Trump is ‘to fire his own pollsters because he believes they leaked internal data’ showing him trailing Joe Biden by up to 17 points in key states
- President Donald Trump reportedly believes his own pollsters leaked that he’s trailing Joe Biden in polls from March 13 to March 28
- Trump is behind in Virginia by 17 points, Minnesota by 14 points, Maine by 15 points and Michigan by 13 points
- POTUS lacks in Iowa, North Carolina and Ohio which he carried in 2016 election
- Biden leads by 10-13 points in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida
- In Texas, Trump only leads by two points. Biden has 6 point lead in Georgia
- Trump called the poll fake in an interview with ABC News filmed early this week
- He said Texas, Florida and Ohio leads were big and he had ‘great internal polling’
- Trump’s campaign manager on Saturday labeled the polls ‘ancient’
President Donald Trump has reportedly planned to fire his own pollsters after it was revealed he’s trailing Joe Biden in polls.
POTUS had denied he was behind the former Vice President, who is a hopeful for the Democratic candidacy in the 2020 election, in an interview to be televised in full Sunday on ABC.
But further information obtained by NBC News showed the Republican leader fell short in 11 states in a March poll from his re-election campaign.
The news station reports that Trump believes his own campaign workers were behind the leak.
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President Donald Trump has reportedly planned to fire his own pollsters after it was revealed he’s trailing Joe Biden in polls. Trump believes his people leaked the information
POTUS lacked in Virginia by 17 points, Minnesota by 14 points, Maine by 15 points and in Michigan by 13 points
A source close to his re-election campaign didn’t elaborate on who exactly they were cutting ties with.
Trump’s pollsters found that between March 13 and March 28, POTUS lacked in Virginia by 17 points, Minnesota by 14 points, Maine by 15 points and in Michigan by 13 points.
It was noted that in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida, Biden’s 10-13 point leads fall outside of the margins of error. Trump found narrows leads against Hillary Clinton in those states during his election campaign played an important role in his ultimate victory.
In Iowa, Trump was behind by 7 points, North Carolina 8 points and Ohio by 1 point. He had carried the three states during his 2016 election campaign.
Biden was up by six points in Georgia.
In Texas, Trump only had the lead by two points. The state has not seen a Democratic winner since 1976 when Jimmy Carter was president.
In Iowa, Trump was behind by 7 points, North Carolina 8 points and Ohio by 1 point. He had carried the three states during his 2016 election campaign
In Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida, Biden’s 10-13 point leads fall outside margins of error
In Texas, Trump only had the lead by two points. The state has not seen a Democratic winner since 1976 when Jimmy Carter was president
When Trump was asked about Biden – the most promising Democrat campaigning for president – during his ABC News interview, he claimed they were ‘fake polls’.
Trump has said his team had done ‘great internal polling’ before it was reported he was to cut ties with his pollsters.
The US leader said in his chat: ‘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.’
On Saturday his campaign pollster claimed the data as ‘incomplete and misleading’.
Tony Fabrizio claimed it represented a ‘worst-case scenario in the most unfavorable turnout model possible.’
Speaking about a ‘more likely turnout model patterned after 2016’, he said Trump was leading a ‘competitive’ race with a defined Democratic candidate.
Trump told George Stephanopoulos in an interview airing Sunday that poll results were ‘fake’
Trump’s campaign manager said the numbers from two-and-a-half to three months ago were old.
‘These leaked numbers are ancient, in campaign terms, from months-old polling that began in March before two major events had occurred: the release of the summary of the Mueller report exonerating the President, and the beginning of the Democrat candidates defining themselves with their far-left policy message,’ Brad Parscale said.
Parscale claimed pollsters found ‘huge swings in the President’s favor across the 17 states we have polled, based on the policies espoused by the Democrats,’ including a ‘plan to provide free health care to illegal immigrants’. He said it had resulted in an 18-point swing toward President Trump.
Parscale added in a statement on Saturday: ‘All news about the President’s polling is completely false. The President’s new polling is extraordinary and his numbers have never been better.’
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