But whos counting. More from Progressive Field this hour. Good morning, everybody. Im tamron hall coming to you live from new york. Exactly two weeks until election day. Heres the state of the president ial race right now. Our new nbc news weekly online tracking poll out just this morning Shows Hillary clinton with a 5point lead over donald trump, 46 to 41 . Thats similar to a cnn orc poll out yesterday. It Shows Hillary clinton with a 5point lead. In new state polls, clinton has a 7point lead in the battleground. State of nevada. She has an 8point lead in michigan. And she has a 7point load in North Carolina and a New York Times college poll out also this morning. That comes a day after the mammoth University Poll shows clinton with a single point lead in North Carolina. Both Hillary Clinton and donald trump are campaigning in the Battle Ground state of florida where clinton is a statistical tie with trump with its 29 electoral votes, which is more than 10 of the 270 needed to win the presidency. The path to victory for donald trump must include florida. Clinton holds a rally this afternoon in coconut creek, 40 miles north of miami. Trump will hold rallies in sanford and tallahassee. Here are the headlines from the Trump Campaign this hour. Trump claims, dark polls are being put out by phoney media organizations with the intention of demoralizing his voters. He says he thinks hes winning. The campaign issued a battleground map listing 12 states now as what they see as toss up despite some of the new polling thats already out. But they also include colorado, wisconsin, michigan, virginia, New Hampshire and maine. Those show Hillary Clinton hold solid leads in all thosetates. The campaign designates arizona, utah and georgia as locked in for trump. Polls show a different story. Trump tower live debuted hosted by campaign advisers. Its scheduled to air every night at 6 30 eastern time through election day to compete with the nightly newscast. It comes that trump is ready to launch his tv channel. Jacob rascon joins us live from florida where trump will hold a rally later this afternoon. Lets talk about why he chose sanford. Thats why Trayvon Martin was killed. It was the source of a lot of pain. A lot of divisiveness in in country. What is trumps strategy for being there . Reporter here particularly im not entirely sure. When you talk to people in line, they will say what we hear at almost every trump rally which i havent met a person who supports Hillary Clinton. I cant imagine that he could lose this election. That happens at every location we go to. So its unclear this particular place. We havent heard anything particular about the campaign regarding sanford. Trump was on the phone with another network talking about florida. He admitted that if he doesnt win florida, he probably wont lose the election. Our polling shows he has to win florida. Even though he says hes winning, he did admit a a couple days ago hes probably behind and his Campaign Manager a a pollster said they are behind. So theres some acknowledgment there. Just when he acknowledges being behind in the polls, he then says these are dark polls or are polls of manipulated by the media. Its hard to say where he stands. I want to talk about what just happened at one of his courses. He had employees, many of them latino come up and they were supposed to be character witnesses for him. Lets play what happened. I hope shes going to say good. Do you want to say . Better say good or youre foired. Joking around there with the employees. He was also going after obamacare. Theres been some fact checking. Donald trump said that many of his employees were suffering tremendously as a result of obamacare. But within minutes, he had to selfcorrect because Fact Checkers said that his employees at least very few of them are on obamacare. Reporter his own general manager said 95 to 99 of them are not on the Affordable Care act or obamacare. So had to correct can himself there. This is an issue that hes hitting really hard and harder than usual. This is unlike some of the other issues that trump has grabbed ahold of, a lot of republicans even admit they dont know if thats the best strategy. Everybody seems on board here. Even some democrats have said that, look, this isnt exactly what we thought it was going to be. Speaking of the Affordable Care act, we can expect donald trump to hit this over and over. Even more than usual today on the stump. Thank you. Now to the headlines from the Clinton Campaign. Its out with a new ad this morning that hits donald trump on housing discrimination case involving trump apartment buildings. A case that was settled. The ad tells the story of may brown wiigens, a registered nurse who was denied a trump apartment because of the color of her skin. And more heavy hutter surrogates will be out including bill clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Vice President joe biden. Kasie hunt joins us live now from Broward College in coconut creek, florida, where the Clinton Campaign will hold a big rally. Im curious about the ad. Kind of circling back to one of the first major headlines that was used to show africanamericans more of Donald Trumps history. I feel very, very angry. So much so that its still evokes anger and rt. So thats the ad. Reporter sure, tamron. I think that it tells you quite a bit about the clinton strategy in these final weeks of the election. And we have talked a lot about it this entire campaign. The focus on minority voters, particularly those who supported president obama in 2008 and 2012, they frankly really need them to show up to the polls. All indications so far is thats the case. In florida for for example, latino Voter Registration is higher than ever. Shes had this persistent Enthusiasm Gap over the course of the election. I think this is part of a push to try to make sure that people are in this case its negative. Its an atem to get people to vote against trump. Thats motivating some voters. Hillary clinton started saying she has to make a positive case r for herself. Which i think is what you can expect from her today in florida. Is the campaign poiblting to new numbers that i guess shed in some of the questions as to how florida is fairing up for them right now . Millennials may finally be turning her way. There are so many colleges. Were starting to see early vote totals in florida. Early voting going on for the past couple days. So far seems to be favoring Hillary Clinton in that there are more the gap between democrats and republicans who are voting is larger or is smaller than it was in 2012, which means there are more democrat who is are voting early, which they see as a potential positive sign for Hillary Clinton because the reality is mitt romney lost this state narrowly. This was the closest contest in 2012. So far donald trump is not matching where romney was in the early vote. That doesnt bode well for his chances of getting 270 Electoral College votes. Join iing us to talk about t headlines, talk show host steve days and mccay, senior Political Writer for buzzfeed. Lets start with you. Mike pence is there 14 days out. Looking at a Third Party Candidate that could be challenging them. Its hard to overstate how insane this is. Utah is the most conservative state in the country dominated by a religious group thats the most republican in the country. And mike pence is forced to go his his second time this year going to utah. Evan mcmillin is a mormon himself. Most recent polls show him all tied in the state. So thats why you see mike pence and the Trump Campaign scrambling and actually just before i came on the air, i was talking to a source in utah who told me that tim kaine is going to have an oped in the Mormon Church newspaper going up any minute now making a pitch to the religious voters there talking about his own missionary experience. You really have a threeway race in the most conservative state in the country. This is historically unprecedented. Steve, what does this tell you, not just about whats happening with the battleground map for donald trump, but also downballot races here . It tells you whatever problems existed in the Republican Party that led to this nightmare scenario that they are in now are not going to go away until november 9th. And what is happening now is a lot of people are feeling like they have permission to say everything they really want to say. And a group of conservatives now feel like they have permission to not vote for a republican nominee that they dont like. And whatever relationship that is dysfunctional, when people feel they have permission about what they think about the other party, thats the relationship that likely is heading for a divorce. Listen, april, were looking at this. In october donald trump has done 28 rallies in states with senate races. But no Senate Candidate has appeared on stage with him. We verse that, Hillary Clinton seeing an opening now has been stumping for several women run ing for the senate. Tammie duckworth in nevada, Maggie Hassen in New Hampshire and the list goes on. She has been emboldened enough to use not only an opening for her potential victory, but for women running for senate in this toxic environment. Right, well, women are the biggest voting bloc there is. And many women are very upset. We saw what Elizabeth Warren said yesterday talking about nasty women. And i cant help but think about janet jackson, a throwback song, nasty boys when it comes to donald trump. What you have here is Hillary Clinton being strategic and want ing to win this. This is her second and final chance to win the oval office. Donald trump has come out and said things against women openly. No one has coerced him. We have heard him say things. Shes capitalizing on that. And there is a chance the democrats feel theres still a chance she could possibly pull out some wins for the democrats in the senate. But the republicans are still saying even with what shes doing, they believe that they still have a chance. I think the senate is up for grabs. Shes really trying to capitalize on that. Let me play what donald trump said this morning in this event with his employees joking he would fire them if they didnt say anything nice. He was trying to get around the news involving obamacare. Lets play what he said. Obamacare is just blowing up. Even the white house, our president announced 25 or 26 . That number is so wrong that is such a a phoney number. Youre talking about 80 in increases. Not 25 . He goes on to say he says a tremendous number of his employees are on obamacare. A phoney number that the gm has to come out and immediate ly sa that 95 of e employees get health care from the company so hes talking about phoney numbers. And you talked to american sources. This is one of their many regrets that donald trump not only has he not made a case, that could have helped them this cycle, hes so prone to doing what you just showed there. Instead of just attacking the democrats on substance or policy, he has to go way overreach, wildly exaggerate his claims and then he has to his campaign finds themselves on defense clarifying and apologizing and trying to set things straight. But they dont have control of their candidate, so thats a problem. Youre a conservative and no fan of obamacare. Even if this were opening for donald trump, he stomach nlables through it saying numbers are phoney. Hes presenting inaccurate facts that within minutes his own team had to correct. I was on my radio show telling my audience if i were running the Trump Campaign, contemplating running the Trump Campaign is like contemplating if i had syphilis, but what my advice would be what was done in virginia. There was a similar deficit u down the stretch to terry mccullough. He made the last few weeks of the governors race a referendum on obamacare. He went from ludsing by 6 points in the polls to almost winning that race. The problem is ken is smart and donald trump is not. Steve, youre supposed to be midwest charming. I dont know what this election has done to people like you, but you have children. I know your wife. Im going to move on. Which is why you know i can only contemplate syphilis but cant get it. Shes fainted just like i have inside. President obama with jimmy kimmel. Let me play whether he finds humor in trump at all. When you watch the debate and watch donald trump, do you ever laugh . Do you ever actually laugh . Most of the time. Democrats said this morning iticized for get iting too comfortable. These leads can evaporate in 14 day us. How much are the obamas enjoying at least this point . The obamas are not enjoying donald trump at all. I mean being ahead in the polls. They are happy that their candidate, who will move forward with what they have of their policies and locks like she can continue. At the same time, they are not taking it for granted because the trump camp is waiting for anything, any slip up for her numbers to fall. Just like we saw when she had the pneumonia and felt she was not stable, weak, a weak candidate, she didnt have the stamina. But we saw how the numbers fell back then. They are hoping she can move on strong and nothing happens. Thats what the trump people are banking on. But right now, its still shes not out of the woods. If it was a doubledigit lead nationally, they could breathe a lot easier, but its still very close. 5 , thats still close. Thank you very much. Im just going to pray for you in a minute. Greatly appreciate it. Got to laugh. A a very serious topic here. Some veterans are being asked to pay u back enlistment bonuses. A lot of outrage on this story. The military says tens of millions of dollars paid out to people who didnt qualify, but it wasnt a mistake made by the vets. 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