Watch live: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton debate for final time
LAS VEGAS - A video feed from the third and final presidential debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton is below. The debate is scheduled to kick off at 6 p.m. PDT in Las Vegas.
Here is the latest news from the debate (All Times PDT):
8:15 p.m.
The Republican National Committee will accept the results of the general election even if Donald Trump doesn’t.
That’s according to RNC spokesman Sean Spicer. He says, “We’re going to respect the will of the people.”
The answer was in response to Trump’s refusal during the debate to say whether he would concede if he loses the general election. He said, “I’ll keep you in suspense.”
He has been railing against the U.S. election system as “rigged” for weeks.
Spicer addressed Trump’s explosive comment after the debate. He says it likely won’t be an issue because Trump will win.
When pressed, Spicer said, “I cannot speak for what he thinks.”
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8:10 p.m.
Republican senators are saying Donald Trump should accept the results of the presidential election.
The statements came after Trump refused to promise he’d accept defeat on Nov. 8 if Americans choose Hillary Clinton as president.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says “Mr. Trump is doing the party and the country a great disservice” by suggesting the election is rigged.
Sen. Jeff Flake of Arixona says Trump’s statements are “beyond the pale.”
Both senators have long been critical of Trump.
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7:45 p.m.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton began the last debate without a handshake - and they ended it without one too.
After both candidates’ final answers, Hillary Clinton stepped forward and shook hands with moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News. Trump stayed behind his podium and watched, as Clinton then stood on stage and waved to people in the audience.
Trump didn’t leave the podium until Clinton was too far away for a handshake, stepping off the stage and into the crowd.
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7:42 p.m.
Hillary Clinton says she’s reaching out to all Americans: Republicans, Democrats and independents.
The Democratic presidential nominee made the declaration as part of her closing statement.
She says she has made children and families her “life’s work” and adds, “That’s what my mission will be in the presidency.”
She is promising to “stand up for families against corporations.”
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7:41 p.m.
Donald Trump is painting a dire picture of America as he makes his closing pitch to voters.
Trump says the military is “depleted,” veterans aren’t taken care of and inner cities are a “disaster.”
He says people living in inner cities get “shot walking to the grocery store” and have “no education” and “no jobs.”
Trump asserts he is much better poised to fix the problems than Hillary Clinton.
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7:40 p.m.
Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton is “such a nasty woman.”
Trump made the remark while Clinton was talking in the last presidential debate Wednesday about preserving Social Security and Medicare. She says her plan to save both programs would raise Social Security taxes on the wealthy, including her and Trump, “assuming he can’t figure out how to get out of it.”
As she continued talking Trump interjected, “Such a nasty woman.”
Clinton did not react to the comment and instead completed her statement on her plans for Social Security and Medicare.
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7:37 p.m.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton agree: There’ll be no “grand bargain” on entitlements.
Both presidential candidates reject the idea of a bipartisan deal to raise taxes and cut benefits to avoid running out of money to fund Social Security and Medicaid in coming decades.
Trump says he will make the economy grow and repeal President Obama’s health care law.
Clinton says she’ll raise taxes on the wealthy to help fund Social Security. But she says she wants to expand benefits rather than cut them.
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7:35 p.m.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are sparring over who has the better plan to shrink the national debt and spur the U.S. economy.
Trump is pushing back against a report from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget that said his proposed economic policies would grow the national debt. Trump says he would hire experts, and not “political hacks,” to negotiate more favorable trade deals.
Trump says under his administration Americans would have more jobs that pay better.
Clinton says Trump’s economic plans are geared toward helping the rich while she is focused on helping the middle class, a difference she attributes to Trump’s privileged upbringing. Clinton says she takes shrinking the national debt seriously, and none of her new proposals would add to it.
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