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America needs to endure just three more weeks of campaigning before Election Day arrives, yet if the polls are accurate, it seems most Americans have already decided where their loyalties lie at the ballot box. Despite the immediate shift after Kamala Harris took over the reins from Joe Biden, polls since then seem to point to a dead heat, with Harris and Donald Trump polling within a 3% margin of each other. Award-winning NorthJersey.com reporter Mike Kelly is among the growing chorus of voices suggesting it may be time to ditch the polls and just wait until the votes are counted. Speaking on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program, Kelly explained his logic behind why polling has become a meaningless statistic in 2024.
“I’ve talked to pollsters about this,” Kelly told Berman and Riedel. “We can’t necessarily trust pollsters, but the electorate is frozen, and I think we’ve been frozen for several years now. This country is deeply, deeply divided, and it’s roughly 48% Trump, 48% Harris, and then the remaining 4-5% or so is up for grabs, and who knows what direction those folks will go, and I think we’re going to come down to a nailbiter, basically. It’s sad, quite frankly, because I think this country needs a definite direction to go in and I’m not sure we’re going to get it through this election.”
Kelly feels that one of the reasons why the needles aren’t moving is because Trump’s most fervent supporters are locked into what his brand offered eight years ago, and they’re not looking to change if Harris is the alternative. “I think some of that is still resonating today. Despite Trump’s mistakes and bumbles, and despite the fact that his term in office, the four years, was not exactly a successful presidency, I think people still believe that he’s a businessman, they like his decisiveness, and they also do not like Kamala Harris. She hasn’t moved the dial at all in any real way, and I don’t think there’s going to be much change in the coming three weeks.”
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