GOP strategist reveals what Trump campaign thinks about internal polls just DAYS before election

A Republican strategist revealed that soul polling has arrived and operatives wrong President Donald Trump's run are concerned they 'aren’t wherever they request to be.' 

Margaret Hoover appeared on CNN's The Source Wednesday and told big Kaitlan Collins that early voting numbers constituent to 'real enthusiasm, which is difficult to measure.'

'I deliberation their internals are really giving them pause,' said Hoover, who worked connected George W. Bush's 2004 re-election run and Rudy Giuliani's grounded 2008 tally for nan White House.

'They do person a batch of resources for polling - much than nationalist media companies have. And they’re astir apt seeing nan aforesaid things that you guys are talking about, which is that there’s existent groundswell successful nan early vote,' she added. 

A higher number of registered Democrats, complete 11 million, person voted truthful far, compared to 10.5 cardinal registered Republicans, according to information from 25 states that study statement registration.

Given these numbers, Hoover said Republicans are telling her location is 'concern' among Trump run operatives.

'I person heard from Republicans that location is interest astatine nan Trump run amongst nan operatives that really really do cognize nan governmental wherewithal that nan turnout and enthusiasm numbers aren’t wherever they request to be,' Hoover said.

As Election Day inches closer, now little than a week away, Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are cervix and cervix successful astir nationalist polls, and according to Hoover, nan soul polls are showing nan overmuch nan aforesaid thing.

Nearly 60 cardinal group person already voted successful nan 2024 election, including those who voted by message and in-person, according to nan latest figures from nan University of Florida's Election Lab.

That's astir 37 percent of nan full turnout successful nan 2020 election, which saw much than 158 cardinal group vote. 

CNN commentator David Axelrod, who served successful nan Obama Administration, reminded nan sheet that 'this is simply a really, really adjacent election.'

'Nobody knows what nan hell’s gonna happen,' he said. 'And we’re gonna cognize sometime adjacent week, hopefully what nan reply is.'

Polling averages from The New York Times and FiveThirtyEight person Harris up nationally by 1.4 percent points astatine most, while nan RealClearPolitics average has Trump starring by 0.4 points.

Across each 3 aggregators, nan closest plaything states are Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada.

Joe Biden won each 4 of those states successful 2020. 

Trump has a decisive lead successful betting markets, pinch 58 percent of group connected betting tract Kalshi putting their money connected nan imaginable that he'll get a 2nd term.

Tarek Mansour, CEO of Kalshi, which has go America's first ineligible online predetermination wagering platform, said it has taken successful much than $92 cardinal successful bets tied to nan 2024 race. 

'We should decidedly spot nan [wagering] markets,' Mansour told DailyMail.com this week.

Top banal marketplace investors besides look convinced that Trump will beryllium nan adjacent president.

Billionaire hedge money head Ken Griffin said that though he thinks Trump will beryllium victorious connected Tuesday, he besides believes nan separator will beryllium razor-thin.

Griffin has contributed astir $100 cardinal to nan Republican statement this predetermination cycle, Bloomberg reported.

Stan Druckenmiller, different hedge funder and laminitis of the Duquesne Family Office, said the marketplace appears 'very convinced' that nan erstwhile president will win.

Some said nan truth that nan banal for Trump's media company, Trump Media & Technology (DJT), jumped complete 22 percent aft his Sunday rally astatine Madison Square Garden was a motion that Wall Street was preparing for different Trump term.

Shares person since leveled off, dropping astir 5 percent since nan marketplace opened connected Monday morning.