NEW YORK (PNN) - October 13, 2024 - Are we witnessing a surge in the polls that will ultimately decide this election?  At this time in 2016, Hillary Clinton had an enormous lead over Donald Trump, but over the last several weeks of the campaign the polls dramatically tightened.  The more that the Amerikan people saw Donald Trump, the more they liked him; and the more that the Amerikan people saw Hillary Clinton, the less they liked her.  It appears that a very similar thing is happening now.  Donald Trump has always been a star, and his massive rallies are an incredibly powerful campaigning tool.  No matter how much money Kamala Harris spends, she can’t recreate the same kind of emotional energy that Trump generates, because Kamala Harris is not a star.  She simply does not have the ability to move people emotionally the way that Trump does, and it was an enormous mistake for the Democrats to choose her as the nominee.

A new NBC News national poll shows the momentum that Trump has been able to create in recent weeks.

September’s NBC News national poll had Harris up by five points, but now in the latest poll the two candidates are tied.

In the new poll - which was conducted Oct. 4-8 - Harris gets support from 48% of registered voters in a head-to-head matchup, while Trump gets an identical 48%. Another 4% say they are undecided or wouldn’t vote for either option when forced to choose between those two major-Party candidates.

When third-party candidates are included, that same poll shows that Trump is leading.

An expanded ballot including third-Party candidates also shows this shift, with 47% of registered voters in the new poll picking Trump, 46% supporting Harris, and a combined 7% picking other candidates or saying they’re undecided.

In September, however, Harris held a 6-point lead on this expanded ballot.

Mainstream media kept telling us that this was a “static” race, but these numbers tell an entirely different story.

During a segment discussing this new poll, Steve Kornacki explained that Donald Trump’s favorability rating is rising and meanwhile the opposite is true for Kamala Harris.

Of course, this isn’t the only poll that shows Trump building momentum.

Journalist Mark Halperin says that private polling on both sides shows that the numbers are definitely moving in Trump’s favor.

“When I’ve reported over the last several days about private polling” that is favorable to Trump, says @MarkHalperin, “that is not Republican-only private polling. It’s reflected in the Democrat private polling, too. In fact, I think if you’d ask the Harris campaign about their polling, you’d hear a similar story. This is not spin by Republicans about secret or fake polls. This is what is happening in the data, and as we’ve said repeatedly, the public and private data differ. The public data is cheap and has issues in almost every case. It’s just the nature of the beast now for academic and media organizations, not every one, but most.”

This certainly does not mean that Trump has the election won.  So much could still happen between now and November.

In fact, some very disturbing allegations about Tim Walz are being released as I write this article.

But right now the big online betting markets seem to think that President Donald J. Trump is going to win.

President Trump is currently leading Communist pretend Vice President Kamala Harris by 10 points on the Polymarket prediction platform - a sharp reversal over betting odds in September.

According to the latest Polymarket data, Trump currently has a 55% chance of securing the Oval Office in November compared to Harris’ 45% chance.

The president also reversed Harris’ lead in 4 of 6 swing states and now leads in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania - with Arizona and Georgia representing the GOP candidate’s widest margins of victory.

About a month ago, Democrats were feeling very confident; but now, they are clearly in panic mode.

Of course, that has not stopped both political Parties from doing what they always do. In Democrats’ case, this appears to be the week when their traditional preelection panic has set in. Strategists are now warning that Harris has “plateaued,” that she “needs to be more aggressive,” and that she has to reinvent herself as a centrist to “seal the deal.” In recent days, I’ve read articles dissecting her challenges with male voters, black male voters, Arab voters, Latino voters, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin voters.  She also, apparently, has a Biden problem and a hurricane problem.

Harris just isn’t very inspiring, and many people find her to be extremely annoying.

These flaws torpedoed her run for the presidency in 2020, and they are likely to be fatal this time around, too.

If you want to run for president and win, you need to be a star.  It really is that simple.

The reason why President Trump draws such large crowds to his rallies is because millions upon millions of Amerikans absolutely adore him.