President Trump disputed a new Fox News poll showing him trailing presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by 8 points, calling it “fake” and criticizing the network’s polls as “among the worst.”
Trump, during a contentious interview with Fox News’s Chris Wallace that aired on “Fox News Sunday,” insisted he is “not losing” the presidential race, despite a number of recent polls showing him trailing Biden both nationally and in key battleground states.
“I’m not losing, because those are fake polls. They were fake in 2016 and now they’re even more fake. The polls were much worse in 2016,” Trump said in the interview taped on Friday, suggesting the surveys were skewed because pollsters did not interview enough Republican voters.
Trump also claimed that his campaign has internal polls showing him “leading in every swing state.”
“Whoever does your Fox polls, they’re among the worst. They got it all wrong in 2016. They’ve been wrong on every poll I’ve ever seen,” Trump continued. When Wallace tried to interject, Trump stopped him from doing so.
The president insisted that he has “always” led Biden on the economy and attacked his Democratic opponent, claiming Biden “can’t put two sentences together.”
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Trump blasts Fox News polls in Chris Wallace interview: “I'm not losing, because those are fake polls" https://t.co/E1AOAqwtF0 pic.twitter.com/xlpdtJGpfP
— The Hill (@thehill) July 19, 2020
Omg Chris is trolling the President. pic.twitter.com/QXelpXQdKS
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 19, 2020
Polls are wonderful, so long as they favor Trump. It’s only when the poll is unfavorable to Trump that it is no good, fake, biased, etc. etc.
Trump’s “internal polls” show him ahead of Biden in battleground states? Well, of course, they do. Wouldn’t want to be the Trump campaign guy who produced a poll showing Trump behind his opponent. Sure way to lose one’s job with the campaign.
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