Former Bush campaign manager Karl Rove joined Fox News on Friday and predicted Vice President Kamala Harris will soon have a solid lead over Donald Trump in the polls.
“So let’s talk about where the race is, because in some battleground states, the polls seem to have been narrowing. Let’s put it up here Arizona. Trump still leads, though one poll has got Harris up by two. Same thing in Nevada. Wisconsin, Trump holds a very narrowly missed Michigan. Trump is ahead, but Harris is up 11 in one new poll, which I think might be an outlier. Trump continues to lead in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia. He’s still got the advantage, Karl, but she’s gaining momentum, there’s no question,” began anchor John Roberts.
“Yeah, no doubt about it,” agreed Rove, who ran the last GOP presidential campaign to win the popular vote – in 2004.
“If you look at it. Remember, we’re better to look at an average of polls, and we just don’t have a lot of battleground state polls since all these things begin to shift. Take a look at the national number, though, and you get a sense of this,” Rove continued, adding:
Remember before the first debate with Biden and Trump? But Trump was leading by close to three points or above three points, depending on when you looked at it. Trump today in the RealClearPolitics average is leading by 1.2%, 1.2 points. There’s an outlier in their polling, gives him a five-point lead. Without that outlier, he’s leading by less than 1%, 0.8. In fact, if you look at it, there were five polls in the RealClearPolitics average that occurred before the 25th of July.
Trump leads in all five of those of the other five polls that have been held since the 26th of July. He leads, he leads in only two. She leads in three. So I fully expect that the momentum she has is going to is going to carry her through. Unless it’s a disastrous vice presidential choice. This momentum is going to leave her in the lead at the end of the Democratic convention.
Roberts tried to end on a positive note for pro-Trump viewers, saying, “You will remember, back in 1968, the last time the president dropped out and, then a successor was named. Nixon only won the election by 0.7 of a percentage point, though Nixon really took him in the Electoral College. And there are polls that show that Donald Trump is going to take the Electoral College by a substantial margin.”
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