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Trump is ahead in six of the seven states in the Two-way, and tied in one. He is ahead in six of the seven states in the Two-way, and behind in one.

President Joe Biden is making inroads on former President Donald Trump’s early polling lead...

March 14-17; N=5010 total over six states. AZ: 44-41-7 (Trump-Biden-RFK Jr). FL: 46-39-7. GA: 44-41-6. MI: 41-39-6. NC: 43-39-8. PA: 44-41-7. The poll included the Green and Libertarian candidates, and "other," which I ignore in this excerpt.

Several secretaries of state in key battlegrounds will not disclose what their apparent plans for a “coordinated” effort to fight a “common adversary” entail ahead of the 2024 election, despite repeated inquiries from The Federalist. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson recently revealed what she described as a mass collaboration between six battleground states. “One of the things we saw in 2020 was that particularly in battleground states, we were all battling a common adversary: a really nationally coordinated effort to undermine the will of the people both before, during, and after Election Day,” Benson said during an interview with...

Republicans and Democrats around the nation are statistically tied when it comes to which party voters prefer to control the House of Representatives — but Republicans have a 6-point lead in key battleground states, according to a Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies/SurveyMonkey poll of over 100,000 likely voters. Nationally, 49% said they would vote for the Democratic candidate if the election for House were being held today and 51% said they would vote for the Republican candidate. But more concerning for Democrats — with just 18 days to go before the election — is that the Republican...

The Electoral College formally affirmed Joe Biden’s victory Monday, but President Trump fights on, much like the Black Knight in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” who won’t give up, even when his arms and legs have been chopped off.“ ’Tis but a scratch,” he says after King Arthur severs his right arm.“It’s just a flesh wound,” he insists as he loses the other arm.“I’m invincible!” he yells after losing his left leg, to which Arthur replies: “You’re a loony.”The psychology of the nation, six weeks since the election, is encapsulated in that 1975 movie scene.On Trump’s side, in his...

Pollsters know polling is susceptible to problems, such as non-responsive Trump voters, yet even after 'fixing' the polls, their results were still way off. Polling guru Nate Silver is not happy. The avalanche of criticism for polling failures has reduced him to expletive-laced crankiness. Silver is doubtful the so-called hidden Trump voter exists. He also claims that since the polls called the correct winner for most states, errors are excused, but thatÂ’s like saying itÂ’s okay to drive drunk as long as you make it home in one piece. The fact is, the polling was terrible and the pollsters deserve...

Even with the mainstream media rushing to declare Joe Biden as the 46-th President of the USA these elections are far from over. With votes in the 2020 presidential election still being counted in many states, President Donald Trump’s campaign says it intends to call for a recount in almost every battleground state because of voter fraud. And it seems that another scandal breaks out when it comes to our Presidential elections. Maidengate!!!! Conservative journalist Michelle Malkin re-tweeted about the latest scandal and added the following caption: Calling all patriots — especially those *who live or have lived in Arizona,...

All of us remember how, during this past presidential campaign, along with the bogus polls, the media were constantly touting all this about "battleground" states in the electoral map. You have to wonder, though, if these were all states Trump was poised to carry all along, perhaps by narrow margins, but fabricated by the media narrative as "battleground" as a cue to Democrats on where election fraud may actually work on Biden's favor. Efforts at vote-rigging in many states would have been a waste of time for the Democratic machines. For example, the Deep South was undeniably Trump country, and...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) on Sunday called for thorough investigations into allegations of voter fraud throughout the country. "We're hearing lots of allegations about a dead person voted. We heard a report from one county in Michigan where the election software mistakenly counted 6,000 votes that were cast for Donald Trump, it switched them to Joe Biden," Cruz told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures." "Now, I know they apparently caught that but that same software is used in 47 counties throughout Michigan. That needs to be examined and determined that there's not a problem counting the...

At this writing, there is no newly elected president of the United States. And with lawsuits and recounts in the works, it's not clear when we will know that we have one or who it will be. But a number of conclusions are clear as we watch this latest drama unfold, and they raise deeply serious issues about the political future of this country. 1. The path to minority support is not through identity politics and class warfare. Notwithstanding the efforts of the left to demonize President Donald Trump as a racist and a bigot, he has drawn record support...

A week-long trip through these Midwest battleground states talking with ordinary people convinced us the polls aren't telling the full story. There’s something afoot in Michigan and Wisconsin. If you believe the polls, former Vice President Joe Biden is set to win both these states in November—battlegrounds President Donald Trump narrowly carried in 2016, and can ill afford to lose this time around.Some pollsters say Biden is ahead by as much as 17 points in Wisconsin and a dozen points in Michigan, suggesting the Democrats have rebuilt their so-called “blue wall” in the industrial Midwest. If that’s true, the president’s...

New early voting data showed Democrats failing to hit their mark in several battleground states, giving Trump campaign officials more reasons for optimism Tuesday as President Trump rallied voters in key Midwestern states and Democrat Joseph R. Biden made a play for traditionally red Georgia. In Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Arizona, Democrats are falling short of their target of 70% of early votes cast either in-person or by mail. That’s the lead they hoped to build up to stave off an expected higher Republican turnout on Election Day.“The Democrats have not opened up a large enough lead in...

It is well known that in November 2016, a little over 136.5 million Americans voted in the presidential election.  What is less well known is that according to the election results at Wikipedia, a slight plurality more Americans voted for conservative candidates — Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, and Evan McMullin — than voted for candidates of the left — Hillary Clinton and Jill Stein.  (There were a scattering of votes for other candidate that are less easy to categorize, and for that reason, I will ignore them.) The discussion that follows implicitly takes the view that President Trump will be better...

Last updated: September 23, 2020 Elections for 35 U.S. Senate seats will take place in 2020.[1] Ballotpedia has identified 16 races as general election battlegrounds. Of the 16 seats, four have Democratic incumbents and 12 have Republican incumbents heading into the election. These battleground seats were selected by examining the results of the 2016 presidential election in the state, whether the incumbent was seeking re-election, and whether the incumbent was serving his or her first term in the Senate. Race ratings from the Cook Political Report, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and Inside Elections with Nathan Gonzales were also considered. For more...

Election 2020 is shaping up to be déjà vu all over again for the news media. In an effort to help push Joe Biden over the finish line, the Washington establishment is going all-in on the easily refuted idea that there has been no change in the presidential race over the last three weeks.“With Two Months To Go, a Steady Presidential Race,” writes Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report.“The Latest Polls, the Great Non-Tightening: This Week in the 2020 Race,” write Astead W. Herndon and Annie Karni of The New York Times.“In a time of disruption and unrest,...

This is going to be a close election. It was always going to be close. Talk of a Biden “blowout” or a Trump “landslide” is just that — talk. Since the election will come down to a few battleground states — or perhaps one or two — counting votes in those states will be critical. And the question of who gets to do the counting matters more in this election than in any other since the 2000 presidential contest.Then, Republicans had the advantage in Florida with a GOP secretary of state. Katherine Harris followed the letter of the law in...

VIDEO The classic Mourning Mika Sad Face has returned! This morning we got to see it again as the face of Mika Brzezinski reacted to Morning Joe revealing that Joe Biden is now losing ground in Pennsylvania. That Mika Sad Face remained even when Joe switched to a bit more upbeat attitude about the other battleground states supposedly still looking good for Biden. I have a strange feeling we will be seeing more of that Mika Sad Face in the upcoming weeks.

Latest polling averages from battleground states at link: Biden's battleground lead falls to 2.7%

It remains something of a mystery why there's so little apprehension among liberal pundits and Democrats about the similarities between battleground state polling for the 2020 presidential election and 2016 contest -- which as you might recall did not turn out as expected. Consider the case of Wisconsin: The RealClearPolitics average had Clinton +6.5 in Wisconsin on Election Day in 2016. In August of that year, she had been +11.5. Not a single poll featured on RCP during the entire campaign showed Donald Trump winning the state. Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden has a +3.5 average right now -- which...