National Security Minister and Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir is warning against complacency in the right-wing camp, presenting internal polling data that points to an exceptionally tight race heading into election day.
In an interview on the "Pitchi and Zimri Ba'am" program on Galei Israel radio, Ben Gvir addressed the emerging mandate map. "What I'm seeing right now, at least in my internal polls, is a tie," the minister revealed. "I think that if we give it a push and if we really get out the people who need to come out, we can win."
When host Noam Pitchi asked whether he shares the optimistic forecasts of pollster Shlomo Filber ("Are you Filber-style? Sixty-three mandates, that area?"), Ben Gvir responded with restraint: "I don't see right now what Filber sees. I conduct polls. I see sixty-sixty right now, but I assume and know that it's possible to win."
Ben Gvir clarified that the key to victory lies in turnout rates in right-wing strongholds versus the Arab sector: "If the right gets higher turnout percentages in its cities, we win. And if not, I definitely see the Arabs. This is also coming to me because they're sending [messages] about me: 'Let's bring down Ben Gvir, let's get Ben Gvir out.'"
