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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump fires his pollsters after campaign leaks show him losing in 11 battleground states [View all]
Source: raw story
on June 16, 2019
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NBC reported on Sunday that the firings came after someone leaked polls that indicated Trump is losing to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in 11 battleground states
A separate person close to the Trump re-election team told NBC News Saturday that the campaign will be cutting ties with some of its pollsters in response to the information leaks, although the person did not elaborate as to which pollsters would be let go, the report said.................................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/trump-fires-his-pollsters-after-campaign-leaks-show-him-losing-in-11-battleground-states/
ah. Trumpy is having another sad.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/trump-campaign-cutting-ties-pollsters-after-internal-numbers-leaked-n1017991
....................In Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan three states where Trump edged Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by narrow margins that proved decisive in his victory Trump trails Biden by double-digits. In three of those states Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida Bidens leads sit outside the polls margin of error.
Trump is also behind the former vice president in Iowa by 7 points, in North Carolina by 8 points, in Virginia by 17 points, in Ohio by 1 point, in Georgia by 6 points, in Minnesota by 14 points, and in Maine by 15 points.
In Texas, where a Democratic presidential nominee hasnt won since President Jimmy Carter in 1976, Trump leads by just 2 points..................................
The president denied the existence of any negative polling during comments last week in the Oval Office, saying his campaign has great internal polling and saying the numbers reported were from fake polls.
We are winning in every single state that we've polled. We're winning in Texas very big. We're winning in Ohio very big. We're winning in Florida very big, he said.
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Trump fires his pollsters after campaign leaks show him losing in 11 battleground states [View all]
riversedge
Jun 2019
OP
Though shooting the messenger on 5th Ave. wouldn't turn his base against him.
forgotmylogin
Jun 2019
#15
He'll find some phony pollster who'll give him the numbers he wants.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2019
#4
awesome news, I want his pollsters to lie to him about how bad he is doing
beachbum bob
Jun 2019
#19