donald trump is uniquely unqualified to be president. clinton bringing in the big guns to try to motivate black and young voters. will it work? and with trump closing in on clinton in key states, could he pull it off? no sidetracks, donald. nice and easy. the very latest on where the map stands right now. plus the best political minds from insights on the campaign trail. edition of state of the union with limited commercial interruptions starts now. hello. i m jake tapper in washington. the state of our union is down to the wire. just hours to go now until the american people pick a new president. the stakes are high. so are the tensions. especially, perhaps, among democrats who see the race tightening in key states. hillary clinton s campaign has been banking on a blue wall. die-hard democratic states she was banking on for a victory.
he has three words of advice today for the obama white house to try to salvage the party s chances of victory in 2012. those words, fire, indict and fight. james carville is joining us now. james, you created quite a stir in this article you ve written for cnn.com. let me read a couple of lines. among other things you say, what should the white house do now? one word came to mind, panic. this is what i would say to president barack obama. the time has come to demand a plan of action that requires a complete change from the direction you are headed. what are you talking about? well, simply this. we lost two elections tuesday night. we lost 65 elections in november. it s sliding back. macroeconomics say there is 1/3 chance we are going into recession. you look how crazy the opposition party is cheering death. this is not working, not politically, economically or anything. bring in a new team and indicate to people you get it, they understand you were dealt a tough hand, b
map stands right now. plus the best political minds from insights on the campaign trail. edition of state of the union with limited commercial interruptions starts now. hello. i m jake tapper in washington. the state of our union is down to the wire. just hours to go now until the american people pick a new president. the stakes are high. so are the tensions. especially, perhaps, among democrats who see the race tightening in key states. hillary clinton s campaign has been banking on a blue wall. die-hard democratic states she was banking on for a victory. donald trump says not so fast. we re going into what they used to call democrat strong holds where we re now either tied or leading. we re going to minnesota. we re going up to minnesota which traditionally has not been republican at all and we re