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Given the comp civilization the state. one thing helping heller is the gubernatorial race. waxruning to replace sandoval probably has big down ticket. the polling in this race is tight, tight, tight. we can say heller once considered a goner has fought his way back into this thing. >> dana: when you change one of your power rankings i imagine people in washington and in those states pay a lot of attention and so do the donors, that would be something to take a look at in this next filing on october 15th. what else about the power rankings? i wanted to hear about the maryland governor. >> well,...

And get your take on a point i made earlier which is, nobody needs donald trump to do better than paul ryan and that has to chap his you know what. >> the down ticket needs him to be presidential. long ago when i worked for richard nixon, it took me six years of reading. a great column through "time" magazine. you have to demonstrate a temperament when was to stand silent and when to jut out your jaw. donald trump needs rally the republicans to him. he may want to set up project veritas. he may want to bring up the usa today story about the foundation but mostly, he has to stay calm and presid...

But at the same time you need those donald trump supporters to back your candidate's down ticket, the position that paul ryan is in. he's still endorsing donald trump. he has know revoked his endorsement of donald trump at this point. it shows the line he's trying to walk here. to criticize donald trump saying he won't defend him but still endorsing him. watch for him to try to clarify that point for the time time here at madison university. >> interesting to see how hard se get pressed by college republicans. dana bash, this is something president obama was just saying. he doesn't want to let...

Givish e isus your takeaway. >> i think those are difficult place force trump. he has to run the table and then find another table. and he is not -- you know, he is not doing that. in a state like north carolina, you look at that, romney won that narrowly last time. and trump should be running away with north carolina. or at least winning. and he's not. pennsylvania, hillary, 9% lead. i mean, wisconsin, hillary up is 7%. michigan, hillary is up 11 points. if the election were held today. not really good for donald trump. 26 days is sometime, but not an awful lot of time to make up this kind of...

Publicly at a rally. now democrats are using that against him. but it really just shows that if the party runs away from donald trump, it will keep away a key bloc of voters they need in november. which is why it is so problematic down ticket as republicans try to keep control of congress. >> manu raju, thanks. coming up next, samsung stops production of a popular phone over fire worries. sureor put themhave ston a rack.e tires. but the specialists at ford like to show off their strengths: 13 name brands. all backed by our low price tire guarantee. yeah, we're strong when it comes to tires. ri...