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New hampshire is feeling good. >> some say that isnt enough. >> we feel good about nevada. the absentees and on election day the turn out operation will do it. in the state of colorado on friday, republicans pulled ahead of democrats for the number of ballots returned. similar to washington state. you can turn them in on election day. wheres the battleground? michigan. plenty of states to get past 270. >> if you lose there are you done? toast? >> michigan? oh, no. we have a good opportunity to w...

Might say? >> well, i think the trump campaign believes its closing in michigan. their polling does show that, and theyre also looking at the absentee ballots. absentee voting is up in michigan this year, but its down in detroit, which has a lot of african-american voter whose would traditionally vote democrat. what you see from the trump campaign is some belief they need to win another blue state, thats true, and michigan with demographics similar to ohio and other rust belt states, may be the ...

At a big event in philadelphia. clearly, both campaigns consider pennsylvania critical to their chances. >> can i just ask you both, and ill let you answer first, seema, how long do you think its going to take for us to find out? an early night or a long one? >> once sisi how florida and north carolina go, we can have a -- >> champagne bottles. >> 8:0030 or 9:00. if hillary clinton has the lead in either state, shes going to be -- looks like an early election night. if its actually donald trump ...

But now go to this rust belt region. if donald trump can flip a michigan and a wisconsin that gets him to 270. pennsylvania, if he can get two of those three, which is mighty steep slime for him, still, two of those three, hes on his way to the presidency. >> and do the polls suggest that he can do that rust belt that blue area? >> not really. the most recent poll out of wisconsin showed hillary clinton had a six-point lead there, alisyn. michigan still leaning in hillary clintons direction. pen...

Lets move on to the final nine days here. i really want to understand your strategy because we just talked about some of it. colorado, new mexico, michigan. hes down seven in michigan. down eight in colorado. yes, hes doing better overall in the polling. hes going to struggle in colorado with suburban women and latinos. new mexico, youve got a huge latino population. michigan hasnt gone for a republican since 88. walk me through the thinking here. >> absolutely. two things i want to point out. n...

The tracking numbers i am seeing show a very positive movement for mr. trump as were coming down the home stretch here. look in florida where we have both independent and internal numbers are looking very good. look to north carolina, where we are ahead of the pace of where mitt romney was four years ago for early voting and absentees. iowa, were far ahead of the pace and democrats have trailed off. earlier to when john king was showing us the map were five percentage points better for early vot...

Should be getting out of that party because theyre not fully behind him. the idea whos doing better in early voting and absentee ballots. two very different dynamics. we do know the numbers of early voting. he wanted to talk about absentee ballots. heres his sound from shawn. >> youre going to win florida? >> again, lets look at it. were leading in absentee ballots requested and rusheetur. we have 850,000 republicans that have requested ballots since 2012. thats close to 1 million. as we head in...

Theyre going to save these absentees from the campaign trail because hes spreading his time among iowa and new hampshire theyre focussing . clinton devoted all his time to endorsing christie and then went after christie in new jersey and brought up bridge gate. obviously, now trump is worried about christie in new hampshire. he didnt mention rubio. >> i think trump is worried about whose ever most recently attacking him. >> way warmer than new hampshire. monday night when trump was there he laid...

The two democrats are separated by 1/100 of a percent. if election officials had their way this thing might be over already. they were ready to jail him the winner. david wassermann started raising issues and he was among the first to spot a discrepancy in the total particularly in fairfax county. thousands of ballots seemed to be missing. he tweeted i am not convinced they are done reporting absenties. they showed a percentage of increase. the following day wassermann said a member of the polit...

Reach 50% of the vote. gruel could would be the first female mayor, garcetti, the first jewish latino mayor. >> we are going to have difficult times, we may not always agree but we with dough agree as business and labor has im person that can lead the city of los angeles. >> when i become mayor, the first thing i will think about is the city of l.a., the services never anyone else. >> the vast majority of people that didnt listen. the last weeks turnout so was low, the "l.a. times" called it an ...