Last updated on July 18th, 2023 at 12:10 pm
Trump claimed that Fox News is trying to suppress the Republican vote with a series of polls showing him losing to Joe Biden.
Trump tweeted:
.@FoxNews Polls are, as in the past, Fake News. They have been from the beginning, way off in 2016. Get a new pollster. I believe we are leading BIG!
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2020
Do you notice that any time Fake News Suppression Polls are put out, like @FoxNews, the Stock Market goes DOWN. We are going to WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2020
Trump is falling apart a new series of swing state polls from Fox News that show Trump losing across the board. No matter how one feels about Fox News’s programming, their polling arm is bipartisan and highly respected. Trump called the polls fake, but he couldn’t offer any data to back up his claim, just his opinion that he thinks he is going to win big.
The polling across the board is making it obvious that Trump’s pivot to “law and order” isn’t working. Voters aren’t buying Trump as someone who can keep them safe.
The clear consensus from polling across the board is that Democrats have the momentum, and Biden is leading. By this point in 2016, polls started to show Trump with momentum. The opposite appears to be happening in 2020. The margins will change. The election will get closer.
Trump wanted propaganda from Fox News. Instead, he got the cold hard reality that he could be on his way to being a one-term president.
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