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Doesnt get him to 170. he has to break into hillary clintons industrial midwest fire wall to have a chance to go to 270. >> lets talk about iowa. is that a big surprise at this point? >> is not a surprise. we had in toss-up for a while but we thought iowa and maybe even ohio, although were still leaving that in the toss-up category. if one of our toss-up states, i would thing new hampshire is still looking good. hillary clinton might have a very small advantage there. >> georgia. there was a lot...

People will stand for it. >> congressman elijah cummings. appreciate your time. joining me now senior spokesman for the obama campaign 2008. now here as a consultant. also middle reliever for the cubs, got left off the roster. you know democrats, you know liberals, they get panicking. lets start with the map. you got this situation where this is sort of a quadrennial tradition in which the republicans said they would campaign in blue states, there was a huge rally in pennsylvania. it didnt wor...

Samuelson and someone has to ask them, are you going to make a clean break for these people. these people gave her bad advice over and over again. ultimately its her fault. these are people -- i dont know how they can work on an administration and if corruption is her biggest weakness, how is she going to convey to the american people that she will not continue with a corrupt administration and it seems these people from e-mails were reading in wikileaks, these people seem to be the problem. the...

She is still, she can look at the map and say, unless theres a huge national shock, she is going to win enough states. hold most of the blue states and win enough blue states and maybe north carolina on get to 270. so she can, barring a national shock and many states ending up different than the public data, shes got it. >> the way you have to look at this on some level, six days out, whose hand would you rather be playing? her hand or his hand? no doubt you would rather be playing her hand. >> ...

We won the debate so easy i dont think it mattered. >> thats donald trump in miami. joining me now former pennsylvania governor, long-time clinton supporter ed rendell. your reaction to this, we see a tightening race. hillary clinton back on her heels because of the fbi and the letter, the bombshell since friday. in the last two days going on the attack against donald trump and you see donald trump here against her. s calling her crooked hillary, saying things are critical. none of it establishe...

Get in and -- say donald trump is able to run the table in florida, ohio. you end up if shes able to end up winning in utah and arizona. you end then if you give him all the battleground toss-up columns. he gets the 264 electoral votes. thats short of what he needs to get. for example in wisconsin all of the sudden with the ten electoral votes if donald trump could add wisconsins ten electoral votes you get donald trump to pass 270. thats a narrow path. with these poll numbers well see later tod...

Why spend crucial hours there? do you believe michigan is up for grabs? >> it is. michigan is up for grabs. we like what we hear on the ground there. the real clear politics average is great, but it always includes polls taken weeks ago as well as more recently. we like the trend lines there and states like new mexico, wisconsin, certainly pennsylvania, always been on our list. colorado. these states that have been blue for a while. these states that president obama carried twice. but remember, ...

Each campaign pulling out all the stops in their drive for captures the necessary 270 electoral votes needed to win. well break down each candidates path to that goal. thats coming up next. remember this guy?

See. but the early polls, by the way, when asked, does this matter to you, some 63%, with others, 70% say, no. trump has an exceedingly difficult path to 270. thats because hes a first-time candidate. he doesnt know this. i give him a lot of slack. but it turns out, when you call women "fat pigs," you do badly in the womens vote. when you say latinos are rapists and murderers, you do badly with latinos. when you question the presidents birth in america, you do bad with african-americans. he has ...

Eight battleground states we have identified, but he needs to go on and win also a blue state. so interesting to see that he is in pennsylvania today with mike pence doing an obamacare speech in the king of prussia, one of the suburbs of philadelphia. that would be one of the states donald trump has to win in order to get to that 270 threshold. >> i was talking to larry sabatto and he said the race has tightened up and its because the fbi director. >> i think so, yeah. were starting to see now, ...