2024: The Tightest Presidential Race In Decades?

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The polling keeps shifting in the 2024 presidential race, as attention focuses almost exclusively on seven swing states where the competition is further tightening. The RealClearPolitics averages have former President Trump up in Arizona by one point, Pennsylvania by two points, and North Carolina by less than a point. For Vice President Harris, polling averages have her up by little over a point in Wisconsin and Michigan and just under a point in Nevada and Georgia. Both the Trump and Harris campaigns have downplayed polls or even denied that the polling will accurately reflect the reality of the race. Founding partner at Republican polling firm Echelon Insights, Patrick Ruffini, joins the Rundown to analyze the state of the race and how undecided swing voters are likely to cast their ballots in November. The NFL season kicks off tonight with the Kansas City Chiefs facing off against the Baltimore Ravens. The reigning champions are looking to return and win the Super Bowl for the third season in a row. Author of the new book, "Out Of The Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers," Ian O'Connor joins the podcast to preview the NFL season, give his picks for the Super Bowl, and share stories of the Jets quarterback from his book. Plus, commentary by Fox News Medical Contributor and author of "Panic Attack," Dr. Nicole Saphier. Photo Credit: AP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Janice Dean
0:02.0	Juan Williams and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:04.8	Thursday, September 5th, 2024.
0:10.9	I'm Jessica Rosenthal. The polling keeps shifting in the
0:14.0	2024 presidential race says attention focuses almost exclusively on
0:17.9	swing states things just keep getting more and more competitive
0:20.9	so this is an extremely tight election, probably the tightest election.
0:26.1	We've seen at this point the election cycle since the 2000 election, which ended up being very, very close.
0:33.0	I'm Dave Anthony.
0:34.9	Are you ready for some football?
0:37.2	We are.
0:38.4	The NFL season kicks off tonight.
0:41.1	I just turned 60 years old. When I was a kid, it still felt like
0:45.1	baseball was king in this country and it's the NFL's become such a monster. It really
0:51.6	is staggering. It just dwarfs every other sport and I'm
0:55.4	Dr Nicole Safire I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:00.8	Pulling doesn't always get it right in politics, but the pollsters this cycle are
1:07.8	hyper-focused on seven swing states, or what polling reveals is a likely swing state rather than national averages.
1:15.2	California goes blue, West Virginia goes red, but Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania
1:19.4	went for former President Trump in 2016 after going for President Obama and then President Biden.
1:24.8	So it states like that where we look.
1:27.6	Right now the real clear politics averages have the former president up in Arizona by
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