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house, but let's start with alexandria hoff who's tracking the races in three key swing states. >> reporter: hi, mike. let's start in pennsylvania, dre once-sizable lead that john fetterman once held. on tuesday the two are going to hold their first and only debate putting fetterman's health in focus. he spoke earlier today. >> you know, we had a stroke back in may. and it really -- [inaudible conversations] and despite all that, i survived to be back. >> reporter: fetterman will be relying on closed captions during the debate. oz has questioned whether fetterman is well enough to pe...

Looks like a colorado day. sunny and beautiful there. >> it's always sunny in colorado, that's right. >> dana: we know that. i have got the sun damage to prove it. want to ask you about this poll. nbc washington journal poll shows on the generic ballot, voters prefer for the 2018 midterms, democrats to republicans at 50% to 39%. people look at the generic ballots say that this spells some really big head winds for republicans. so i know that factors into your thinking. how do you expect outside groups maybe to help you with a push in order to try to change those numbers a little bit and preven...

Debate. and she -- like you said, she smiled through a lot of that. >> yeah. >> that was the debate. then the video that came out friday. in between you then had this other piece of news, which is these bill clinton accusers. these three women who, you know, trump brought into the audience. apparently he even -- he wanted them to sit with his own family in the vip box but the commissioner said, no, this is a families only area. you could still see them sitting there. mike, is this the stunt that republicans wanted because at the end of the day nothing unifies republicans like attacking the cli...

Forth. but one thing that hasn't changed, david, is that today in the gallup poll, obama's job approval is under 50. and job approval is the single best predictor of an incumbent president's ballot performance. i think that's number one. number two, i wouldn't hang too much on a single poll. remember on this day in 2000, al gore was ahead of george w. bush by two points. bush was leading him by about three points going into the last weekend. and went all the way to the supreme court. at this point in 1980, carter was leading reagan by four. there was a gallup with five days left that had him u...

And down. there's been a lot of back and forth. but one thing that hasn't changed, david, is that today in the gallup poll, obama's job approval is under 50. and job approval is the single best predictor of an incumbent president's ballot performance. i think that's number one. i think number two, i wouldn't hang too much on a single poll. i mean remember on this day, in 2000, al gore was ahead of george w. bush by two points. bush was leading him by about three points going into the last weekend, it went all the way to the supreme court. at this point, in 1980, carter was leading reagan by fo...