Theres so many of them, folks. For her part, clinton seize a big surge in polls taking aim now at trumps outsider pitch. So when donald trump talks about what ive been doing for the last 30 years, i welcome that. I welcome it, because in the 1970s, i was working to end discrimination, and he was being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination. And the trump effect, well, tearing the Republican Party apart. The House Speaker saying he can no longer defend the embattled nominee and many kancandidates key races say trump is a stain on the gop. When mr. Trump attacks women and demeans the women in our nation and in our society, that is a point where i just have to part company. I worry about the future of the Republican Party. Were going to have a lot of work to do after this election is over. Boy, is that an understatement. With us to share their reporting and insights, abby phillips, washington post, matt and politicos glenn rush, and unfair to hold him accountable, says donald trump, for the things he says and taking names. Well get to his promise or threat against the clintons in a moment, but the most remarkable thing about this campaign at the moment, implosion in the Republican Party. Trump is tanking in polls. Tape about him groping women is the biggest, not the only reason why. Top republicans fear getting flushed down the drain with their nominee. Top of that long list, House Speaker paul ryan and trump isnt happy about that. Isnt it too bad that we dont have Stronger Leadership on both sides . On both sides . I mean, you know, you have people that cant fix a budget, but then they Start Talking about their nominee, but they cant fix the budget. Isnt it really sad that we dont have Stronger Leadership, on both sides . But that will change if we win on november 8th. So were four weeks from today, people will be voting. Some people are early voting, but counting votes, sdooidi inde election and all of you follow donald trump on twitter, i assume. Weak paul ryan had a bad Conference Call. Members wend wild. Favorite, so nice the shackles are taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to, because hes been very revained up to this point. With the exception of cheating bernie out of the nomination, democrats proven more loyal than republicans. Keep reading. Remarkable. An implosion of the Republican Party four weeks before an election, actually a more dramatic story than trump versus clinton. Look what you donald trump is trying to do. Tap into the angst that propelled him to the republican nomination. Virtually all the early states said that a lot of Republican Voters, a vast majority of voters, felt betrayed by the Republican Party of leadership in washington. The challenge now is that hes not oning in a primary. Hes running in a general election and needs the support of people who will help him win the election. That includes mainstream republican, moderates, independents and the like, develop a coalition. Having, getting into a war with your Party Leadership and making that the dominant narrative this time out is just not, obviously, just not helpful. Look, it beats telling Miss Universe shes fat. I mean, maybe Glass Half Full guy. Need one of those at the table. It is good. It is, maybe, perhaps a baby step. Moving on from criticizing, you know, womens body image to going after somebody that can defend themselves in paul ryan. Nothing conventions about this. You can conclude this is not politically strategic or tactical. The guy doesnt like to be criticized. Say something nasty about donald trump, hes going scorched earth all the way. Trailing in polls, a huge margin, political poll has a smaller margin still a significant margin for Hillary Clinton nationally. See hes losing in the polls what . Lash out. I should not still be struck by this, but that he still has his password to his twitter account. I talked to a republican consultant who had a similarly challenging candidate they were representing. Went in and changed the password so that candidate couldnt get on. Nobody has done that with donald trump donald trump and its striking. Kellyanne, are you listening . Mitt romney22 people to proofread a tweet before it went out. Remarkable hes still on twitter and lashing out on paul ryan. You can see why republicans are so freaked out, because hes right now encouraging a divorce between his supporters and the Republican Party. Which means those downballot candidates, even if they thought they could get by, by disowning trump, the bottom is falling out of their support. All of these, this trump base, trump is telling them from the podium, let these guys go. All you need is me. Thats exactly a recipe for catastrophe. Exactly why the Republican Senate candidates struggled with donald trump this entire cycle, because they realized they need those Trump Supporters and have done this delicate dance when they says controversial things. Look what just happened in nevada, joe hack running for harry reids seat will not support donald trump over the weekend. Booed at the rally, attacked relentlessly by republicans that support donald trump. Could have an impact in a close race. If a lot of republicans choose not to support him. Having that problem in new hampshire, pick your state. Rob portman in ohio, so on, so forth. The nbc washington journal poll, gop candidates should do what . 67 republicans, keep supporting trump. 9 say they should say they cant. 14 call on trump to drop out. Donald trump say nearly 7 in 10 support me. Flip side. 30 of republicans are confused here, backing away from trump here. Thats a problem. A giant problem. And he has nobody else to go. Again, were talking about a guy who existed in this narrow band. By the way, that band is dropping. He had been a 38 to 43 candidate. We have seen numbers in the nbc washington journal poll hes, what . 35 nationally . This is a National MajorParty Candidate. We have not seen numbers like that in a generation. So the big conversation, you heard john mccain, how speaker, wont defend him, although hasnt dropped his endorsement. Chris christie still supports donald trump lectured him about what he said on the tape, about forcing himself on women and groping women. Listen to chris christie, while still supporting mr. Trump. Im still supporting donald. You know, obviously, i was disappointed by what happened, and you know, disappointed in some respects by the response initially, but im still supporting him. Has it wavered at all . You certainly have to think about it. Now, you know, ive known him a long time and im im really upset by what i heard, but in the end, this election is about bigger issues than just that. About bigger issues than just that. Cnns dana bash reporting that christie, part of the disappointment, wanted trump to just say im sorry and leave it there. No pivot into an attack on bill clinton. The centerkeys since then in the debate. Having the women beforehand with trump, and i think thats concerned a lot of republicans too. That hes going down sort of a different path that they want. Full contriteness and did not express that in this statement, in his videotape or at the debate. And, john, were seeing the beginning of this blame game thats about to happen, or even if you call it selfpreservation. People, Republican Leaders and different people are trying to come out of this election unscathed. Already starting to see the fingerpointing happenings if they lose, even more intense as they have to pick up the pieces. Trump at rallies trashing the republican establishment he says is tim it and coward. Trump supporters should funnish those republicans on the ballot in your state, vote for trump, not portman, and trumps support network, including sean hannity of fox news look at this election and say this finally we have a republican by the way, this better be the new Republican Party. These other guys like ryan, theyre done. They dont flow it yet, but their days are over. These guys are just so bad. So Sean Hannitys preference is that republicans choose a guy who in the past 15 years has been proclinton, prochoice and progroping, over paul ryan, over paul ryan, who maybe he cuts deals, but hes been consistently prolife and consistently saying we should balance the budget and consistently saying go into the africanamerican and inner city and find a conservative way to deal with poverty. Thats the choice. Really . The only way that argument can work is if donald trump wins in november. The point is, what hes doing is not a strategy for winning a national election. So if hes going to lose by doing it his way, then the only people left standing will be the paul ryans of the world, and thats why theyre trying to get ahead of this. Basically getting a head start on this process of backing away, and then rebuilding. Getting had head start four weeks before an election. How do you tell people to knock on doors, turn out votes, to send in lastminute fundraising. This is what year supposed to settle in the primary. Dont get your way, hold your nose, get through november. So much of the ground game given to the rnc. People knocking on doors in nevada saying, trying to get out the vote for joe heck and donald trump and joe heck is backing away from donald trump, creating awkward snare scenarios at the doorstep trying to get people to the polls. Youre seeing very little loyalty to him within the party. I remember this. To me the most stunning interview he gave in this whole campaign was to the a. P. In may where he just basically processed a basic ig innerens about the tools of modern campaigning. Didnt understand metrics or polling. One thing to be a beginner and to not want to know how it works. Putting out press releases proving he had giant crowds. Proving he will win the election. Joint crowds are great but dont say who will win on election day. Up next, look how Hillary Clinton is trying to take advantage. What are you doing . Getting your quarter back. Fountains dont earn interest, david. You know i work at ally. I was being romantic. You know what i find romantic . A robust annual percentage yield thats what i find romantic. This is literally throwing your money away. I think its over there. That way . Yeah, a little further up. What year was that quarter . What year is that one . 98 thats the one. You got it nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. Ally. Do it right. 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If youre still just managing your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira. With humira, remission is possible. Four weeks from today four weeks from today this starts to fill in. Red states, blue states. We count votes. Election day, four weeks from today. One of the reasons republicans are so nervous becauses this. An nbc News Washington journal poll released yesterday. Hillary clinton with a lead. Donald trump at 35 . A major Party Candidate getting just over onethird of the vote. Not the only reason republicans are nervous. Look at state polls. Recent day, clinton leading in florida, clinton leading in ohio, clinton leading in nevada, i could go on and on and on, clinton leading in battleground states. Why does this matter . This is the math that matters election day. We all believe secretary clinton would win and cross that threshold today. At the moment, the most in the tossup states, the goal, clintons leading, clintons leading, clintons leading, clintons leading. Republicans think she could be on a path to Electoral College blowout, bigger than barack obama in 2012. Donald trump gets it. I get it uphill. Im going to work until the very end. Were she 28 days. November 8th is the big day. Were going to get out, were going to win. Im going to make three, four, five stops a day. I may be limping across that finish line, but were going to get across that finish line. Three, four, five stops a day. At some point, talking about the metrics of the campaign. It gets hard. You can focus on one state and turn a state. If you have to turn florida, very different from nevada, very different from pennsylvania, which is very different from pick another one, if youve got to cha g to change different states, gets really hard, because each has its own economy, own demographic, own political structure. And if your ground game is not nearly at superior as your opponents, a big problem, too. In the National Party decides its time to go a different way and help your downticket candidates instead, save congress, that is a big problem, too. Of course, as we know, the races are about momentum. There have been momentum shifts through the course of this campaign. That poll, nbc News Washington journal poll came in the heat of the release of the video. So perhaps theres some we have not seen the full breadth of polling postdebate. Well see the impact that the the Lasting Impact on the electorate. The last well chance donald trump has is the last debate in las vegas to change momentum. Youre right. Downstream momentum, your party jumps ship. A bigger problem than that. His attacking the clintons as a response to this tape is precisely the wrong thing to do. What he needed to do, what bill clinton did in 1992. Pivot to a message not about him but about the American People. He did that, most effective in the first debate talking about the Hillary Clintons 30 years and quite effective in the latter parts of the second debate talking aboutish us like trade. The dude has got to stop talking about sex and hes got to Start Talking about the economy and the thing that got him into the race in the first place. Which was this appeal to peoples sense the future is declining. Its so true. She goes after him, he goes after her. Speaker says something, he goes after him. Not talking about issues. Hillary clinton believes this tape helps her a lot and wants to keep it in the news. Donald trump says locker room talk. Most say talking about sexual assault. Hillary clinton says this a lot of athletes and coaches from the nba, from major league baseball, from the nfl and more have been coming forward, tweeting. Theyve been saying, no. Thats not what happens in our locker rooms. She clearly thinks this is to her advantage. I think Hillary Clinton talking sports is yeah. But she clearly thinks dont let donald trump change the subject. Yeah. Its part of the whole message of donald trump is out of control. He doesnt have the ability to police himself and is disqualified. This fits like a glove into this message that the campaign has been trying to build for months and for moss and for months. Theyre happy to talk about it. They will talk about it forever and always, but you know, i think its not enough. I think they realize that its not enough. If your opponents will fall into a ditch, might as well give him a little shove. Also tacit recognition perhaps didnt talk enough about that video in the debate. A lot of people, concerned democrats, she let him off the hook essentially after the first part of the debate focused on that. The rest got into the other issues, perhaps trump didnt as badly as people thought he would because he didnt have to answer a lot of questions about it and clearly she wants to keep this issue alive. Look at the map. Not only the president ial race, a superpac aligned, spending money on senate campaigns. You saw mccain, other republicans running away, maybe opportunities if trump is dragging the part down to go late into a race you didnt think two weeks ago had a prayer of winning and Hillary Clinton doing something interesting. Listen to this ad. Hillary clinton thinks lift that of republican saying, hmm, after listening to that. Theyre trying this. I cast my first vote for president as a college kid at the university of iowa. I voted republican then, and i have ever since. But i cannot vote for donald trump. So im putting party aside and voting for Hillary Clinton. I dont know how successful it will be but a smart pitch. Especially in tighter swing states. Its a permission slip. Republicans by and large, give them a permission slip to say im leaving, this one time, even just this one time and going towards her, but you know, i mean the thing is, theres a lot of questions about whether this is actually a great strategy. I mean, republicans who are most amenable to this message are probably already thinking about leaving, at this late stage or four weeks to the election. I think those folks already know that theyre on the cusp. This continues that messaging, but it doesnt kind of, like, really get them over the finish line and thats going to be about her. It has to be Hillary Clinton, can they vote for this woman otherwis