Hillary Clinton Rallies With Celebrities
HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Let's once and for all as we welcome her to the stage, let's prove that love Trumps hate. Katy Perry!</s>PAUL: Katy Perry, there she comes. One of many celebrities joining Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail in recent months. This is part of Clinton's push to connect with those younger voters and try to get them to the polls.</s>CLINTON: Tonight I want to hear you roar. If you're still all geared up and ready to go, come join -- come join us at Independence Hall Monday night with President Obama and Michelle Obama!</s>BLACKWELL: Well, that's not how Donald Trump sees it. Yesterday Trump repeated his claim that Clinton might be cheating, that's his word, by bringing celebrities to her rallies.</s>TRUMP: We didn't bring any so- called -- so-called stars along. We didn't need them.</s>TRUMP: You know, the reason Hillary has to do that is nobody comes for her</s>BLACKWELL: All right. So here to discuss, Hilary Rosen, she's a CNN political commentator, Hillary Clinton supporter; Amy Kremer, Donald Trump supporter and co-found of Women Vote Trump; Brian Stelter, CNN senior media correspondent and host of "RELIABLE SOURCES." Welcome back, everybody. Amy, so when Donald Trump says this is a form of cheating when you bring celebrities out on the campaign trail and he, tonight, is going to have Ted Nugent out at his event. Is that a form of cheating when Donald Trump does it?</s>KREMER: I don't know what he meant by cheating, I don't.</s>BLACKWELL: OK. All right.</s>KREMER: I don't. But --</s>BLACKWELL: That is refreshing.</s>KREMER: No, I don't.</s>PAUL: Victor, for you it is --</s>BLACKWELL: Let's just say I have no idea what he's talking about.</s>KREMER: Well -- I mean, I don't. I mean, maybe he meant --</s>ROSEN: Other than that Donald Trump thinks everything is cheating.</s>PAUL: Well, I think what he's trying --</s>PAUL: What I thought he said --</s>BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: He wants it to be Clinton versus Trump. He doesn't want to bring in surrogates. He doesn't want to bring in celebrities.</s>PAUL: But wait a minute. Are you telling me that if these people didn't call his campaign and say, hey, I want to come campaign for you, he would say no?</s>STELTER: No, I'm with you. Listen, I don't know if will have Beyonce or Jay Z because he said he was offended by Jay Z's language the other night. I would say they're the first family of entertainment. Absolutely they would be coming to a rally but there have been lots of celebrities. So, yes, if they were to call and ask to come, Trump would have them come. But I think I can understand why in the final days he feels like he has momentum. He doesn't want anything to affect that so the appearance of celebrities seems to affect his momentum. That's his impression.</s>BLACKWELL: Right.</s>KREMER: I mean, the thing is his message is resonating with America. You see the crowds that he has. And you can't say that Hillary Clinton is able to bring in those same crowds. She's not. She has to bring in the celebrities. So when your message is resonating, that's all you need. He doesn't need anybody else out there because the people showing up to hear him.</s>BLACKWELL: What do make of that, Hilary?</s>ROSEN: That's not what it is because it's about the audience, it's not about the candidates. It's about a targeted audience so when Hillary Clinton has Jay Z and Beyonce, she is looking for African-American youth. When she sends Katy Perry to the University at Las Vegas in Nevada...</s>KREMER: That doesn't --</s>ROSEN: ... she is -- she is looking to turn out college voters, Miley Cyrus going to the dorms over here at George Mason University. So it is not about the candidate it's about how are you broadening your audience and Donald Trump hasn't been able to do that. I do think there might be one other thing going on because Donald Trump for his entire career has been kind of in that celebrity world.</s>PAUL: But to say he has --</s>ROSEN: And what he has found over the last year and a half of this campaign is that his celeb friends are really not with him on this. You know, whether it's the Russell Simmons or the --</s>BLACKWELL: Because we see the impact on his businesses.</s>ROSEN: ... but not in politics. They're not with him.</s>BLACKWELL: And they potentially don't want (ph) it (ph) impacting (ph)</s>KREMER: I think that we should hold all of our leaders in a higher place where they should actually exhibit behavior that, you know, is OK for our children to see. I don't think that it's OK for anybody to be talking about other people that way. I mean, we've been talking, you know, this week about the meanness that we get from Twitter when people are able to sit behind a keyboard. I think that we've all seen it. We're all ready for this campaign cycle to be over because it's been hard for us. The meanness out there. We need to respect each other. We may not agree with each other all the time but we need to respect each other. And we don't need to resort to name-calling. It's not helpful to anybody.</s>ROSEN: I agree.</s>PAUL: To your point though, do we have any gauge, any indication as to whether these events for Hillary Clinton do equate to votes? I mean, we do know that there is large engagement of the young voter, especially when you look at the Bernie Sanders people --</s>ROSEN: Well, just look at the -- you know, we'll see what happens in Ohio on Tuesday with these two events she's been doing there. But just the other day in North Carolina at the Pharrell event at University of North Carolina, we saw an uptake in young African- American turnout and so we will be seeing, I think, the fruits of this because it is all about, you know, exciting the base.</s>KREMER: They don't always vote. I mean, what kids are not going to go show up for a free concert. These are free concerts.</s>ROSEN: But we don't know -- I mean --</s>KREMER: So they show up at the concert. You don't know that --</s>STELTER: Yes.</s>ROSEN: We'll see.</s>BLACKWELL: Let me bring Brian in here because the Clinton campaign has been strategic about where they're placing these events. They're close to these early voting locations. Not just randomly but they are -- the president even gives the address. It's two minutes away. It's a short walk.</s>STELTER: Sometimes there's even transportation to head over to the voting center afterwards. There's almost too many stars to count on the Clinton side. You can say, oh, that's all Hollywood liberals. There's some truth to that. But there's a lot of stars we're not hearing about that are out every day. Christina Aguilera having a concert. The creator of "Scandal" Shonda Rhimes out on the stump yesterday.</s>BLACKWELL: Yes.</s>STELTER: Some of the stars of "Scandal" in states like Ohio. It's interesting how underneath the surface it's not just the Beyonce but lots of others stars not appearing with Clinton but on her behalf working these battleground states. And it will be very interesting to see how much that pays off on Tuesday.</s>BLACKWELL: All right.</s>PAUL: All right. Brian, Hilary, Amy, thank you so much. Always appreciate your voice here. All right. Leading up to Election Day and we are less than 48 hours away.</s>BLACKWELL: Yes. Of course we will have every race, every result covered. Special live coverage all day here on CNN until the very last vote is counted. Count on us. What happens on Wednesday if Donald Trump wins? Will Mexico at least have a contingency plan? We have a reporter who will be in Mexico City. What will they do they're calling about this hurricane, they say for its economy?</s>PAUL: "Saturday Night Live" too real quickly using this last weekend of the campaign to get in prompted (ph) says (ph) a few last jokes?</s>BLACKWELL: No.</s>PAUL: I don't think they're going to be the last jokes.</s>BLACKWELL: They've got a few more after the election, I'm sure.</s>CECILY STRONG AS ERIN BURNETT: How are you both doing this week?</s>ALEC BALDWIN AS DONALD TRUMP: Really, really great, Erin. They're all still buying it.</s>PAUL: It wasn't all laughs. The cast did drop the satire and they got real.