three states, nbc news/marist polling that are just coming in, not unimportant politically. michigan, minnesota, wisconsin. trump is under water in those three pivotal states right now. let me ask the question a different way. do you think the president accepts and is willing to be a realist about being a potential drag? >> absolutely not, and i think we saw that with his comments on sean hannity's radio program today, where basically, he said that he was going to go out there six or seven times a week. the irony is that a lot of these candidates don't necessarily want him to go to their states. a lot of them want to run on things that perhaps the trump presidency can take some credit for, like conservative judges or the state of the economy or the tax bill, but they don't necessarily want sort of the picture of trump in their district. and so, he is inserting himself in some races where it's going to be much trickier. but as jonathan said, you know, i really think that he finally