A former Obama adviser insists that the presidential race is much closer than the media believes it is, and that voters should look to the polls instead of the news for an accurate idea of how the election will play out.
Fox News reports:
Former senior Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Thursday that polling and data experts — far more than most reporters — believe that the campaign fight between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is extremely close.
In an interview with Puck News’ John Heilemann, Pfeiffer acknowledged that the Democrats and pro-Harris media were out of touch with pollsters.
“If you polled the press corps and most Democrats who are not working for the Harris-Walz campaign, 85 percent would say that Kamala Harris would win if the election were held today. If you ask the people who are actually deep in the numbers and paying really close attention to what’s happening in the battleground states, it’s closer to 50-50. And I think it’s very possible that if the election were held today, Trump would win.”
Pfeiffer explains that because Harris and Trump are neck and neck in key swing states according to the polls, there is no way to accurately project a winner at this point in the race, and that the election is especially contingent on Pennsylvania.
“When you dig into the battleground state poll numbers, they’re all toss-ups, every single one of them. There’s not a single battleground state poll where one of the candidates is up or down by more than two points, and most of them are tied, or at one point.”
Fox News continues:
Trump and Harris are locked in a tight race in the final months before election day, according to multiple national polls. A recent CNN poll found Harris holding slight leads in Michigan and Wisconsin, while Trump holds a lead in Arizona. Meanwhile, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania were toss-ups.
A recent CNN poll revealed that in every swing state, voters indicated they trusted Trump on the economy more than they trusted Harris, and it also found that the economy was the single most important issue to those surveyed.
The Biden-Harris administration has repeatedly claimed that President Trump failed the economy, and that they “fixed” it (while Harris asserts that she will fix the already fixed economy on the campaign trail) but voters don’t seem to believe them.
CNN explains the results of their poll:
Across nearly all of these states, likely voters are more apt to describe Trump than Harris as having clear policy plans to solve the country’s problems (voters split about evenly on this question in Wisconsin and Michigan), but voters in these swing states largely describe Harris’ views and policies as mainstream and Trump’s as too extreme.
