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We have never even for an hour had hillary clinton below 270 electoral votes. its gotten consistently worse since the first debate. you look at the polling averages, essentially shes up seven, eight points, maybe it goes down a couple, maybe it goes up a couple, the truth is, that kind of margin is enough for a very large electoral college victory. one that may even include states that were not considering right now. >> are you saying this would be a landslide? >> i wouldnt call it a land slide....

This election is three weeks from over. and were coming to a point if youre hillary clinton youre honestly starting to think about not just whether you will win, but how big your win will be. one option is to play it as safe as possible. defense. focus on the places you know can get you to 270 electoral votes and focus on making wins in those states as solid as possible. so stay laser focused on swing states that barack obama won in 2008. pennsylvania, florida, north carolina, new hampshire, nev...

Lets take a look at the battleground map right now. the electoral map to show you how difficult it is for him. donald trump would need to win ohio, north carolina and florida. and that still doesnt get him to the 270 electoral votes. he would have to pick up the state of virginia, state of pennsylvania or state of virginia. all three of those, hillary clinton is favored as we stand today. or she would have to win the state of nevada where i am right now. or the state of wisconsin or colorado. it...

Say i beat you on your turf, you have to do business with me. will they? thats a big question. but it gives her more of a moral argument that i won a sweeping victory, i won in republican areas, i didnt just win blue states, you need to pay attention. >> this is the third argument which is start to focus on some of the down ballot races. >> if youre in utah, theres no senate race. boy, what a message it would send if you could beat him. what a message it sends to the republicans. theres no compe...

Abby, a monmouth battle ground poll out of nevada shows trump trailing hillary clinton by seven points in that key state. last month in the same poll mr. trump led by two in the monmouth poll of nevada. in your paper this morning, abby, the "washington post" said trumps path to victory is, quote, nonexistent. do you agree with that? >> i think stu is pointing out what the map looks like right now which is that donald trump is not really winning in any of the states he needs to win in order to ge...

But some of this is bluster, some of it is not. well find out in the coming days which is which here. theyre still counting on a strong debate performance on wednesday to put her over the top. but anderson, the reason it matters now, colorado, other states are starting vote by mail. all the ballots went out today. the clinton campaign trying to freeze this race in place, get all those ballots in case something should shake out, like all those controversies still hanging over her head. >> jeff ze...

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But if there was a football game, he would be down two scores with three to four minutes left. let me walk you through some of the numbers and where things stand right now. so thomas, this is our battleground map right now. we have hillary clinton at 287 electoral votes versus 157 for donald trump. you just need 270 for the white house and right now hillary clinton is there with still some states in the toss-up column. heres the most recent nbc news survey monkey online weekly tracking poll. we ...

Won in 2012 by mitt romney, a state no democrat in modern times except bill clinton managed to win. it is on the clinton target list. look at the clinton incursion into red america. thats the story now. talked about donald trump and what paths he might have to get up to 270, but theres a flip side, given the water he has taken on, the campaign has taken on. there was a path that would lead far from where he is now. i want to show you what that would involve. we mention arizona. check the latest ...

Expand the map smart? >> well, i want to say first that one of the things that we learned in 2008 and 2012 was that the democratic candidate in that case barack obama, had a better, more sophisticated polling operation internally than any media polls out there. i think the clinton campaign has one that is more sophisticated doing more calls on a daily basis than anybody in the press. this is a side of great competence, that they are looking at numbers that say we are confident enough to be at 27...