Hello and welcome to The Spectator's Americano podcast, a special series of discussions about the biggest political event of this year, the 2016 US presidential election.

My name is Freddie Gray and I'm Deputy Edger of the Spectator.

Today I'm joined by Marcus Roberts, who is International Projects Director at YouGov,

and we're going to be talking about the third and final presidential debate

and discussing whether the whole race is over and Donald Trump has in fact lost.

Marcus, I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump last night had perhaps his last big chance

to really score points against

Hillary Clinton and embarrass her and change the momentum back in his favour. And I think it's fair to say

he didn't do that. Would you agree? I think that is fair. What's important is not just the post-debate

polls, such as UGov's result, showing that 69% of voters thought that Hillary Clinton

had excellent or good knowledge of policies, 40% for Trump.

68% thought that all candidates should accept the result of the election, and that overall

49 to 39% of voters considered she won.

All of those numbers are interesting enough, but they're not as important as the reality

of what's actually happening in the election right now.

Nearly two million voters in America have already voted.

What that means is that Hillary Clinton's leads as reflected

in the polls are currently being reflected in actual votes. Over a million voters in battleground states

have already cast their ballots through early voting. So the leads that every major reputable polling company on the planet

who's reporting right now that is polling America of a Hillary Clinton significant win are being

reflected in votes. And that all was extremely well for Hillary Clinton and extremely ill for

Donald Trump. Is this why we've been hearing that the Clinton campaign are now targeting states such as

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