in the last couple days, before the jim comey announcement, the race settled there a three or four-point hillary clinton lead. the demographics suggest to you that if her people turn out, she should win the election. doesn t mean she will win the election. doesn t mean donald trump doesn t have a closer race than some of the big, blue battleground states like pennsylvania. closer. but about the same gaps you had in the romney/obama race. a point above in some states and a point below in others. it s a static race. i never disagree with you. please do. expect in days ending in y. i don t think it makes a difference in the outcome. as a texan, the president lost texas by 16 points. hillary may lose texas but the surge of latino voters there, i m getting reports from friends and family in texas. lines around the block. one young man talking about taking an elderly woman in her 70s or 80s to the polls in a walker. she waited three and a half hours leaning on her walker to
those. soonts that s completed we ll have those put forward. he s been consistent with it all the way through. will he release his tax returns? he s been consistent. as soon as the audit is completed he ll put it forward. still no audit letter though. as soon as the audit is completed he ll put it forward. let s talk about the deep blue state of michigan. you have to flip a blue battleground. you look at polling in wisconsin, in pennsylvania which joe scarborough likes to call fool s gold. we are excited about the battleground states in florida where mr. trump is 130,000 votes ahead of where the ticket was. 140,000 votes ahead of the pace. the gap between republicans and democrats of north carolina doing much better there. we talk about ohio and iowa. we are three of the last four polls showed mr. trump leading.
campaign according to trump aides. there are some inside the campaign that say minnesota, they are in that area, they will dabble there. but really the focus is michigan. additionally, pennsylvania. pennsylvania more of an uphill climb. i think there are sources inside the campaign or there are telling us that michigan is probably the best shot at flipping one of the key blue battlegrounds. i want to share with you, where he has been this entire campaign, the focus the places where he is focusing, florida, ohio, pennsylvania, north carolina. not surprising. these are the four that it is going to come down to. the four that are the most important for his campaign before you even get into whether or not he can flip a blue battleground. hallie jackson, thanks. going to the battleground map, mark murray, the campaign has said the clinton campaign has said if they can hold the midwest, win pennsylvania, they don t need north carolina or florida. obviously, it would be a bonus point. the