joining us is jennifer duffy, senior editor for the cook political report. ank you as always for being with us. steve: what is the broad overview? jennifer: as you know, democrats are fighting for the majority. and to do that they need for seats that would tie the chamber. five for an outright majority if trump are to be elected. where does the stand today? we have been on a little bit of a roller coaster in senate races. republicans were holding their own. they are probably going to lose the majority but not by much. before the access hollywood take came out on october 7. then they took a dip. races that were close, they started the trail democrats. last friday's news of more e-mail and possibly an fbi investigation into the clinton foundation has changed things again. whatever republicans lost they seem to have picked back up. on election day we think the democrats are poised to figure between four and six seats. they marginally get the majority if they only take up four, and have 52 if they pick up six. steve: seven races that will determine what will happ

steve: jennifer duffy from the cook political report, an assessment on the senate races to watch on tuesdayys for your time. jennifer: thanks a lot. >> one of those key u.s. senate races we are following. the race for the cook little desk political report tossup is new hampshire. both on the campaign trail today and tweeting this from kelly ayotte. it is chilly outside but nice and warm in lancaster with this lively group. her challenger, the governor maggie hassan. thanks to these canvassers in laconia, to capture this -- new hampshire this grand game is unparalleled. election coverage starting tuesday night on c-span. the story today from the hill. the cook political report. election forecaster charlie cook is backing off his: the presidential race is over. he made headlines last month when he tweeted, take a close look at the fox news poll. the race is over. now with polls tightening the nationally and in several key states, cook says he still thinks donald trump will lose but no longer considers it implausible that the gop nominee takes a presidency on tuesday. he noted he still believe

one thing that is worth noting our editor jennifer duffy is noted a lot of times when you get down tohe last handful of races the ones that are tossups they never split down the middle. they overwhelmingly go one way or the other. that last gust of wind pushed on the knife edge one way or the other. >> let's say donald trump loses this election. will he concede on the night of the election? >> that's what he said. [laughter] >> if it's 500 votes in florida, maybe not if it's millions of votes in dozens of electoral votes i think you would. >> do you think you will concede? >> it depends on what they see out there. states have automatic recount rules. the state of florida if the margin is less than half of a% you go to automatic recount. that's what happens. now save the word occur. in the state of florida donald trump lost so many electoral votes that florida were to become irrelevant then he probably wouldn't do it. i think. >> you think you would concede? >> i think you would recount florida but if there were no shot of him winning the presidency if it's fair everywhere else i think

steve: jennifer duffy from the cook political report, an assessment on the senate races to watch on tuesday. thank you as always for your time. jennifer: thanks a lot. >> a full day of campaign events on c-span. in a few minutes vice president joe biden will campaign for hillary clinton in scranton, pennsylvania. thisd trump in iowa afternoon. later today president obama in orlando, florida. all live today here on c-span. trump and clinton campaigns still trying to sway undecided voters with some new ads and web videos. let's take a look. >> trump's to ban muslims from entering the u.s. starts out with firestorm. the shockwaves global, political and financial. the largest series of raids to hit the u.s. this year. trump saying he would allow russia to run roughshod over the east europeans. .onald trump will win he is the apparent victor by less than 1%. i'm also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has. cramp out of them. this guy so hit hard his head will spin. issue in this campaign is the temperament of donald trump. more reason for more people to doubt whether he has th