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the 80-plus days lefr s left? or is he out of time?t enough time to make a change and bridge the gap in these poll numbers or not. >> i'm not convinced there's a strategy at play here. i think it's not a coincidence there's a flurry of media coverage about how there's no ads and then you hear an announcement there are going to be ads. there's early voting coming up. i get no sense from people in the campaign they feel like turning around a double-digit lead in some of these battleground states. now this is 2016. this may be the case. but it does not feel like there's a grand strategy here. >> one thing that's also interesting, we'll get a final thought from you, brian, on, bannon, chief executive, he hasn't run a campaign. >> he's a media guy. he's run breitbart's campaign. but donald trump is running fundamentally a media campaign. he's using television, he's using free media, to get his message out. we know the message. he's been on message. the message has been clear since last june. he's going back to an unspecified time in the pas