Name: The Final Days of Election 2016
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ED O'KEEFE: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are racing the clock, polls are tightening,

Adverbs of degree

the rhetoric's heating up, and voters just want it all to be over.

I'm Ed O'Keefe, in for Gwen Ifill, tonight on Washington Week.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: (From video.) I am not on the ballot. But I tell you what,

fairness is on the ballot. Decency's on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot.

Progress is on the ballot. Our democracy's on the ballot right now.

Trump and Clinton are delivering closing arguments on why they should be president.

FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON: (From video.) If Donald Trump were to win

this election, we would have a commander in chief who is completely out of his depth and

Or maybe, heaven forbid, start a real war instead of just a Twitter war.

DONALD TRUMP: (From video.) Hillary has been there for 30 years.

And she has accomplished nothing. She's just made things worse. Look at her record.

ED O'KEEFE: National polls show the race tightening in the wake of Clinton's reignited

email controversy. The news has reinvigorated the Trump campaign.

DONALD TRUMP: (From video.) Our magnificent, historic movement has surprised the world

and defied expectations at every single turn.

MELANIA TRUMP: (From video.) He certainly knows how to shake things up, doesn't he? (Cheers.)

HILLARY CLINTON: (From video.) He has shown us who he is. Let us on Tuesday show him who we are. (Cheers.)

ED O'KEEFE: In the most unpredictable election in modern history it still comes down to

fundamentals - voter turnout and the battleground states. So which campaign could win it all?

We'll get answers and analysis from Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent for

The Washington Post; Josh Gerstein, senior White House correspondent for Politico; Alexis

Simendinger, White House correspondent for Real Clear Politics; and Manu Raju, senior

ANNOUNCER: Award-winning reporting and analysis. Covering history as it happens.

Live from our nation's capital, this is Washington Week with Gwen Ifill. Once again,

from Washington, sitting in for Gwen Ifill this week, Ed O'Keefe of The Washington Post.

ED O'KEEFE: Good evening. The battleground blitz has begun.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are slugging it out as national polls show the race has

tightened dramatically since last Friday. That's when the FBI announced it was

revisiting Clinton's email investigation. Two weeks ago Clinton led Trump by

6 percent in the Real Clear Politics average of polls. That lead has dwindled to

just 2.4 percent this week in a four-way matchup. With that tight of a margin, both

candidates are fighting for every vote by going negative and spending millions of

dollars attacking each other's fitness to serve with ads like this.

ANNOUNCER: (From video.) Decades of lies, cover-ups and scandal have finally caught up

with Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is under FBI investigation again after her

emails were found on pervert Anthony Weiner's laptop. Think about that.

DONALD TRUMP: (From video.) She ate like a pig.

A person who is flat-chested, it is very hard to be a 10.

MR.	: (From video.) Do you treat women with respect?

DONALD TRUMP: (From video.) I can't say that either.

MR.	: (From video.) All right. Good. (Music.)

ED O'KEEFE: Now, whether these ads energize people or depress voter turnout, especially

when they air during a thrilling World Series, remains to be seen.

But, Karen, my gosh, is this how it's going to end?

KAREN TUMULTY: Well, you know, Ed, as you said in the intro, this is the wildest,

nastiest campaign in recent history. How else would it end? (Laughs.)

KAREN TUMULTY: But the fact is, a few weeks ago, when Hillary Clinton was opening up

what was beginning to look like a comfortable lead, they were planning to sort of go

positive, to go a sort of higher altitude at this phase of the campaign, really be laying

out her vision of governing, laying the premise for how she would govern, maybe doing a

few things to lift up some of these Senate candidates.

Don't forget the Senate's also on the line here. But, yeah, these tightening poll

numbers - when you look at the map, Clinton still has a lot more ways to get to

that 270 electoral votes than Donald Trump does at this point. But it is a real race.

And that is why you're going to be seeing - they're both staying really heavily negative.

Who would have thought a closing argument ad would have had the word pervert in it?

ED O'KEEFE: Why did I know you were going to bring that up? (Laughter.)

KAREN TUMULTY: And, you know, it's just going to be slugging it out now through Tuesday.

ED O'KEEFE: Alexis, I think what was - to Karen's point, that they had hoped they could

end on a positive note. There was talk of, you know, what can she do to help congressional

candidates in Arizona and Georgia and Texas and places like - all that's out the window.

What she was doing this week, going from apologizing at the beginning of the week to now

talking again about Trump and really talking about him in ways that sort of are designed

to help the voter visualize what it would be like with him in the White House, that's a

pretty stark departure from what they were planning.

ALEXIS SIMENDINGER: And stark is exactly the word that Secretary Clinton and her

number-one surrogate, President Obama, have been using, trying to paint these rhetorical

pictures for the base voters that they're trying to turn out.

And when I say "they," they are both working very intensively together, coordinating in

the states that really make a difference now coming down to the wire, because lots of

states do early voting, but we know that we're heading into states that do same-day

voting. And we're seeing them dive into those states - Pennsylvania, New Hampshire,

to some extent Michigan. And they're spending a lot of time this weekend with the

get out the vote efforts. So when we see Secretary Clinton talking about what

Donald Trump would be like as president, she's creating those pictures to women,

trying to describe what he's like with women, to African-American voters.

She has really created on the stump a dire picture of what Donald Trump has been on the

questions of race, talking about his endorsement from the KKK newspaper, for instance.

And so strategically you're exactly right, whether she's talking about him as a commander

in chief of what he would do with the power. President Obama has tried to describe

what he would do with the power that he has, arguing to the electorate that a man

who has the power before he's president will use it different ways as president.

MANU RAJU: And, Ed, it's not just - it's also a shift not just in the message but also

where they're spending their time ahead of - you know, when things were looking a lot

better for the Clinton campaign two weeks ago we were talking about they could possibly

flip Arizona, Georgia, Texas suddenly became a possibility - looked like a possibility.

But now it's all about maintaining that so-called blue wall of defense, making sure they

don't lose a Colorado. They really weren't paying much attention to Colorado, but

one poll has that state very close. Wisconsin, also a state that Trump was

spending heavily on in that state, and Clinton was sort of ignoring.

Now they have to pay attention to a state like Wisconsin. That has been real shift

in this campaign, and it suggests it's going to be very close come Tuesday.

KAREN TUMULTY: And there are, by the way, some constituencies they're worried about too.

They're seeing big surges in Latino voting, but African-American voting is not where they