 to the country and the president we're told by people who are close to him is coming around accepting the idea that it may be he has to uh drop out that it may be that he can't win this he's been shaken by three factors one is nancy pelosi's very strong views about this expressed privately but not not secretly uh and the electoral map shrinking his path toward a victory looks to be harder than it was before and the dry drying up of donor money which has been pretty significant