Trump advisors acknowledge that the results are completely unknown, but they are confident in his chances.
According to certain surveys, Trump has a bright future in swing states, and the majority of people think the US is headed in the wrong direction.
The Awadh Times: International News Desk– Even though they acknowledge they have no idea how America’s election will turn out, Donald Trump’s advisors are optimistic about their chances because internal polls place them ahead of opponent Kamala Harris in the penultimate weekend of the campaign before the election.
The two main sources of the optimism are some polls that indicate the former US president is leading in every battleground state and Republicans are holding onto early lead votes in areas like Nevada. These polls are extrapolated to suggest that Harris may be losing position in the Sun Belt states.
With surveys indicating that most Americans believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction, which they view as a leading indicator of momentum, and election analysts like Nate Silver projecting Trump’s chances of winning at 55% to Harris at 45%, the Trump campaign leadership is also finding comfort in these findings.
According to interviews with a number of Trump advisers, pollsters, aides, and others close to the former president, they are content yet uneasy in their roles.
Trump advisors acknowledge: Even though the trip to New Mexico is believed to have been at the request of a donor, the campaign’s public show of confidence, which has also included Trump aides claiming that his recent one-off rallies in Virginia and New Mexico are because they are broadening the electoral map, is also preparing the ground to challenge the results in the event that Trump loses.
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In order to create a wellspring of dissatisfaction should Harris win, Trump and his numerous campaign surrogates have been publicly increasing expectations among their supporters. This is particularly true if her victory is close or if a wave of late Democratic ballots pushes her over the finish line.
Trump’s trademark bombast about his chances last week was, “If we could bring God down from heaven and he’d be the vote counter, we’d win this, we’d win California, we’d win a lot of states.”
However, according to inside sources who spoke to the Guardian, everyone is nervous about Pennsylvania, a pivotal swing state that is where the majority of Trump’s routes to 270 electoral college votes pass. Trump is ahead, according to internal surveys, but some of those figures have been so optimistic in recent weeks that aides have begun to doubt their veracity.
As seen by the several trips Trump is making to North Carolina over the last weekend, the Trump team has also been anxious about the state, which they truly need to win this year. On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, Trump held three rallies in North Carolina.
According to two people familiar with the data, despite their joy at the record number of Republicans who cast early ballots this cycle, it has proven challenging to determine whether those Trump supporters who cast early ballots were new voters or those who would have cast a ballot anyhow, thereby consuming the election day vote.
The worry stems from the fact that Trump’s advisers are unable to assess the impact of his event at Madison Square Garden last weekend, when speakers utilized offensive and racist stereotypes about Puerto Rico, Latinos, and African Americans, which immediately sparked a backlash from both voters and officials.
The first speaker, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, may have alienated those important constituencies with a series of jokes that elicited minimal laughs. In the most damaging phrase, he claimed that Black people sliced watermelons, Latinos enjoyed having sex, and Puerto Rico was a floating island of trash.
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Before Trump could even begin his speech later that evening, the criticism and censure were pouring in. The campaign swiftly released a statement removing Trump from the remarks about Puerto Rico, indicating that they were aware of how bad the situation had become.
However, Trump’s inability to refrain from calling Tuesday’s event at Mar-a-Lago a “love fest” and his advisers’ concerns that it would have upset thousands of Puerto Rican families in Pennsylvania prolonged the news cycle around the Puerto Rico rhetoric for days.
As he attempts to instill in the public’s mind that Harris was to blame as a failed border czar, Trump has been even more erratic in his dark rhetoric in the closing months of the campaign, moving from accusing undocumented immigrants of raping and killing Americans to claiming they are operating sex slave rings.
In an attempt to influence moderate Republicans who are focused on a trifecta of messaging that also includes support for abortion rights and promises to cut living expenses, the Harris team has used Trump’s comments to paint him as divisive and authoritarian.
