Trump voters feel more confident about election

 Washington Examiner:

Scars from the 2016 presidential campaign are a major force in the dichotomy between supporters of President Trump and Joe Biden when it comes to personal predictions about who will win the 2020 election.

Loyal Trump supporters feel certain that he is going to win the election. But those who support the former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee are not so confident.

“Oh, it's gonna be a revolution,” said Luigi Tesoro, an Italian immigrant who said his first vote for president after becoming a citizen was for Trump. “I know he's gonna win.”

Tesoro, 55, had several Trump signs and flags outside his home and ground-floor barbershop outside Scranton, Pennsylvania. He doesn’t have a problem with vandalism, he said, because of the pro-Second Amendment warning signs he also has hung. He pulled out a .25mm handgun from the pocket of his NYPD sweatshirt as proof.

 Michelle Grochalski, who attended a Trump campaign event last week that featured the president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, agreed.

By a lot or a little?

“Landslide,” she said, attributing her prediction to just a “feeling.” At the same event, Bruce Fields, 66, said that he expects Trump to win by “more than before.”

Their sentiments echo messages coming from the Trump campaign: Public polls are “fake” and flawed, and the president is set to surprise the Washington elite again just as he did in 2016.

The shock of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss also reverberates through the Biden campaign. “ Ignore the polls” is a common refrain, and they warn their supporters not to become complacent.

That message hits home with Scott Hoffman, a 51-year-old property maintenance worker in Wilkes-Barre. Outside his house sits an RV with two large Biden-Harris signs attached to the sides. Asked if he thinks Biden is going to win, Hoffman said, “I would hope so.”

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There appears to be great distrust of the polling on the Trump side and to a lesser extent on the Biden side because of the 2016 outcome.  There is also significantly greater voter enthusiasm on the Trump side.  Trump rallies are raucous affairs while Biden rallies are pathetic shows of Biden yelling at people in cars and trucks while reading from a teleprompter.

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