welcome back. it is time now for your morning primer, everything you need to know to get your day started. we start with the presidential candidates battleground blitz. donald trump is in the must-win state of florida where early voting begins today. while hillary clinton campaigns with senator elizabeth warren in new hampshire. at&t s $85 billion buy-out of time warner is drawing a lot of skepticism and concern. top senate leaders plan to probe the deal for potential anti-trust issues. and the battle for mosul entered its second week with 25,000 ground forces still advanceling on the outskirts of the isis-held city. an investigation is under way into sunday s violent california bus crash that killed at least 13 people and injured dozens more. the bus driver was killed in the
crash. the california highway patrol tells nbc news that fatigue may have been a factor. and this is a weird one, i would say, in sports. last night s seahawks/cardinals game ended in a bizarre, get this right, 6-6. that was the score. 6-6 tie, after both teams failed to convert short field goals in overtime. this was the first tie in an nfl game since 2014. and in a sign of just how extraordinary this race has become, it appears that even the so solid red state of texas may be in play. hillary clinton is now within three points of donald trump. remember, this is a state that has not voted democrat for president in 40 years. over the last five presidential cycles, the republican candidate has won the state by an average of 15 points. so let s bring in wendy davis, a former democratic texas state senator and a clinton surrogate. wendy, take your democrat hat off and put your analyst hat on.
donald trump presidency looks bleak, why wouldn t leading gop members start to leave him in a bigger way? well, it s all complicated. you re todd young in indiana, mike pence is on the ticket. mike pence is helping todd young catch and surpass evan bayh who has kind of collapsed under charges of cronyism and being absent out of the state. todd is a veteran of the iraq war. so todd young s individual calculation in indiana is not to say anything about donald trump but to stay focused on evan bayh and a disastrous kantd dt. if you re joe heck, you want to run against harry reid and talk about the fact if hillary clinton wins and the media helps elect her, she has to have a republican majority to check her. otherwise, obamacare will get worse than the dumpster fire it has already become. it all comes down to the individual candidates making individual choices. there are some republicans running close with donald trump.
the state. that s been proven with a great deal of effort and information that has demonstrated clearly otherwise. and as hillary clinton said the night of her debate, the last debate, she stands behind the work of the clinton foundation and the incredible efforts that the clinton foundation has gone to to fighting aids around this country or around the world, and of course, they have taken donations to further that work. and i don t think that they shy away from making sure that they re proud of talking about that. all right, senator davis, thank you so much for joining me and sharing your thoughts. thank you. all right, coming up, president obama pounds the pavement, trying to rally voters for the down ballot races. how many stops will the campaigner in chief actually make before november 8th? the goofy glasses. yeah. well, we gotta hand it to fedex. they ve helped make our e-commerce so easy, and now we re getting alkinds of new ctomers. know. can you believe we re getting ord
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