Washington, Oct. 28, (dpa/GNA) – US President Donald Trump on Tuesday predicted he would win the November 3 presidential election, despite polls showing him trailing Democratic rival Joe Biden.
“The Real Polls are now saying that I am WINNING! Biggest (and most exciting) Rallies EVER,” Trump tweeted, amid a flurry of posts.
The president has repeatedly decried public poll numbers as fake, after they failed to predict his 2016 win.
Campaigns generally also produce their own polling, which is not published.
At a rally in swing-state Pennsylvania on Monday, Trump again claimed surveys were pointing to his victory and that the media was suppressing this information.
A week ahead of election day, polls have Trump trailing Biden in many of the swing states that will decide the election, although the race is tighter in some areas of the country.
Trump was due to address supporters in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska on Tuesday – three states that are key to his re-election chances.
The president has continued to tout the large crowd sizes at his rallies as a sign of his impending victory.
“We are drawing tens of thousands of people. You’ll see that again today. The Great Red Wave is coming!!!” he wrote in a separate tweet, referring to the colour associated with his Republican party.
Biden was heading to campaign in Georgia, a historically Republican-voting state that is now seen as a battleground.
Nearly 67 million people have already cast ballots, using early voting options, according to data compiled by the US Elections Project.
GNA