Breaking Down The Third Presidential Debate

Analysis of the final presidential debate and a look ahead at the candidates’ strategies in the last weeks before Election Day.

All these months. All the drama and struggle. And last night, Donald Trump said he might not accept the result of the country’s November 8 election. For some, that was a show-stopper. For the last debate. Maybe for American democracy. Hillary Clinton called it “horrifying.” Trump and his backers said, ‘we’ll wait and see.’ There was more last night. On immigration, the economy, abortion, guns.  This hour On Point, we size up the last debate. — Tom Ashbrook

Anita Dunn, Democratic strategist and managing director at SKDKnickerbocker, a public affairs firm in Washington. She was formerly the White House communications director and senior adviser to Obama's presidential campaigns.

Chris Wilson, Republican pollster and strategist, CEO of Wilson Perkins Allen Research and currently working on Rep. Joe Heck's Nevada Senate race. He was formerly director of data, analytics and digital strategy on Sen. Ted Cruz's primary campaign. (@WilsonWPA)

Abby Phillip, national political reporter for the Washington Post who has been covering the Hillary Clinton campaign. (@abbydphillip)

McKay Coppins, senior political writer for Buzzfeed News and author of "The Wilderness." (@mckaycoppins)

BuzzFeed News: Trump Refuses To Say If He Will Accept The Results Of The Election -- "Donald Trump repeatedly insisted at Wednesday night’s debate in Las Vegas that the presidential election is rigged, and refused to say that he would ultimately accept the results regardless of the outcome. Debate moderator Chris Wallace asked the Republican nominee if he would 'absolutely accept the result of this election.' 'I will look at it at the time,' Trump responded."

Washington Post: Did the Clinton Foundation raise ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ for a hospital in Haiti that was never built? — "There’s real frustration among Haitians over failures in progress promised to them, not just by the Clintons but from the international community at large. In 2015, Haitian activists protested outside the Clinton Foundation in New York, claiming the Clintons mismanaged hundreds of millions in taxpayer money through the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission. But there is no evidence that Hillary Clinton, through the Clinton Foundation, raised 'hundreds of millions of dollars' for a hospital that was never built."

POLITICO: Women Are Wavering In Trump Country — "Vigo County is as good a bellwether as any place in America. It’s voted for the winning presidential candidate all but two times the past 128 years, and hasn’t missed since 1952, choosing neighboring Illinois’ Adlai Stevenson over Dwight Eisenhower—and even then it missed by a margin of only .07 percent. And signs are, in 2016, Vigo, situated in the home state of his running mate, Gov. Mike Pence, is firmly in the Trump column. But on this day inside Pizza City, as members of a France 2 television crew hovered boom mics over the proceedings, Trump’s Indiana team wasn't playing offense, but defense."