Rudy Giuliani: Donald Trump Has More 'Surprises' and Is Attracting Democrats

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is optimistic that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump can still pull off an Election Day win because polling doesn't capture the new voters he's attracting and because the campaign still has "a couple of surprises" up its sleeve.

Appearing on Fox News, Giuliani said that the crowds he has seen in recent weeks are packed with voters who might otherwise support the Democratic nominee — something he says pollsters can't measure with their outmoded models.

"First of all, you are using a 2012 model for a 2016 election, which is a totally different kind of election. So let’s even, when you count ballots, more Republicans have returned ballots than Democrats, or more Democrats have returned ballots than Republicans," Giuliani said. "But there's no way of knowing — Trump is probably not getting the traditional percentage of Republican vote. Probably getting a high percentage, 78, 80. Probably not getting 90. But he's probably doing a lot better among Democratic and independent voters than Romney did."

"He has much more of an appeal. Like a lot of those people there yesterday in Florida, I can tell," Giuliani continued. "They were blue-collar, ordinarily registered Democrat who will vote for the more conservative Republican candidate."

On Monday, Trump struck a similar tone, claiming that the media is refusing to report the truth about the state of the presidential election. He posted on Twitter: "We are winning and the press is refusing to report it."

Most respected polls have shown Trump trailing by significant numbers in recent weeks, including some that put Hillary Clinton in the lead by double-digits.

Giuliani also said on Tuesday that some of the revelations about Clinton and her team coming out of the WikiLeaks document dump are beginning to take their toll on her campaign and that the Trump camp has "a couple of surprises left" of its own.

"I call them surprises in the way that we're going to campaign to get our message out there, maybe in a little bit of a different way. You'll see," Giuliani said. "And I think it will be enormously effective. And I do think that all of these revelations about Hillary Clinton, finally, are beginning to have an impact."

In recent national polling, Clinton leads head-to-head match-ups against Trump, with the Democrat holding 48.3 percent support compared to 43.2 percent for the New York businessman, according to averages compiled by RealClear Politics.

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