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Okay, so as backdrop to everything that is happening, it is important to recognize that the polls do seem to, in fact, be tightening at least a little bit nationally and more significantly in the battleground state.

It is pretty obvious at this point that the polls were going to tighten because that always

happens.

The real clear politics national average just a couple of weeks ago had Joe Biden up something

like nine points.

Now Joe Biden is up in the national average somewhere around 6.3 points.

In the battlegrounds, Joe Biden's lead, the top battlegrounds, his lead is down to 2.6 point. And what we are seeing in a variety of states is that things are getting really close, like within margin of error close. Arizona is within two. Biden is up 2.2 points. Michigan, he's up 2.6 points. Pennsylvania, he is up 4.7 points. Florida, he's only up 3.7. North Carolina, the latest polls show Trump up.

And in Wisconsin, Biden is up only 3.5 points. Now, again, each one of those states, the polling

is not necessarily super recent. If we look at the latest Wisconsin polls, the latest Wisconsin polls,

the latest Wisconsin polls have not been done since August 23rd. Some things have happened since August 23rd, namely the RNC happened since August 23rd,

this vast spate of attention paid to the amount of violence in Kenosha.

So I would think that right now Trump has got to be favored in Wisconsin.

And if you look at Florida, same sort of deal.

The polls are very, very narrow in Florida.

The latest polls, again, had Biden up by just three points, and that was as of August 23rd. So the latest polls seem to be all around that period, August 23rd. You may have noticed it is not August 23rd, it is September 2nd. So that means that it has been a week and a half since there has been a good poll, a good solid poll from some of these key battleground states, and it was tightening even before all of that. In fact, there were polls that were showing that Trump was up in places like Michigan, even before the Republican National Convention. So if you are Joe Biden's campaign, you have to be feeling very disquieted at this point. You have to be feeling a little bit uncomfortable. Now, there are some other polls that are showing that Trump has slipped among key groups, particularly there's a poll from USC Dornside Daybreak, which was fairly accurate in 2016, which tracked voter preferences daily four years ago. They're doing so again this year. What they basically have is this same group of people they go to every single day and they ask, how are you feeling about the election? And then they can tell from sort of who is switching and who is not where the various

candidates stand. According to USC Dorencif, Trump has lost support from about 9% of voters

who backed him in 2016. Their poll shows no major shift in the race during the last few weeks,

relying a lot of the speculation that the back-to-back national political conventions and

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