated by liberals. on the republican side you look at an awful lot of the media interviewers. their object is whoever the republican nominee is to beat up on them and to have people either stay home or vote for hillary clinton. sure. after cruz s big moment slamming the moderators wednesday night, 24% of republican-leaning respondents to an online poll said he d done the best job in the debate. the day after cruz told fox news his campaign managed to raise $1.1 million. joining me now, washington post political reporter phillip bump and alex eisenstadt, political reporter for politico. alex, let s talk about this meeting, how it came to be and what the intention here is. well, look, the intention here is that candidates sort of want to take power out of the hands of the republican national co