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This candidate's path to 270 electoral votes looking more and more promising

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in General Factchecking by Newbie (390 points)
This article from Fox News claims Donald Trump's path in this upcoming election is looking more promising every day. The article does say that this unprecedented presidential campaign remains "razor-thin". But that Trumps is running stronger than he did in his last two elections. It also claims that the most crucial factor voters are thinking about is the downward direction of the country stating that the "Failed leadership of President Biden" is to blame for this issue. The article goes on to make more claims from polling numbers like Trump's support among the Latino community is up from 28% in 2016 to 47% today but fails to give actual source's for these polls.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/candidates-path-270-electoral-votes-looking-more-more-promising

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by Novice (760 points)

I looked at this article and it was one big conglomerate of articles and I found the article it was basing this off of. You can find it here. In the article it says they got these statistics from the latest USA Today/Suffolk University poll that asked people via telephone what they're voting preference was. The statistic that Trump had support from the latino community at 28% in 2016 and now it's at 47%, the poll actually has it 49% for Trump and 38% for Harris but this is a poll done with 1,000 people so these numbers aren't the best representations of the actual voter demographic. A link to the website that discusses the poll can be found here. The statistics from the poll can be found in a PDF here. So the Fox article technically wasn't wrong on their claim but the poll itself just isn't a good representation of an entire nation. 

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