leadership approach that says i believe that everybody is necessary to this economy. we re leaving people behind. i have a way to address this. and maybe you re more open on trade or less open on trade but reason you and i came into the conservative movement in the first place was because of ronald reagan. i grew up in a liberal household in seattle which is redundant. i was in high school. ronald reagan was running for president. i remember looking at it and saying he loves me. what s up with that? that was because he was an aspirational leader. john heilemann, we have to go to break. you want to talk. we have to go to break. we ll hold arthur over. can you stay a little longer? i would love to. sam stein doesn t feel that way. get rid of sam. should we kick him off the island. how has this morning been for you? it s been okay. fine. nothing special. what have you been doing in
fund-raising numbers before the election and hillary clinton more than doubles donald trump in cash on hand in the homestretch. in the first three weeks of october, trump raised 61 million while clinton took in 101 million. clinton outspent trump 87 million for him on 125 million for her, and in cash on hand, trump has 67.6 million while clinton in the final stretch has 153.5 million. that s a lot of cash. this is just another way in which she has the advantage broadly. i think you will it s kind of plays into donald trump s narrative that he s the underdog that the system is against him and that she s out to just raising money. he was criticizing her ahead of
have sensed real momentum since i joined the ticket. john? we were talking earlier about this story that came out in bloomberg business week yesterday that got an extraordinary amount of access to the trump/pence campaign. one of the things that has attracted a lot of attention is o from a senior official who said we have three major voter suppression operations under way and details what the operations are related to african-american voters, women voters and some voters on the left. is that okay for your campaign to be involved in voter suppression. number one, i haven t read the article. that s that s offensive to me, that kind of language. it s not our operation. donald trump and i want every american who has the opportunity to vote to vote in this election. that s our message. to tell the american people that this country really belongs to them. we can have government as good as our people again, but it s going to take all of us. and you saw donald trump this week in charlo
north carolina, virginia, he s down double digits now. colorado, pennsylvania. all over the map. three weeks out is one thing. you don t say it s over when it s three weeks. when it s two weeks, it s still not over. now we re ten days out maybe. ten days out. he s going to have to pick up five points nationally in ten days to get those swing states going his way. a lot of people are going to have to lie to pollsters, which just doesn t happen to that degree. i m with john. i just don t say anything is ever over. ever. but at the end of this week, there was some polls out midweek that were good for him in swing states. these are not. first of all, let s talk about the polls that we re going to have to understand that somebody is wrong within the margin of error. if we have 12 points swings, we re going to have new rules about polls. you look at what happened in
has had zero percent increase in the past eight years. that s the truth. when economists like me say 2.5% income increase or net income increase in the country 2.5% economic growth rate, that s a lie. 0% for bottom 80%. someone has to recognize that and say i ll fight to make that different. only guy that does it says by the way my lusolutions are isolationism and restrictism and shutting down straight, i get it. he has solutions. they aren t right but other ones aren t talking about the fact there s this discomfort. you can walk into a room i want to be clear and we have to go to news. when you say he has solutions, you re not saying they re your solutions. that s what the voter is saying. he s fighting for us. peggy noonan says if he were not nuts, he would get elected. i think that he came in and said you know i m nuts.