Donald Trump's campaign has expressed cautious optimism about the Republican candidate's chances of becoming the 47th president, with early voting numbers showing he is on track to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris. It has been shown that
The 78-year-old's first gains from key states came in both the 2016 and 2020 elections, although officials claim “anything can happen” and “it's too early to declare victory.” Looks better than that.
“We're seeing big gains for Republicans across the board so far, both nationally and in battleground states,” a Trump campaign adviser said in a proxy call Wednesday.
“Things are looking pretty good from where we're sitting right now. Encouraging signs across the board. Voter registration increases in all partisan registration states are very favorable to us.”
As of Monday, the number of Republican registered early voters in battleground states like Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada and Pennsylvania was up by double digits compared to 2020, according to the Trump campaign.
Meanwhile, the number of returned mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania has fallen “quite significantly” from 2020, to 79% in Georgia and 25% in Michigan, which is largely due to mail-in voting. This is a sign that the support of the Democratic Party, which implements the measure, may be declining. It didn't work out as well for Harris as it did for Joe Biden four years ago.
Trump's adviser said Republicans are also seeing “sustained overperformance” in Virginia and Ohio.
“It is certainly too early to start declaring victory,” they cautioned, “but it is definitely worth pointing out that our share of early voting is trending in the right direction.”
Supporting the campaign's mood are national polls by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC, both of which show Trump ahead of Harris in the national popular vote, but the Republican will win this vote. It's been the last 20 years.
Despite the good vibes, President Trump urged his supporters to go to the polls early and in record numbers to make the election “too big to be rigged.”
“President Trump holds a commanding lead in the polls, Republicans have significantly increased voter registration and are far ahead in early voting shares in all battleground states than they were two to four years ago. ” said President Trump 2024 National Press Secretary Caroline. Levitt said in a statement.
“Voters know Kamala Harris destroyed our country, and President Trump will fix it, which is why he is well-positioned to win on November 5th. ”
Meanwhile, Democrats have expressed a clear sense of nervousness about the state of the race, with former President Barack Obama and Harris campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon saying they believe the election will be “close.” Ta.
“The kind of vibrancy and turnout we saw when I was running for office is happening in every corner of our neighborhoods and communities,” President Obama said at a Black Voters for Harris event in Pittsburgh earlier this month. It remains to be seen,” he said, alluding to a poll. These numbers suggest Mr. Trump may have the best performance of any Republican candidate in this demographic in 64 years.
Ms. Harris' other top surrogate, former President Bill Clinton, said Wednesday that Ms. Harris is in a “very vulnerable position, much more vulnerable than she should be” in Arizona.
A campaign source privately told NBC News this week that a repeat of President Trump's so-called “blue wall” sweep eight years ago could result in “Michigan or Wisconsin falling beyond Harris' reach.” He suggested that there was concern that
Some Democrats also told the Post they were unhappy that Harris chose to spend Friday in deep-red Texas discussing abortion rather than going to a real battleground. .
“They don't think about the 'blue wall' at all. They just don't think about anything,” said one party official.
“Her journalistic work is like a first-time member of Congress running as a sacrificial lamb.”
