Welcome to this week’s edition of Swing State Tracker. With Halloween in the offing, would you like to be frightened? Would you like a “jump scare,” but with real-life consequences? Here goes: The race… is… marginally tightening.
Very marginally. Some movers this week: Wisconsin is now slightly tighter than Pennsylvania. We have seen Minnesota re-enter the mix, too. Trump Campaign manager Bill Stepien announced Friday that the campaign would resume ad buys in the state after canceling them a few weeks ago, and Vice President Mike Pence is planning to revisit the state next week. Arizona’s a little closer. North Carolina. Florida is Florida-ing hard, settling into its comfy position, rum drink in-hand, as the official election troll. In terms of national polling, RealClearPolitics’ average showed Biden leading Trump by 9 points a week ago; now the margin is 7.9 points. FiveThirtyEight’s margin a week ago showed Biden leading by 10.5 points, today now he’s leading by 9.8.
This remains, however, the most stable presidential race in recent history, with Trump never coming close to surpassing Biden. Trump is still trailing in the three states he flipped to propel himself to victory in 2016—Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania—and still has big problems in Arizona and North Carolina. If he loses Florida, Iowa, or Georgia—all where he’s narrowly trailing—he’s not going to win the election.
With each day that Trump doesn’t substantially narrow his battleground deficits, his prospects dim. Fifty-two million people, as of this writing, have already voted. That’s about a third of the total projected in a high-turnout scenario. And have little doubt: It’s going to be a high-turnout scenario. More than six million Texans had already voted as of Friday. That’s 71 percent of Texas’ total 2016 turnout. Other big, growing states like Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida have also seen more than half of their 2016 totals turn out. Even if Trump can turn the narrative of the race around, something he hasn’t been able to do all year, he’d have fewer remaining voters to work with.
There are ten days remaining until Election Day.
Each one will suck.
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