With just three days before the municipal election, Toronto mayoral candidate Doug Ford (open Doug Ford's policard) says his campaign’s internal polling show him in a “dead heat” with rival John Tory despite weeks of polling numbers suggesting otherwise.

“I see our internal polling numbers, it’s whoever gets their vote out is going to win this race,” Ford said Friday during a radio interview with 680 News.

“Olivia (Chow) knows the numbers, John knows the real numbers. These other numbers are fictitious.”

Pressed to elaborate, Ford said: “We’re in a dead heat. I was told by another campaign I’m one point ahead. Our numbers show us in a dead heat.”

The most recent Forum Research poll showed Tory with 43 per cent of voter support. Ford was second with 29 per cent and Olivia Chow third with 25 per cent.

Tory has led in every public opinion poll since the end of July.

But Ford said he is not persuaded pollsters are capturing true voter sentiment.

“Everywhere we’re going, there’s just massive support out there, huge support,” Ford said in a separate interview Friday morning with KISS 92.5 FM.

“We’re for the common folk. We have massive support in the ethnic community and we just relate to them.”

During the 680 interview, Ford rejected host John Stall’s suggestion that people continue to clamor to have their pictures taken with him because he and his brother, Mayor Rob Ford (open Rob Ford's policard), are “rock stars.”

“There’s a difference between taking a picture, I get that, and taking a picture and looking at you square in the eyes, passionately saying ‘I’m voting for ya, I’ve never voted before in my life, I’m voting for you, my family’s voting for you,’” Ford said.

Ford predicted he will win Monday’s election.

“It’s going to be an opportunity to embarrass the pollsters once again,” he said.

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