and good morning. thanks so much for joining me from columbus, ohio, from german village. this is a bustling breakfast place here, i m carol costello. indulge me for just a second, i beg you. i m going to take you back to my roots. to the place where i spent my my high school years in this bat 8 ground state. i grew up here. and i love ohio. and i m not alone. we are going to win the state of ohio. and we are going to win the white house. i worked in ohio, and i love ohio. i can tell you that. and a lot of ohioans where i spent my high school years, they love mr. trump, too. but the battle for the swing state is fierce and so is the battle for undecided voters. i sat down with a couple last week, in carroll county northeast of columbus. i sat down with the daniels, and they re still not sure who they support. this is god s country.
this morning taking off on a two-day bus tour in florida where a recent quinnipiac poll shows his wife with a four point lead over donald trump in a four-way race. clinton getting a boost from independents who shifted to her after backing trump just two weeks ago. cnn s chris fratz is tracking the developments. hi, chris. reporter: good morning. with the debates over and just 18 days left until election day, both donald trump and hillary clinton are hitting that campaign trail hard today. trump heads to the battleground state of north carolina and pennsylvania. those are two states where polls show he s trailing his democratic rival. clinton is headed over to where you are in ohio. trump leads her by six percentage points in the latest cnn poll there. other polls show it neck and neck in that battleground state. both candidates also have their top surrogates out today. trump s running mate mike pence is in new hampshire. clinton s vp candidate tim kaine is in pennsylvania along with
when you try to sew the seeds of doubt in people s minds about the legitimacy of our elections, that undermines our democracy. then you re doing the work of our adversaries for them. reporter: now, trump has provided no evidence to support this charge that somehow the election is rigged. and the facts don t bear that out, either. in fact taking a look at a 2012 investigative report, it looked at a decade of data. and they found just ten, ten cases of voter impersonation at the polls on election day. ten cases over ten years. and the report does point out that you know fraud does occur from time to time, carol. but the number of cases are exceedingly small. certainly not enough to swing an election, carol. chris you cannot say that enough. thank you for saying it again, chris frates reporting live from washington. i want to mention a little bit more about where i am. i am in columbus, ohio, the capital of the state of ohio, at
back in the good old days my dad worked here at republic steel. he worked inside that factory for 30 years. back then, 4,000 people worked at republic steel. today, just about 200 work behind those factory walls. so when politicians say they will revive the steel industry in ohio, hey, it s been a dying dinosaur for 40 years. i m skeptical. i just don t believe either candidate has what it takes to bring the jobs back here. what would it take? a working man put in that position. career politicians have failed us my whole life. democrats and republicans. well, donald trump s not a politician. he s a good businessman. some people refer to him as a blue collar billionaire. do you know what that means? evidently he s got a nice blue shirt on made in china. brian rice is a union man
carroll county, ohio, a proud patriotic community 70 miles west of pittsburgh. named after charles carroll, signer of the declaration of independence. it s a place where hard work is supposed to pay off, where independence is prized. the daniels embody that. they started a greenhouse business two years ago. it s not easy. and what they see on the political stage isn t reassuring. how would you characterize this election? interesting is my catch-all word. david? oh. it s just a zoo. it s just kind of crazy. i spent my high school years here in minerva, ohio, not far from the daniels. it s about as rural as you can get. take a look. isn t it gorgeous? i grew up riding horses and hunting. it s a decidedly conservative place and as i look around, decidedly trump. trump won the republican primary