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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,234 posts) Tue Jul 28, 2020, 01:49 PM Jul 2020

Trump makes false claims about his swing state polling

Less than 100 days out from the election, President Donald Trump pushed back against criticism that his handling of the coronavirus pandemic is negatively impacting his bid for a second term. At a briefing in North Carolina on Monday, Trump claimed his poll numbers were "very good," referring especially to a few battleground states.

"We're leading in North Carolina. We're leading in Pennsylvania. We're leading in Arizona," Trump said, without referring to specific polls. "We're leading nicely in Florida. I think our poll numbers are very good. We're leading substantially in Georgia."

Trump dismissed polls that have him losing in these states as fake, citing the 2016 election where many polls showed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leading in competitive states she eventually lost.

"Four years ago, I was losing everywhere. I had poll numbers where I wasn't going to win any state, and I ended up winning every one of them. You know the swing states, I wasn't going to win any of them and I won all of them," Trump said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-makes-false-claims-about-his-swing-state-polling/ar-BB17heQb?li=BB141NW3&ocid=DELLDHP

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Trump makes false claims about his swing state polling (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP

Good. I want him headed into Election Day thinking he's going to win. Bleacher Creature Jul 2020 #1

Free tip for journalists gratuitous Jul 2020 #2

Good one. Or ask him which "polls" are showing him leading. yonder Jul 2020 #6

I think his people are feeding him fake polls la-trucker Jul 2020 #3

I think that's likely. Anyone giving him the truth will feel his wrath. captain queeg Jul 2020 #5

This Is All Part Of The Set-Up ChoppinBroccoli Jul 2020 #4

Bleacher Creature

(11,257 posts)

1. Good. I want him headed into Election Day thinking he's going to win.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 02:01 PM

Jul 2020

It'll make it more painful when he loses.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

2. Free tip for journalists

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 02:02 PM

Jul 2020

When Trump says something that you know is a bald-faced lie, like "We're leading nicely" in certain states, feel free to ask, "Oh, is that like your claim that the Yankees asked you to throw out the first pitch on August 15?"

yonder

(9,678 posts)

6. Good one. Or ask him which "polls" are showing him leading.

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 02:26 PM

Jul 2020

Of course, he can't answer except for screaming "Kelly, get me those numbers."

la-trucker

(283 posts)

3. I think his people are feeding him fake polls

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 02:04 PM

Jul 2020

to keep him from a complete meltdown.

captain queeg

(10,252 posts)

5. I think that's likely. Anyone giving him the truth will feel his wrath.

Reply to la-trucker (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 02:22 PM

Jul 2020

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,784 posts)

4. This Is All Part Of The Set-Up

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 02:13 PM

Jul 2020

He's setting up his "the election was rigged" defense now. If he tells all his supporters that his own, super-accurate polls show him WAY ahead, and then he loses, they're all going to believe him when he says he wuz robbed. This is plan. He knows he can't win, so he's casting doubt on the results NOW, so that when it happens, he can claim electoral fraud and all his followers will have all the evidence they need to scream that he's right. Because he predicted it 100 days before the election. It's not possible for all his polls to say he was winning and then he lose as embarrassingly as he did, so it MUST have been rigged.

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