Donald Trump on Friday credited his comeback in national and state-level polls to waning levels of enthusiasm among supporters of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
“There’s no way she can beat us because her people have no enthusiasm whatsoever,” the Republican presidential nominee said during an evening campaign stop in Miami.
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“They’re not going to turn out, they don’t have enthusiasm,” he repeated. “Who could possibly have enthusiasm?”
Trump later suggested that Americans have “never had polling higher” in terms of enthusiasm for a candidate than they have for him, though surveys have consistently shown both Trump and Clinton receiving historically low popularity ratings among voters.
Trump pulled ahead of Clinton in two national polls released this week by Fox News and the Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California. Still, he remains 1.5 percentage points behind the former secretary of state in the RealClearPolitics national polling average.
