In a race to the wire, Vice President Harris will return to Pennsylvania today after focusing on younger voters in Michigan Sunday where she touted “momentum.” Former President Trump returns today to North Carolina, Michigan and Pennsylvania after campaigning Sunday in the Tar Heel State and Georgia.
The usually-jaunty former president conceded Sunday to ABC News that he could lose. “I think I have a pretty substantial lead,” Trump said. “But, you could say, yeah, yeah, you could lose. Bad things could happen. You know, things happen, but it’s going to be interesting.”
More than 78 million people have voted early. Millions more are expected to cast ballots by Tuesday. Quality polls in the last days of a suspenseful, wildly unpredictable election hint at some surprises ahead.
Harris appears to have slim leads in Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin, while Trump is ahead in Arizona. But in seven swing states, the results remain within the margin of sampling error, meaning neither candidate has a definitive lead. Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania are basically tied, which helps explain the states in which the candidates are barnstorming through rewinds of their speeches and get-out-the-vote appeals on the final day.
Many of Trump’s supporters — emboldened by the former president’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 and unverified assertions of interference in this contest — express confidence the former president will return to the White House come January. His supporters’ views that the country is on the wrong track, coupled with trust in Trump’s ability to handle the economy, have buoyed his candidacy since he was selected to be his party’s nominee. That was true for Trump in poll after poll, whether pitted against President Biden or Harris.
But Harris’s backers are just as eager to bet the vice president will win with persuasive messaging that took advantage of her opponent’s self-inflicted distractions in the homestretch and a ground operation that profited from record-setting campaign cash. “We are currently on pace to turn out the voters we need to get to 50%+1 in each battleground state,” Harris campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon told supporters in a Sunday email.
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