Cook Political Report. It is a well respected entity that
rates elections.
Rate states has a sense of where things are heading
as they forecast.
What you're looking at right now is the map in
the wake of six race ratings changes,
five states, one Congressional District,
all worth electoral votes, and all most importantly,
adding up to this, based on their race ratings,
if they stood by how they've shifted them,
Donald Trump would already be over 270 electoral votes.
How is that actually possible?
Well, take a look at what they changed.
Nevada, the state Joe Biden won in 2020.
They're saying that is now leaning Republican.
What about the state of Arizona?
Joe Biden flipped that state in 2020.
Now toss up to leaning Republican.
The state of Georgia, another Biden flip in 2020,
Toss up to lean Republican.
What about some Democratic strongholds like the state of New
Hampshire?
It's leaning Democrat. It used to be safe Democrat.
Or how about in the Midwest?
Minnesota, right next to critical Wisconsin and Michigan.
Minnesota was a safe Democratic state.
Now it is leaning Democrat moving towards Trump.
The last election was on a such a small margin,
but each one of those states.
Could really matter if so many of them are leaning
now toward Trump.
Shouldn't that be a cause for panic for Democrats?
I'm not sure of the polling at all.
We know that the polling is not absolute.
And those battleground seats that were battleground seats before the
speech,
before the debate, still battleground states that we've got to
work hard to get.
And so I am not at all.
Not, you know, convinced. I'm not convinced that somehow we
have this big,
big issue. I know the people who are in those
seats are working hard.
They were working hard before the debate.
They're going to work hard now.
And you know, the polls can say what they want,
but they're not absolute.