Former President Donald Trump seemed optimistic about the election after he cast his ballot.
Speaking to reporters in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday, Trump predicted, “I think we’re going to have a very big victory today.”
“I feel very confident,” Trump also said. “I have felt, you know, we went in with a very big lead today and it looks like Republicans have shown up in force. So we’ll see how it turns out.”
When asked if he has any regrets about his third campaign for president, Trump responded that “you always have regrets” but that “I can’t think of any, to be honest.”
“I ran a great campaign,” he continued. “It was maybe the best of the three. We did great in the first one. We did much better in the second one, but something happened. And this was the best, I would say this was the best campaign we ran.”
A reporter also asked Trump if he is telling his supporters “that there should be no violence.”
He responded: “I don’t have to tell them that. I don’t have to tell them that, that there’ll be no violence. Of course there will be no violence. My supporters are not violent people. I don’t have to tell them that. I certainly don’t want any violence. But I certainly don’t have to tell — these are great people. These are people that believe in no violence. Unlike your question. You believe in violence.”
Harris’ campaign has also expressed confidence. Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” “We felt very good as we closed out this election,” adding, “We’re going to be patient. … We’re going to be very focused on what’s happening in the early part of the night. But we know some of our bigger battleground states are not going to be fully tallied until later in the night or early in the morning.”
Polling guru Nate Silver’s prediction in his final posts on the 2024 election showed “the race is literally closer than a coin flip: empirically, heads wins 50.5 percent of the time, more than Harris’s 50.015 percent,” as IJR reported on.
“When I say the odds in this year’s presidential race are about as close as you can possibly get to 50/50, I’m not exaggerating,” Silver wrote.
