National Republican Party to be clear, in context, theres a whole bunch of problems that the trump dpan has for the Republican Party. Theres a new poll that puts donald trump nationwide 14 points behind Hillary Clinton. 14 points behind . Now, that is not the only poll in the world, right . Theres another National Poll out also tonight from fox news that says hes only 3 points behind Hillary Clinton. Well be talking later on in the show with an expert about how to read the various polls right now. How to know whats right, especially when youve got results like these that are so disparate. In either case 13 points behind or 3 points behind, he is still behind. The headwinds seem very clear right now. Tonight at fivethirtyeight. Com theyre reading those headwinds for the president ial race and looking at the senate polls. Fivethirtyeight is giving the Republican Party a 68 chance of losing control of the United States senate this year. So that is just one of the problems that it appears
should be core republican states already, florida, texas and alabama. that was the bob dole campaign 13 days out from the 1996 election. that hail mary overture to ross perot. and ross perot swatting it down and leaking it. and we are also now 13 days out from our presidential election this year. it is a fair point there at the end of that package from nbc that to note that bob dole, one of the ways you can really tell he was in trouble was the fact that he was having to campaign in deep red states like alabama. republican leaders were abandoning bob dole all over the country, but he did go to alabama in the waning days where he at least got former segregationist jormg wallace to rally with him. really, bob dole? why did you do that? this year it s not alabama where pence and trump are campaigning. it s utah. that s where republican vice presidential nominee mike pence