No one is closer to the former president than his family. And they’re opening up to America.
And Eric Trump confessed one surprising fear about his dad, Donald’s campaign.
The former president’s middle son is advising Florida Republicans that the electoral map has widened and that certain key demographics favor Donald Trump. However, he warns that late-campaign occurrences, such as an “October Surprise,” may complicate matters down the stretch.
“The map has expanded in a massive, massive way,” Eric Trump stated in Milwaukee on Tuesday.
“The internal numbers are great. You’re seeing massive, massive shifts,” he added, emphasizing that it’s not just states in play, but demographics nationwide.
“We’ve never done better with the youth vote than we are doing right now. We’ve never done better with the African American vote than we’re doing right now. That vote has moved by 20%. We’ve never done better with the Hispanic vote than we are doing right now. We’ve never done better with the Jewish vote than we’re doing right now,” Eric Trump highlighted before discussing states the Trump campaign believes it can win.
“In Nevada, we’re up by like 10%. We’re up by like 7% in Arizona. I would have never thought there was a time where your polls actually showed you higher in Nevada than they did in Arizona. I mean, Arizona is just incredibly red, but that’s actually how well we’re doing in Arizona. That’s how well we’re doing in Nevada.”
RNC and Trump political director James Blair and pollster Tony Fabrizio both expressed optimism, claiming that Minnesota, Virginia, New Jersey, and New Mexico, as well as Maine, were competitive.
Blair said that the “map is expanding” and expressed confidence that the Trump campaign would “outspend” the Biden campaign. They also believe that recent news events, including Saturday night’s attempted assassination of the former president, have “really galvanized our supporters and brought new supporters aboard.”
“Joe Biden has spent $150 million in the battleground states,” Blair noted. “And the numbers are going in the wrong direction.”
Fabrizio criticized the media for “playing catch-up” and failing to grasp “the level of enthusiasm our base has versus the level that Joe Biden’s base has.”
“You’re writing as if North Carolina and Arizona are still toss-up states,” he said, indicating that opportunities for GOP gains exist in this electoral cycle that didn’t in 2016 or 2020.
Fabrizio stated that many 2020 Biden voters have “buyers’ remorse” and are too “disaffected” to vote for him again. He noted that despite having $150 million in messaging funds, ad buys concentrating on abortion and January 6 have had a detrimental influence on the Biden campaign’s polling scores.
“Right now on average, put my polls aside (and look at) public averages. We’re ahead by almost five points in Pennsylvania. We’re ahead by a little over six points in Arizona and coming up on seven points in Nevada. And by the way, that’s not counting in the undecideds that will break to us. So, you know, right now we have a pretty comfortable margin in those states,” Fabrizio said.
Fabrizio is particularly bullish about Trump’s appeal to younger people who are struggling with the economy, noting that approximately 35% of them in target states have had to work “second jobs to make ends meet.”
“Their memory is that the economy was doing much better and there was more opportunity,” Fabrizio added, referring to Trump’s presidency.
Despite the good polling, there was recognition that recent unexpected developments could alter the race’s dynamics.
Eric Trump issued a warning, claiming that the Biden campaign will undoubtedly “cheat” and that a classic late-campaign stereotype will resurface in the weeks before the election.
“Guys, there’s gonna be an October surprise,” Eric Trump asserted.
“I want to get the world prepared for the fact that the same game that they’ve played every single time, you know, the Democratic October Surprise, which is something that they spring on you, which is so sensational that it buries you, but it’s something that you don’t have enough time to disprove. So by the time it kind of gets through the media, it’s already done the damage that they intend to do, even if it’s not true.”
Fabrizio reiterated Eric’s remarks, warning supporters that the Democrats “will do anything” to win.
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