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Florida, arizona. but in ohio, obama won by slim margins in 08 and 2012. can he convince those ohio voters that clinton should be his successor or not? >> reporter: well, that is certainly a challenge for the president. he will make that case today because he has that history with ohio, winning narrowly is still winning. he took this state in 08 and 12. prior to that it was george w. bush who won two times in a row and bill clinton won in 1996. the margin is narrow. a lot has to do with the conv...

>> anthony: fellow congolese/houston transplants guy mullet and >> constant: ngouala, chefs when not tending their crops, prepare an outdoor meal for the lombos and a group of friends and fellow farmers. congolese, but with a definite cajun touch. or is it the other way around? a slow cooked stew of sausage, shrimp, dried mackerel, and malabar spinach over fufu. then texas beef brochettes marinated in chilies and cilantro and maggi bouillon with a ratatouille made from produce grown right here. ...

With some of those independents or go to third party candidates. this is no way it will energize hillary clinton supporters. they are already energized. >> youre shaking your head saying no. we have to leave it there. >> no, no, no. i totally agree with donna brazile. to say what im saying is nonsense, thats disrespectful. let me finish. you went on. what im saying is 08% of voters have definitely come around and its pretty much baked in. what im saying when it comes to early voting, which is in...

Back off. >> you guys won. you guys had an amazing win last year for that city which i think you could palpably feel how incredible it was when we were there this summer. cleveland indians playing great baseball in these playoffs. im very excited. i will be at wrigley saturday night. im excited about that. lets talk about your state. this is a heavy lift. its really interesting going through data, looking sort of getting in there. youre seeing this interesting thing happen in this race where you...

Theyre up by sizable portions. it is absolutely neck and neck in ohio. >> virginia, actually, both in 08 and 12, the margins were bigger for president obama in virginia than ohio. ohio almost always goes with the winner. hillary is going to win ohio. the polls are very close now. i can see two things happening. i can see union members who might have flirted with trump a little bit are coming around to vote for hillary. ive spent a lot of time in union halls, a lot of time talking to workers, and...

To go more direct, more confrontati confrontational, than she might even have anticipated a few months ago. >> is that reservoir of good will that michelle obama has, her popularity, is that why donald hasnt struck back? hes been very clear from the beginning if somebody hits him, he comes back swinging. he loves to fight. he said hes done it since he was a kid. but doesnt seem to push michelle. >> he tried because he brought up at one point some of the critical comments she made about the clint...

Many school shootings have girls that go and shoot up the school? >> are women less war like than men? >> exactly. >> give an example of a national leader in the world. thatcher? >> thats the outlier. >> golda mey meir? >> if you watch misdemeanor i last film, whenever you have one or two women, just as when you have one african-american on the supreme court, you end up with the token who has to appease the other side to get in there so you have clarence thomas but what you have now that we have...

Of sympathy for those folks, the same thing may have been true in 08 and 2012 when barack obama won the election, a lot of those people probably voted for john mccain and mitt romney. at the end of the day, we have to face whats going on here, white supremacy dies hard. this is what the campaign has been pushing. its been pushing white nationalism. >> give me the words. >> as far as words, what, what do you mean? >> how did they say white supremacy? >> i think theyve been selling nationalism. >>...

An even higher approval rating. shes going to be on the trail with hillary clinton in winston salem north carolina in just a little bit. it is ultimate swing state. obama won it in 08. lost it narrowly in 2012. theres no way donald trump cant get to 270 without north carolina. so michelle obama will be there today with hillary clinton. weve already seen her on the trail and she can be quite persuasive. >> this is not normal. this is not politics as usual. this is disgraceful, it is intolerable. ...

Lot of head winds. >> she did. >> rightly or wrongly. >> it wasnt wrong to those of us who believed in universal health care. >> i meant her critics rightly or wrongly because some had arguments go ahead. >> i just think -- i have felt for a long time that she was a force for good that what she believed in and the things, the people she cared about -- now, i have my disagreements with her politically and thats why i was for bernie and obama in 08. >> who would you prefer the nominee? her -- >> r...