Meet the Press NOW — October 16

With 18 days to go, President Trump right now is set to make his 12th campaign stop in the last 16 days amid even more signs of midterm momentum for Democrats.

More than seven million Americans have already cast their ballots nationwide, including two million in our 10 closely watched Senate battlegrounds.

That's according to NBC News data via voter file company TargetSmart.

Meanwhile, Democrats are reporting massive fundraising hauls.

Last quarter, significantly more than their Republican opponents in those key battleground states.

That's according to FEC filings.

At this hour, the president is on one of those battlegrounds, Georgia, where incumbent Democrat Jon Ossoff is facing a challenge from Republican congressman Mike Collins.

As he left the White House earlier, the president touted the impact he says he's having on the trail.

Going to, we're going to right now, we have a tremendous crowd of people.

My records said, you know, these...

I don't know if you know it, these rallies are turning everything around.

These rallies are legendary.

These are like the rallies I've had, and I didn't think I'd have to do it, but I wanna make sure Republicans do as well as they could do.

Georgia is just the latest stop on the president's midterm blitz.

So far, he's hit 10 states, some of them multiple times, and he'll be back in Georgia later this month, one of at least eight campaign stops currently on the schedule before election day.

Notably absent from that list, battleground Maine.

And in an interview last night, the president suggesting it will stay that way.

Take a look.

There's no real reason for me to go to Maine, I don't think.

Although they have a couple of interesting races going on, but I think we're gonna win those races.

Uh, but probably not.

I'd like to go to Maine.

I love Maine, uh, but I'm so solid with Maine too, it's, you know, can't get much more solid.

It comes as incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson faced off in their fourth and final debate last night, where Collins once again sought to distance herself from President Trump.

In addition, I would point out a major difference between Troy and me.

With 18 days to go, President Trump right now is set to make his 12th campaign stop in the last 16 days amid even more signs of midterm momentum for Democrats.

More than seven million Americans have already cast their ballots nationwide, including two million in our 10 closely watched Senate battlegrounds.

That's according to NBC News data via voter file company TargetSmart.

Meanwhile, Democrats are reporting massive fundraising hauls.

Last quarter, significantly more than their Republican opponents in those key battleground states.

That's according to FEC filings.

At this hour, the president is on one of those battlegrounds, Georgia, where incumbent Democrat Jon Ossoff is facing a challenge from Republican congressman Mike Collins.

As he left the White House earlier, the president touted the impact he says he's having on the trail.

Going to, we're going to right now, we have a tremendous crowd of people.

My records said, you know, these...

I don't know if you know it, these rallies are turning everything around.

These rallies are legendary.

These are like the rallies I've had, and I didn't think I'd have to do it, but I wanna make sure Republicans do as well as they could do.

Georgia is just the latest stop on the president's midterm blitz.

So far, he's hit 10 states, some of them multiple times, and he'll be back in Georgia later this month, one of at least eight campaign stops currently on the schedule before election day.

Notably absent from that list, battleground Maine.

And in an interview last night, the president suggesting it will stay that way.

Take a look.

There's no real reason for me to go to Maine, I don't think.

Although they have a couple of interesting races going on, but I think we're gonna win those races.

Uh, but probably not.

I'd like to go to Maine.

I love Maine, uh, but I'm so solid with Maine too, it's, you know, can't get much more solid.

It comes as incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson faced off in their fourth and final debate last night, where Collins once again sought to distance herself from President Trump.

In addition, I would point out a major difference between Troy and me.