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Abraham Lincoln was the greatest president America ever had. He was | 0:00:08 | 0:00:14 | |
earnest. He was a bit socially awkward, but he was visionary and he | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
was heroic and he earned the respect of the world. Where are the heroes | 0:00:19 | 0:00:27 | |
now? Whatever happens in November's presidential election, the winner | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
will be one of the two least popular candidates of all time. What on | 0:00:32 | 0:00:39 | |
earth has happened to a truly great democracy that the choice is so | 0:00:40 | 0:00:46 | |
awful? $5 trillion... But you have no plan. Oh, rbg oh, but I do. The | 0:00:47 | 0:00:53 | |
supporters of Clinton and Trump agree on only one thing: How | 0:00:54 | 0:00:59 | |
unspeakable the other candidate is. I think that Hillary Clinton is a | 0:01:00 | 0:01:04 | |
terribly dangerous person. He should never be entrusted with the button. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:09 | |
One is alleged to have risked national security. The FBI says | 0:01:10 | 0:01:15 | |
there were 110 classified e-mails exchanged, eight of which were top | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
secret. The other is accused of multiple sexual assaults. You | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
describe kissing women without consent, grabbing their genitals. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:28 | |
That is sexual assault. Is either fit for office? It's just awfully | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
in charge of the law in our country. Because you'd be in jail. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:44 | |
This year's presidential election has shaped up rather like a reality | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
television contest. Has something gone seriously wrong with American | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
politics? Could a Donald Trump presidency really happen? I hope, | 0:01:54 | 0:01:59 | |
for God sake, my country, he's not the president of the United States. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
I'm not going to sit on national television and tell you he can't. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
Under President Trump, here's what would happen: On November 8, the | 0:02:07 | 0:02:13 | |
people of America get to decide who's fired and who's hired for the | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
White House. How has it come to this? And what does the choice | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
they're being offered tell us about the state of the most powerful | 0:02:21 | 0:02:21 | |
nation on earth? It's a contest for the biggest job | 0:02:22 | 0:02:36 | |
in the world. So you wouldn't expect this to happen. I better use some | 0:02:37 | 0:02:42 | |
Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
automatically attracted to beautiful - I just start kissing them. It's | 0:02:47 | 0:02:52 | |
like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
they let you do it. You can do anything. Whatever you want. Grab | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
them by the pussy. You can do anything you want. The world was | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
revolted, yet the Donald is still in the race. I was getting beaten up by | 0:03:06 | 0:03:11 | |
all the networks. If they want to release more tapes saying | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
inappropriate things, we'll continue to talk about Bill and Hillary | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
Clinton doing inappropriate thing. Hillary Clinton's been mistrusted | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
for years. You can tell the Egyptian Prime Minister it's a terrorist | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
attack, but you can't tell your own people? Not to mention being the | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
first female serious contender and married to a man who was almost | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
thrown out of the White House in a sex scandal. I did not have sexual | 0:03:35 | 0:03:41 | |
relations with that woman. How things have changed in just eight | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
years, remember when Obama was a rock star singing a song of hope. At | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
this defining moment, change has come to America. | 0:03:51 | 0:04:00 | |
So how has this whole mess happened? There's a man in Washington who | 0:04:01 | 0:04:07 | |
knows how presidents are made. He got Obama into the White House, not | 0:04:08 | 0:04:13 | |
once, but twice, and helped David Cameron win a surprise Conservative | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
victory last year, Jim Messina is one of America's most savvy | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
strategist. This is a very unusual campaign. Yeah, it's an | 0:04:22 | 0:04:28 | |
unprecedented campaign. We elected President Obama in 2008, we thought | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
that was the most unbelievable campaign. This has broken all sort | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
of typical norms that you would expect from a political campaign. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
No-one thought a year ago that Donald Trump would be the Republican | 0:04:41 | 0:04:45 | |
nominee to the White House. I spent two years of my life praying for him | 0:04:46 | 0:04:51 | |
to become the Republican nominee... Because that's who you wanted as the | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
enemy? Absolutely. Because I thought he was the single easiest person to | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
beat. We're about to find out whether that's true. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
Turned out getting and maintaining a lead over Trump has been harder than | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
expected. Donald Trump taking the lead in some swing state polls... It | 0:05:09 | 0:05:14 | |
should have been easy for Hillary. Why has he controlled so much of the | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
narrative? He's the single best social media campaigner of a | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
generation. He controlled the narrative on Twitter and on social | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
media and by having an absolute mastery of the press. He ran his own | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
reality show for years. He understands how to do this in a way | 0:05:33 | 0:05:39 | |
that is unprecedented. The press has been largely hostile, hasn't it? | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
Give me a break. They love him. At the beginning, it was great fun.. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
Was a reality show. He was the only interesting thing. He was running | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
against a bunch of not very exciting characters and sometimes being the | 0:05:51 | 0:05:56 | |
tallest dwarf is OK. The problem is - what if actually the tallest dwarf | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
gets elected president of the United States? If you could give a round of | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
applause to our two nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
opposing the tallest dwarf for the job of the world's most powerful | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
human is a woman her critics call an establishment puppet. This election | 0:06:15 | 0:06:20 | |
is ripe for paradias -- parody as the makers of Avenue Q have | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
discovered. I don't know why people are so interested in my e-mails. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
That's the problem. That's the problem. She says one thing and then | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
she says another thing. She flip flops. She's a flip flopper. She's a | 0:06:34 | 0:06:39 | |
liar. Jen Bender directed the show. When we were coming up for the | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
script for this event, Trump is so easy to parody because he's like a | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
puppet himself. He just says what he thinks. He has so many things easy | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
to grab onto - it's huge, it's fabulous. I'm wondering what is your | 0:06:54 | 0:06:59 | |
stance on gay marriage? Well, it took me some time to get there, but | 0:07:00 | 0:07:07 | |
I am all for same-sex marriages and I hope every one of your gay | 0:07:08 | 0:07:12 | |
fantasies come true. Hillary Clinton was harder because she doesn't have | 0:07:13 | 0:07:15 | |
the go-to, you know the Sarah Palin voice that can be easily mimicked. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
Donald Trump gives it all to us. Marriage should be between a man and | 0:07:22 | 0:07:27 | |
a woman, a beautiful, younger woman, usually with an accent. Thank you so | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
much. Thank you for coming. So what was the start of this race to the | 0:07:33 | 0:07:41 | |
bottom... Sorry to the White House. This, the federal election | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
commission headquarters is where the race officially began. On June 22 | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
last year, someone handed in a paper in the name of candidate P 81571, | 0:07:50 | 0:07:59 | |
Donald J Trump. Hillary Clinton filed her application two months | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
previously. They joined a list of hundreds of other names. Amazingly | 0:08:03 | 0:08:08 | |
Trump's wasn't the most ridiculous. There's a raft of attention-seeking | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
half wits who thought they could become president of the United | 0:08:13 | 0:08:18 | |
States. They include: Ghost of macho man Randy Savage, moose the dog, bye | 0:08:19 | 0:08:25 | |
the clown, Sydney's voluptuous buttocks and the right honourable | 0:08:26 | 0:08:31 | |
Boris de Pfeffel Johnson MP, whose slogan was apparently, let's make | 0:08:32 | 0:08:37 | |
America great... Britain again. Neither candidate was fresh to the | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
fight. Hillary threw her hat into the ring in 2008, when Barack Obama | 0:08:43 | 0:08:48 | |
beat her to the nomination as the Democratic party's candidate. I | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
endorse him and throw my full support behind him. The Donald first | 0:08:53 | 0:09:02 | |
considered running back in 1988. Then he thought, if that's the right | 0:09:03 | 0:09:08 | |
word, about it again in 1999, when in true Trump style he announced it | 0:09:09 | 0:09:14 | |
live on a chat show. So I am going to form a presidential exploratory | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
committee, I might as well announce it on your show, everyone else does. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:24 | |
He was talked about as a Republican candidate for 2012. But Obama | 0:09:25 | 0:09:29 | |
slapped him down at a Washington gala and Trump took his ambitions no | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
further. All kidding aside, obviously we all know about your | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
credentials and breadth of experience... | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
LAUGHTER Say what you will about Mr Trump, he | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
certainly would bring some change to the White House. Let's see what | 0:09:46 | 0:09:52 | |
we've got up there. Back then it was a gag in an after-dinner speech. But | 0:09:53 | 0:09:57 | |
no-one's laughing now at the idea of a Donald Trump White House. Of | 0:09:58 | 0:10:03 | |
course, there has been a celebrity in the Oval Office before. Would you | 0:10:04 | 0:10:09 | |
come and meet my father captain? I'd be delighted. Is he in the | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
government service? Yes, but I think he'll lose his job in the next | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
election. That's too bad. He should be in the Army, politics don't | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
bother us. Ronald Reagan was a winning combination of Hollywood | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
glamour and eight years of experience as governor of | 0:10:26 | 0:10:32 | |
California. In 1980 he won the presidency by a land slide, elected | 0:10:33 | 0:10:38 | |
on a rather familiar slogan. We will make America great again. Thank you | 0:10:39 | 0:10:44 | |
very much. And he became a hero to the American right. He was a lot | 0:10:45 | 0:10:51 | |
more modern and more of a pragmatist than a lot of people gave him a | 0:10:52 | 0:11:00 | |
credit for. Trent Lott was at Reagan's side. He had a different | 0:11:01 | 0:11:05 | |
background. He was sneered at by the media, this movie star could never | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
be president of America. Probably one of the best presidents, top | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
five, in the history of this country. Do you think that Donald | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
Trump has the ability to be a Ronald Reagan? I don't know of anybody | 0:11:18 | 0:11:23 | |
could be a Ronald Reagan. Is there similarity with Trump? How would he | 0:11:24 | 0:11:29 | |
really perform? Does he have credentials that maybe are the right | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
ones for the moment? Are you even sure that Trump's a Republican? No. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
How's he got the Republican nomination? Because he has a message | 0:11:39 | 0:11:43 | |
that has tapped into the concerns, fears and anger of the American | 0:11:44 | 0:11:49 | |
people. So you'll vote Trump. I'm for Trump, yeah, sure. As the lesser | 0:11:50 | 0:11:54 | |
of two evils? I hate to put it that way, but you know, neither one of | 0:11:55 | 0:11:56 | |
them are very popular. Ronald Reagan walked off the silver | 0:11:57 | 0:12:18 | |
screen and into the White House. Donald Trump de scended his golden | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
escalator in the modestly named Trump Tower. While Reagan launched a | 0:12:24 | 0:12:29 | |
charm offensive, Trump was just, well, offensive. They're bringing | 0:12:30 | 0:12:36 | |
drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, | 0:12:37 | 0:12:45 | |
are good people. Businesses and organisations cut ties with him and | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
it seemed his campaign might be over before it had even begun. The | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
Republican establishment kept its distance. Trump didn't care. He was | 0:12:54 | 0:12:59 | |
paying his own way. I'm using my own money. I'm not using the lobbyists. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:05 | |
I'm not using donors. I don't care. I'm really rich. Then something that | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
no-one expected to happen did, the man who started out as the jackass | 0:13:11 | 0:13:18 | |
candidate began drawing the crowds. Turns out not being a politician | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
wasn't a problem. It was his best asset. I am so tired of this | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
politically correct crap. Larry Pratt is a conservative | 0:13:27 | 0:13:42 | |
activist and heads the Gun Owners of America lobby group. What is it that | 0:13:43 | 0:13:48 | |
Trump has put his finger upon that makes him electable potentially? The | 0:13:49 | 0:13:54 | |
political class does seem to operate apart from the rest of the country. | 0:13:55 | 0:14:01 | |
I believe that's what he may be playing into and why with all his | 0:14:02 | 0:14:06 | |
gaffes and all the other problems with his campaign, he seems to be | 0:14:07 | 0:14:15 | |
continuing to march toward victory. One of his more spectacular gaffes, | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
when he seemed to suggest that supporters of the Second Amendment, | 0:14:20 | 0:14:23 | |
gun lovers, take a pot shot at Hillary Clinton. If she gets to pick | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although, the second | 0:14:28 | 0:14:35 | |
amendment people maybe there is. I don't know. Isn't it embarrassing | 0:14:36 | 0:14:40 | |
when you can get someone running for president using the sort of language | 0:14:41 | 0:14:45 | |
he has used, for example the implied threat to the life of Hillary | 0:14:46 | 0:14:51 | |
Clinton? Well, if we were concerned about being embarrassed, we wouldn't | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
be involved with politics. I don't think Donald Trump implied or was | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
thinking about any personal threat to Hillary Clinton, although I | 0:15:02 | 0:15:04 | |
realise for her, losing the election is the same as dying. Who do you | 0:15:05 | 0:15:11 | |
want to win? Well, of the two, I would prefer Donald Trump. I'm not | 0:15:12 | 0:15:18 | |
enthusiastic about him. But I'm reminded of the cowboy legend that | 0:15:19 | 0:15:23 | |
when you're fighting off a wild dog, and all you've got available is a | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
crooked stick to use, you grab the crooked stick. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
Trump began as the rank ? very rank ? outsider | 0:15:33 | 0:15:39 | |
for the Republican nomination. He faced 16 rivals. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:45 | |
But he dispatched them with withering put-downs, | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
especially "low-energy" Jeb Bush, presumed heir to a political | 0:15:50 | 0:15:54 | |
dynasty, who didn't even make it into the final four. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:56 | |
Excuse me... One second... | 0:15:57 | 0:16:02 | |
More energy tonight, I like that. Many conservatives still thought | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
he was a spiv wearing spray-tan Republicanism. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
But his showmanship won over the primary voters, | 0:16:10 | 0:16:20 | |
who handed Trump the nomination. It is my honour to be able to throw | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
Donald Trump over the top in the delegate count tonight. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:30 | |
Congratulations, Dad, we love you! Over the top, indeed. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton was struggling. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:41 | |
She'd acquired a Trump nickname of her own - "Crooked Hillary". | 0:16:42 | 0:16:46 | |
But her immediate problem was an elderly socialist, | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
Bernie Sanders. It's crooked Hillary Clinton | 0:16:51 | 0:16:52 | |
against the communists. Who the hell? | 0:16:53 | 0:16:57 | |
Are these guys crazy? "The Bern" wants to abolish | 0:16:58 | 0:16:59 | |
the death penalty and believes that climate change causes terrorism. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
His main pitch to voters was to soak the rich. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:05 | |
Pinkos like that don't normally stand a chance in the US. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
But Hillary managed to make him hard to beat. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:11 | |
But her left wing rival Bernie Sanders inflicted a shock | 0:17:12 | 0:17:14 | |
defeat in Michigan, supposedly a Clinton stronghold... | 0:17:15 | 0:17:19 | |
Was there a candidate at any point in this presidential | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
campaign that you felt you could identify with? | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
Absolutely. Bernie Sanders. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:29 | |
Cassandra Fairbanks is a social media journalist. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
One of a new generation for whom policies and personalities | 0:17:34 | 0:17:37 | |
are more important than parties. Bernie Sanders didn't get | 0:17:38 | 0:17:39 | |
the nomination, of course. No, he did not, tragically. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:45 | |
He was far too left wing for mainstream politics in this | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
country, wasn't he? Tragic. He would have been | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
wonderful. So who are you going to vote for? | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
I'm going to be voting for Donald Trump. | 0:17:58 | 0:17:58 | |
You're going to vote for Donald Trump? | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
I am. Erm, yeah, OK, there's a word | 0:18:02 | 0:18:04 | |
for people like you. It's mad. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
Well, I think that Hillary Clinton is a terribly dangerous person. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
I think that the Clinton Foundation and a lot of the deals that | 0:18:12 | 0:18:13 | |
were made during her time at the State Department | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
are deserving of side-eye at best and terrifying at worst. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:24 | |
It says something about Hillary Clinton when Bernie | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
supporters would rather switch to The Donald than to her. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
Clinton's unpopularity sometimes baffles the British. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:39 | |
But Hillary-haters have plenty to point to. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:47 | |
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call | 0:18:53 | 0:18:57 | |
the basket of deplorables. Right? | 0:18:58 | 0:19:03 | |
The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
you name it. They claim she's cold. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:14 | |
Untrustworthy. Elitist. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:19 | |
Warmongering. And above all, power-hungry. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
Clinton wants to be powerful, Trump wants to be popular. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:27 | |
And because he wants to be popular, I think that he'll do things that | 0:19:28 | 0:19:29 | |
have popular support over necessarily going with his party. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
Are there lots of people who feel like you? | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
People aren't sticking to party lines the way they did before. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
Erm, I think people want more options. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
I mean, we have 51 candidates for Miss America and then we have | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
two choices for president. It's a terrible choice. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:50 | |
It may be, but unfortunately we only have two terrible choices. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
Our third parties aren't even that great. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
We have Jill Stein, who will probably try and heal | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
the economy with crystals and is polling worse | 0:20:01 | 0:20:06 | |
than a dead gorilla. And then we have Gary Johnson, | 0:20:07 | 0:20:09 | |
who said that nobody got hurt in the bombing the other day | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
and didn't know what Aleppo was. I mean, we're out of good options. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:19 | |
Scepticism about the calibre of politicians is nothing new. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:26 | |
Among the thousands who've turned to dust in this Baltimore cemetery | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
lies one of the most peppery journalists America ever produced - | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
HL Mencken. He's a bit of a personal hero. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
Mencken watched plenty of presidential races and observed | 0:20:40 | 0:20:48 | |
that "one great and glorious day, the plain folks of America | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
will reach their heart's desire, and the White House will be adorned | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
by a downright moron". He thought he was joking, | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
but if you listen very carefully, down there, you can hear | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
something spinning. Mencken spoke those | 0:21:05 | 0:21:06 | |
words a century ago. So, why is it NOW that | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
they could come true? Jocelyn Kiley is a top poll | 0:21:11 | 0:21:17 | |
analyst, with some answers. One of the questions that we ask, | 0:21:18 | 0:21:19 | |
and have asked fairly regularly in our polling, | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
is whether you're satisfied with the choice of candidates. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
And we've tracked near record low levels of satisfaction | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
with the two candidates. What we find is that many, | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
many Americans say that the candidates would make poor | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
or terrible presidents, and few Americans would say that | 0:21:37 | 0:21:39 | |
either candidate would make a good or a great president. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:44 | |
The researchers don't just ask what people think | 0:21:45 | 0:21:49 | |
and how they'll vote. They want to know how | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
they look at the world. And that's thrown up one profound | 0:21:53 | 0:21:54 | |
difference between Trump and Clinton voters. | 0:21:55 | 0:22:00 | |
One of the questions that we ask is about whether life | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
is better for people like you than it was 50 years ago. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:07 | |
And the clear majority of 60% of Clinton supporters say | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
it is better, and 81% of Trump supporters say that life is worse | 0:22:12 | 0:22:16 | |
today than it was for people like them 50 years ago. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
You do see this evidence that perhaps Clinton and Trump voters not | 0:22:21 | 0:22:25 | |
just have different policy preferences, but also have different | 0:22:26 | 0:22:27 | |
visions of America today, America in the past, | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
America in the future. The question of what or | 0:22:31 | 0:22:44 | |
who is "America" lies at the heart of this election. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:49 | |
This is still the richest economy in the world, | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
and yet many Americans feel they're barely making ends meet. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:56 | |
Furthermore, they think the political elite not only | 0:22:57 | 0:23:03 | |
doesn't care about them, but doesn't even understand them. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
That's making their loyalties hard to predict. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
Jobs are going overseas, this is nuts. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
I'm a college student, I mean, that's one of my biggest worries, | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
like, you know, there won't be any jobs, right? | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
This is the state of Virginia. In the last four presidential | 0:23:23 | 0:23:24 | |
elections, it's gone Republican twice and Democrat twice. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
If Trump can't win here, he's in big trouble. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:34 | |
In 2012, the Democrats won Virginia with 51.16% of the vote. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
They did that by having four times as much voter contact. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
That means door to door. But all of us doing this at the same | 0:23:42 | 0:23:44 | |
time all across Virginia? This is how we win. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:51 | |
See you back round here at 1:30! You'd think these campaigners | 0:23:52 | 0:23:55 | |
would be die-hard Trump supporters. But it's not that straightforward. | 0:23:56 | 0:24:04 | |
I don't like either candidate. In the past, I volunteered | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
for Hillary Clinton, and worked her '08 campaigns. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:10 | |
But right now, I'm very saddened about her. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
The bell rang. The bell rang on, whatever | 0:24:15 | 0:24:17 | |
that statement was, that "deplorables" statement. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:24 | |
I want to get America back again. Armed with a campaign phone app | 0:24:25 | 0:24:27 | |
to track their progress, trainer John and his | 0:24:28 | 0:24:30 | |
new recruit Rose set out to gather information. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:37 | |
Can I ask who you're voting for? I don't wanna say who I'd vote for, | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
I'm more a Democrat voter right now. But to be honest with ya, | 0:24:42 | 0:24:54 | |
I don't want neither one of them! Click on Antonio, | 0:24:55 | 0:25:01 | |
no answer at door, we go back because there were two targeted | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
voters, we click on Amanda, no answer at door, we put the little | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
check mark by the house and proceed to the next one, looks like it's | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
across the street, No 5... I mean, I think we know | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
what his answer's gonna be. But still... | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
This is a middle-class, racially diverse neighbourhood. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
And perhaps surprisingly, many of its residents are giving | 0:25:24 | 0:25:28 | |
Trump's message a hearing. The people who are leaning, | 0:25:29 | 0:25:30 | |
it's astonishing. Didn't expect that. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
Most people, they're afraid to admit they're for Trump. | 0:25:35 | 0:25:40 | |
Our next President, do you believe they should continue the same | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
direction as Barack Obama or change course? | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
Change course. Trump has quiet supporters here. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
Some think their backing could yet help him take the White House. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:57 | |
I have three four-year degrees and two of them are in the field | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
of business and economics. I really like what he's offering. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
He's coming on board with a lot of things. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:15 | |
I like his economic policy. Rose isn't alone in admiring | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
Donald Trump's business savvy. And he's put it front and centre | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
in his pitch for the presidency. I have a great company. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:31 | |
I have a tremendous income. And the reason I say that is not | 0:26:32 | 0:26:34 | |
in a braggadocious way. It's because it's about time | 0:26:35 | 0:26:37 | |
that this country had somebody running it that has | 0:26:38 | 0:26:43 | |
an idea about money. Property is the cornerstone | 0:26:44 | 0:26:45 | |
of the Trump myth. He owns Trump Tower, | 0:26:46 | 0:26:48 | |
Trump International Hotel, Trump Palace, the Trump Building | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
on Wall Street, Trump Place... You get the idea. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:56 | |
His mogul reputation brought TV producers knocking. | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
And with The Apprentice, a legend was born. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:03 | |
You're all fired. All four are fired. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:08 | |
Go home. Go home. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
But that wasn't the first time Trump got to sound off | 0:27:14 | 0:27:19 | |
about his business brilliance. Before the TV show, | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
there was the book. The Art Of The Deal appeared | 0:27:24 | 0:27:25 | |
in 1987, after Trump Tower was completed. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
It spent a year on the bestseller list. It's got some terrific lines. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:33 | |
"Controversy sells." "The way I promote is bravado. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:42 | |
I play to people's fantasies." "A little hyperbole never hurts." | 0:27:43 | 0:27:48 | |
And then, prophetically, "My time will come." But my | 0:27:49 | 0:27:51 | |
favourite line of all is that of the Washington Post | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
reviewer, who said... "The man's lack of taste is as vast | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
as his lack of shame." Trump's ego may be tremendous, | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
but his critics say his tax bill certainly isn't. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:10 | |
He's the only presidential candidate for four decades not | 0:28:11 | 0:28:15 | |
to release his tax returns. Maybe he doesn't want the American | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he's paid | 0:28:20 | 0:28:23 | |
nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that | 0:28:24 | 0:28:26 | |
anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them | 0:28:27 | 0:28:28 | |
over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino | 0:28:29 | 0:28:33 | |
license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax. So... | 0:28:34 | 0:28:40 | |
That makes me smart. That line would finish off | 0:28:41 | 0:28:45 | |
any regular politician. Not The Donald. But his tax bill | 0:28:46 | 0:28:50 | |
isn't the only thing that's being questioned. Rumours also swirl about | 0:28:51 | 0:28:56 | |
how good a businessman he really is. Trump started out | 0:28:57 | 0:29:01 | |
backed by family money. Through the '80s, he amassed | 0:29:02 | 0:29:05 | |
a high-rolling real-estate empire. And in 1990, he opened his most | 0:29:06 | 0:29:09 | |
ambitious venture yet - the Trump Taj Mahal | 0:29:10 | 0:29:15 | |
in Atlantic City. Donald Trump gave Michael Jackson | 0:29:16 | 0:29:18 | |
a personal tour of his $1.2 billion extravaganza. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:22 | |
We had Michael at the Taj Mahal. He's my friend, he's | 0:29:23 | 0:29:25 | |
a tremendous talent, and it's really my honour. | 0:29:26 | 0:29:29 | |
With revenue topping $37 million a month, | 0:29:30 | 0:29:33 | |
Donald's biggest gamble is turning up aces. | 0:29:34 | 0:29:38 | |
But the gamble Trump took in Atlantic City was risker | 0:29:39 | 0:29:51 | |
than anyone realised. corporate bankruptcy - four times. | 0:29:52 | 0:29:55 | |
Workers were laid off. Contractors went unpaid. | 0:29:56 | 0:29:58 | |
Yet Trump did make a lot of money - for himself. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:02 | |
Washington, If he had re-invested in the city, everyone would tout his | 0:30:03 | 0:30:09 | |
good name. But he didn't. He took the money. He made lots of money for | 0:30:10 | 0:30:13 | |
himself. Listen, he had no reason or obligation to spend it in Atlantic | 0:30:14 | 0:30:18 | |
City. As we look at the long-term picture, Donald Trump has not been | 0:30:19 | 0:30:30 | |
good for Atlantic City. As other gambling hot spots sprang up, | 0:30:31 | 0:30:35 | |
Atlantic City lost its luster. Today it's struggling. Republican Guard | 0:30:36 | 0:30:41 | |
Garde is mayor. -- Republican Don Guardian is mayor. If you are asking | 0:30:42 | 0:30:46 | |
- if I want the United States to be after a Donald Trump presidency, | 0:30:47 | 0:30:51 | |
Atlantic City after Donald Trump ownership of casinos? The answer is | 0:30:52 | 0:30:56 | |
absolutely not. Trump wasn't the first and won't be the last property | 0:30:57 | 0:31:00 | |
developer to claim strategic bankruptcy. But he's surely the only | 0:31:01 | 0:31:07 | |
person ever to have insisted that defaulting on vast loans is a | 0:31:08 | 0:31:10 | |
qualification for the job of US president. I made a lot of money in | 0:31:11 | 0:31:15 | |
Atlantic City and I'm very proud of it, very, very proud of it. By the | 0:31:16 | 0:31:22 | |
way, this country, right now owes $19 trillion and they need somebody | 0:31:23 | 0:31:30 | |
like me to straighten out that mess. This was vintage Trump. The Donald | 0:31:31 | 0:31:36 | |
is smart. Bad times, bad things are for losers. Trump is a winner and | 0:31:37 | 0:31:46 | |
his supporters love him for it. But this election isn't just about | 0:31:47 | 0:31:50 | |
personality. It's about America's anger with its political class and | 0:31:51 | 0:31:54 | |
Hillary Clinton is the one paying the price. The reason for that is | 0:31:55 | 0:32:02 | |
that Hillary reeks of Washington. And Washington is the problem. You | 0:32:03 | 0:32:08 | |
know Hillary Clinton. I do. What's she like? I found her to be very | 0:32:09 | 0:32:13 | |
bright, engaging and a good person. I've served with her in the Senate | 0:32:14 | 0:32:18 | |
for a number of years. When she was Secretary of State her approval | 0:32:19 | 0:32:21 | |
numbers went through the roof. When you think about where she was in the | 0:32:22 | 0:32:24 | |
minds of most Americans then and where she is now, what a sharp | 0:32:25 | 0:32:30 | |
contrast. Senator Dick Durbin is one of the most powerful Democrats in | 0:32:31 | 0:32:34 | |
Congress. Why has she failed to cut through? A variety of reasons. Some | 0:32:35 | 0:32:40 | |
of it has to do with personality. But also, she brings with her the | 0:32:41 | 0:32:48 | |
Clinton dynasty baggage. That baggage comes from decades within a | 0:32:49 | 0:32:53 | |
barely functional government. Many Americans believe the whole | 0:32:54 | 0:32:58 | |
political system is broken. America's headed in the wrong | 0:32:59 | 0:33:00 | |
direction. Washington doesn't work for me and my family. You know, I | 0:33:01 | 0:33:05 | |
think you'll find across the world, that kind of comment being made by | 0:33:06 | 0:33:09 | |
people who are victimised by a lot of things. Trump has tapped into it. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:16 | |
When Trump says Washington doesn't work, he sometimes it literally is | 0:33:17 | 0:33:21 | |
true. Nothing happens. Of course. There are failures in the human | 0:33:22 | 0:33:24 | |
endeavour. They happen every day. When it comes to government, we | 0:33:25 | 0:33:27 | |
ought to be honest about it and change it. That's our job. The one | 0:33:28 | 0:33:35 | |
thing the parties can agree on is their increasing inability to agree. | 0:33:36 | 0:33:38 | |
The Democrats and the Republicans don't always talk to each other. It | 0:33:39 | 0:33:44 | |
means they're not producing legislation or administrative | 0:33:45 | 0:33:46 | |
activities that are actually dealing with some of the things that we need | 0:33:47 | 0:33:53 | |
do in America. Why have relations between the parties become so much | 0:33:54 | 0:33:57 | |
more poisonous than they used to be? Over the years, the Democratic Party | 0:33:58 | 0:34:02 | |
has moved steadily, steadily further and further to the left, towards | 0:34:03 | 0:34:07 | |
socialism. The Republican Party has been infiltrated by southerners, | 0:34:08 | 0:34:11 | |
like me, and has been not only become a conservative party, we have | 0:34:12 | 0:34:15 | |
moved far to the right, leaving nothing in the middle. As a great | 0:34:16 | 0:34:20 | |
poet Yeats would say, "The middle will not hold." The US political | 0:34:21 | 0:34:30 | |
system is designed to work with both parties pulling together. When that | 0:34:31 | 0:34:34 | |
doesn't happen, Washington grinds to a halt. Good evening, this | 0:34:35 | 0:34:40 | |
government shut down is now in its ninth day... The result is a system | 0:34:41 | 0:34:46 | |
that feels like it's been grid locked for years. Trump knows who | 0:34:47 | 0:34:52 | |
he's blaming. I've heard Hillary complaining about so many different | 0:34:53 | 0:34:54 | |
things over the years. But she's been there for 30 years, she's been | 0:34:55 | 0:34:59 | |
doing this stuff. She never changed. She never will change. Whoever | 0:35:00 | 0:35:05 | |
becomes president, they'll need the cooperation of Congress to get | 0:35:06 | 0:35:08 | |
Washington working again. But the more toxic this election becomes, | 0:35:09 | 0:35:19 | |
the harder that will be. With America more divided than ever, it's | 0:35:20 | 0:35:25 | |
not just the two candidates casting an unpearing eye over -- unsparing | 0:35:26 | 0:35:31 | |
eye over their opponent. Had to take a couple turns the hard way. Took | 0:35:32 | 0:35:36 | |
half an hour to get him up here, but worth the wait. He's a little taller | 0:35:37 | 0:35:42 | |
and heavier. He's a lot lighter, but he's got about the same air mass to | 0:35:43 | 0:35:48 | |
him which is full of nothing. The protest art collective InDecline | 0:35:49 | 0:35:52 | |
titillated America when their life-sized naked statues of Donald | 0:35:53 | 0:35:55 | |
Trump appeared overnight in parks and streets. There are some | 0:35:56 | 0:36:01 | |
liberties taken, the hair, the gut and other extremities. All of the | 0:36:02 | 0:36:07 | |
statues vanish the same day, but now, thanks to art curator Stanley | 0:36:08 | 0:36:12 | |
Sudol one more has found a home in New Jersey. It delights thousands | 0:36:13 | 0:36:17 | |
each day as they commute into Manhattan. People laughing as they | 0:36:18 | 0:36:22 | |
were driving by is the overall response we got from this. | 0:36:23 | 0:36:26 | |
Essentially this piece is a perfect metaphor for the way we see from our | 0:36:27 | 0:36:30 | |
side Donald Trump's campaign. It's off colour. It's abstract. And it's | 0:36:31 | 0:36:37 | |
a complete joke. There you go. Whatever you think of his body, | 0:36:38 | 0:36:42 | |
Trump's critics say his politics are even uglier. His views on Islam and | 0:36:43 | 0:36:47 | |
immigration have come in for harsh criticism. America is a melting pot. | 0:36:48 | 0:36:54 | |
Everybody's from somewhere. God Bless America. This is the beauty of | 0:36:55 | 0:37:00 | |
it. Sajid Tarar runs a non-profit that cares for the elderly and | 0:37:01 | 0:37:05 | |
disabled. He's a Muslim and back in July, he delivered the closing | 0:37:06 | 0:37:08 | |
prayer at his party's national convention. But it's not the party | 0:37:09 | 0:37:14 | |
you're maybe thinking. I am Republican. I came as a law student. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:24 | |
From where? Pakistan. The thing is I'm seeing democracy continuously | 0:37:25 | 0:37:27 | |
going down. How about the First World War, Second World War, Korean | 0:37:28 | 0:37:32 | |
War, we fought against the expansion of socialism. Today we're becoming | 0:37:33 | 0:37:37 | |
socialists. I'm not here for that. I bought the American dream and tree | 0:37:38 | 0:37:40 | |
Dom. We are losing that, both of them. | 0:37:41 | 0:37:45 | |
-- freedom. Fewer than one in ten American Muslims supports Donald | 0:37:46 | 0:37:51 | |
Trump. Many now find even that paltry figure unbelievable, given | 0:37:52 | 0:37:55 | |
Trump's statements on Muslim immigration. Donald J Trump is | 0:37:56 | 0:38:02 | |
calling for a total and complete shut down of Muslims entering the | 0:38:03 | 0:38:07 | |
United States until our country's representatives can figure out what | 0:38:08 | 0:38:16 | |
the hell is going on. Trump's trying to would angry white voters by | 0:38:17 | 0:38:20 | |
fuelling immigration fears. But he also needs the support of minorities | 0:38:21 | 0:38:27 | |
if he's to win. To most of us, that sounds like an impossible balance to | 0:38:28 | 0:38:32 | |
strike. Here you are, a Muslim supporter of a man who proposes a | 0:38:33 | 0:38:36 | |
ban on Muslims entering the United States. That's pretty strange. He's | 0:38:37 | 0:38:40 | |
not anti-Muslim. He's anti-trouble makers. He's anti-jihadists. He's | 0:38:41 | 0:38:45 | |
antiterrorism. That's what he's talking about. His whole campaign is | 0:38:46 | 0:38:51 | |
America first. Save America. Making America rich again. Look at this, | 0:38:52 | 0:38:55 | |
the refugees want to come here in hundreds and thousands, without any | 0:38:56 | 0:38:58 | |
documentation, we don't know what their objectives are. You sound | 0:38:59 | 0:39:02 | |
incredibly hard hearted. Why I'm so hard, because I have four kids. This | 0:39:03 | 0:39:07 | |
is my kids' country. Plus, we don't want to see this country as a | 0:39:08 | 0:39:10 | |
Europe. Like you guys are suffering. Lock at France, what is going on, | 0:39:11 | 0:39:15 | |
look at Belgium. I don't want to see that. This is my home. I love this | 0:39:16 | 0:39:19 | |
country. I met Sajid the day after he'd been campaigning with Trump. | 0:39:20 | 0:39:24 | |
This is only yesterday. It was only yesterday, we were together. I have | 0:39:25 | 0:39:30 | |
seen 20,000 people in his rallies. It's a piece of cake. People are | 0:39:31 | 0:39:35 | |
behind him. The liberal media doesn't tend to show that. You both | 0:39:36 | 0:39:39 | |
look very pleased with yourselves. Thank you so much. I'm very excited. | 0:39:40 | 0:39:44 | |
I'm very excited to see him in the White House. God willing it's going | 0:39:45 | 0:39:53 | |
to happen. Oh, God our nation is in need of new leader, a commander, who | 0:39:54 | 0:40:00 | |
will guide America along a path of righteousness. It's no wonder that | 0:40:01 | 0:40:05 | |
Trump is so keen to have a man like Sajid backing him. Make America | 0:40:06 | 0:40:09 | |
great again, amen. Trump won't be able to win by appealing to | 0:40:10 | 0:40:14 | |
disaffected white voters will he? No. He has to appeal to some | 0:40:15 | 0:40:20 | |
minorities. Republicans have run two consecutive elections against Barack | 0:40:21 | 0:40:23 | |
Obama saying they could just Jack up the white vote and it would be OK. | 0:40:24 | 0:40:29 | |
The math doesn't work any more to just Jack the white vote up for the | 0:40:30 | 0:40:30 | |
Republicans. Nearly 50 years on from the murder | 0:40:31 | 0:40:52 | |
of Martin Luther King there is no longer a white majority country. If | 0:40:53 | 0:40:56 | |
Donald Trump thinks he can win the White House by just appealing to | 0:40:57 | 0:40:59 | |
that sector of society, he is mistaken. | 0:41:00 | 0:41:10 | |
So can he do it in 2016? He'd need to double his popularity with the | 0:41:11 | 0:41:15 | |
fastest growing part of the US population, Latinos. But if that's | 0:41:16 | 0:41:18 | |
what he's trying to do, he's going about it in a very strange way. | 0:41:19 | 0:41:25 | |
We'll do the wall, don't worry. We're going to do the wall. We're | 0:41:26 | 0:41:31 | |
going to do the wall and by the way, who's going to pay for the wall? | 0:41:32 | 0:41:35 | |
Mexico! Mexico's going to pay for the wall. There is one demographic | 0:41:36 | 0:41:44 | |
group he's having an even harder time with, African Americans. In | 0:41:45 | 0:41:48 | |
order to win, especially the popular vote, you've got to increase your | 0:41:49 | 0:41:57 | |
margin in its and hiss -- in independents and Hispanics. He needs | 0:41:58 | 0:42:00 | |
enough in the target states to increase that number to win. But | 0:42:01 | 0:42:08 | |
most minorities aren't buying it. The Republican Party has struggled | 0:42:09 | 0:42:13 | |
for decades to win the black vote. But Trump's ratings are a new low. | 0:42:14 | 0:42:18 | |
Some polls have put his support at zero. Which means Paris Dennard has | 0:42:19 | 0:42:27 | |
one of the hardest jobs in America, woulding African Americans for | 0:42:28 | 0:42:32 | |
Trump. I can whole heartedly say that with some degree of experience | 0:42:33 | 0:42:38 | |
and authority that Donald Trump's policies will not only help my | 0:42:39 | 0:42:41 | |
community but he is not somebody who's going to hurt our community. | 0:42:42 | 0:42:47 | |
Isn't Donald Trump a racist? It's classic Clinton Democrat PlayBook. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:52 | |
The easiest thing to do is label somebody a racist to deter people | 0:42:53 | 0:42:56 | |
from voting for him. She has to convince black folks that he's a | 0:42:57 | 0:43:02 | |
racist. And she has to convince moderates and independents that he's | 0:43:03 | 0:43:08 | |
a racist. Many people do think Trump is a racist for any number of | 0:43:09 | 0:43:15 | |
reasons. My fellow Americans... Like the years he spent denying that | 0:43:16 | 0:43:20 | |
Obama was born in America. He recently tried to blame that rumour | 0:43:21 | 0:43:26 | |
on Hillary Clinton. You're the one who set the pictures around your | 0:43:27 | 0:43:30 | |
campaign, sent the pictures around with President Obama in a certain | 0:43:31 | 0:43:35 | |
garb, that was long before I was involved. So you actually owe an | 0:43:36 | 0:43:40 | |
apology. Dennard maintains that black would-be Trump voters aren't | 0:43:41 | 0:43:46 | |
deterred, maybe like the Tory voters who delivered Cameron's unexpected | 0:43:47 | 0:43:50 | |
2015 victory, they're just shy. When you say to African Americans, you | 0:43:51 | 0:43:54 | |
should think about voting for Donald Trump, what do they say? There's a | 0:43:55 | 0:43:58 | |
growing sense that I have that there's a lot of blacks that will | 0:43:59 | 0:44:03 | |
say, I may not say I'm going to vote for him, but when I go to the | 0:44:04 | 0:44:06 | |
polling booth, I will vote for Donald Trump. Trump knows he needs | 0:44:07 | 0:44:12 | |
these groups to win. I want to do things that haven't been done, | 0:44:13 | 0:44:16 | |
including fixing and making our inner cities better for the | 0:44:17 | 0:44:19 | |
African-American citizens that are so great and for the Latinos, | 0:44:20 | 0:44:24 | |
Hispanics. I look forward to doing it. It's called make America great | 0:44:25 | 0:44:33 | |
again. And here's the reason he needs them - the unique way America | 0:44:34 | 0:44:40 | |
chooses its president. Politics may be showbiz for ugly people, but | 0:44:41 | 0:44:45 | |
sometimes it's just showbiz. In the theatre behind me is one of the most | 0:44:46 | 0:44:52 | |
unlikely Smash Hits of Broadway, it's a rap retelling of the story of | 0:44:53 | 0:44:56 | |
one of the founding fathers. The central scene is set inside a | 0:44:57 | 0:45:03 | |
presidential election. I'm passionately smashing every | 0:45:04 | 0:45:05 | |
expectation, every action, I'm laughing in the face of casualties. | 0:45:06 | 0:45:09 | |
For the first time, I'm thinking pass tomorrow. This show is the | 0:45:10 | 0:45:13 | |
story of Alexander Hamilton a trusted aide of George Washington. | 0:45:14 | 0:45:18 | |
Rather than have a direct nationwide vote for president, a | 0:45:19 | 0:45:23 | |
straightforward popularity contest, Hamilton and co wanted each state to | 0:45:24 | 0:45:27 | |
have a voice. So they created the electoral college. | 0:45:28 | 0:45:34 | |
Each state has a set number of votes in the electoral college, determined | 0:45:35 | 0:45:43 | |
by the population of the state. In most cases, the candidate | 0:45:44 | 0:45:46 | |
first-past-the-post in any state takes all its votes. So the nominee | 0:45:47 | 0:45:50 | |
that wins California gets 55 electoral college votes, but Vermont | 0:45:51 | 0:45:58 | |
or North Dakota, they only get a measly three. And the person with | 0:45:59 | 0:46:03 | |
the majority of the electoral college votes becomes president! The | 0:46:04 | 0:46:08 | |
magic number of college votes needed to take the presidency is 270, just | 0:46:09 | 0:46:15 | |
over half, giving a clear endorsement to one candidate. So, | 0:46:16 | 0:46:20 | |
it's not just about winning lots of states. It's winning the states with | 0:46:21 | 0:46:27 | |
big numbers of votes. And right now, Hillary Clinton holds the upper | 0:46:28 | 0:46:34 | |
hand. Democrats started out with 247 votes, in six consecutive | 0:46:35 | 0:46:41 | |
presidential elections. Republicans are up to 191. And we fight over the | 0:46:42 | 0:46:46 | |
rest. Do you think you can do it? Maths says you can't, but the maths | 0:46:47 | 0:46:51 | |
also said he could not win the primary. I hope for the sake of my | 0:46:52 | 0:46:56 | |
country that he is not the President of the United States, that I'm not | 0:46:57 | 0:46:59 | |
going to sit on national television telling you he can't. So, in the | 0:47:00 | 0:47:03 | |
final stages of this campaign, the candidates face very different | 0:47:04 | 0:47:07 | |
challenges. Hillary Clinton ought to be miles ahead. Instead, she has to | 0:47:08 | 0:47:12 | |
be sure that her supporters will turn out for her. As for Donald | 0:47:13 | 0:47:16 | |
Trump, well, he somehow has got to broaden his appeal beyond angry | 0:47:17 | 0:47:25 | |
white men. Three head-to-head debates there is where they get to | 0:47:26 | 0:47:30 | |
pitch to the nation, watched by the world. These debates and crucial - | 0:47:31 | 0:47:44 | |
sometimes they turn the tide of opinion, like Kennedy versus Nixon | 0:47:45 | 0:47:48 | |
in 1960. But one thing is for sure - while the pretence is that the | 0:47:49 | 0:47:53 | |
debates focus on policy, actually, they're all about personality. Chris | 0:47:54 | 0:47:56 | |
Matthews is the veteran host of the talk-show for half-ball. They will | 0:47:57 | 0:48:02 | |
try and get them upset and angry. I think Donald just criticised me for | 0:48:03 | 0:48:07 | |
preparing for this debate. And yes, I did. And you know what else I | 0:48:08 | 0:48:13 | |
prepared for? I prepared to be president, and I think that's a good | 0:48:14 | 0:48:19 | |
thing. The question is, can he swap that mosquito without looking bad? I | 0:48:20 | 0:48:25 | |
don't know who you were talking to, Secretary Clinton, but you were | 0:48:26 | 0:48:29 | |
totally out of control. I said, there is a person with a temperament | 0:48:30 | 0:48:33 | |
that's got a problem! Secretary Clinton... OK! Hillary Clinton | 0:48:34 | 0:48:41 | |
emerged the winner. I have a feeling that by the end of today, I will be | 0:48:42 | 0:48:44 | |
blamed for everything that's ever happened! Why not? Why not?! Just | 0:48:45 | 0:48:52 | |
join the debate by saying more crazy things! But Donald Trump kept the | 0:48:53 | 0:48:58 | |
wheels on his campaign. What came next, though, was all hell breaking | 0:48:59 | 0:49:06 | |
loose. When that recording of Trump, made in 2005, surfaced just days | 0:49:07 | 0:49:10 | |
before the second debate. We received a lot of questions online, | 0:49:11 | 0:49:15 | |
Mr Trump, about the tape. You called what you said locker room banter. | 0:49:16 | 0:49:19 | |
You described kissing women without consent, grabbing their genitals. | 0:49:20 | 0:49:23 | |
That is sexual assault. You bragged that you have sexually assaulted | 0:49:24 | 0:49:29 | |
women - do you understand that? Trump's response made less than no | 0:49:30 | 0:49:35 | |
sense at all. Yes, I am very embarrassed by it, I hate it, but it | 0:49:36 | 0:49:39 | |
is look at room talk and it's one of those things. I will not the hell | 0:49:40 | 0:49:50 | |
out of Isis. Isis appeared in a vacuum which was left because of bad | 0:49:51 | 0:49:53 | |
judgment. And I tell you, I will take care of Isis. Senior | 0:49:54 | 0:49:58 | |
Republicans queued up to disown him, but he could still count on one | 0:49:59 | 0:50:04 | |
loyal friend. If we're being honest, it's the kind of thing that men do, | 0:50:05 | 0:50:09 | |
they talk like this. And by the way, quite a lot of women say things | 0:50:10 | 0:50:12 | |
amongst themselves that they would not want to see on Fox news, on the | 0:50:13 | 0:50:17 | |
front page of newspapers. Thank you very much indeed! Ukip leader Nigel | 0:50:18 | 0:50:23 | |
Farage has been on the stump with Trump in Mississippi and that the | 0:50:24 | 0:50:27 | |
second debate in Missouri. But now, his back in his favourite place in | 0:50:28 | 0:50:33 | |
the world - Brussels. So, is he seeing things a little differently? | 0:50:34 | 0:50:38 | |
There is no question that this recent tape, ugly as it is, has | 0:50:39 | 0:50:45 | |
really hurt him badly, of course. What did he mean by talking about | 0:50:46 | 0:50:55 | |
grabbing women's pussies? I don't know, but I saw this whole thing as | 0:50:56 | 0:51:00 | |
a next ring form of Alfa mail boasting, the kind of posting which | 0:51:01 | 0:51:03 | |
some men do, it does not mean that they actually do it. So he was | 0:51:04 | 0:51:09 | |
lying, was he? Does it not turn your stomach to be in an effective | 0:51:10 | 0:51:12 | |
alliance with a man who behaves, thinks and perhaps lies about that | 0:51:13 | 0:51:16 | |
sort of thing? Look, it's not just that is it? There were comments | 0:51:17 | 0:51:21 | |
about Mexicans, the idea of a total ban on anybody coming in to America | 0:51:22 | 0:51:24 | |
from one particular religion. There are lots of things in this campaign | 0:51:25 | 0:51:28 | |
which I could not support in any way at all, and nor do I. Which sounds | 0:51:29 | 0:51:33 | |
like a change of heart, if ever I heard one. But if Nigel Farage has | 0:51:34 | 0:51:37 | |
decided he does not like The Donald's policies, he thinks Trump's | 0:51:38 | 0:51:43 | |
followers are as enraptured as ever. When I spoke to people who are Trump | 0:51:44 | 0:51:49 | |
voters, in this election, going to vote for Trump, do you know what, | 0:51:50 | 0:51:53 | |
they could not care less? They could not give a damn what Trump says, who | 0:51:54 | 0:51:58 | |
he offends, because they see him as being their weapon against the | 0:51:59 | 0:52:01 | |
establishment, and they see Hillary as being the epitome of that | 0:52:02 | 0:52:06 | |
establishment. So they don't care if a cruel, crude, Foulger bombast | 0:52:07 | 0:52:13 | |
occupies the White House? I think what we're seeing in the states, and | 0:52:14 | 0:52:19 | |
actually fair bit of the Western world are little people saying, | 0:52:20 | 0:52:24 | |
we've had enough and we want a change and we don't care if that | 0:52:25 | 0:52:29 | |
change causes a rupture. And I think that is a lot of what is behind the | 0:52:30 | 0:52:36 | |
Trump and dominant. With just weeks to go, the question is whether Trump | 0:52:37 | 0:52:44 | |
still has a chance. His supporters are pinning their hopes on the vast | 0:52:45 | 0:52:48 | |
pool of undeclared voters whom they believe secretly favour their man. A | 0:52:49 | 0:52:57 | |
crucial group is younger voters. There are loads of them. I think a | 0:52:58 | 0:53:08 | |
lot of young people feel a little bit jaded about the state of | 0:53:09 | 0:53:11 | |
America. And I can see why that speaks to a lot of Trump supporters | 0:53:12 | 0:53:15 | |
as well. They feel that America is not in a great condition because | 0:53:16 | 0:53:18 | |
they feel that their personal condition is not what they would | 0:53:19 | 0:53:21 | |
like it to be. Went Donald Trump says he wants to make America great | 0:53:22 | 0:53:25 | |
again, that's just what you want to hear, isn't it? The problem is, make | 0:53:26 | 0:53:31 | |
America great again, and when was it great before, and what was good | 0:53:32 | 0:53:35 | |
about it? America used to be a lot better, but the whole great again | 0:53:36 | 0:53:40 | |
thing... What makes you pause when you think about Hillary? Probably | 0:53:41 | 0:53:45 | |
the fact that she has been so entangled in the Clinton name. Like | 0:53:46 | 0:53:53 | |
Trump, they're both brands. They feel like political brands, they | 0:53:54 | 0:53:57 | |
don't feel like people that you can relate to. These reluctant Hillary | 0:53:58 | 0:54:01 | |
supporters prefer a candidate out of the Washington Tupperware catalogue | 0:54:02 | 0:54:10 | |
to an alternative they think rotten. It is the lesser of two evils. | 0:54:11 | 0:54:17 | |
Donald Trump is fascism in its current form. The choice sucks, but | 0:54:18 | 0:54:21 | |
do we really have a choice? I think the most important thing right now | 0:54:22 | 0:54:25 | |
is that my generation votes. But they're not entirely despairing of | 0:54:26 | 0:54:29 | |
the future. This year's dismal election may, they hope, prove a | 0:54:30 | 0:54:35 | |
kind of watershed. Everybody seems to be talking about the way in which | 0:54:36 | 0:54:40 | |
American politics has become arise between two very, very solid | 0:54:41 | 0:54:45 | |
positions, the Republicans and the Democrats - is it going to stay like | 0:54:46 | 0:54:49 | |
that, do you think? I hope this is the fever pitch, the peak moment of | 0:54:50 | 0:54:53 | |
that trend. But I also think there is a chance we could keep going from | 0:54:54 | 0:54:57 | |
here and become even more polarised, and that's my biggest fear. America | 0:54:58 | 0:55:04 | |
has been deeply divided before. It is Burke in 1863 saw the mightiest | 0:55:05 | 0:55:11 | |
clash between the forces of north and south, union and Confederate. | 0:55:12 | 0:55:17 | |
The union ultimately triumphed, the country held together by that | 0:55:18 | 0:55:21 | |
awkward visionary. When Abraham Lincoln stood on this blood-soaked | 0:55:22 | 0:55:26 | |
battlefield, he pledged that government by the people, of the | 0:55:27 | 0:55:31 | |
people, for the people, shall not perish. And it hasn't. But many of | 0:55:32 | 0:55:39 | |
those who make the effort to vote in this presidential election will do | 0:55:40 | 0:55:42 | |
so holding their noses, which ought to tell us perhaps that something | 0:55:43 | 0:55:51 | |
has gone wrong with Lincoln's dream. Both candidates have waged divisive | 0:55:52 | 0:55:58 | |
campaigns. You could put half of Trump supporters into what I call | 0:55:59 | 0:56:04 | |
the basket of deplorables. We have a divided nation because people like | 0:56:05 | 0:56:08 | |
her, and believe me, she has tremendous hate in her heart, and | 0:56:09 | 0:56:11 | |
when she said deplorables, she meant it. The question now is, what next? | 0:56:12 | 0:56:20 | |
Can Washington be made to work again? All the problems in | 0:56:21 | 0:56:26 | |
Washington are solvable very easily by one word. What that? Leadership. | 0:56:27 | 0:56:36 | |
Witch is the party system irreparably broken? I think we will | 0:56:37 | 0:56:41 | |
see a very different Republican Party, whatever happens on the 8th | 0:56:42 | 0:56:46 | |
of November. So much is at stake on election night. Those two competing | 0:56:47 | 0:56:53 | |
narratives are going head-to-head. But in the end, I think what is true | 0:56:54 | 0:56:55 | |
is, America has changed greatly. For now, Hillary looks set to win. | 0:56:56 | 0:57:02 | |
But as Brexit showed, the unexpected CAN happen. | 0:57:03 | 0:57:06 | |
This race won't be over till it's over. | 0:57:07 | 0:57:10 | |
And maybe not even then, if there are legal challenges, | 0:57:11 | 0:57:17 | |
or the loser refuses to concede. It's been a dirty fight so far, | 0:57:18 | 0:57:22 | |
and it could still end messily. Will whoever wins be | 0:57:23 | 0:57:25 | |
able to unite america? Or will this bitter election leave | 0:57:26 | 0:57:30 | |
this great democracy even more divided than it is now? | 0:57:31 | 0:57:36 |