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Look at florida, "the new york times" poll that came out today, trumps leading by four. early voting as of this morning, he was leading by 24,000 votes when you look at early voting and absentee. look at pennsylvania. if he keeps the romney states, wins florida, wins pennsylvania, wins ohio, and there are two polls that show him down by two points, three points. he becomes the next president of the united states. this is before the fbi scandals factor in. >> so, paul, are you running for the hil...

That would be really scary. and hillary clinton comes across as a cool person with foreign policy cred and experience and you would trust her more than donald trump. >> and i think this plays into what the clinton campaign has tried to make a narrative throughout the campaign, questioning trumps temperament. shes gone out and done other ads and talked on the stump about her being a steady hand and trump being a loose cannon without the temperament. this right here, this exchange is about the len...

Revealing the existence on friday. they were tone o they were on a laptop owned by anthony wiener and clinton aide huma abedin. attacking donald trump on national security. his fitness to be president. trump for his part is not giving up on the issue of clintons private e-mail server. why would he? trump telling a crowd that his rival broke the law over and over by lying to the fbi and destroying evidence on her phone and e-mails. democrats are asking them to reject absentee and provisional ball...

Better than we ever have. they are not reaching the numbers that they normally have. you need to put all of that in context. obama won north carolina by 300,000. >> the top four obama counties in ohio. >> theyre all down from where obama was and republicans are up. >> it is got to be in context and not true. >> if florida we are winning the early vote and absentee votes. >> the reality is -- >> i am saying national spe speaking. >> guess what, this is a state by state race game. >> more state th...

Sits in the middle of that i-4 corridor you were talking about, it has voted republican for the past two elections. i wanted to give our viewers at home a firsthand look at the get out the vote efforts for the trump campaign less than two weeks before the election in this must win state. im here with state senator kelly stargell. what do the get out the vote kam pans look like and how do they look different this year? >> we have phone banks, walkers going door to door, asking individuals if they...

We need to make sure we deliver ohios 18 electoral votes for donald trump so we can put a republican back in the white house. >> i hear the argument youre making which is echoing donald trumps argument hes making at the top of the ticket. when you talk about wanting to deliver ohios electoral vote, obviously crucial to his path to 270 here, theres been obviously drama between you and the state executive director for team trump here. does that harm potentially the ability to deliver those votes f...

2012, in many key counties like cuyahoga county, where cleveland is, where absentee ballots are down 50,000 from four years ago and ours are up 1,000. were looking -- >> republicans have traditionally done well with the absentee balloting, right? thats not totally unusual for you guys. >> no, actually, its the opposite. what had happened, in 2012, as you may know, mitt romney won election day in ohio. it was that early vote that was an insurmountable lead for us and, unfortunately for them -- fo...

Lunch. >> no problem. >> youre a young cuban-american. >> first generation. >> did you vote already? >> i did. absentee. >> who did you vote for? >> i actually didnt go for trump. i couldnt do it. my heritage, a lot of cubans are republican. i went independent. >> is there a generational twied between older and younger cubans? >> i think so, yes. >>. >> do you feel as passionate? its not as painful for whats happening on the island? >> i saw whats going on in cuba. it was hard to see whats happe...

With 29, ohio with 18, new hampshire, it is getting tighter. all of a sudden trump goes from romneys 206 electoral votes to 257. thats not going to win it, but thats in the ball game. >> based on everything youre hearing, rebecca, a lot of early voting is going on. who is ahead? the trump people insist they are? >> so far were seeing democrats ahead in many places. what we tend to see from democrats are democrats show up early to polling places to vote and republicans tend to vote absentee early...

More than half the states over the past few weeks. in florida, some people have been voting by mail, but today actual polling places there opened. six other states will jump onboard pretty soon, joining the rush. a few more will come after that, leaving only a dozen or so that have no early voting unless you have a state-approved excuse to vote absentee. at this point, more than 5 million people have cast their ballots already, or almost 4% of the 127 million who voted for obama or romney in 201...