Trump official on turnout: ‘It’s like predicting your wife’s mood’

by Rebecca Savransky - 11/07/16 8:53 AM ET

Donald Trump’s digital director said he can’t know for sure how the GOP presidential nominee will do with voters in the battleground state of Florida, and compared the voter turnout in the state to his “wife’s mood.”

{mosads}”It will be close,” digital director Brad Parscale told Bloomberg News.

“It’s like predicting your wife’s mood. You have no idea what you’re going to get until you get home.”

Some took to Twitter to criticize the comment, including an aide to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

They talk this way on the record. Imagine how they talk off the record. https://t.co/WwU3EcUk1p

— Teddy Goff (@teddygoff) November 7, 2016

Parscale also told Bloomberg that Miami-Dade County in Florida is “the most important designated market area” for the Trump campaign.

“When I speak of importance,” Parscale said, “I am stating that we have large numbers of persuadable” voters there.

A study of Miami-Dade’s early voters conducted for Bloomberg Businessweek show that Clinton will benefit from an increase in Hispanic voters in the state.

Among early voters in the state, 58 percent were Hispanic, 17 percent African-American and 20 percent white, according to Bloomberg.

Among the late registrants, 41 percent are Democrats, 44 percent are unaffiliated and only 12.5 percent are Republicans.

The small number of Republicans relative to Democrats and independents is raising eyebrows.

“That’s nuts,” University of Florida political scientist Daniel A. Smith said. “These are the barometers that indicate the hostility toward the GOP candidate.”

According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls in Florida, Clinton has a narrow 1-point lead in the state, 47 percent to 46 percent, with just one day before the election.

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