Trump begins Election Day with confident predictions on Fox News

President Trump on Tuesday called into “Fox & Friends” expressing optimism on Election Day about his chances of winning another term and boasting about the size of his rally crowds.

Trump said his campaign was feeling confident about winning Texas, Florida and Arizona “very big” and predicted he would do well in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. All five states are ones that helped propel Trump to victory in 2016.

“We’re feeling very good. We have crowds like nobody has ever had before,” Trump told the hosts. “I think that translates into a lot of votes, and we’re going to see very soon.”

Asked how many electoral votes he would win, Trump said he anticipates topping 306 — the number that he received in his first run for the White House four years ago.

Trump’s confident remarks come as polls continue to show him with a narrow path to victory, trailing Democratic nominee Joe Bidennationally and in key swing states.

Democrats have an edge over Republicans going into Tuesday after weeks of early voting, and Republicans have expressed concerns particularly about Trump’s chances of winning Arizona, where Democrats for the first time outpaced Republicans in the early vote. Nearly 100 million ballots were cast before Election Day, an unprecedented early turnout.