donald trump. tailor made for donald trump s skills. so they re doing something most campaigns don t do. they re raising expectations for their candidate. and i will tell you, after talking to people inside the trump campaign, they re pushing back on this notion that trump was somehow jealous of mike pence s performance last night. they said no, that is not the case. kellyanne conway said that s outrageous. but donald trump will be getting back into debate prep. we were said reince priebus and chris christie will be a big part of that debate process which donald trump will be getting into here in the next few days. all right. we ll see the results sunday. thank you. hillary clinton spent the day largely off the stump heading from new york to washington where she held a fund-raiser. we ll have the latest on that and the debate prep. what was clinton s message to supporters at the, tonight s event? she did talk about that vice presidential debate for the
surrogate of the pro-clinton group correct the record. thank you for being with me. poppy, so glad to be on. wish you were here in manchester. so do i, actually. so do i. it should be an exciting night. let s talk about this. a lot to get through. first of all, there have been accusations that the dnc has skewed the debate process so that it favors your candidate, hillary clinton. i know you read the frank bruni piece in the new york times this week. let s read part of it. it says talking about tonight s debate it is on a saturday night when a political debate ranks between dialysis and a millie vanilli concert. and sought to make sure that some upstart didn t upset their plans. what do you say? you know, i was not in on any of those, but i do know this. that hillary clinton debates really well.
during the debate process we are trying to see who our nominee will be. once we get that then we can reach out. i think it is great trump is in the race. i don t listen to the new york times because they are not great policymakers. but discussing issues is good. many of the candidates are having trump set the report, having trump set the tone. if i were running for office, i would look to carly fiorina and take a play from her playbook because she answers the questions and then goes on to her agenda. jon: as donald trump says things about the mexicans being killers and banning muslims. is that the way to grow the part? i am a registered republican. do i sound like a rapist? just because one person has that point of view. and he is saying the sentiment
one at a time. so what you saw there was jeb this time going toe to toe with donald trump. there were actually about three exchanges like that. and they all ended essentially the same way, with both of them, you know, saying i win, i win, i win. but it was a little different jeb bush than we saw before. is this, anna, at long last the candidate you wanted to see on stage? hallelujah! hallelujah! look, i think we did see a different jeb bush. if i had any athletic ability, i would be doing chartwheels and maybe if it wasn t 35 degrees in vegas right now. i think jeb has understood that performing, theaters, making memorable lines, having memorable moments is part of what this debate process is and that it matters. and he s done it. he s done it well. yesterday, the day before, we were not talking about jeb bush. he was, you know, a little snippet here and there. today he has been at the center of all the media narrative as
he took that opportunity to harp on the character attacks. he was waiting for his moments. it worked. he was. and donald trump has built-in boo lines. look at all of you up there, he looks at the cameras focused on him. it s so funny. television networks spend lots of money on these debates. we go to great lengths to promote the debates. we re holding the debates so people can learn more about trump and the other candidates. it s easy to criticize and attack. let s keep in mind the beneficial relationship that also exists between trump and the press. also tonight, you got the captain up there, wolf blitzer. it s not going to be about people seeing shortcomings in him, that s for sure. that period of time there was lots of explaining about tough questioning at debates, that s passed. that moment has passed. we re not hearing candidates complain about the debate process the way they were last month. that appeared weak on the part