Hello, everyone. I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director. This is the Daily D.C.

Yesterday on this podcast, we talked a lot about the mood of the country, looking at poll numbers,

showing a majority of Americans rejecting Donald Trump's approach and response to both the coronavirus

pandemic and to the quest for racial justice in the aftermath of George Floyd's

killing those two dynamics, clearly the mood music of where we are politically in this country

right now. But in addition to the mood, there is also

the map. And this is what the country learned, I think, all over again, as they did in 2000.

They learned again in 2016. We, of course, elect presidents based on the battle for 270 electoral

votes, not based on the national mood.

Sometimes those two things converge. Sometimes they diverge, like they did in 2016.

So forgive me for another poll number heavy podcast. I know it's not the easiest thing to absorb in an audio fashion.

But New York Times, Sienna, after their national poll that we talked about yesterday,

they're out this morning with six battleground state polls in these six most critical states

for the battle for 270 electoral votes. They're the

three Upper Midwest, formerly known as the Blue Wall states that Donald Trump busted through

in 2016 in order to win the presidency, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, from east to west.

And then they're the sunbelt states, if you will, they tend to be a little more red in their DNA than blue,

like those other battleground states, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina.

Those are the six states that are going to get the barrage of television ads, all the money spent, the most candidate travel and visits, such as that will be in the era of a pandemic campaign.

Looking at those six states, if the election were held today, according to these polls, Joe Biden would win them all.

And by the way, pretty easily.

I mean, in the Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Rust Bell Midwest, Industrial Midwest states,

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