Richard Nixon's grandson gets candid about 2016 election: 'It's going to get really close'

Christopher Nixon Cox got candid about the 2016 election.

Richard Nixon's 37-year-old grandson revealed he doesn't think the 2016 election is a done deal for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

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"If this were any other election I'd say it's over. This one I say, 'hang on it's going to tighten up, it's going to get really close,'" he told AOL in an exclusive interview. "I bet it's going to come down to North Carolina or Florida like it did in 2000."

In fact, he believes Clinton must prove one thing to the American people -- and it certainly won't be an easy task.

"She has to show she's a changed president without rejecting Obama," he said during the grand re-opening of the Richard Nixon Library & Museum on Friday.

The Democratic nominee now holds an 11-point lead over her rival Donald Trump, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

The billionaire businessman plummeted in recent polls after a 2005 tape of him making crude remarks about women went public. Several women have come forward with sexual assault allegations since the leak.

Nixon Cox, whose grandfather ran on the Republican ticket, had some advice to give to his party's current nominee in wake of groping accusations.

"Trump comes back by focusing on being a change agent, improving the economy and having a strong foreign policy plan. If he can do that, I think he'll win."

The lawyer also provided some insight on whether his grandfather, who was the first U.S. president to set foot on Chinese soil, would've voted for Trump if he were still alive today.

"He has always voted for the Republican nominee and I'm sure he would this time as well," Nixon Cox openly revealed.

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By: Marah Alindogan