replenish such a nasty woman. since that moment in wednesday s debate, donald trump s nasty woman comment as taken on the quality of a meme, inspiring t-shirts and buttons and catching on like wildfire in social media, particularly among women of all generations and it s putting other republicans on the spot now as well. today on fox news, republican congressman from texas, brian baben, was asked about trump s choice of words and defended his nominee saying, quote, sometimes a lady needs to be told when she s being nasty. okay. so with that, we re joined now by stephanie chirac, the president of emily s list. so stephanie, hillary clinton in the debate did a couple of things that have resonance with women. one, she defended abortion rights in a very forthright way. she went after donald trump as a sexual predator. but this nasty meme seems to have caught on more than anything.
independents. and demonstrate, show, not tell that she s very serious about trying to bring everyone together. give me a for instance. because, obviously, she s got to reach across to, that s one on one. give me a specific thing she could do, a tactic that would kind of all of a sudden go, wow, maybe this is going to be different than we thought. i ll give you two tactics she could do, potentially. one is, she could sit down with donald trump very early. she said to him last night that, you know, i m going to need we re all going to have to work together. she could actually call donald trump, sit down with him. you know, talk to him. that would be, i think, a dramatic thing. the second thing i could do, though, she could actually go to capitol hill and meet with the leadership of both parties. go up there. not make them come to her. and that would also be, i think, a strong signal. susan, i want to talk to a colleague of yours, kellyanne conway, she looks really tired. i think
good for him. he s in d.c. to receive the mark twain prize for humor. and president obama had him come by to congratulate him. by the way, bill, go, dodgers. that s all for tonight. with all due respect starts right now. i m donny deutsch. and i m john heilemann. and with all due respect to donald trump, hillary clinton, gary johnson, ed mcmullen, and jill stein, i think we found our winner. mr. president, do you think the cubs will win? i feel very confident that clayton kershaw is a great pitcher, but they ve got too many sticks. they ve got too many sticks. oh, yeah, they ve got too many sticks all right. we ve got a couple of big sticks here, including donny deutsch in new york city. after today, folks, there are only two fridays left before the finale of this presidential contest. and yet again, republicans are going into the weekend beat up,
the ground. the impact of the tapes that donald trump had to suffer from, the accusations, what s been the effect of these last basically three weeks on the polling, of all the stuff that s happened? well, it s really collateral damage to the trump campaign. what we ve seen on the democratic side is that democrats and democratic-leaning independents have become increasingly supportive of clinton, just like you would expect in the closing weeks of a campaign. but that just hasn t happened on the republican side. republicans are staying at the level of support they ve had for donald trump over the last six weeks. so, you know, this is a really big missed opportunity for him. and in part, because of the damage, you know, that he s done to himself, by the tapes and the reaction to them. john, let s move down-ballot a little bit. obviously, let s talk about a potential wave. what is the tipping point, as far as a popular voter, as far as electoral vote, where it really starts to take hi
from north carolina and it s really close. your last segment was about female voters. they will tip the balance in all of these states. when you look at gender balance across all of these states, it s as big as we ve ever seen and when you combine that with the education gap, we have white women with college degrees going for democratic candidates, which puts lots of southern states in play, not only for clinton, but for the senate candidates. the democrats are in a good position, not as good as clinton is in terms of winning the white house, but they have a shot at taking over the senate. john, let me just drill into that little bit further. i hear from republican pollsters, who are doing private polling for candidates all the time that they re sort of freaking out right now, and if hillary clinton were to win the presidential election, right now she s at about six in polling average, if she got up to eight, nine, the senate would be gone for sure for republicans under those circu