In response to discouraging polls, Trump concocts conspiracy theory
No doubt Trumps fans will ignore these polls anyway.
Trump tells supporters to ignore polls that say he's losing
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/politics/trump-2020-kickoff-pollster-firing/index.html
Updated 9:41 AM ET, Mon June 17, 2019
(CNN)President Donald Trump is charging into his re-election launch week by warning his supporters that polls, including by his own campaign, showing him trailing Democratic front-runner Joe Biden are not real.
Trump hit back Monday after his team fired several pollsters whose early swing state surveys angered the President when they showed him lagging behind in states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that paved his way to the White House.
The controversy threatened to detract from Trump's big launch rally in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday night meant to make a big splash for a re-election campaign that in reality has been in full gear ever since he took office.
In a Monday morning tweet, the President warned his followers not to believe any polling that showed him trailing Democrats.
"Only Fake Polls show us behind the Motley Crew. We are looking really good, but it is far too early to be focused on that. Much work to do! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump wrote.................
In response to discouraging polls, Trump concocts conspiracy theory
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/response-discouraging-polls-trump-concocts-conspiracy-theory
06/12/19 10:40 AM—Updated 06/12/19 10:50 AM
By Steve Benen
It’s hard to blame Donald Trump for feeling discouraged by the latest 2020 polls. The president is struggling in battleground states; his internal polls are reportedly “devastating”; and the latest national polls suggest, at least for now, that the Republican is likely to lose next year.
Indeed, a Quinnipiac poll released yesterday afternoon showed Trump trailing six leading Democratic contenders in hypothetical general election match-ups, with former Vice President Joe Biden leading the incumbent by 13 points.
Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said, “It’s a long 17 months to Election Day, but Joe Biden is ahead by landslide proportions.”
During a brief Q&A with reporters at the White House yesterday, Trump suggested that polls he doesn’t like should be seen as “fake.” On Twitter this morning, the president elaborated on the subject.
“The Fake News has never been more dishonest than it is today. Thank goodness we can fight back on Social Media. Their new weapon of choice is Fake Polling, sometimes referred to as Suppression Polls (they suppress the numbers). Had it in 2016, but this is worse.
“The Fake (Corrupt) News Media said they had a leak into polling done by my campaign which, by the way and despite the phony and never ending Witch Hunt, are the best numbers WE have ever had. They reported Fake numbers that they made up & don’t even exist. WE WILL WIN AGAIN!”
If you saw this on Twitter and the missives disappeared soon after, it’s because Trump originally misspelled “their.” He deleted the original tweets and then republished them soon after without the typo...............................................
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