Lara Trump argues dead-heat polling has ‘phony candidates’ panicking

Republican National Committee Co-Chairwoman Lara Trump pointed to recent polling data in which her father-in-law is in a dead heat against Vice President Kamala Harris as good news for him.

The data released Sunday put Harris and former President Donald Trump at 48% among voters , with about three weeks left for either candidate to tip the scale in his or her favor. When asked about this polling data, Lara Trump argued they mean the Republican candidate is winning since “you never see the actual reflection” of voters and that recent actions by the Harris campaign indicate panic.

“You don’t go from running a basement strategy like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have done, basically for the entirety of their campaign, to all of a sudden, then, Sean, sending Kamala Harris on Fox News with Bret Baier if what you’re doing is working,” Lara Trump said on Fox News’s Hannity. “You don’t send Tim Walz out to embarrass himself in some sort of pretend faux hunt if what you are doing is working because what they are doing is not working. We can all see it. These two are phonies. These are phony candidates for whom no one voted.”

Lara Trump then noted how the dead-heat race between her father-in-law and Harris three weeks before the election is similar to polling ahead of the 1980 election between then-President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Like Reagan, Trump has been campaigning “in the Bronx” ahead of the election, and Lara Trump contended the Electoral College map could mirror the map of the 1980 election.

Like others, Lara Trump pushed for Republicans to participate in early voting where it is available because it would allow the RNC to focus resources on people who have not voted.

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Last week, Lara Trump suggested that exceptions to voting should be allowed to victims of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, the state that received the brunt of the storm. She reiterated how the RNC is seeking to work with Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) to ensure displaced people can still vote and that the state legislature “agreed with all the things that we brought to them.”

Harris’s interview on Fox News , her first on the network, will air during the network’s Special Report with Bret Baier on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Eastern time. Trump will also appear on the network for a town hall featuring a women-only audience , which will be hosted by network anchor Harris Faulkner on her show The Faulkner Focus at 11 a.m. Eastern.