The time for choosing is tomorrow: The American people will head to the polls Tuesday to choose the next president of the United States. It has been a sprint to the finish for Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, and the former president has been on an all-out media blitz to make his closing pitch.
But these interviews have not been on news programs like “60 Minutes,” “Meet the Press,” or “Face the Nation” or conducted by corporate journalists such as Leslie Stahl, Anderson Cooper, or Lester Holt. Rather, Trump has appeared on shows called “All In,” “This Past Weekend,” “Full Send,” and “Bussin’ With The Boys.” The interviewers have been entrepreneurs, comedians, athletes—even a pro-wrestler.
Trump’s podcast appearances, mostly long-form interviews, are part of a broader media strategy by the Trump campaign that has the former president well positioned to win come Election Day. The effort is targeted at low-propensity, non-traditional Republican voters that the Trump campaign needs to turn out to the polls to carry the 2024 presidential election. And it appears that the blitz has managed to reach tens of millions of them.
Final polls have Trump and Harris neck and neck, nationally and in the seven crucial swing states needed to win the presidency. In national polling, RealClear Polling’s average has the race at virtually a dead heat with Trump up just 0.1%. Real Clear Polling’s swing state polling averages have Trump leading in Pennsylvania by 0.3%, Nevada by 1%, North Carolina by........