{"id":2363595,"date":"2024-11-03T18:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T23:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-contends-tight-polling-is-covering-for-voter-turnout-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T18:48:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T23:48:52","slug":"trump-campaign-contends-tight-polling-is-covering-for-voter-turnout-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-contends-tight-polling-is-covering-for-voter-turnout-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign contends tight polling is \u2018covering\u2019 for voter turnout &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-campaign-contends-tight-polling-is-covering-for-voter-turnout-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2363595&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Trump campaign \u200chas expressed confidence despite polling \u2062data indicating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fake-kamala-got-loomered-laura-loomer-catches-kamala-harris-body-double-at-palm-beach-polling-place-video-photos\/\" title=\"FAKE KAMALA GOT LOOMERED! --Laura Loomer Catches Kamala Harris BODY DOUBLE at Palm Beach Polling Place! (VIDEO -PHOTOS)\">tight race<\/a>\u200d between former \u2063President Donald Trump and\u200c Vice President \u200cKamala Harris just days before Election Day. Political director James \u2062Blair \u2062argues that these polls underestimate Trump&#8217;s support, suggesting there&#8217;s a significant discrepancy in \u2062how respondents are counted, with an overrepresentation of Democrats. Blair claims that the electorate has shifted rightward \u200ccompared\u200c to the 2020 \u2064election, reflecting early \u200bvoting trends. He points to states like Pennsylvania and \u200bNevada, noting that \u2062Republican voter registrations have outpaced\u200b Democrats in\u2062 these areas. Trump&#8217;s \u200bcampaign is <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">actively \u200dengaging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-to-appear-on-call-her-daddy-podcast-next-week-with-focus-on-women-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Harris to appear on Call Her Daddy podcast next week with focus on women - Washington Examiner\">younger male voters<\/a><\/a> through podcasts and other outreach efforts, believing that this demographic could be critical \u2062for his election success.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump campaign contends tight polling is &lsquo;covering&rsquo; for voter turnout<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1870977\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> campaign assured it is not stressing over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/somehow-57-of-new-yorkers-still-approve-of-andrew-cuomos-performance-are-we-missing-something\/\" title=\"Somehow, 57% Of New Yorkers Still Approve Of Andrew Cuomo\u2019s Performance. Are We Missing Something?\">polling data<\/a><\/a> showing Trump virtually tied with Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kamala Harris<\/a> right before Election Day, suggesting electorates are moving &ldquo;to the right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Recent data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/times-siena-battleground-poll-crosstabs.html\"><em>New York Times\/Siena College<\/em> poll<\/a> found that white Democratic voters were 16% more likely to respond compared to their Republican counterparts, raising the question of whether Trump&rsquo;s voter turnout is being underestimated. As such, the Trump campaign&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">political director<\/a>, James Blair, suggested the polling data is &ldquo;covering&rdquo; for an underrepresentation of the former president&rsquo;s support come <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Election Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Look, in all of those polls and all the battleground states,&rdquo; Blair said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>America&rsquo;s Newsroom<\/em>, &ldquo;they&rsquo;ve set the electorate to the left of 2020, which doesn&rsquo;t comport with what we know, which is that all of these electorates have moved to the right &mdash; just on a registration eligible electorate basis itself. And obviously, we see that starting to manifest in the early voting patterns.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2677460&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=3bfa86fe86175990db2aa971c8a55368\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Blair added that the data had &ldquo;too many Democrats&rdquo; in it without enough Republican respondents to balance the results out but that the <em>New York Times <\/em>opted to publish the poll regardless.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The director was also asked about how Trump is doing among younger male voters, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections\/trump-young-male-voters-election-2024-e7f782d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">some suggesting this voting bloc could win Trump the election<\/a> should they choose to vote. In response, Blair pointed to states, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pennsylvania<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nevada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Nevada<\/a>, where residents are required to register tovote by party affiliation, which has shown Republicans outpacing voter registration in these states.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of Trump&rsquo;s outreach to younger male voters, the former president has appeared on numerous podcasts that appeal to this voting bloc ahead of the election, most notably <em>The Joe Rogan Experience<\/em>, which has garnered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">over 44 million views on YouTube<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joerogan\/status\/1851117181964046431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">almost 20 million views on X<\/a>. Trump has poked fun at Harris for not appearing on the same podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3214288\/trump-mocks-harris-not-appearing-joe-rogan-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">joking &ldquo;she can&rsquo;t handle the presidency&rdquo;<\/a> if she could not do an interview with Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2024 presidential race&rsquo;s twilight hours, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump will spend the last two days in rallies held in swing states<\/a>, including Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. His last rally before Election Day, set for Monday night, will be <a href=\"https:\/\/event.donaldjtrump.com\/events\/6164312419-dfsasfs-66165494-86821?_gl=1*1m8nbyx*_gcl_au*MTQ1MzA4Nzg4MS4xNzI3MzYwMDE2&amp;_ga=2.74746834.1304907169.1730578538-210890170.1719515776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">held in Grand Rapids, Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1870977\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1870977\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump campaign claims tight polls mask true voter turnout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2363596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-polling-scaled-1024x684.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4087,15698,3634,33358,32076],"class_list":["post-2363595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-campaign","tag-polling","tag-trump","tag-voter-turnout","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-polling-scaled-1024x684.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2363596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}