# How can Donald Trump win at this point?

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**Created:** [August 6, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-donald-trump-win-at-this-point/1005351 "2024-08-06T21:13:43Z")\
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In the accompanying “newsletter,” Nate Cohn states the usual caveats that this is only one poll, yadda yadda…BUT the fact that downballot Republicans fared worse than Trump in the same polling (especially in Arizona and pre-Black-Nazi North Carolina) hints that Trump’s individual strength in these three states might be real.

> [@Donald Trump and the runup to the 2024 election](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/368):
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> New polls from The New York Times and Siena College showed Donald J. Trump ahead in Arizona [by 5%] and leading in tight races in Georgia [by 4%] and North Carolina [by 2%] “In one striking finding, nearly four years after Mr. Trump was impeached by the House for “incitement of insurrection” for his role in the rioting of Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, respondents were evenly divided over the question over whether Mr. Trump or Ms. Harris would do a better job handling democracy.” “Notably,…

> [@Aeschines](#):
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> Dunno, this continues to NOT feel like a Trump victory year for me, but YMMV!

My _feelings_ are exactly like yours on this. The question in the title of this thread doesn’t care, alas. “Teardrops, rolling down my face…”

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