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Overwhelmingly for president obama. all of those things have come true in the last ten days. that gives him a chance. it still leaves her the heavy favorite. still leaves him trying to figure out is it possible to get from 259 to 265 to 270. >> and let me ask you, rick tyler, 279 to 259. would you still call hillary clinton the heavy favorite? or is this more of a tossup to you? >> i think shes still the favorite structurally. we have another week to go. thats a lifetime in politics. things coul...

From harford university. and on jeb bushs financial committee is now a member of the trump economic council. ill start you both on the same question that i start everybody with at this point. im sorry. whether you like the horse race or not, were less than a week out and it is a horse race moment. so where do you see the race? >> certainly this is a trend in donald trumps favor. i think the fundamentals are still pretty difficult. theres some states that he has never led in and may never lead if...

Both candidates, of course, trying to carve that path to 270. that has both candidates and their surrogates hitting the trail targeting, of course, the swing states. donald trump is in florida today. while his vice presidential candidate is trying to turn some red states blue. or actually the other way around. >> yeah. >> meanwhile hillary clinton and her high profile are stalking important swing states as well. lets get to the bottom line with cnn political analyst david gregory. good morning, ...

Is great but it always includes polls taken weeks ago as well as more recently. we like the trend lines there in states like new mexico, wisconsin, certainly pennsylvania has always been on our list, colorado. these states that have been blue for awhile, these states that president obama carried twice. its also a state where bernie sanders cleaned hillary clintons clock. its like iowa, a state that just does not like hillary clinton. >> so russ, in this final sprint, when you hear michigan, we a...

The last four names. in both political parties and we are not seeing the surge a lot of us expected. >> the same effect, a gap there. thats what they are trying to generate with the appearance today. great to see you. >> thank you. >> lets talk about the new battleground map emerging with deputy political director mark murray. what are hillary clinton and donald trump confronting as they look at the map, mark, and try to get past 270. we have seen the race tightening. >> let me show you the chan...

We have to get back to im going to call it a much more important game, the race is down to the wire. just six days until election day and both campaigns are on a mad dash to shore up votes as these polls tighten. they are not just targeting battleground states. hillary clinton is headed to red arizona while donald trump focuses on blue michigan. are you ready for this? not just on the phone, host of "meet the press," the one and only, chuck todd is in the house. >> stephanie, nice to be in the h...

Who been fighting and stay alive. a week ago it look like it was all over when we heard the tapes from "access hollywood," then boom, the e-mails have come back again. now, the clinton people claim that he cannot get to 270, that theyre hanging on by their fingernails at this point but they think their get out the vote operation will get them there and then hes got to win in states where it will be tougher for him to win. im the ufo guy, the unforeseen will occur. this is another example of that...

Down in the polls, and in most of the swing states youre still down even if you narrowed the gap -- >> what polls have you been looking at? >> im looking at the polls that show him down. im sorry what are you saying hes not down in colorado? >> have you looked at the abc poll? ohio? >> have you looked at the six swing states we put on the board? >> sure. >> is he ahead? >> hes ahead in florida and ohio, and within two points of pennsylvania. >> that means down. >> in one of those, one. >> theres...

Rudy giuliani said he has to win florida or its over. >> reporter: tim russert said it best, florida, florida, florida. theyre spending more time in the campaign than any other. trump has had a total of 32 stops ahead of today. he has three more. clearly they need to secure this state. they need to turn portions like this one where we are, the panhandle of florida deep red to get out the vote. sort of a mosaic as a strategist described it to us where there are different portions of the state, no...

She hasnt spent much time there. also the clinton campaign today saying theyre going to be launching ads in michigan, virginia, colorado, new mexico. what do those states have in common? we havent been talking about them, so why are we suddenly talking about them? basically the clinton campaign is fast-towaforwarding to a nightmare scenario. that fbi story broke last friday. its dominated the news since then. were not quite seeing it in the polls yet, but fast-forward a few days. lets see if we ...