Welcome to The Lid, your afternoon dose of the 2016 ethos… The Clinton campaign turned to Al Gore to help them engage millennials on Tuesday. We guess they were playing it safe, though, because we looked through the whole transcript and Gore at no point said Clinton was “on fleek.”
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In the wake of Sunday night’s debate, many Republicans were quick to declare Donald Trump the winner and speculate that his performance would be enough to halt his freefall in the polls. And new evidence shows that - although Hillary Clinton still has a dominant lead over Trump - Trump appears to have at least re-consolidated some of his previous support among GOP voters. Clinton leads by nine points overall in the four-way matchup in our latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll -- which includes interviews from Saturday and Sunday (before the debate) and Monday (after the debate) -- compared to an 11 point lead for Clinton in the pre-debate data alone. It’s worth noting that the big reason for Trump-loving Republicans to feel ever-so-slightly buoyed isn’t as much the topline number as the data inside them, which show that Republicans are back to coalescing around their nominee. In fact, the share of Republicans who say they want downballot GOP candidates to continue to embrace Trump is up from 67 percent BEFORE the debate to 83 percent after the debate.
- POPPING ON NBC POLITICS
- Hot off the press: Hillary Clinton holds a nine-point overall lead over Donald Trump after Sunday's presidential debate, according to a new NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll.
- Mike Pence told NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell he “respectfully” disagrees with Paul Ryan’s
- The 2016 race went south on Tuesday with both Trump and Clinton in the state, along with Al Gore.
- Clinton won the second presidential debate, according to 44 percent of likely voters who watched or followed coverage of the face-off, our new NBC News|SurveyMonkey debate reaction poll found.
- Trump went on a Twitter rant against the GOP on Tuesday.
- And from First Read: A divided party cannot stand.
FOR THE RECORD…
“Please take it from me: Every single vote counts.”
-- Al Gore during a rally with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.
TOMORROW’S SKED
Hillary Clinton makes stops in Colorado and Las Vegas.
Donald Trump continues to campaign in Florida.
Mike Pence stops in Virginia and North Carolina. Tim Kaine also makes a stop in the Tar Heel State.
