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Extra: Reading The Election's Tea Leaves

2024/11/2
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Patrick Ruffini discusses the closeness of the election and the potential turnout problems for Kamala Harris, as well as the Rust Belt's significance in the race.
  • Team Trump points to early voting data and final voter registration data in Pennsylvania.
  • Lower turnout from black voters is historically a poor omen for Democrats.
  • The Rust Belt states are crucial; if Trump falls short in all three, it could decide the election.

Shownotes Transcript

Just days before Americans cast their final ballots, former President Trump and Vice President Harris are spending the weekend making their final case to swing state voters nationwide. The consensus among pundits and pollsters is that the race is neck-and-neck, but are they missing something?

This past week, Patrick Ruffini, founding partner at Republican polling firm Echelon Insights, joined the Rundown’s Jessica Rosenthal to analyze the state of the race in key battlegrounds, what we can read from registration trends, and how polling methods have evolved since 2016 and 2020.

Ruffini explained why he thinks the race is very close but went through some trends and data that can be seen as favorable to both campaigns and could provide them with an edge.

We often must cut interviews short during the week, but we thought you might like to hear the full interview.

Today on Fox News Rundown Extra, we will share our entire interview with GOP pollster Patrick Ruffini and learn even more about the “tea leaves” the political experts are examining days before the election.

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