why did donald trump why was he such an attraction to a specific group of americans and why are they disappointed and will remain disappointed instead of covering ourselves in what we did or didn t do as a collective media? i think there are a lot of self-introspection and questions that need to be asked within the media. we are due for you are a own autopsy report in a way. i think you re absolutely right. there was a lot of difficulty in struggling. my outlet certainly among them in figuring out what to do with donald trump early on and trying to understand what the appeal was all about and i think as we go forward, we re going to have to figure out why we missed the story early on. i think the best parallel for what frank is talking about is probably sarah palin after 2008 where she did go off and started doing her own media ventures. had her own reality show. fox news commentator if i remember correctly. you had to grapple with how much
when you look at the numbers. more intensity around her campaign. and tim kaine was here in florida yesterday. he was in orlando. he basically if you can pull it up on screen, he called it a checkmate that florida is checkmate. both sides, democrats and republicans, are setting stakes high. what you see that s interesting when you look at someone like senator rubio up for reelection in the state, the game has now shifted for the democrats side to pump up these down ballot senators. in pennsylvania and new hampshire, for example. donald trump is doing the same in a more tepid way. this was his sort of push when he was at his rally over the weekend for those down ballot races. listen. if you elect me along with the republican house and senate, we ll also immediately repeal the obama/clinton defense sequester with the republican house and senate we will immediately repeal and replace the disaster known as obamacare.
i suspect right now she ll be between 350 and 370. baby sam? i m looking at the computer here trying to crunch some numbers. if you give her every swing state except for texas, that means iowa, nevada, arizona, georgia, north carolina, virginia, everything in the northeast, colorado, florida, if you give her all that. not texas. she only gets 374. so she s got to get texas to get above 400 in way case i put the odds very low for her. donald trump by the way, you would think like a big policy speech might help beef up the campaign so he traveled to gettysburg this past weekend for a speech his campaign trumpeted as his final big speech of the campaign. intentionally choosing an historic setting. it s my privilege to be here in gettysburg. hallowed ground where so many
indians. who are looking to end their own title drought. joining us from wrigley field in chicago, nbc news correspondent ron mott. ron, take it away. reporter: hey, mika. good morning to you. you know, if somebody were writing a novel about how the cubs got back to the world series, they would be hard pressed to match the excitement spread all around the city since saturday night. the celebration is well under way and the folks here don t want the party to stop. to say life has changed since chicago cubs fans had a world series to cheer is as obvious as the joy on display here. wedding vows and a photo shoot. a huge run on memorabilia. a nod and a wolf to the late legendary cubs announcer harry caray. so fans of other teams shouldn t balk at all the attention the cubs are getting. 1945, the cubs last appeared on the world series stage and failed to win it all. i ll say it, obama said, holy
breaks 400. at the time the way it s going right now, it s looking bad. arizona. i was just out in arizona last week. it is a way tighter race than it should be. and the organization has been incredible in terms of new voters by some of these large hispanic organizations and they re really turning out the vote. new name. poor ben ginsburg. indiana is the other bellwether that closes really early. it depends entirely on what message he uses for the next two weeks. if it s the populist message, she s not going to get to 400 votes. if it s the sort of personal grie grievances message, she might. sad steele? not really. i think ben has it right. it s looking like georgia and indiana will give you a better sense of how this evening is going to go.