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It out. and theyre trying to find ways to expand the map, to find alternative paths to the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. to be sure, the trump campaign is under no illusion that oregon is winnable at this point, but they also know that retaking states like pennsylvania, michigan, or even iowa, where the president is traveling today, are not sure bets at all. in fact, a senior trump adviser explained it to me this way, saying if we are a month out and a previous victory like michigan is...

Some of the states that he even won that the president ordered everybody to ignore that polling. that that polling is not true and to ignore it. you have interesting reporting on how the internal polling is going to change what their plan is for which states theyre going to hit. >> it is more on the lines of what i am told, what theyre trying to do because the trump campaign is flush with money, theyve got nothing but time while the democrats do get out, trying to figure alternative paths to 270...

There is indock tficative of hi ability to do it in other states. >> i wonder if its different for biden. if his camp sees what some saw in hillary clintons campaign, she didnt focus enough perhaps on midwest, midwest, midwest, and hes a big rich guy from new york who doesnt get you. im so different. you know, im joe from stracran. if he does that effectively, couldnt iowa be a completely different ball game for him? >> it could be, but iowa is never going to be in the first 270. if they win iow...

Ceos getting paid on average 270 times what a worker gets paid. is it something that needs to be regulated? phil maker, yes, abigail disney will be here to see what they think about it. we begin with the slowdown and the showdown in iowa. stop the presses. theyre both showing up. president trump and democratic frontrunner joe biden squaring off in dueling appearances today. peter alexander is standing by at the white house. but first, gary is already in iowa, stretching, getting ready for the ...

>> needs to be challenged in court, doesnt it and who is going to do it? >> well, i mean, the problem is it doesnt take effect unless they get the 270 electoral votes, they are approaching 200 but running out of blue states where they can get this through and you probably cant challenge it until they actually put it into effect, so my group save our state oklahoma council of public affairs is looking at the legal challenges to this but our conclusion is its best to convince the state legislators...

What the 15th state, theyll join 15 other states, actually they would become the 15th state to vote in favor of this, how would this impact our national election? >> so far the number of states except for maybe colorado were all what we call blue states meaning they generally vote democrat at least in the last few presidential elections, colorado is purple state but shouldnt have any impact until the number of states reach 270 electoral votes which is what is necessary to elect the next presiden...

The presidential campaign. even more frightening are the policies he is proposing setting that economy back. katie: the biden campaign is responding to, several citations from others in the plan were inadvertently left out of the final version of 22-page document. as soon as we were made aware of it we included the proper citations. of course president trump is paying attention to this. in a tweet he said, plagiarism charge against "sleepy" joe biden on his ridiculous climate change plan is a bi...

Op. a man who aspires to be prime minister chose to speak at an anti-trump rally and said he made a calculation, right or wrong, he made a calculation that is speaking up against the president of this countrys most important ally, he figured that that would be a smart political move for him to make. >> i think boris wants to be prime minister. boris johnson had that aspect of being a man in the wilder nsz a and coming back. really you guys budding me since the day he arrived. he was elected in t...

Reason that hillary clinton isnt president. in other words, are you saying that donald trump is an illegitimate president? >> im saying that russia played a role in 2016 and i say while theres other factors that led to secretary clinton falling short of the 270 electoral votes, yes, i do believe that russia was a major factor and the debacle in 2016. >> neil: you said russia is the reason why she was denied the white house. dont you think that fuels an impression if it wasnt for russia, donald t...

Electoral votes. >> thanks for your time this morning, we appreciate it. >> thank you. speaking of 2020, just ahead in the next hour, seth moulton will join our andrea mitchell to talk about his new mental health proposal. is new mental health proposal