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Over the next few days, minutes will feel like hours and hours will feel like days as Americans await the results of a presidential election that millions believe will be existential for the country. Dew.
But most of those people have already voted or won't be able to budge until Tuesday.
To fill the monotony, we are treated (or fooled) with countless graphs and charts, showing which demographics are already voting the most, which political parties are cannibalizing votes, but… Who will these people be at the mercy of?
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In hundreds of interviews across the United States, I have discovered two main types of Americans. They said they would likely wait until the last minute to vote. So it's type 1. – Voters.
The richest potential vein of voters in both campaigns that I mine so far are people who don't even know if they're going to vote, but who would ultimately side with the candidate if they did vote. .
Back in mid-September, I went to a bar in Morgantown, West Virginia, where basically no one I talked to was going to vote, but when it was really dire, most of them were voting for Donald Trump.・He was leaning toward supporting Trump.
The kind of potential voters I met across the Rust Belt could decide the outcome of this election for themselves.
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What they were looking for, and what many may be looking for this weekend as well, is perhaps convincing President Trump that it really matters that they fill out their little ballot anyway. It was.
If these doubting Thomases could see evidence that what Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance are planning will honestly and quickly impact their well-being, they would take them to the polls. I have a chance to go. What doesn't sway them is the attacks on Harris and far-left Democrats. Because they are past the point of which is worse and need to believe that someone is better in some meaningful way.
The most likely Harris version of non-voters are people like Greg in Philadelphia, who I wrote about last week, and whose supporters in places like North Carolina don't consider Harris sufficiently left-wing. These are the kind of people. .
These people typically hate Trump, but they see Harris as a tool of a marginally palatable political machine that ignores ordinary people, and the idea that she's not on the same left as Joe Biden makes them It causes great discomfort to the person.
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This explains why, over the past week, he has called President Trump a fascist and promoted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) on TV to strengthen the left. This also explains why Harris was unable to move effectively to the center this campaign.
These voters want red meat, and they expect the Harris campaign to give it to them.
Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the Reno Event Center on October 31, 2024 in Reno, Nevada. (Getty Images)
The second group that made it to the final day were the traditionalists. These people have never thought voting on Election Day was a problem, so they don't think early voting should solve the problem. Some people think there are big downsides to it.
“What if the Biden vs. Trump debate happened last week after millions of people voted,” a Pennsylvania woman told me recently, and she has a point.
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We know that voters have trended toward Republicans in recent days. After all, many traditionalists lean to the right, but this group also includes Democrats and, crucially, a small number of undecided voters. , certainly exists.
These people could be called “closing argument voters,” and they are most likely to be affected by last-minute developments, or November surprises, if you will.
One such development is Friday's abysmal jobs report showing just 12,000,000 jobs created in October. That's the equivalent of one-fifth of the capacity of a football stadium, and could cause those making last-minute decisions to say, “Okay, there you go.”
Meanwhile, Harris said accusations of anti-Puerto Rican racism and lies about President Trump's desire to use the military against civilians have had a similar effect and are the last straw for people in crisis. I definitely hope it will happen.
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Democrats dream of the long-awaited moment when enough voters will say, “We've already experienced it, Trump is absolutely unacceptable,” but Lucy has put that football on the ground too many times in the era of Donald Trump. It's here.
These are the voters who have been left to vacillate. The numbers may not be large, but they may be able to decide the election. Both sides must fight hour by hour, minute by minute as the final time expires.
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