Voting has begun.
With 41 days until Election Day and with early voting cranking up in states across the country the race couldn’t be tighter if the polls are to be believed. FOX News Radio’s Lucas Tomlinson does a nice job of telling that story in a report he filed this morning.
Lucas Tomlinson: Quinnipiac showing former President Donald Trump up a point over Vice President Kamala Harris, 48 to 47. And a new CNN poll showing the opposite. Harris up a point over Trump, also 48 to 47. Both candidates are returning to battleground states. Donald Trump heads to North Carolina outside Charlotte two days after his running mate, J.D. Vance, also campaigned in Charlotte. Vance will also be returning early next week. Now, Trump rallied in Wilmington, North Carolina, last weekend. And Kamala Harris is in Pennsylvania, expected to unveil her new economic policies in Pittsburgh.
It is worth noting that today’s poll numbers are the best that Donald Trump has had in any of his three runs at the presidency. In October 2016 – in a race in which Donald Trump upset the heavily favored Hillary Clinton – Mrs. Clinton was ahead by seven points according to the Real Clear Politics average.
Vice President Harris seemed to acknowledge the state of polling at a campaign rally in Wisconsin last Friday.
Kamala Harris: Forty-six days until the election. Forty-six days until the election. And while we know this is going to be a tight race until the very end. So, let’s not pay too much attention to the polls because let’s be clear, we are the underdog in this race.
The candidates are concentrating their energies in the critical swing states, and they are trading barbs. Here is Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday talking about Kamala Harris’s recent appearance with Oprah Winfrey.
Donald Trump: Oprah would ask just a simple question, and you get this crazy answer or you don’t get any answer. This is not a president. We had four years of this. We’re not going to have four more years. We won’t survive it.
Last Friday in Georgia – where the polls show that Trump is gaining in his lead over Harris – Ms. Harris fired at Trump on the one issue in which Democrats have a consistent and solid lead over Republicans.
Kamala Harris: If he is elected again, I am certain he will sign a national abortion ban which would outlaw abortion in every single state, and he would create a national anti-abortion coordinator.
The issue that Trump keeps hammering is American manufacturing. He is proposing a 15 percent corporate tax rate for companies that manufacture their products in America. Here he is at that same rally in Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump: This new American industrialism will create millions and millions of jobs, massively raise wages for American workers, and make the United States into a manufacturing powerhouse like it used to be many years ago.
Forty-one days to go and the race is as tight as any we have seen in our voting lifetimes. As Trump often says, “We’ll see what happens.”