During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday morning, the New York Times' Jeremy Peters claimed that, despite recent polls showing the race between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris stabilizing, the former president is running into new trouble.
During his sit-down with MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, Peters was asked about the current polling that shows a close race.
"The polling had Biden's number right in 2020, did not have Trump's," he began. "You're still hearing a lot of concern among pollsters and strategists in the campaigns, not in the campaigns, who say that these polls can undercount Trump support. It is just a fact that Trump voters are less likely to pick up the phone, less likely to answer a survey and there is this phenomenon where they are less likely to cop to their support for Trump because they are somewhat ashamed by it."
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"They're not sure that this is the kind of guy they want people knowing that they vote for, these are not the people who put the MAGA signs and the MAGA flags in their front yard," he elaborated. "That said, we have seen kind of a remarkable amount of stability in the race since the debate; things have moved by maybe a point or two here and there."
"You know, the polling in states like Arizona that could be critical is still really unclear, North Carolina is interesting because it has tightened, because there you have a MAGA problem —that is probably the biggest threat to Trump at this moment," he told the host.
"As one Republican strategist put it to me during one of the midterm elections, when things go haywire, when there are big national news stories of, like, mass shootings, crisis, upheaval, people are reminded of the chaos of Trump," Peters continued. "He's the president of chaos and they don't like that and, even though they may not like the direction of the country right now and that's bad for Biden and Harris, Trump gets tainted with that and I think people just really don't want to relive all that."
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