Donald Trump can still win the White House, but he has only a small number of options.
Trump's ad campaign reveals his priorities: Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Virginia, Nevada and New Hampshire.
He's spending $25 million in the last week of the campaign in these 13 states, according to CNN, which notes that Trump has four must-win states targeted: Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Iowa.
If Trump wins those, maintains traditional red states like Arizona, Utah, Georgia, and Texas, along with the single electoral vote from Maine's Second Congressional District, he's got 260 electoral votes.
"We believe 100 percent that we're winning all four of those. And once we do that, then we put ourselves in a position to win one of those other swing states," David Bossie, Trump's deputy campaign manager, told CNN.
"We are fighting for every single vote," he added.
According to CNN's "no-margin-for-error map," Trump must sweep every state former GOP nominee Mitt Romney won in 2012.
He also has to win several states President Barack Obama won, such as Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Nevada and New Hampshire, along with with individual districts in Maine and Nebraska, to get to exactly 270 electoral votes, and narrowly beat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton who would presumably reach 268.
If Trump's prediction's come true and a "silent majority" of working-class white voters turn out to the polls in high numbers, it could break the "blue wall" of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson could pick up steam, though he's recently dropped in the polls according to RealClearPolitics. But his numbers have been best in Nevada, New Hampshire and Colorado, which if Trump won would put him in the White House.
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