Trump Gets Shocking News From Double Whammy of Poll Results

Just days out from Election Day, Donald Trump still doesn’t have the votes to reclaim the White House—at least, that’s according to data reportedly obtained by his campaign.

During a CNN roundtable Wednesday night, Republican strategist Margaret Hoover claimed that internal polling from inside the Trump campaign suggested that despite a reported early groundswell of support, the campaign’s lackluster polling results are “giving them pause.”

“I have heard from Republicans that there is concern at the Trump campaign amongst the operatives that actually really do know the political wherewithal, the turnout and enthusiasm numbers aren’t where they need to be,” Hoover said.

Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are practically neck and neck in their polling across seven battleground states, with both candidates juggling marginal, low-single-digit leads that are falling within the pollsters’ margins of error.

Polling in the last two election cycles has been notoriously fruitless. In 2016, pollsters failed to foresee Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—three wins that handed him an Electoral College victory. The following cycle, they continued to overestimate the Democratic nominee, predicting that President Joe Biden’s margin would be about four percentage points higher than it actually turned out to be in competitive swing states.

Harris better hope that same statistical failure doesn’t play out on Tuesday, else Trump will sweep in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, reported ABC News.

But a Gallup poll published Thursday offered a hidden boon for the Harris campaign: a 77 percent enthusiasm metric among likely Democratic voters. That’s just a couple percentage points away from its highest point during the 2008 Obama era. It’s also up significantly—by roughly 20 percent—from what it was during the spring, before Harris had replaced Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket.

In 2016, Donald Trump promised that he would drain the swamp. In 2024, he’s circling the drain himself.

The MAGA leader’s campaign thought it could use a clever visual to respond to President Joe Biden’s verbal gaffe on Wednesday, in which the 81-year-old accidentally suggested that Trump supporters were “garbage.”

But the political stunt was anything but clever. On Wednesday evening, Trump was spotted riding shotgun in a garbage truck bearing American flags and Trump campaign signage, as it drove in slow, loose circles on the tarmac in Green Bay, Wisconsin, seemingly owning the garbage symbolism rather than hitting back at it.

Biotech millionaire and potential Trump second administration Cabinet member Vivek Ramswamy also joined in on the weird response, hopping aboard an actual truck to scoop up trash around Charlotte, North Carolina.

The attempt was clear—but the delivery, not so much.

“We’re not the garbage, we’re *taking out* the garbage,” Ramaswamy captioned the video on X.

A video of Trump trying (and struggling) to open the garbage truck door has not exactly helped his attempt at a clapback.

Trump and his allies were, in fact, the ones who brought the topic of garbage up first. Last week, Trump claimed that America’s immigration policies had made it a “garbage can for the world.” Days later, a guest speaker at the Republican presidential nominee’s Madison Square Garden rally—comedian Tony Hinchcliffe—joked that Puerto Rico was a “floating island of garbage.”

The fallout from that deeply racist joke about Puerto Rico at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally over the weekend continues to snowball, as a Reggaeton superstar who initially endorsed Trump has now rescinded his support.

Nicky Jam, who was born in Massachusetts and raised in Puerto Rico, took to Instagram Wednesday afternoon to express his disgust with the rally’s rhetoric toward his home.

He sits in the back seat of a car and speaks directly to the camera. Jam states, in Spanish, to his 45 million followers that his early support for Trump was based on economic issues, as he saw Trump’s business acumen as a potential positive for the many Latino immigrant families struggling to make a living in the United States.

The post then takes a sharp turn. “Never in my life did I imagine that a month later, a comedian would come and insult my country and speak so badly about my country. And therefore I revoke any support for Donald Trump.

“Puerto Rico deserves respect,” he added. The video is 50 seconds long and already had 78,000 likes two hours after it was posted. The comments are turned off.

Jam is one of many Latino celebrities and public figures who have condemned Trump and Hinchcliffe’s comments. Puerto Rican icons Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, and Don Omar have each used their platform to reaffirm support for Harris, while Trump and JD Vance continue to downplay the offensive remarks.

Mere hours after Donald Trump was falsely preaching love and acceptance and accusing Kamala Harris of “running a campaign of hate,” the former president was back to his same old antics.

“These are horrible people,” said Trump at a North Carolina rally Wednesday afternoon, referring to Democrats. “Oops, we should get along with everybody. They’re horrible people. Some people you just can’t get along with.”

With a wink and a nod, Trump is showing his supporters he doesn’t really care about being polite to those he considers his political enemies.

Late Tuesday evening, Trump went on a posting rampage on Truth Social and Twitter, accusing President Joe Biden and Harris of not spreading positive enough vibes.

“While I am running a campaign of positive solutions to save America, Kamala Harris is running a campaign of hate,” he wrote on Truth Social just after midnight. “She has spent all week comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history. Now, on top of everything, Joe Biden calls our supporters “garbage.” You can’t lead America if you don’t love the American People.”

Biden, for what it’s worth, says he was only calling one specific Trump supporter “garbage”: the comedian at Trump’s rally who called Puerto Ricans the same.

Clearly Trump is playing the fiddle here. We all know that much more offensive and frightening stuff comes out of his own mouth nearly every day.

Former President Donald Trump should leave the meteorology to the professionals.

After taking jabs at Kamala Harris and his second debate moderators at a North Carolina rally Wednesday afternoon, Trump suddenly turned to Hurricane Helene, the category storm that devastated large swaths of the state earlier this month, leaving 130 people dead and damaging key infrastructure beyond repair.

“I must’ve been the first one, I followed that storm right in,” the former president said. “I saw the devastation, it was a travesty, it was viscous, it was water. The water was the worst we’d ever seen. It was a water hurricane, that’s what it was.”

This may have been a part of Trump’s usual meandering rally ramblings, or he may just be truly unaware of what a Category 4 hurricane entails. Either way, he spent an ample amount of time explaining how a hurricane works to a crowd that just experienced one of the deadliest hurricanes in two decades.

After more ranting, Trump then re-upped the false claim that the federal disaster response was a complete failure due to Democrats taking money out of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to “give” to immigrants.  

“They don’t have any money for North Carolina, or a lot of other states, you find out they don’t have any money. FEMA spent money on bringing illegal aliens into our country.”

This conspiracy has been thoroughly debunked. FEMA has approved $100 million of aid to North Carolina. It did not spend any of its disaster funds on the southern border, and even Republicans have pushed back on this claim. But as with his meteorology report, Trump seems to be making it all up as he goes along.