Advantage Trump.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump poses for a photo with a supporter at a campaign event at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
With just 18 days to go until Election Day and with early voting already underway in many states with more coming online shortly, the momentum appears to be shifting in favor of Donald Trump. As has been the case all this year, all eyes are on the seven battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
In the latest Real Clear Politics average of polls, Trump now leads Harris in all those battleground states save for Wisconsin. It’s important though to note that all of Trump’s leads are well within the margins of error.
Both candidates are bombarding the battlegrounds with ads and campaign rallies, as FOX News Radio’s Brooke Singman reports this morning.
Brooke Singman: Vice President Kamala Harris is back in Pennsylvania today for her 11th visit this election cycle as she keeps her Rust Belt state tour going. New Fox News Power rankings show a tight race between Harris and Trump. The vice president is now losing her lead after Michigan moves from leaning Democrat to toss up. Today, Harris will sit for her first one on one interview with Fox News’s Brett Baer on Special Report airing at 6 p.m. Eastern Time. And former President Donald Trump is traveling to Miami for a Univision town hall to speak to undecided Latino voters in Florida. Trump also sat for an all-women’s town hall with Fox News’s Harris Faulkner in Georgia. That town hall will air on Fox News today.
An election season metric that is coming to be watched with increasing intensity is the betting markets. Bettors who are risking their own money on the outcome of the election have moved solidly toward Donald Trump. According to the Real Clear Politics averages of the betting markets, Trump is now favored to win the election by a margin of 14 points.
Trump is hitting the Harris campaign hard on the issues where polls show the Biden-Harris administration to be vulnerable. Here he is at a campaign event earlier this week in Georgia.
Donald Trump: Our schools don’t teach. Our cities aren’t safe. Illegal aliens are pouring in by the millions and millions and millions, and we’re teetering on the brink of World War III. Other than that, I think we’re doing quite well.
At a campaign event in Greenville, NC, Kamala Harris, as she does at nearly every campaign appearance, leaned heavily on the one issue in which she has a polling advantage over Trump.
Kamala Harris: When Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, as President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law.
Former president Bill Clinton spoke on Harris’s behalf this week in Georgia. But a portion of his unscripted remarks have caused heartburn in the Harris camp.
Bill Clinton: You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn’t you? They made an ad about a young woman who’d been killed by an immigrant. Yeah, well, if they’d all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn’t have happened.
The Trump campaign lost no time turning that passage into a campaign ad.
