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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jun 17, 2019, 04:18 PM Jun 2019

RNC chairwoman says 'way too early' for Republicans to focus on 2020 polling


By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 06/17/2019 02:30 PM EDT

It’s far too early to put much stock into 2020 polling, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Monday — unless you’re a Democrat.

“It’s way too early to be looking at polls. [Former Wisconsin Gov.] Scott Walker was leading heading into 2016. People come and go and they fade,” the head of the Republican National Committee said in an interview on Fox News. But, she added, “I think the Democrats should be looking at them because that gets them on the debate stage and they have to make numbers to get on the debate stage for their primary.”

McDaniel’s comment came on the heels of a number of public polls showing the president trailing in head-to-head matchups with a handful of top Democrats. Trump has also in the last week disputed weak internal polling that showed him in danger or losing in several key states, reportedly asking aides to deny that he was trailing and then letting several pollsters go when the dismal, though months-old, poll numbers leaked.

On Monday he wrote on Twitter that “only Fake Polls show us behind the Motley Crew” of Democrats, adding that “we are looking really good, but it is far too early to be focused on that.”

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RNC chairwoman says 'way too early' for Republicans to focus on 2020 polling (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2019 OP
Well, what do you expect her to say? CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2019 #1
Translation: "Wait till we gin up a phony mideast war first" Maine-i-acs Jun 2019 #2

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,297 posts)
1. Well, what do you expect her to say?
Mon Jun 17, 2019, 04:22 PM
Jun 2019

tRump is down in his internal polls, so this is the best spin one can put onto it.

Maine-i-acs

(1,496 posts)
2. Translation: "Wait till we gin up a phony mideast war first"
Mon Jun 17, 2019, 04:26 PM
Jun 2019

worked for Bushie Jr, not so well for Sr.

Ronnie Raygun did it in the Caribbean (Grenada)

effect was mixed for nixon but he had other problems...

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