Less than a week before an election that polls show is very close, it’s hard to tell what to think about who has the best chance to win. Look at the polls? Look at “leaks” from the campaigns that appear in news stories, about what their mood is like?
One CNN segment this week had a conservative commentator stating that she thinks the Trump campaign is “concerned” about their internal polling numbers.
Margaret Hoover, who is the host of the current version of PBS’ Firing Line, appeared on CNN this week, where she talked about what the feeling might be inside Trump’s camp, with the election five days away.
Appearing on The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Hoover stated that “I think if you’re the Trump campaign you’re not looking at CNN’s numbers, you’re looking at your own internals, and I think their internals are actually giving them pause… there is real groundswell in the early vote, there is real enthusiasm, which is hard to measure. I have heard from Republicans that there is concern at the Trump campaign, amongst the operatives who actually really do know the political wherewithal, that the turnout and enthusiasm numbers aren’t where they need to be.”
“There is concern at the Trump campaign.”
Republican strategist Margaret Hoover said Republicans have told her that campaign aides forDonald Trump have “concern” over internal polling. pic.twitter.com/WczLSAO1LA
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However, David Axelrod, the longtime Obama strategist, said that “nobody knows what the hell’s gonna happen” in an election where polls are that close.
Margaret Hoover is a Republican strategist, who is the great-granddaughter of Republican president Herbert Hoover, worked in the George W. Bush White House, and was a Fox News contributor. She hosts the show that, in its earlier incarnation, was hosted by conservative luminary William F. Buckley. However, Hoover has been a Trump critic over the years, and her husband, former media figure John Avlon, is running for Congress this year as a Democrat in New York.
Hoover has said that she voted for Joe Biden in 2020:
“I can’t bring myself to vote for Donald Trump.” – @MargaretHoover
Watch Margaret Hoover, great-granddaughter of Republican President Herbert Hoover, explain her decision to vote for @JoeBiden for President: pic.twitter.com/pPzY9EzPw8
— Jonathan Tasini (PDX City Council District 2) (@jonathantasini) September 2, 2020
However, that doesn’t mean Hoover does not continue to have sources within the Republican world.
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