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I'm Brian Tera, executive producer of The View.

It's Monday, but don't worry, because I'm here with Alyssa Faragriffin.

This is Behind the Table.

Hi Alyssa. Hi Brian.

All right, so we've got a lot to talk about and we're going to start with what's going on on the show.

Today we talked about the latest polls that have Trump leading over Biden in some critical states.

Now we all know we're not necessarily all fans of polls, but this is pretty.

This is New York Times. This is a year out. Are you surprised by this?

I actually was surprised by how significant the margins were.

Listen, I do actually take a dose of the Wuppie Goldberg skepticism of polls,

whether it was Hillary Clinton in 2016, the midterms and the red wave that didn't materialize.

And I think there is a generational issue of a lot of us that cut the cord or never had a cord.

We aren't necessarily under survey at times and polls, but these are a five alarm fire for the Biden administration.

He's underperforming significantly where Hillary was in 2016.

And in the makeup of our electoral system is it's basically five states that are ultimately going to determine the outcome of this election.

I was stunned by the Nevada numbers in particular.

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