Harris or Trump? Ex-GOP advisor predicts swing states will ‘all go in one direction’

Donald Trump wandered and danced through a bizarre and abbreviated town hall in Pennsylvania on Monday night – raising even more questions about his mental acuity – before humiliating himself in a lengthy interview at the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday as Bloomberg editor-in-chief and host John Micklethwait grabbed a scissors on Trump’s squirming “tissue” by telling the ex-president to answer the questions asked.

Meanwhile, in Detroit, Vice President Kamala Harris faced tough questions from radio host Charlamagne Tha God, and on Wednesday she will face off against Fox News host Brett Baier.

All this came after Trump refused and ducked a second debate 60 minutes interview, withdrawn from a CNBC appearance and stiff-armed requests to release his medical records.

With the Nov. 5 election day just three weeks away, the election already underway and Harris leading in most polls, former Republican campaign consultant Matthew Dowd predicted the election might not be as close as many expect.

Dowd said he imagines battleground states will fall like dominoes in the final days in the same direction: toward Harris.

“My feeling is that this will not be like 2020 (when Joe Biden won by slim margins in key swing states) and not like 2016 (when Trump upset Hillary Clinton by a few thousand votes in battleground states). ),” Dowd said in a recent podcast. “We are in a different dynamic. I think it will be more like 2012 where the race seems very close but ends up breaking.

“And out of the seven states – this is my opinion, and this is what normally happens when you have a lull in the last week or 10 days – six or seven states are all going in the same direction. So I don’t think this is one where it’s going to be three states (going) one way, and four states (going) the other.

“I think what’s probably going to happen is this pivotal race, which I agree is probably going to be a two or three point lead at this point because the vice president eventually breaks. It eventually adapts, and all those states go in one direction,” he added.

“I was involved in the 2000 race, which… ended up being a lot closer than this one, which was decided by a few hundred votes in Florida, and in a race that Al Gore won nationally by 500,000 votes but lost the electoral college (to George W. Bush) by 600 votes in Florida.”

Dowd, like Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg, claims that Republicans are flooding the zone with fake polls that favor Trump.

“GOP/MAGA operatives are laughing to themselves about how easily people in the political news media can be played by biased polls and statistics,” Dowd tweeted. “And too many people in the news who know better and have seen it happen in 2022 just can’t help but spread bad information.”

He noted: “There have been six credible polls after October 8 and the Harris margin ranges from +2 to +4 in all cases. This race hasn’t changed in six weeks. Again, ignore the noise, flip through the tape and work until the clock strikes 0:00.”