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DAVID MARCUS: Trump vs. Harris: Here’s what I know about those who haven’t voted…yet
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DAVID MARCUS: Trump vs. Harris: Here’s what I know about those who haven’t voted…yet

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Over the next few days, minutes will seem like hours, hours like days, as Americans await the outcome presidential elections which millions believe is almost existential to our nation.

But most of those people have already voted or can’t be swayed until Tuesday.

To fill the monotony, we will be treated, (or tricked) with countless graphs and charts, of which demographic percentages have already voted the most, which party cannibalizes their votes, but who are these people allowed to influence?

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I’ve found two main types of Americans, in my hundreds of interviews across America, who tell me they’re more likely to wait until the last minute to vote, if they do, and that brings us to type 1, possibly non – voters.

By far, the richest pool of potential voters for both campaigns to me are people who aren’t sure they’ll vote, but who would ultimately side with their candidate if they do.

In mid-September, I visited a bar in Morgantown, West Virginia, where virtually no one I spoke to planned to vote, but most of them, when really pressed, leaned heavily in favor of Donald Trump.

It was a kind of voter I met in many places in the Rust Belt area, and they could determine the outcome of this election for themselves.

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What they were looking for, and what many are still looking for this weekend, was to be convinced, perhaps by Trump, that they really do matter one way or another if they fill their little voting bubble.

If these Doubting Thomases can see proof that something Trump and Vance plan to do will have an honest and rapid impact on their well-being, there’s a chance they’ll get them to the polls. What won’t sway them are the attacks on Harris or the far-left Democrats, because they’ve gotten past the point of saying who’s worse, they have to believe someone is significantly better.

The The Harris version of the likely non-voters is most often someone, like Gregg, in Philly, who I wrote about last week, and others like him in places like North Carolina, who don’t think Harris is enough the left.

These are usually people who hate Trump, but they see Harris as a tool of a slightly more favored political machine that ignores ordinary people and the idea that she is no more left-wing than Joe Biden it’s a big turn off for them.

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This explains the last week or so of him calling Trump a fascist or coming out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezD-NY, on TV to support the left flank. It also explains why Harris hasn’t been able to effectively move to center this campaign.

These voters want red meat, they expect the Harris campaign to give them.

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Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at the Reno Events Center on October 31, 2024 in Reno, Nevada. (Getty Images)

The second group that endures to the last day is the traditionalists. These are people who never thought Election Day voting was a problem, and therefore see no need to solve it by early voting. Some even see a real downside.

“But if that Biden-Trump debate had happened last week, after millions of people had voted,” a Pennsylvania woman recently mentioned to me, “he’d have a point.

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We know that in the last day voters have tended to switch Republicans. Many traditionalists lean to the right, after all, but there are Democrats in this group and, crucially, undecided voters — in small numbers, yes, but there.

We could also call these “closing voters” and they could very well be affected by last-minute developments, a November surprise if you will.

One such development is Friday’s abysmal jobs report, which showed just 12,000 jobs created in October. That’s like a fifth of the capacity of a football stadium, and it might make some of these last-minute decision-makers say, “OK, that’s it.”

On the other hand, Harris certainly hopes that the allegations of anti-Puerto Rican racism or lies about Trump saying he wants to use the Military against ordinary citizens will have a similar effect, a final straw for those on the fence.

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Democrats dream of that long-awaited moment when enough voters say, “I’ve had it, Trump is totally unacceptable,” but Lucy has put that football on the field many times in the era of Donald Trump.

These are the voters who are left to influence. There may not be many of them, but they may be able to decide the election. Both camps must now fight for themselves hour by hour, minute by minute as the final clock ticks down.

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