Donald Trump quotes Daily Mail election model as he explains why world leaders are beating a path to Trump Tower
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Donald Trump knows why world leaders are pushing for meetings in Trump Tower: it’s because he is the favorite to win the November election.
And he cited the DailyMail.com/JL Partners election model, which gave him a 55 percent chance of beating Kamala Harris, who is at 45 percent, on Wednesday as evidence of his rise in the polls.
He made his comments as he ended a news conference on the ground floor of Trump Tower.
The former president announced he would meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer later in the evening and sit down with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky on Friday morning.
‘Many leaders have called me. They want to meet each other,” he said.
Former President Donald Trump spoke to reporters at Trump Tower on Thursday afternoon
“I think they see the polls. We are very seriously leading in the polls.
‘The Daily Mail just released a really big poll and we’re ten ahead.’
Essentially, our election model analyzes the latest poll numbers, along with decades of voting and economic statistics, to try to predict who has the best chance of winning the Electoral College.
Last week, Harris had advanced even slightly after a strong debate. The numbers suggested she had a 50.2 percent chance of winning.
But since then, through a series of swing state polls, Trump has regained the momentum he enjoyed earlier this year.
The race remains a close call and Harris is on track to win the popular vote.
Still, the results led some analysts to wonder whether Harris, who was catapulted into the race when President Joe Biden dropped out in July, may have already enjoyed her best weeks.
“If current trends continue (even if they have only been going on for about a week), we could see Trump taking a more concrete lead in the race in the coming weeks,” said data scientist Callum Hunter of JL Partners.
“September appears to have been Harris’s peak and trends suggest this peak has come to an end.”
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky met American leaders after a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He meets Trump on Friday
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet with Trump on Thursday evening
It means Trump is in high demand as world leaders hedge their bets and try to build relationships, or at least open lines of communication, with the man who could become the 47th president.
Dozens and dozens of presidents and prime ministers are in town for the annual UN leaders meeting, just a few blocks from Trump’s base in New York.
He was due to meet Polish President Andrzej Duda at a campaign event this weekend, but that was cancelled.
The former president hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago home in July.
And he also hosted former British Prime Minister David Cameron in April, when he was Foreign Secretary.
In addition to an opportunity to build a relationship with a possible future president, Trump is seen as a key influencer of Republican foreign policy, making him a useful stopover for visiting politicians looking to maintain or push U.S. support for Ukraine on a ceasefire in the Middle East. .