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The Truth with Lisa Boothe

The Truth with Lisa Boothe: Trump's Path to 270 Electoral Votes with John McLaughlin

The Truth with Lisa Boothe

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, John McLaughlin discusses the current state of the election and the polling numbers for Donald Trump. He highlights that Trump is performing better in the polls now than in previous elections and is leading in the national popular vote.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Where does the presidential election stand today?

0:03.6

The New York Times recently out with some battleground surveys,

0:07.4

which sure looks like good news for Donald Trump.

0:10.9

They have them up pretty substantially in some of these Sunbelt

0:13.4

states like Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada, a little bit of a tighter race in

0:18.1

the Russ Belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, in Wisconsin. But what is super interesting is it has Donald Trump up over 20%

0:27.9

with a black vote.

0:28.9

That would be the most for any Republicans since 1964.

0:33.4

They also have him tied with 18 to 29 year olds and Hispanics.

0:37.3

These are groups that Biden got more than 60% of the vote in 2020.

0:42.2

So are those numbers real? Is that possible? We're going to ask

0:45.8

John McLaughlin with McLaughlin and Associates. He has been advising Donald Trump

0:51.0

and his campaign since at least 2015.

0:54.0

He has a long time Polster.

0:55.9

He has worked professionally as a strategic consultant

0:58.4

and Polster for over 35 years.

1:00.8

He's also done some international work for people like Israel's Prime Minister

1:04.7

Benjamin Netanyahu.

1:06.2

So he knows what he's talking about.

1:07.6

He's looking at this stuff every single day.

1:10.4

So we're going to get his take.

1:11.9

Where does the election stand today?

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