We’re counting down to the election now and everyone is looking at the polls, focus groups, and the potential signs.
But I’ll hand it to CBS: they’re actually sending people out into the field to talk with people, and they’re coming back with reactions that may fly in the face of some of the polls.
As we reported five days ago, they sent Major Garrett out into the field in Michigan, and he came back with the report that the support for former President Donald Trump was “real and resilient.” That was just as a local Detroit News poll and an Insider Advantage survey were putting Trump ahead. Michigan is thought to be one of Kamala Harris’ best opportunities to pick up a swing state. She’s ahead in the RCP average there at 1.2 percent, but if it’s that tight, there is a real issue for her. On top of that, there’s the “Uncommitted” vote that might normally go to her from folks on the left who are upset over Gaza and may just not show up for her.
Now CBS has sent another reporter out, this time to Nevada. While the RCP average in Nevada is very tight, with Harris up currently at 0.4 percent, what Adrianna Diaz found might indicate something different. She visited restaurants in Reno, North Las Vegas, and Pahrump, Nevada. Trump’s “no tax on tips” policy would resonate there with the area’s large service economy, but it sounded like they were already liking his other ideas on the economy and the border.
In Reno, at a barbecue restaurant, Diaz spoke to four women friends, and they were disturbed about illegal immigration. As one woman pooh-poohed the thought that most were coming because of asylum, “Baloney. They’re coming here for the freebies.”