they were more interested in singing, paul ryan sucks than they were volunteering to help get trump elected, one. two, paul ryan won with 80% of the vote in the last election, in his primary. so the fact that he is, you know, probably going to get close to that or better this fall, i think kind of takes care of itself. this, again, is part of feeding that narrative, that negative narrative out there about the establishment. i get it. i understand a lot of folks are ticked off at the establishment. and for many reasons that are good. but the way we re beginning to express this is detrimental for recovery and healing after this election. we ve got to think just beyond the moment in front of us, chris. we ve got to think beyond that to, what kind of republican party are we going to be if donald trump wins or if donald trump loses? and that, for me, is the bigger battle ahead. michael steele, as always, thanks for your time. joining me now, molly ball, political correspondent for the
that s a sign of a healthy democracy. they can treat each other as adversaries rather than enemies. go there and poke fun at each other and not get angry about it. of to think about how donald trump might handle this is it s worth looking back there has been a roast of donald trump so we know what it s like to sit on a stage for a few hours and get through the roast. he liked the attention of it. so he kind of likes it when people talk about him. at the end of the roast you go and respond to people. there was a whole joke writing process with him that did an inside what this looked like and rejejting a lot of the jokes written for him. one was what was the difference between donald trump s hair and the wet raccoon and $2 billion and he crossed it out and put $7 billion. this gets to clinton on wednesday and at the dinner. which is the degree a lot of
ominous. maybe that impossible providing the context i m going to put you in prison and maybe supporters will revolt. there s a sense not just from hillary clinton and even donald trump at this point, but from the voters it s time for this to be over. there s no need to learn anything more. silly looking at debates. supposed to be 90 minutes of talking about policy. it s about whether donald trump is a dangerously unfit person to be president. so it feels on some levels pointless to delve into his syria policy. given that everybody wants this to be over, the exercise of going and talking for 90 minutes feels silly. that s going to make the dinner feel especially silly. normally reporters and people who are political junkys like the month of october. nobody is having fun right now. even if for audience trouble to get into it at the dinner. thank you both. that is all in for this evening.
if i have to be a patriot, i will. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. donald trump is now holding a rally in green bay, wisconsin, where earlier tonight the crowd chanted, quote, paul ryan sucks. appearing on fox news just before the rally, trump repeated his last, best excuse why he is tanking in the polls. when i talk about the press taking people with absolutely no case whatsoever and trying to put it on front pages, that in its form, a media rigging of the election. you look at certain areas of the country in terms of the voters and the booths and everything else and what s taking place and illegal immigrants voting and people that have died ten years ago voting. there s no specific examples he cited of that, and trump s unprecedented insistence that the presidential election is being rigged, conspiracy afoot, the white house is such a massive departure of the norms of american political discourse, a fundamental threat to the foundation of democracy, that
the media have a certain way of looking at things when suddenly i pulled ahead in major polls, what was the head line, polls show obama leading from behind. i already saw reports from tonight s dinner, obama embraced by catholics, romney dies with rich people. ultimately though, tonight is not about the disagreements governor romney and i may have. it s what we have in common beginning with our unusual names. actually, mitt is his middle name. i wish i could use my middle name. that s the kind of self depo kating humor good natured ribbing is expected of the two presidential nominees. joining me now, senior correspondent for fox. we re looking at this footage. someone said yesterday, they re like it s the day after