Eliza Collins

USA TODAY

This week both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump laid out their plans for the economy and it almost felt like we were watching a normal election. They both had talking points and policy proposals (never mind that both had some issues after fact checks) but then Donald Trump said that “Second Amendment people” should do something about Clinton being able to nominate Supreme Court justices and his critics said he was inciting violence. (For his part, Trump says that was not the case: He was just talking about pro-gun voters uniting at the polls.) And then Trump said (several times) that President Obama was the founder of the Islamic State, but woke up Friday morning and said he was just being sarcastic.

And so we were back to the wild ride that is 2016. But some polls this week show that maybe people are more into the more predictable candidate, after all. Clinton was ahead of Trump in every swing state according to polls released this week.

Battleground states currently missing the battle

A slew of new polling from key battleground states was released this week and almost all of it favored Clinton. Battleground states are usually called that because, well, candidates have to battle for them. But these polls show that if the election were held today it wouldn’t be much of a fight. On Friday a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll had Clinton ahead by 14% in Colorado, 13% in Virginia, 9% in North Carolina and 5% in Florida (though a Quinnipiac poll earlier in the week had her and Trump virtually tied.) She also was ahead in Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania too based on other polls released earlier in the week. And a national poll out Monday had her 12 points ahead of Trump.

While the Clinton staff at least had some champagne last night at the bar, they shouldn’t get too cozy yet. We’re still three months out and the primary season proved that Trump has an impressive ability to surprise everyone and beat his competitors (friendly reminder that he beat 16 people — some of whom were or had been governors and senators — to be the Republican nominee.)

But there’s always something that could change the narrative, can you guess?

EMAILS!!!! There were more of them released this week and in turn more questions were raised. This time people pointed to some uncomfortable overlap between the Clinton Foundation and The State Department. For example the email from a Clinton Foundation staffer lobbying for someone get a job at State. Trump has called this “pay to play” and Reince Priebus demanded that more emails be released before the election.

Meanwhile, the State Department basically said “Yeah, so what? Everyone is allowed to recommend job candidates and we don’t think there’s been any influence by the Clinton Foundation.” But if the press releases in our inbox are any indication, this isn’t over...

Will there be presidential debates this year? Who knows.

Right now there are three presidential debates on the schedule but Trump would like a few conditions to be met before he agrees to any of them. His requests: "I don’t think they should be opposite NFL games, and I want to see a fair moderator and whatever else we’ll look at," he told Fox News last week. But he added, "certainly I want to do the debates."

Trump has said the debate schedule is a result of Clinton and the Democrats’ attempt to rig the system, but that isn't true. A nonpartisan, independent group made the schedule and PolitiFact rated him “Pants on Fire” for the claim. He is right about some of them overlapping with NFL games, but the Debate Commission has said tough luck: There are a lot more NFL games than debates so it’s hard to not get them to overlap.

Clinton agreed to the debates this week and her campaign chairman said that Trump was engaging in “shenanigans.”

*Reminder: Trump pulled out of a Fox News debate in January and held a rival event.

News from the trail

Trump says he was just being sarcastic when he said Obama was ISIS’ founder (USA TODAY)

Trump: If RNC cuts me off, I’ll stop funding them (USA TODAY)

Clinton tries to pressure Trump to release his tax returns by releasing hers (USA TODAY)

Fact checking Clinton’s economic speech (Factcheck.org) And Trump’s (Factcheck.org)

Report: State Department aide helped with Clinton Foundation hiring (USA TODAY)

One thing that both parties can agree on? America totally owned the Olympics this week. Watch Simone Biles win gold and smile.