the breakdown has changed with significant shifts now in favor of donald trump, but still trump facing a steep climb to 270. help us understand the details of this. reporter: what we re seeing is in states like north carolina that have historically been red, that it s a toss-up. both candidates are competing for it. you know it went blue in 2008tuate for president obama. it went red in 12 for romney. the candidates believe they have a shot at getting its voters to back them. we re seeing states like arizona who find themselves in the same situation and really are trying to get people out to the polls, to back the candidate because what can happen, it s still not clear. eugene, for donald trump really to get to that magic number, he would pretty much have to run the table, right? he d have to get all of those battleground states. reporter: he will have to. it would take a lot for him to get ahead, as we showed earlier,
president obama noun in charlotte, trying to give you as much sense of what is happening on the campaign trail because as you know this is going full bore. lot of surrogates out there. donald trump out there as well. bring you him live as well. equal time to everybody. gary tuckman in charlotte where president obama is. he s been on trail in full force for hillary clinton the last couple of days. i know something notable happened at earlier event. can you describe that? reporter: yes. north carolina is important for both candidates. donald trump needs to win it. that s what electoral math indicates. barack obama doesn t have to come but here campaigning for hillary clinton. doesn t have to win it but relishing having barack obama here. because if wins north carolina and find out early in the election night it may be all over. that s why the stakes are
he was tortured, strangled, beaten to death by illegal immigrant, and then his body was set on fire. everybody wanted this guy out. they wanted him incarcerated. in july, right here in pennsylvania, an illegal immigrant with a previous deportation record, horrible record, raped a young child. illegal immigrant had been arrested for aggravated assault on numerous occasions but is he was set free. he was set free. everybody that knew him said please, please don t set him he was set free by weak that s donald trump in pennsylvania. brought you president obama earlier. meantime a controversy of
think hillary definitely will be a better leader. translator: i prefer donald trump because he s funny and interesting. it really doesn t matter to china. we re just outsiders. reporter: a pew research report released in october found that 37% of the chinese. viewed hillary clinton favorably. for donald trump, it was just 22%. and while the chinese government doesn t officially comment on foreign elections, state-run newspapers said the campaign proves western democracy is dangerous. in october, the people s daily wrote all this weirdness points straight at the corrupt practices of the u.s. political system. we d be overstate figure we said that the average chinese person is really paying close attention this election. it s not dominating conversation in restaurants or cafes. but when people are watching on election night or not, the results is relevant because whoever wins will help shape the relationship between two of the world s great powers. matt rivers, cnn, beijing. th
campaign, the democrats would sort of be doing an overarching vision and the polls got tight and now we have this, no? and they re doing both. i know that we love to cover hillary clinton when she s really going at donald trump. and frankly, what she is saying is all true. and he s using his own words against him, which i think are quite impactful and quite powerful. it s the same thing that elizabeth warren is doing. the same thing that president obama is doing. frankly, it s the same thing that michelle obama s doing. and if you look at what michelle obama said, she said, going high means going to vote. means making your voice heard. means, making sure that everybody hears loud and clear, especially donald trump, that the way that he has run this campaign with the bigotry and the racism and the misogyny is not going to be accepted, in american culture. david? i think maybe there s a misinterpretation here. i think there s a basic rule in presidential politics, especially as you