DON’T LET THE POLLS FOOL YOU
Joe campaign issues ‘neck & neck’ warning
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign warns in a new memo that President Trump can “still win the race” and is “neck and neck” with the Democratic hopeful in several battleground states.
“We . . . know that even the best polling can be wrong and that variables like turnout mean that in a number of critical swing states we are fundamentally tied,” wrote Jen O'Malley Dillon in a three-page note to supporters.
“The very searing truth is that Donald Trump can still win this race, and every indication we have shows that this thing is going to come down to the wire.”
Dillon raised Trump’s surprising win over Hillary Clinton in 2016, which came even as polls showed the former first lady with a commanding lead in the run-up to the election.
“If we learned anything from 2016, it’s that we cannot underestimate Donald Trump or his ability to claw his way back into contention in the final days of a campaign, through whatever smears or underhanded tactics he has at his disposal,” she wrote.
Dillon urged Biden supporters not to “become complacent.”
The race is closer than the polls indicate, she said.
The cautionary memo comes as Biden’s lead in the polls appeared to ebb in the wake of The Post’s report on Tuesday about the business dealings of the Democratic presidential candidate’s son Hunter in Ukraine.
The IBD/TIPP poll, out on Saturday, found that Biden still leads Trump 50 percent to 43 percent — but that support fell by 2 percentage points.
The survey also noted the possibility of “shy Trump” voters among thee American elect-electorate — likelike the unex-unexpected 201616 turnout.
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She warned that pro-Trump super PACs had recently received millions of dollars, and that the funds could “very easily erase our financial advantage with the stroke of a pen.”
On Saturday, the former vice president huddled with advisers at his home in Delaware as Trump held back-to-back rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan, two battleground-state victories which proved crucial to his Electoral College advantage over Clinton.
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