Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:07 pm
Donald Trump is throwing a Twitter fit, and claiming that the polls are biased against him after a new poll showed him getting smoked by Hillary Clinton.
Trump tweeted:
The @ABC poll sample is heavy on Democrats. Very dishonest – why would they do that? Other polls good!
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2016
Trump also whined that he is the real change agent in this election:
Hillary Clinton is not a change agent, just the same old status quo! She is spending a fortune, I am spending very little. Close in polls!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2016
Trump also managed to confuse predicting election results with having actual policies:
Crooked Hillary Clinton got Brexit wrong. I said LEAVE will win. She has no sense of markets and such bad judgement. Only a question of time
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2016
There is nothing in ABC News/Washington Post polls methodology to suggest that it was tilted towards Democrats. The pollster said that the increase in Democrats polled was statistically insignificant. In fact, the ABC News poll uses one of the most sophisticated methodologies in national polling. It is hilarious that a candidate who spent much of the primary tweeting the results of unscientific online polls now believes that professional polling is rigged against him.
Trump believes in unscientific polls because they show him winning:
#CNNDebate pic.twitter.com/X4m9WfewX2
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2015
Donald Trump knows as much about polling as he does about the Constitution, which is nothing. Interestingly, the other poll that was released today that showed Trump losing by 5 points, the Republican nominee characterized as fair.
There is nothing in the results of the ABC News poll that showed Trump’s support with Republicans dropping by eight points from 85% to 77% and his support declining with white voters by four points that would indicate bias.
The Trump campaign has no in-house data operation, so the candidate has nothing to compare the results to. Trump has expressed his belief in the past that all the polls that show him losing are fake. The problem is that he is losing in every single poll.
Trump’s tantrums are absurd. The poor little rich boy is losing so he complains that the game is rigged.
Donald Trump is losing because he is a loser, and no amount of whining on Twitter will make the pollsters cook the polls in his favor.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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