Sen. J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, believes America will know the result of the 2024 election on Tuesday night as momentum shifts toward the Republican ticket
‘My strong guess is that we’re in a good spot, that we’re going to win,’ he told DailyMail.com aboard his jet as flew between campaign stops.
‘I think that we’ll know by Tuesday night. Maybe I’m wrong about that, but you never really know until you know.’
With the race between Trump and Harris still razor-thin, pollsters have indicated that a final result could take days – or even weeks – to tally.
If any of the seven battlegrounds are close, counting mail-in ballots could drag on well into November 6 and beyond. In 2020, the race was officially called for Joe Biden four days later.
And although Trump is only up over Harris by 0.1 percent nationally according to polling averages, he has captured a strong 12-point lead in the betting markets, giving him momentum going into Election Day.
Vance is on a four-state swing as he tries to close out the 2024 race by persuading voters to get out on Election Day.
His first stop was Wisconsin, before Michigan and then Georgia and Pennsylvania later in the day as the campaign uses his blue-collar credentials in the states where they believe he can make a difference.
Last week, the final DailyMail.com/J.L.Partners poll showed the Trump/Vance ticket with a three-point lead over Harris/Walz.
Vance sat beside his wife Usha at the front of the campaign’s chartered 737 on the final day of the race.
He said he was skeptical about other polls that showed Harris momentum.
‘I think if you look at the early numbers, our base is very enthused,’ he said. ‘Theirs is not.’
And he said the ups and downs of recent American political life meant that polling was
‘I don’t think pollsters actually know how to poll the American electorate. It’s not even criticism,’ he said.
‘I don’t know that it’s possible to poll the American electorate anymore. I think, you know, polling is more like election forecasting than real polling.’
He also had fun on his final day, stopping at the ‘world’s biggest six’ pack, outside a brewery in La Crosse, Wisconsin, to pick up some beer. He recorded a video promising to ‘make six packs great again.’
And onboard he joked with staff about an aide who won a cool $8,000 on the slots during a campaign stop in Las Vegas.
On stage he is all business. The campaign’s closing message is that Kamala Harris broke it; Donald Trump will fix it.
‘To try to just, you know, hammer home the idea that Americans don’t have to live under such financial duress,’ he said, unpicking that message
‘We don’t have to have an economy that makes people like to feel like they can’t afford the basic necessities.
‘And that’s pretty much, I think that’s that’s the thing that I think people care most about.’
