Polls indicate that Trump is doing better in blue states he won't win (like NJ/NY), while the Rust Belt might have shifted more blue since 2020. That said, the polls were way off in the Rust Belt compared to other regions in 2020. They were showing Biden winning comfortably when he barely won Then the Rust Belt went more blue than expected in 2022 so it's really hard to predict. At the end of the day nobody knows if they have an accurate representative sample of actual voters until it's over.
Yep. That's another question. Trump seemed to beat his poll numbers by 3% or so the past two cycles. Will that reverse this cycle? I guess I'd put the odds over 50% that Trump beats his numbers again. And, if he does, then instead of being up roughly 1.5% in the tipping point state he may be up more like 2-4%. I kind of think Trump should be around 60%.