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There are new indications that clinton is looking to go for expansion states. arizona, utah, and georgia. chris jansing part of the battleground at an evangelical church in atlanta. chris, you are in whats called jesus junction. what are some of the evangelical pastors telling you? >> reporter: im standing in front of the ponce deleon church, 2500 member evangelical church and i talk to pastors who say how challenging this is. what do you say to a flock that wants to know why donald trump says t...

>> reporter: enough to make a difference in november? >> donald trump only getting 60%. thats 20 percentage points less than mitt romney and thats a lot of voters in the state of georgia. >> reporter: thank you very much, reverend jennifer butler. john polled 80% in a state like georgia where 55% of all voters identify as evangelical. you can see what a difference that can make and why this is now considered a potential battleground state. craig? >> chris jansing from jesus junction there in atl...

You see why hillary clinton is looking at georgia as potentially gettable in places like here in atlanta and also in macon, there are african-american evangelicals prone to support hillary clinton, but seem to be energized to work against donald trump. >> jesus junction in atlanta. georgia is potentially a swing state this year. coming up, donald trump making claims the election is rigged and making claims about voter fraud. how many voters are buying it? thats the most important number of the...

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The struggle for evangelical voters in this election. our chris jansing joins us from a place called jesus junction. its down in georgia. this is me, using a wrench to build a jet engine. well we thought ge programmed machines to talk. ge is an industrial company that actually builds world-changing machines. machines that can talk to each other digitally. hello? they dont talk to each other like that, ricky. shhhh, youll anger it. he looks a little ticked off now.

Regulation, unleash energy sector, eliminate the trade deficit. you cannot tell me trump is not going to create growth and clinton is not going to drag this economy in the toilet where we are now. were at 1% growth after eight years of a $10 trillion stimulus. 8 years after the stimulus. business people support trump because they want to be able to produce here, create jobs here, create prosperity here, and not be hammered by mexico, china, and a global environment which is not having our nation...

Can. they are not sitting around on election night waiting to decide who is the president of the united states. >> thank you very much for being with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> coming up, reconciling states and politics. evangelicals gave donald trump a big boost in 2016 but many are at a crossroads with allegations of sexual misconduct swirling. up next, we take you to jesus junction in atlanta. our chris jansing headed to one of the churches to hear from some of trumps most conflicted...

In the country. early voting under way in a third of the country. 17 states. that includes battlegrounds of iowa and ohio. they are set to begin early voting this week or next week. thats two-thirds of the country. georgia in particular has become a battleground state. recent poll shows donald trump with a lead of six points over hillary clinton. that poll conducted before the recent wave of allegations against donald trump by a number of women. if you look inside the state of georgia, evangelic...

Another deep red state, we were just talking about this. kasie was giving you the down low, georgia could end up being a toss up, evangelical voters there may be a big reason why. >> i know for sure there are people in my congregation struggling how to pull the lever. the prevading sense i got from the congregation is deep sadness. >> up next, we go live to the peach state where early voting has kicked off. we will talk to voters, atlantas so-called jesus junction, find out why some say theyre c...

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