With the election so close, is the media realizing it’s time to dial back their “Biden landslide” mirage?
According to a survey released this week, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania has all but vanished, placing him at a statistical tie with President Donald Trump.
Published just two weeks out from Election Day, the Restoration PAC/Trafalgar Group poll, taken October 13-15 among 1,041 likely voters, showed the president closing the gap with his challenger. Per the poll’s results, Biden leads the president in the Keystone State by just 1.1 percentage point — 47.5 percent to the president’s 46.4 percent.
That lead falls within the survey’s margin of error, which is +/- 2.96 percent.
“The poll included only one day of the existence of explosive new emails showing Hunter Biden cashing in big from foreign sources during his father’s tenure as Vice President,” according to the press release.
In a statement, Restoration PAC founder and President Doug Truax said, “It looks like the race is essentially tied across the important upper Midwestern swing states.” He added, “We believe President Trump has the stronger message down the stretch that will tip the balance his way.”
The conservative super PAC hired Trafalgar Group in the last stretch of the election “to complete polling through the November election in the crucial swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.”
Tom Bevan, president and co-founder of RealClearPolitics (RCP), has called the Trafalgar Group “one of the most accurate polling operations in America” after it successfully predicted the results of both the 2016 and 2018 elections.
The Trafalgar Group showed Biden leading Trump by 2.3 last week, meaning the poll has tightened. Other recent surveys, such as an Insider Advantage/Center for American Greatness from last week, also show the two candidates statistically tied in Pennsylvania.
President Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 by 44,292 votes, a difference of 0.72 percent — even though the final RCP average showed Hillary Clinton up by 2.1 percent.
With 20 electoral votes, holding Pennsylvania is important for the president’s reelection, as is winning again in the states of Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Democrats understand the need to flip the state on Biden’s behalf, making the Keystone State a key battleground in the 2020 race.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court left intact an extended mail-in ballot deadline in Pennsylvania, handing Republicans a major defeat.
The state’s Republicans had asked the justices to review a State Supreme Court ruling that requires election officials to accept ballots postmarked by Election Day so long as they arrive within three days.
The ruling was seen as a win for Democrats because Democrats are considered more likely than Republicans to vote by mail.
The Supreme Court’s four conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh — would have halted the state supreme court’s ruling from taking effect. The Democrat-favorable decision was thus saved thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts, who sided with the three liberal justices to create a 4-4 tie that left it in place.
This is far from the first time Roberts has sided with the court’s liberal justices to deliver a blow to conservatives in crucial cases. Back in June, Roberts handed the Left a victory by siding with the court’s more liberal justices in shooting down a Louisiana law that restricted abortion by requiring that abortion providers have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
Also in June, Roberts, along with Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch, sided with liberals to rule that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected homosexual and transgender workers form “discrimination” in the workplace.
In the dissenting opinion for that case, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, “There is only one word for what the Court has done today: legislation. The document that the Court releases is in the form of a judicial opinion interpreting a statute, but that is deceptive.”
Days later, Roberts again sided with liberals to rule against President Trump’s bid to end Barack Obama’s unconstitutional DACA program, which offers legal protections to illegal aliens who came to the country as minors.
It was also famously Roberts who saved ObamaCare in a 2012 Supreme Court case that looked at the law’s constitutionality.
President Trump and Senate Republicans must fill the current Supreme Court vacancy as soon as possible. A constitutionalist is needed to not only counteract the three hard-left Marxists, but also Roberts, the wolf in sheeps’ clothing who increasingly is parting ways with his disguise.
