Just 11 days before Election Day, the RealClearPolitics average of polls is showing a tie between Republican former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. Both candidates have 48.5% of the vote, according to the RCP average. The average also shows Trump leading Harris in the battleground states.The staff at RealClearPolitics selects polls they consider authoritative and calculates an average, which many use to get a general sense of election races. A tie in the polling likely means an advantage for Trump since, as many have noted, historically the Republican underperforms in polling. "If we have a polling shift like we've seen in prior years from now until the final result, Donald Trump would actually win," said CNN poll analyst Harry Enten in August, when Harris had a strong lead. The average also shows Trump leading Harris in the battleground states 48.4% to 47.5%, respectively. The RCP average has shown Harris in the lead since Aug. 4, while Trump was leading prior to that date by as much as 2 percentage points. In mid-September, Harris hit her highest lead, also about 2 percentage points. Some immediately began trying to undermine the veracity of the RCP average after it showed a tie. "Your daily reminder that RealClearPolitics is biased and distorted by including junk, partisan polls in its simple averages. Garbage in, garbage out," replied Timothy McBride, a Washington University professor. RCP also shows a slight lead for Democrats in the generic congressional campaign average, 47.2% to 47.1%. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Undecided Pennsylvania voters in a focus group said Democrats calling Donald Trump the next Adolf Hitler is not convincing them to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.Speaking with Mark Halperin, all seven participants agreed the argument that "Trump is Hitler" and a "fascist" from Democrats in the final days of the election is unproductive. Instead, they want to see more important issues addressed."To me, it's horrible that she's saying that about him. If he was saying that about her, everybody would be up in arms," a woman named Linda told Halperin."She obviously thinks it's going to help her. I don't think it does at all," another participant said. The participant claimed it would be unusual for former Chief of Staff John Kelly to make up a story of Trump praising Hitler's generals but added that Kelly "had the responsibility to resign the day that was said, if that's true. "I don't think that's the case," the participant said. 'I know President Trump, and he would never say this.'"I think part of the reason why I'm being pushed towards Trump so strongly is that I find that the Democrats and the left just keep going straight to Hitler all of the time, with everything," another man said. "If it's the left not pushing Hitler, it's the right pushing Stalin. So it's like we're fighting World War II every single day for every single election. It's so exhausting. ... It's so hyperbolic."When Halperin asked the group to raise their hands if they thought Harris' recent attacks on Trump were valuable to the discourse, no one did.Halperin admitted it was just one focus group and not a poll, but said, "You will look in vain, I believe, for anything in the media that tells you how the voters feel about this argument. I just haven't seen it anywhere else. So whose view of this argument would you most like to hear right now? I would argue undecided voters in Pennsylvania."The Trump campaign has responded to Harris' accusations with a new ad featuring a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp denouncing the comparisons.“I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes. For her to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I've ever heard in my 75 years of living in the United States. I know President Trump, and he would never say this," Jerry Wartski said.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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