Rasmussen Pollster Mark Mitchell joins us to talk about the latest polling numbers, the early voting numbers, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's chances of winning the 2020 election, and much, much more. Plus, the latest from the Polyvalent Market!
00:01:06.740He's the leading head pollster for Rasmussen, the guys who get it right, nonpartisan.
00:01:12.160Mark, it's great to have you with us back on the show.
00:01:14.580So I got to tell you, I got an email from a person after I had you on the show two months ago, and she said, we have two of the nicest sets of hair she's ever seen on people.
00:01:53.700No, it's been flat in our polling, at least, a Trump plus two literally the entire time between our last interview and today.
00:02:03.940And that's a real surprise, I think, for a lot of people who may be watching mainstream media news, who's cherry picking all of these perennial left pollsters like Morning Console and Reuters Ipsos.
00:02:17.400He's getting 49 percent of the electorate now.
00:02:19.560Now, the thought that some of those people are going to change their mind or somehow peel off because of some Kamala Harris ad is really weak sauce.
00:02:28.540And what you're starting to see, again, the polls have been, like I said, pretty locked in at about a Harris plus two national popular vote win.
00:02:37.180But that's not enough to get her over the hump because we all know there's going to be left polling error, just like there was the last two cycles with Trump on the ballot.
00:02:48.760Problem is, none of the people in the media have been willing to acknowledge it until it finally came crashing down to them.
00:02:55.540And reality has been a very cruel mistress in the last week or two.
00:02:59.320A lot of people having their cognitive dissonance shoved in their face to realize that Donald Trump is probably going to be their president for the next four years.
00:03:06.820Like I've been saying literally all year.
00:03:09.220You often, for anyone who doesn't follow Mark on Twitter, Mark, what's your handle?
00:03:15.360Mark underscore R underscore Mitchell.
00:03:24.820And Mark's got all the latest on poly markets.
00:03:27.160Now, for all you out there who aren't degenerate gamblers, poly market, pretty much what it does is it lets you bet on who's going to be the next president.
00:03:35.060The odds are almost like a 60-40, if I'm not mistaken, Mark, right now in President Trump's favor.
00:03:41.640Now, I constantly see these left Marxists on Twitter going, well, the Republicans, they're manipulating the poly markets.
00:04:40.720And to be honest with you, there is some manipulation, in my opinion.
00:04:43.980I think way back when the markets were a lot shallower, some people were kind of holding the line in things like Pennsylvania, where there wasn't a lot of trading and it was a lot easier.
00:04:53.340But there are some really major whales.
00:04:56.680The thing is, is that that market is going to always be right at the end of the day.
00:05:25.260But what has been great is that the betting market has been interpreting the polls better than the media is.
00:05:31.300And so, in my opinion, for weeks, RealClearPolitics, for anybody who knows the polling is going to be there to the left, can look at those pages and say Donald Trump wins.
00:05:43.340Because every single one of the swing states has been tied or Trump leading.
00:07:00.940So the questions they were asking me, you know, it's sort of hinted to me that they're paying for this poll.
00:07:07.920And it was they wanted to know, you know, eight out of ten of the questions geared.
00:07:12.020It was, you know, a 15-minute interview.
00:07:14.100We're geared towards trying to figure out how President Trump is doing in New York.
00:07:18.540Now, President Trump comes to MSG, Madison Square Garden, where I'm a proud New York Knicks season ticket holder this Sunday, where I will see him.
00:07:27.200He's not coming here to waste his time, in my opinion, Mark.
00:07:30.080He's not coming here to make a statement, in my opinion, although Donald Trump loves to make statements.
00:07:35.100He's coming here because his polling is showing that something is going on in this deep blue state.
00:07:41.900Do you have any insight on what the hell is going on here?
00:07:56.080A lot of, like, poorly put together panels.
00:07:59.040And a lot of, quite frankly, a lot of people won't respond to live operators, honestly, especially when it's an unpopular person like Donald Trump.
00:10:02.480In your safe Dem seat, I won't run a Democrat against you and vice versa.
00:10:06.880And they make these deals so people are safe.
00:10:09.460I looked at that race of Jack Cittarelli, who had zero name recognition.
00:10:13.140And I got to be honest with you, I begged Lou to run for that seat from the day I met him because I thought he could have won.
00:10:20.000But nonetheless, you have this guy, Jack Cittarelli, nobody's ever heard of before, who comes within a few points of beating an incumbent governor in deep blue, the armpit of America, New Jersey.
00:10:34.420Sorry, I know you're a resident, but I'm from New York.
00:13:46.060Folks, as a lot of you may know, Mike Lindell and MyPillow no longer have the support of their box stores or shopping channels the way they used to.
00:13:54.620They've been part of this cancel culture, so they want to pass savings directly on to you.
00:13:58.540So they're bringing back the $25 extravaganza.
00:14:01.460When Mike started MyPillow, it was just a one problem, one solution company.
00:14:05.360Well, since then, with the help of his dedicated employees, they now have hundreds of products some of you may not even know about.
00:14:11.620To get the word out, they're having a $25 extravaganza.
00:14:15.500Two-pack multi-use MyPillows, just $25.
00:16:09.900So, as I said, I don't agree with it, Mark, but we have to deal with the hand that we are dealt.
00:16:16.600We cannot continue to let these Democrats go into these states in early vote and we don't partake in it.
00:16:22.120We cannot let them go into states like Nevada and do legal ballot harvesting and we not partake in it.
00:16:27.480I think the Republicans, and correct me if I'm wrong, are maybe doing a little bit better job this time than they did in 2020.
00:16:33.220Tell me, if you will, what your data is showing you as for early voting right now and what it means for President Trump.
00:16:40.960So, we actually, we polled on this and I'll tell you, I haven't been watching the state-by-state returns very closely because I'll tell you, there's a lot of misinformation out there.
00:16:49.720There's a lot of spin, a lot of people chewing their fingernails about stuff that, quite frankly, we just got to wait and see.
00:16:56.080I will say, I think a lot of what I see confirms my polling, which is one more validation point, including the betting markets that show that we're right.
00:17:03.180But, we did poll, thinking of the presidential election, how do you plan to vote this year?
00:17:08.320And this was done like 10 days ago, so it's already pretty stale.
00:17:12.420But, in-person election days, 45% of the electorate, 29% early in-person voting.
00:17:18.040So, it's still more election day and 23% say vote by mail.
00:17:22.140I'm pretty sure that is in line with the massive reduction in mail that we've seen since the last cycle, let's just say.
00:17:28.820But, here's the bad news for Democrats, people who say, in-person on election day, 50% of Republicans, or sorry, 50% of Trump voters, 39% of Harris voters.
00:17:42.080So, according to these national numbers, and it's a pretty big poll, Republicans are going to outperform on election day.
00:17:48.640And, I think most of the spin you see is that, well, Democrats decided not to vote in-person on this time, inexplicably, against all previous cycles worth of experience.
00:18:00.060And, that just doesn't look like it's going to be the case.
00:18:02.500And, there's still a lot of Republicans voting early in-person, 28% of them, compared to 26% of Democrats.
00:18:08.760But, Democrats, again, like always, have the edge on vote by mail.
00:18:12.300You know, the old joke, I think it used to be, for Republicans, they start out slow because they're working-class people, and they go to work that day, and the Democrats don't work.
00:18:22.680So, they go out and vote early, and the Republicans always catch up later.
00:18:25.580But, from all the numbers I'm seeing now that I monitor every single day on Twitter, the Republicans and Democrats are neck and neck with slight Republican edge in early voting.
00:18:38.100In these key states like North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Republicans, like you just said, statistically like to show up on election day and vote.
00:18:50.200So, now, when you're going into election day, Mark, and like I said, I always use the Dr. Oz example, neck and neck, maybe up a little bit or down a little bit.
00:18:59.240And, you know, your base turns out because the Trump voters, they are.
00:19:04.480They like to go out and show their pride.
00:19:05.820They pull up with their cars with the flags out, the American flags.
00:19:08.800And, you know, they like to make a showing that they're there to support the man they love so much.
00:19:14.280When you go into that, I think it's very hard to lose, as you've said.
00:19:19.600The thing that scares the shit out of me, Mark, is this.
00:19:22.660The Democrats are seeing what these numbers are now.
00:19:25.600And cheating is an issue we've seen in the 2020 election and maybe years before.
00:19:32.540Democrats see these numbers and they see where they're at and they know where they are going into election day.
00:19:38.340And it kind of scares me a little bit that they may play with maybe some mail-in ballots.
00:19:43.240You know, you've got Brad Raffensperger down in Georgia who's saying, we won't know who's won the election until Friday because we've got 25,000 or something like that.
00:26:15.760They're higher than – higher approval rating than the Supreme Court, than Congress, than the federal government, than the CIA, than the FBI, than Mitch McConnell, than Speaker Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries.
00:26:29.700Higher than literally everybody, including like Disney.
00:26:32.960Even higher than – like literally everybody's got a lower favorability rate than Donald Trump.
00:27:13.860Mark, I couldn't care less about ever meeting her.
00:27:16.880She looks like just a phony person who everything's a joke to her, brain dead, doesn't know what's going on, should never be in this job in the first place, shouldn't have had any of the prior jobs she's had, don't know how she's got them.
00:27:30.840But the woman is just very, you know, fake.
00:27:37.140And I think the voters actually see through that.
00:27:40.240And I think what we're seeing this election is people are putting their Trump derangement aside, some of them.
00:27:47.000Now, the ones who have it really bad, it's getting worse, Mark, because they're coming to reality of what's going to happen.
00:27:51.740But these people who had semi Trump derangement syndrome in 2020, I think are putting that aside and saying my life was better under President Trump.
00:28:26.940Folks, as a lot of you may know, Mike Lindell and MyPillow no longer have the support of their box stores or shopping channels the way they used to.
00:28:33.540They've been part of this cancel culture, so they want to pass savings directly on to you.
00:28:37.460So they're bringing back the $25 extravaganza.
00:28:40.220When Mike started MyPillow, it was just a one problem, one solution company.
00:28:44.300Well, since then, with the help of his dedicated employees, they now have hundreds of products some of you may not even know about.
00:28:50.540To get the word out, they're having a $25 extravaganza.
00:28:54.420Two-pack multi-use MyPillows, just $25.
00:29:44.100I think this one came from The Atlantic, The Dishonest.
00:29:47.660I wouldn't even call them a news outlet.
00:29:49.440I'd put them in the category of People Magazine, more like tabloid gossip.
00:29:53.600You know, like one of those magazines you get on the line, the checkout line at Publix or supermarkets that had, like, Michael Jackson dying for 10 years before he actually died.
00:30:47.140And I love this was a big topic of conversation today on Mark Halperin's two-way show.
00:30:52.120They pair up a Democrat with a Republican and they talk about it.
00:30:55.760But what's crazy is when two D.C. politicos are talking, they couldn't even bring themselves to acknowledge the fact that maybe Mark Kelly has some incentives to lie.
00:31:09.220But this is the same reality in which 51 former intelligence agency officials came out and absolutely lied to keep Donald Trump out of office.
00:31:27.860But ultimately, what it comes down to looking at battleground voters, are you better off than you were four years ago?
00:31:34.620Only 37 percent of battleground voters say yes.
00:31:37.440Will today's children be better off than their parents?
00:31:39.820Only 22 percent of battleground voters say yes.
00:31:42.400So I quite frankly don't think they give a crap about what Donald Trump says behind closed doors.
00:31:47.960And to be honest with you, Hitler probably did have some pretty good generals because with a pretty small population and manufacturing base, he took over a pretty good portion of Europe.
00:32:45.700It's only control reality with gaslighting.
00:32:48.680That's a perfect example of why Kamala Harris failed when she went on Fox News.
00:32:53.140I mean, listen, that could have been a success if they had planned better.
00:32:57.700The problem is, is that you could tell immediately and everybody says she's stupid.
00:33:01.340I think she's kind of smart, probably.
00:33:03.320It's just that how could she have played that?
00:33:06.120She had the wrong strategy completely.
00:33:08.600It was almost like she was wrestling to assert a different reality to Brett Baer instead of just answering the questions honestly, objectively.
00:33:17.800And that's the problem we found ourselves in.
00:33:20.640And that's why we're closer to civil war than at any point in our polling, for sure.
00:33:24.820Forty three percent of Americans nationally think a civil war or revolution is happening in the next few years.
00:33:29.760It's because objective fact has been thrown out the window for vibes and feelings.
00:33:37.440You're absolutely right about the Fox News interview.
00:33:43.220And sitting there watching him sit down and talk with Kamala Harris, it was just funny because I couldn't tell which one of them was more real than the other.
00:33:52.180Brett Baer's plastic surgery face or Kamala Harris's whole fake life that she's been living.
00:33:57.740So it was tough for me to watch the clips that I did watch.
00:34:00.720Nonetheless, I think it was probably one of Brett's best interviews he's ever done.
00:34:04.600And that says a lot because he hasn't done many.
00:34:08.280I want to turn to actually before I turn to something, you'd mentioned a John Kelly and maybe being a liar, maybe not being a liar.
00:34:15.100The problem we have with John Kelly is the same one we have with John McCain.
00:34:18.680You have to differentiate, Mark, between a military career and a political career.
00:34:23.900There are people who are in the military.
00:34:25.520Anyone who goes to serve for this country at the time is a great person and you're a hero and everything you're doing for this country, you're an absolute total hero.
00:34:34.000When you get out of the military, Mark, and you go into private sector life, it doesn't mean that you're not going to become a bad person and the vice versa.
00:34:40.500There's people who went to jail for doing horrendous things to people, have come out and found God, found Jesus, and they become different people, right?
00:36:19.860And if it's a failure of integrity, it's totally reasonable.
00:36:23.220But it's like the politicos don't want to evaluate that possibility because they're afraid it's going to get back to them at a cocktail party.
00:38:24.540I found a really good example, and there's probably a million ways that you could show this, but I just went to Google Trends and I Googled, I don't know, let's just say movie trailer.
00:38:39.320And what happened is people's interest over the last 10 years in movie trailers has gone down 70%, but podcasts have gone up like 200, 300%.
00:38:47.280That's because people want somebody they can trust, authenticity.
00:38:50.640They don't want to be lied to and slick corporate crap is not going to move the needle anymore.
00:39:46.700Nobody comes out here and tells me what to say.
00:39:49.400Lou's wife, who was very involved with the show when Lou was alive, you know, she's pretty much said to me, I trust you to make your best judgment on guests and everything you do.
00:39:58.320And I have a team of people I work with.
00:39:59.960We owe nothing to anybody and nobody comes out here and tells us what to say.
00:40:03.640And every now and then I'll have a guest on that the audience doesn't like and they don't appreciate it.
00:40:09.240I see it in the ratings for that day's show.
00:40:11.320But I move on and I think they forgive me because they come back the next day and, you know, they come back in masses and they come back with friends.
00:40:17.760So this is a very important outlet that Lou had left me.
00:40:22.820Millions of people to get the word out.
00:40:25.400And, you know, I had the opportunity when Lou passed away to go on and get out of this industry that's so damn toxic.
00:40:31.120And I said, you know, we built up an audience of millions and millions and tens of millions of people that I owe it to to finish what Lou and I had started.
00:40:40.360So that's why I come out here every day and do that for the audience.
00:40:43.260You know, just get that off of my chest.
00:41:32.560The point is, is a trend in our polling like Hillary Clinton won by 30, 40, whatever it was among the Hispanic vote.
00:41:39.920And we're talking about Trump winning them now.
00:41:42.340And this is just one more of the core demographics that Democrats have relied on, including the 18 to 39 year old vote that's just been abandoning them.
00:43:29.300The interesting thing about Joe Rogan, Mark, is that he's got an audience, an average audience on each episode of about 11, 12 million, maybe more now, maybe a little bit less.
00:43:50.100So when he goes on Joe Rogan, the haters are going to watch him.
00:43:52.780The people who love him are going to watch him.
00:43:53.900The people who are undecided are going to watch him.
00:43:55.280If it's 15 million people, if it's 20 million people listening, we got to look at numbers like Georgia.
00:44:01.840Trump lost Georgia by less than 20,000 votes.
00:44:04.940Wisconsin, Trump lost Wisconsin by about 20,000 votes.
00:44:08.400So you take these little masses out of 15 million people or 20 million people, and if he pulls over a few thousand people, Mark, if this is going to be this tight of an election, it moves the needle.
00:44:18.920I want to wrap up with the last one and perhaps the most important one that polling is still a really disappoints me for the Jewish folks and why there's not more support from them from president for president Trump.
00:46:07.040We're talking about a percent or two of the electorate.
00:46:09.620And quite frankly, the people in that group that are voting because of their cultural values, specifically Judaism, are probably pretty small.
00:46:19.720They're probably voting because of social pressure, because of pet issues, because of all their friends and family, or other reasons why normal people would vote.
00:46:29.600Which is, again, why the Hispanics are breaking Trump.
00:46:33.500Because you could say, oh, well, like, yeah, they don't want to see people crack down illegal immigrants.
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