Donald Trump is building momentum for the final sprint to Election Day.
He’s getting ready to make his final pitch to voters.
And a Clinton advisor gave Donald Trump one piece of advice he never saw coming.
Donald Trump needs to press advantage on election’s most important issue
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are in a coin-flip race heading into the final month before Election Day.
The top issue for voters this year is the economy.
Four-decade high inflations and high interest rates have taken their toll on voters over the last three and half years.
Job losses are mounting as the economy slows down.
A recent ABC News/Ipsos poll found that Trump has a seven-point advantage over Kamala with voters on handling the economy.
Democrat pollster Mark Penn – who worked for former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton – said that Trump needed to draw a “clear economic contrast” with Kamala during an appearance on the Fox News host Special Report With Bret Baier.
He said that Kamala was coasting along “being liked.”
“Well look, I think the atmospherics behind the poll favor Trump,” Penn explained. “He’s generally got a good record on immigration, on economy, on crime. I think Latino voters, who have surged to be almost 15% of the electorate, really care about bread and butter economic issues.”
Blunting Kamala’s momentum in the race
Penn warned that the Trump campaign hasn’t been able to slow Kamala’s momentum.
“But the campaign, I agree, hasn’t stopped the Kamala momentum,” Penn said.
Trump pressing his advantage on the economy and giving voters a clear contrast is the closing message that he needs according to Penn.
“She’s getting by on just being liked, not on the basis of any policies and he’s yet to really draw a clear economic contrast with her that sticks with the voters,” Penn stated. “He could do it.”
Penn noted that voters think that Trump will do a better job than Kamala.
“The atmospherics or behind the scenes are there,” Penn continued. “People think he did a better job as president than President Biden or than she’ll do. But he just hasn’t delivered. He spends too much time on immigration, too much time on side issues and I don’t know why anybody would do a rally in New York if I were Donald Trump.”
Trump’s rally in Long Island, New York was about trying to boost turnout for hotly contested House seats in the New York City area that will determine control of the narrowly divided chamber.
Voters aren’t happy with the state of the Biden-Harris economy.
A New York Times/Siena poll found that 77% of voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania rated the economy as poor or fair.
The economy was booming during the first four years of Trump’s administration until the pandemic hit in 2020.
Voters can compare what their economic situations were like under Trump compared to Biden-Harris.
Driving home that contrast could be the closing message that helps send him back to the White House.
