Harris and Trump take divergent paths in a tied race

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : He described polling that he said showed Trump ahead in major states and crowed that Trump had a better message, according to people present.
71% : Trump agreed, as others praised him on the plane.LaCivita kept up that same enthusiasm Thursday night when he told the fundraising crowd in Washington that Harris had to place more advertisements on TV because they didn't have a good message.
62% : He authorized the leak of internal polling that showed a statistically tied battleground race with the cheerful conclusion: "Trump holds an edge.
61% : Trump has also chosen to focus on his rallies, which tend to be watched primarily by his supporters.
53% : Views of Trump, by contrast, are nearly universally set.
47% : In each of his races for the White House, Trump has exaggerated his dominance, often citing polls that have no statistical significance.
44% : Trump declined Fox News's invitation to another presidential debate within hours of the offer this week, giving up a potential audience of about 75 million Americans.
41% : "That tells me though that if Trump hasn't fully closed the deal, Harris still has an opportunity if people get a chance to know her," he said.
40% : Between Harris's entrance in the race and early September, high-quality national public polls have shown the Democratic ticket move from a two-point deficit to a two-point advantage against Trump, with corresponding movements in most swing states.
36% : He said he recently spoke to someone who voted for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020, and was 60 percent likely to vote for Trump again, attributing his preference to Trump because he is a known quantity.
35% : Ads for the vice president mostly seek to provide contrast, mixing positive introductory messages about her and her plans with negative depictions of Trump.
35% : "Trump knows that people are not going to change their opinions on him very much regardless of what he says or does.
17% : Former congressman Conor Lamb, D-Pa., said Trump holds a slight edge over Harris in western Pennsylvania - though he said that in conversations with voters in recent days, Harris still has an opportunity to win over Trump-leaning voters.
11% : The Harris campaign deployed former president Barack Obama to admonish Black men for their somewhat soft support of the vice president, as she called for another debate and hustled between mainstream television programs that Trump has avoided.

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