nationwide by 15 points. which is insane. that said, we don't vote nationally as a country. we don't vote all at once as a country. we vote state by state, and it is the swing states who are determinative in terms of who wins the election. those polls really are more important than national polling. and right now the polling situation in swing states for donald trump is a disaster. it's absolutely dire. in florida, hillary clinton, the latest poll, leading by six. in michigan, the latest poll, hillary clinton leading by nine. in pennsylvania, the latest poll, hillary clinton leading by 11. in new hampshire, clinton leading by 17. 17? when you're losing that bad, after the conventions are over, when you're losing that bad in all of the swing states after the convention, not to put too fine a point on it, but if you're a presidential candidate, you have to change that. that's an emergency. swing state numbers like that, in all the swing states, that's a five-alarm fire. if you're...

all of us are. thanks, my friend. and thank you at home for joining us this hour. it's exasperation day. here's the thing, the republican party really, really wants wisconsin to be a swing state. now, true, it has been 32 years since a republican won a presidential race in wisconsin, but even as republican presidential candidates lose there year after year after year, even michael dukakis won wisconsin, republicans still have kept their hopes alive that wisconsin could be theirs. and i think they've kept their hopes alive all these years in part because even though they keep losing there every four years, sometimes they only lose by a little. so every four years, they call wisconsin a swing state. the republicans make a huge effort to try to win. they do always lose there. but they really think they can win.