Trump team bullish about 2024 election victory as early votes roll in: Things look pretty good

Donald Trump’s campaign has expressed cautious optimism about the Republican nominee’s chances of becoming the 47th president, with early voting numbers indicating the former chief executive is on course to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris.While officials have insisted that “anything can happen” and that it is “too early to declare victory,” the initial returns from key states look better for the 78-year-old than both the 2016 and 2020 elections.“Overall, both nationally and in battleground states, we are seeing strong returns for Republicans so far,” a Trump campaign adviser said on a surrogate call Wednesday.“From where we’re sitting right now, things look pretty good.

Encouraging signs across the board.The voter registration gains in all the partisan registration states have been tremendously in our favor.”As of Monday, the number of Republican-registered early voters in the swing states of Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada and Pennsylvania were up double-digits from 2020, the Trump team said.Meanwhile, the number of returned mail-in ballots are down “quite substantially” from 2020 in Pennsylvania, as well as 79% in Georgia and 25% in Michigan — a possible sign that Democrats, the main practitioners of mail-in voting, are not turning out for Harris the way they did for Joe Biden four years ago.

Republicans are also seeing “sustained overperformance” in Virginia and Ohio, the Trump adviser said.“It’s certainly too early to begin declaring victory,” they cautioned, “but it is certainty worth pointing out that our share of the early vote is turning in the right direction.” The campaign’s mood has been helped by national polls from the Wall Street Journal and CNBC, both of which show Trump ahead of Harris in the national popular vote — which has not been won by a Republican in 20 years.Despite the good vibes, Trump has urged his supporters to turn out early and in record numbers so that the election is “too big to r...