Why?
They aren’t….
Actually?
NEVER was in the National Polling averages….
But?
Saying that they were?
Has probably madse sure they got as many voters as they could to come out and actually VOTE….
Trump’s campaign counters that the unusually large numbers of Republicans who have cast ballots early are a sign of the Republican nominee’s strength, and his aides have boasted that they remain on offense, with Trump visiting New Mexico and Virginia, two states that many observers believe are out of reach for Republicans, in the final week of the campaign.
But Harris’s significant financial advantage over Trump has allowed her to hire more staff, spend more on advertising and build a more robust digital and texting operation….
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Harris’s advisers attribute the recent movement in their direction among late-deciding voters to the divisive tone that Trump’s campaign has struck in the closing days, and especially to remarks by one of his warm-up speakers at a Madison Square Garden rally who described Puerto Rico as an “island of garbage.”
“If you look at the full data, the conclusion is crystal clear: She’s ahead in the states she needs to win to get to 270 and neck-and-neck across the battleground,” Future Forward President Chauncey McLean said in a statement. “The trajectory of the race is increasingly in her favor and she’s on track to win.”
Harris’s numbers have improved slightly in four states over the past week and eroded slightly in two states, according to The Post’s averageof high-quality public polls. Harris peaked with a lead of 2.5 percentage points in national polls in the second week of October, but that advantage has narrowed to 2.1 points, according to The Post average.
In a striking turn, a new poll published Saturday night by the Des Moines Register showed Harris leading Trump in Iowa by 3 percentage points. Trump won Iowa by more than 8 percentage points in 2020, and Republicans have largely dominated the state over the past decade. Harris has not campaigned at all in the state….
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In the final two weeks of the race, the two candidates are spending the most money on ads in Pennsylvania, followed by Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada, according to the analytics firm Ad Impact….
image….Harris greets supporters during a campaign rally in Milwaukee on Friday. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
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