grandfather mountain, also reopening today. so this is like i say the drive when you come up to see the wonderful fall colors. so we're really thrilled about that. and we expect this weekend to bring many more people back to town. >> ainsley: what do you think the christmas season will be like? for anyone be back to normal and reopened by then? >> yeah. in our town completely reopened. it will have a lingering effect as some people -- we're trying to get the word out. not everyone knows we're open and fine. that's one thing we're trying to put out there. please come up. our holiday season is very important as well. and that sustains us through the weaker months coming up after the new year. >> ainsley: you have are support. you're resilient. the carolinas are amazing. everyone go and visit. god bless. >> bill: thanks, good morning. time for a closing message. vp kamala harris trying to make her case for the white house at

a town hall last night. did she offer clarity or more confusion? we'll let you decide as we say hello on a thursday. here we go. you have the autumnal colors on. >> dana: despite the heat wave i'll suit up. >> bill: the weather has been fantastic. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." excited to be with you this morning. former president trump courted voters in swing state georgia yesterday. harris took some questions from undecided voters, two candidates trading jabs with just 12 days to go. >> i do believe that donald trump is unstable, increasingly unstable and unfit to serve. >> this election is a choice between whether we'll have four more years of incompetence, failure and disaster. >> he is going to sit there unstable, unhinged, plotting his revenge, plotting his

retribution. creating an enemy's list. >> we will defeat kamala harris and we are going to make america great again. >> do you think donald trump is a fascist? >> yes, i do. >> dana: they're back on the trail today crisscrossing the country and targeting battleground forties as the clock winds down. >> bill: peter doocy reports from atlanta. bill melugin in arizona. bill, good morning to you. >> good morning to you as well. former president donald trump has been really dialed in on the swing states. he has been campaigning in them non-stop. he was in georgia yesterday, north carolina the day before. today he will be here in tempe, arizona to second visit to arizona so far this month. he is gaining ground here. look. the latest "new york times" poll showing that former president trump has a five-point lead over v.p. kamala harris among likely voters here in the state of arizona. that poll shows trump is also

winning independents while harris is losing steam with hispanics. the former president also held a rally in duluth, georgia yesterday in front of an enormous crowd. while there he hit on his topics, he talked about the murder of georgia nursing student laken riley. >> she was assaulted. horribly beaten and horrifically killed by an immigrant from venezuela. he was let in and released into our country by the open border policy of kamala harris. immediately upon taking the oath of office, i will launch the largest deportation program in american history. >> and while trump was campaigning in georgia, his running mate jd vance was in reno nevada yesterday. while he was there, he said he and trump are pedal to the metal

in the final days of this campaign. take a listen. >> we can joke and have fun and, of course, you know the joy is gone from the kamala harris campaign but me and president trump, we're everywhere. we're going everywhere and having a lot of fun doing it. >> former president trump is scheduled to speak here on the campus of arizona state university at around 5:00 p.m. eastern time. a little note for you guys, since we got into town here in arizona yesterday you flip on the tv, every single commercial break on every channel non-stop campaign ads of trump and harris attacking each other. i kid you not. every commercial break. seeing it more in arizona than any other state so far. a true battleground state. both campaigns know they have to have it. >> bill: you wonder what and if it breaks through. thank you before the sun comes up in arizona. >> dana: vice president harris appearing to abandon the message of joy focusing on her closing

argument to voters by villainizing former president trump. she will rally in georgia tonight with the boss. >> it's not just that vice president harris has abandoned a message of joy. her closing argument that we're getting day after day has very little to do with her or her policy proposals. it is almost entirely just an argument that she is best because she is not donald trump. >> you quoted general milley calling donald trump a fascist. you haven't used that word to describe him. do you think donald trump is a fascist? >> yes, i do. yes, i do. imagine that donald trump in the oval office in the situation room, he who has openly admired dictators said he would be a dictator on day one. >> the suggestion from the vice president is now that president

-- a president trump would plan to use the united states military to carry out his personal bidding. >> yesterday we learned that donald trump's former chief of staff john kelly, a retired four star general, confirmed that while donald trump was president, he said he wanted generals like adolph hitler had. he said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the united states constitution. he wants a military that is loyal to him. he wants a military who will be loyal to him personally. >> to complete the claim that donald trump sympathizes with hitler, the vice president is now also refusing to answer directly a question about whether or not trump is prejudiced against jewish people. >> do you believe donald trump is anti-semitic? >> i believe donald trump is a danger to the well-being and security of america.

>> he has said that he is casting himself as a protector of israel. would you be more pro-israel than donald trump? >> i believe donald trump is dangerous. >> it will be very interesting to see how that fits into tonight's program. it will be the vice president with barack obama, with bruce springsteen. we've seen people showing up already for this program about ten hours before it starts. dana. >> dana: thank you for getting us going today, peter. >> bill: let's get to it. harold ford junior co-host of the five and bill mcgurn. "wall street journal." want to take you to philadelphia town hall. moments that might have been head scratchers for some. check it out. >> price of groceries still too high. we need to address it in a number of ways. one of my aspects of doing what we need to do to bring down the cost of living for working people and the middle class in america is to address the issue of grocery prices. i think we need to take a look at the filibuster to be honest with you.

the reality of it is this. let's talk about how we got here. >> bill: if you are hearing 700,000 under your plan there is a good chance your taxes will go up? >> we can't have this conversation without knowing -- it's very complicated situation. i'm certainly not perfect so let's start there. if you have ever parented a child you make lots of mistakes. >> do you pray every day? >> i do pray every day. sometimes twice a day. >> bill: sometimes more than twice depending on the day. "the new york times" had five take aways. her answers boiled down to donald trump could be worse and the other conclusion is that voters ask direct questions and harris gave circular answers. if you are watching that some answers were three minutes, five minutes long before cooper cut in. >> is it a surprise from what we've seen before? actually my wife and i were watching and we couldn't believe that it was as bad as we thought

it was we flipped to channel to see what people were saying. i think we're seeing why she didn't do well in 2019. she just is not a compelling candidate. it is amazing to me someone could be vice president for four years and not be just great at talking and going to events. you represent the white house in so many things and you just get used to it and doing it. her best moments are when she is evasive. at least she is not incriminating herself. >> dana: i find it super strange as well. let's listen to what dana bash and david axelrod said after the town hall. >> what i'm hearing from people i've been talking to, that is that if her goal was to close the deal, they're not sure she did that. >> the things that would concern me is when she doesn't want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word salad

city. she would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration's policies and that's a mistake. >> dana: we're 12 days away and they're still saying she has to figure out a way to define herself and answer questions. >> i agree with bill. i was disappointed. what i can't understand is at a moment in which you are supposed to be laser focused serious with 12 days left in a campaign and you get asked a question from an audience member that says what's the first thing you would want to do. what's the first piece of legislation you would want to pass, if you can't come right away we want to pass a border security bill, we want a new tax bill that empowers first time homeowners and small business owners and we want to review and overhaul regulatory processes to make sure we aren't inhibiting growth in america, it begs the question in some ways what is your campaign doing with you? what are you taking a day off to prepare for if you can't say those things? the fourth thing we would

restore roe v. wade. the centerpieces of your campaign, even if you don't believe they are popular with independents or swing voters, if you aren't saying those things it is mind-boggling. as i listened to david last night on cnn i did some switching, too. i did a switch one or two other tvs. it is confounding in some ways. the notion that you can just talk about character and donald trump and that alone were the issue we'd be running ahead ten points like with donald trump when he says he is stupid. that's not working either. at the end of the campaign, your messages should be crystallized and articulating and repeating and pointing out the difference episcopal over and over again. they have 11 or 12 days. if they don't get to it they could find themselves on the losing end of a campaign. >> i agree. remember in the democratic primary debates, kamala harris had a good first night. a serious contender for the

nomination that came from california, woman of color and so forth. she was a good first debate mostly by implying joe biden was a racist, right? she put him on the ropes. second debate he came ready for that and tulsi gabbard and she couldn't answer anything. she can say a platitude we want an economy filled with opportunity but she can't answer questions or she won't, one or the other. to me it's a rerun of 2019 where she dropped out before a single primary. >> bill: she went home before christmas. >> my advice to the campaign. whatever the four top issues are that you have on your website. abortion is part of it, housing is part of it, small business credit tax credits are part of it, you have to say those things. this is not -- dana, you've been a part and seen presidents in a campaign and bill, you've written speeches. these are the blocking and tackling of a campaign.

>> dana: interesting this morning my assistant, kate, asked me when you had to go to the podium before that did you work on answers to questions you knew you were going to get? well, obviously. but yes, of course. i explained the process. to your point, bill, how can you work in a white house for 3 1/2 years and being in the senate for all that time and not be able to answer any questions? it is disappointing and almost professionally insulting. come on, they took an entire day to come up with answers and didn't have one? i said last night on "the five" to her through the tv no one is coming to save you. she will campaign with michelle obama tonight. can she help her? >> we'll see. you said it right. i was sitting two seats from you. you have to as the candidate in the final days of the campaign, the country is looking at a threshold test. are you ready? are you agile enough? i believe she is but she is not showing that here certainly not at the town hall.

>> what do you think that's about? >> i don't know. i think some of it is preparation. she was prepared for the interview with bret. bret and her had a great back and forth. she and he got a lot out of it. when she is with someone she believes to be friendly she retreats a bit. anderson asked basic questions. >> they have all been basic questions. >> bill: basic stuff. all of this not with stand, does barack obama, bruce springsteen and every celebrity in hollywood help her win? >> i don't think they can push you over when people have doubts. you know, i can't read the polls. we know it's tight but it does seem to me the general thing like a month ago was trump was maybe two points down and now he is two points up. it seems clear who has the better vibe. >> bill: we'll take folks to the

board in a few minutes. >> you have to be in better spirits because the bengals are doing better. >> bill: nice to sigh both. thank you. >> that reporter was vile enough to put in that paper, it was just hurtful in all kinds of ways. >> bill: pushing back, and backlash and there is a lot of backlash on that report. >> dana: dhs revealing hundreds of migrants with possible ties to a violent venezuelan gang and currently in the united states america's largest cities are feeling the impact. >> they're coming in with significant numbers into the u.s. and have a foothold in new york and chicago and denver, and cities in the southwest.

>> dana: fox news alert and something notified to know. north korean troops have been sent to russia to join the war against ukraine. more than 12,000 are believed to be training alongside russian soldiers. lloyd austin spoke about that in an exclusive interview with jennifer griffin. >> ukraine's military intelligence chief says nearly 11,000 north korean troops are in russia now and will be ready to fight in ukraine by november 1st. >> if this is true, this is very concerning. and if it is true, it speaks to the point that putin must be weakened to a greater extent than most people think. >> dana: the move could escalate tensions in the region and the

war approaches the third year. >> bill: here at home the department of homeland security now identified more than 600 migrants inside the country with possible ties to a violent gang out of venezuela. the agency saying the gang is active in 15 states and seeking to grow even more. griff jenkins tracking that from the border to washington, d.c. what do you have, griff? >> good morning. four years ago no one had ever heard of tren de aragua. now spreading across the country, dhs has identified more than 600 migrants with possible ties to the gang. some may be relatives or victims but more than 100 have had enough gang confirmation to be subjects of interest and referred to the f.b.i.'s watch list for trans national criminal organizations. tda is in crimes in many states. just this week the man accused of sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl in palm beach county is being investigated for tda ties

as florida's attorney general blames the biden-harris administration. >> they've let them come in and barely vetted them now seeing them pop up all over our nation and they cannot -- even if they tried to do it now cannot send them back to venezuela because venezuela says they won't accept them. >> tda has been linked to two other murders and the shooting of nypd cops. the gang is still in its infancy stage but targeting them as a growing threat saying as part of our work to counter tda, dhs has an operation to crack down on gang members through rescreening certain individuals previously en -- all individuals are referred for criminal prosecution or detained in place and to expedite and removal. some states are cracking down. texas governor greg abbott last month listed tda as a tier one gang threat. >> bill: thank you, dana has

more. >> dana: bring in mary katharine ham on the issue of immigration. kamala harris was asked about the border and here is how one of the exchanges went about executive orders. >> as of today, we have cut the flow of immigration by over half. in fact, the numbers i saw most recently illegal immigration is -- let me >> why not do it in 2023, 2023? >> we were hoping with congress and hoping we could have a long-term fix to the problem. >> you couldn't have done both at the same time? >> here is the thing. we have to understand that ultimately this problem is going to be fixed through congressional action. >> dana: perhaps all the answers are bad. anything she would say are bad. the truth is out there. how did you see it? >> true but as somebody who goes on tv there are ways to give a bad answer in a good way. she can't figure out how to do

that. that's the problem. he is asking predictable and simple questions and not a knock on anderson cooper. he got interested responses out of her. the most interesting thing about her responses she feels she doesn't know these questions are coming which is inexcusable as a candidate at this point. you can write down on a piece of paper the questions you know are coming. the border will be a huge one. there are simple ways to at least speak to i've changed my mind on this. voters would allow that. she is sort of incapable of listening to and responding to the question in a way like that. when it came to the border wall, she can't confront the fact she used to have a different position on this. he says do you still think it's stupid and she can't answer the question. >> dana: let me play that extension when he pressed her about the border wall. >> let's just fix the problem. >> to fix the problem you are doing this compromise bill, it does call for $650 million earmarked under trump to still go to build the wall. >> i'm not afraid of good ideas

where they occur. >> you don't think it's stupid anymore? >> i think what he did and how he did it did not make much sense. he didn't do much of anything. i just talked about that wall. he didn't actually do much of anything. >> dana: i felt lick anderson cooper was getting frustrated. "wall street journal." who is better to handle immigration? trump plus 15. >> when she says we just talked about that that's a signal she ran out of the deck of cards in her mind at that moment which is inexcusable at this point in a campaign. she needs to close the deal with voters who have concerns on this issue and seems incapable of doing it. if you have changed your mind on the border wall, say that. tell voters that. tell them that maybe the executive orders reversed from trump's era wasn't the right thing at the right time and you could have walked and chewed gum and tried to get a congressional bill done. the other thing is when asked questions how to get things through congress it is unclear

to me she has a plan or understands how to do that. she was asked if something got held up in the house what would you do about that? she said we would talk about ending the filibuster. it doesn't exist in the house, a senate tool where she has been in the senate for some years. i'm confused about all of this as are voters listening. that's why she is having trouble connecting with them. >> dana: she talks about ending the filibuster and wanting do that mixing up the house doesn't have it. her closing argument this week seems to be there are certain republicans out there like liz cheney being one now campaigning who would want to go with her because she is more stable. but for as long as i've been around, the filibuster and keeping it and keeping the integrity of the senate has been super important. kamala harris doubles down on all the far left positions when she is trying to talk to the middle. >> right. she was asked by charlie at a wisconsin town hall how she

would woo those types of republicans. moderate republicans and people who left the gop during the trump years who might be more comfortable with a vote for her but not doing a lot to make them comfortable. she is talking about supreme court reform and talking about getting rid of the filibuster. those are not adhering to norms that would make those people more comfortable. her inability to speak about those things is the thing preventing her from reaching those people. >> dana: a week from today i expect to see good pictures of you and your children on the halloween holiday coming up. mary katharine ham. thank you for being here today. >> bill: 27 past now. >> we love pennsylvania. >> bill: pa is considered a must win for both campaigns. some local democrats saying the harris campaign is a mess there. blinken trying to get a

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by the way if you want to check it out and go deep into the weeds as we say. we think georgia right now according to the maris poll is a tie. arizona, maris poll has got trump up a point and north carolina have trump up two points. all this stuff is within the margin of error. every yellow state you see on the map now is having some form of voting right now, okay? i want to do something here. if i can go ahead and find it on the calendar, we're toward the end of october coming up on halloween. we're here thursday, october 24th and today early in-person begins in the state of maryland. on saturday let me try and do this here. on saturday you have early in-person voting. we'll get a measure of what's happening in florida and gauge trump's strength there. michigan, meanwhile, early in-person that day is a critical battleground state in addition to new jersey and new york. don't want to discount them.

they both matter right now. saturday is a big day. speaking of being in the weeds, tom bev-in, real clear politics with me now. good morning to you. the website you run now has the national average trump 48.7 -- sorry, trump 48.5, and harris 48.7. go ahead, tom. >> yeah, this race kamala harris had a two-point lead in our national average a couple of weeks ago. as you mentioned the "wall street journal" poll came out last night. cnbc came out this morning with trump up two. the lead has shrunk. if the trend continues he will move ahead in the national average sometime in the next 24 hours if we get another poll that confirms he has got some forward momentum. >> bill: on the national level you are right about that. swing state matters, seven battleground states looking at them for months. nate silver "new york times." my gut says donald trump. and my guess is that it is true

for many anxious democrats but a 50/50 forecast really does mean 50/50 and you should be open to the possibility that those forecasts are wrong and that could be the case equally in the direction of mr. trump and ms. harris. i don't know how you answer that, tom. the question we get more than any others. you undercounted in 2016, you undercounted in 2020. you are trying to compensate for that now. can the pollsters do it? can they be right? >> this is one of rumsfeld's, the known unknown. we can't possibly know the outcome until all the votes are counted. i will say the polls did undercount trump in 2016. they were worse at the national level in 2020 but, for example, in pennsylvania our cp average was 1.2% and what the vote came in at. and so look, most of these races in the seven battleground states are within the margin of error as you mentioned and within a

single point. looks like trump has gotten some separation in georgia and arizona. but harris is most likely path is still through pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin win 270, 268. those races. i think six of the last nine polls we have in our average in wisconsin are an absolute tie. absolute tie. it is that close and i think it is going to come down to, as you said, who can get the voters out and harvest the ballots? the democrats have proven they have a pretty good ground game and they are banking on that being the difference in this race. >> bill: you mentioned pennsylvania. come back in a moment. kellyanne conway yesterday with us on "america's newsroom." >> donald trump 2024 is repeating what he did in 2016. blanketing and blitzing the swing states as is jd vance has been to pennsylvania 19 times since he became the vice presidential nominee. kamala harris is doing what hillary clinton clinton did. somewhat ignoring these three

blue wall states in favor of texas. >> bill: the last answer is a reference to a vice visit in houston on friday. >> inside team harris's unusual levels of finger pointing. it is a long article online now. they've got a lot of sourcing on there and they mention names. which you don't often find in a lot of pieces. what was your take on that in pennsylvania? >> well, when you start to see articles like this where people are leaking to "politico" and other news outlets and sort of showing the level of frustration and anxiety they have, it is never a good sign for the campaign. pennsylvania is -- listen, it is 19 electoral votes and can't be replaced by any other state. if you lose pennsylvania, you have to win two other states to get those 19 electoral votes back and why both campaigns are fighting so furiously for it. we just had a poll came out today, bill franklin and marshall the final poll in pennsylvania has donald trump up

one point among likely voters 50-49. a four point swing in his favor since the poll last month. point of reference, their poll in 2020 had biden up six points and won by 1.2. a favorable poll for donald trump but again still some time left in the state. >> bill: quickly, 5:38 in pennsylvania has harris trailing by 2/ten of a point. your average real clear has trump leading by half a point. that's why you watch. thank you, tom, for coming on and talk so. tom bev-in, real clear. >> dana: overtime thriller in los angeles night. it was a close game like the presidential race. first game of the season, forward kevin durant, sorry, was a big scoring tying it up late

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>> now that that's been accom accomplished, this is a moment to work, to end this war, to bring -- make sure all the hostages are home and build a better future for people in gaza. >> bill: now the middle east still raging with that war. that was last hour antony blinken back in qatar meeting with officials there talking about securing the release of hostages out of gaza and ending the war. cease-fire negotiations will meet again, the negotiators will meet in coming days and talked about some sort of diplomatic solution between israel and

lebanon. as we say that here is the smoke rising yet again in the late afternoon hours in beirut, lebanon. the southern neighborhood said to be a stronghold for hezbollah fighters and leadership. smoldering again in the late afternoon light as the idf continues to hit specific targets. we're watching that. >> dana: also students are turning away from traditional higher education, freshman enrollment dropped 5% this year with a majority of the difference 20 and younger. the largest decline since 2020. as consistent failures with student aid application form being one of the major problems pushing low income families away from four year diplomas. 212,000 fewer high school seniors applied for federal student aid this cycle. a 9% decrease from the year prior. it could be that some are deciding college is not for me.

however, this entire year parents all over the country were very frustrated the biden-harris administration was supposed to fix the student aid website. they screwed it up and made it impossible for families to get the aid that they needed in time to get these kids in school. >> absolutely. we recently editorialized they watched this roll-out. in 2020 the fastest simplification act. they were supposed to have a user friendly program out here and students struggling to use this. anyone applied to college know how stressful it is. up to april 15th you couldn't create mistakes and people were receiving financial aids and grants late. a huge mistake on the biden administration. >> dana: if it's april and may you might decide to skip a year and sometimes if you skip a year, life happens. >> exactly. >> dana: might be you did he side not to go back. >> you had 1.6 million students start the form and not complete

it. you wonder where are those students going to end up? on a political level you have the democrats touting student debt forgiveness. the supreme court has blocked it on the scale the biden administration proposed. a huge part of all of their elections and campaigns and yet they can't roll out what they are legally supposed to do? it is such a botched thing. >> bill: in a related story the question in the election season is whether or not your college education determines who you vote for. "wall street journal." college divide erodes democrat support from black and hispanic voters, gop makes inroads in neighborhood with lower education levels and democrats gain in highly educated areas. the quote. when race becomes your emphasis for either party, you lose them. they don't see the world that way, end quote. can you go ahead and wax poet ig on that? >> it is completely direct. the democratic party has taken

identity politics too far. it doesn't what race or religion, you're worried about the economy, education, immigration. focusing more on identity than core kitchen table issues was bound to come back and bite them. the republican party is becoming more of a working class party. rnc you have the teamsters speaking. they declined to endorse for the first time in three decades. this working class identity is shifting towards the republican party because they are delivering the results that voters want. >> dana: last question, when it comes for younger voters, since we will turn to you for this question, when they are thinking about the economy what's the big issue? is it the cost of housing, the cost of everything, feeling like you can't get ahead? the all american dream? >> housing is huge, the number one thing. no, sir just housing but rent. everything is more expensive. i talk to so many voters on the

campaign trail, especially young men drifting to the right is my big focus this year talk about wanting to start a family and buy a house for that family and feeling it's unattainable to them. they believe a lot of them tell me donald trump is the the only one speaking to those issues. democrats are trying to but i think it's too little too late. >> dana: great to have you. >> bill: policies matter. >> policies matter. >> bill: issues matter. >> thank you. >> bill: let's go to this. >> that reporter was vile enough to put in that paper, it was just hurtful in all kinds of ways. >> bill: this is making all kinds of headlines. gold star family outraged about a report of their fallen sister published less two weeks before the election. new fox news power rankings project republicans will earn the senate in the upcoming elections. that's what we predict as of now, 51 in the gop column.

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>> bill: for the first time in decades there is a competitive senate race in the state of maryland. the stakes could not be higher with control of the senate online and we know this is going to come down to a razor wire finish. alexandria hoff is watching the action in maryland with more on why it is so. alex, good morning. >> good morning, bill. this race should have been a shoe-in for democrats. the party was forced to go up against a very popular republican. that being former governor larry hogan running against brooks to fill the seat of retiring democratic senator cardin. they say the republicans will take the majority. maryland considering this race is a lean d, a win would give the gop added security that

democrats don't want to provide. hogan stopped by a deli in maryland yesterday. a critic of former president trump but feels he can attract voters from across the spectrum. >> i've got to convince republicans to stick with me and convince independents and democrats i won't be just a rubber stamp republican. i've always stood up to do whatever i think is right for all the people of our state. >> also brooks and hogan have raised 36.2 and 31.1 million respect vivol according to the baltimore sun. >> no matter what he says about how independent and a maverick. he is no maverick. he is a company man all day long and he will vote with mitch mcconnell, ted cruz and all those folks. >> the latest poll registered in likely voters found that also brooks has a 9% lead. for democrats that's too close for comfort in a state like

maryland that biden took where the 33 points back in 2020. early in person voting in maryland kicks off today. >> bill: thank you so much for that. appreciate it. >> dana: can i ask the questions i was asking you? there are a couple of other races out there on the senate that are interesting. one in pennsylvania with dave mccormick and bob casey. >> bill: that is a cost-up. >> dana: in our rankings? >> i think it is lean demi believe. >> dana: same for ohio? >> >> bill: montana. virginia will flip and if sheehy wince it. ohio could win. he needs a strong turnout on behalf of the donald trump. an mccormick in pennsylvania, too. >> dana: you could get to 53. >> bill: you could. with a really good night for the