After new polls showed Kamala Harris leading in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, the Trump campaign tried to argue that the polls were being manipulated to discourage Trump supporters.
Below are polling notes for the New York Times/Siena College poll.
The latest New York Times/Siena College battleground state polls of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin reflect the results of the 2020 presidential election between President Trump and Joe Biden. They significantly underestimate President Trump’s support in both total registered voters and voter models. In each state, the difference between the poll’s 2020 vote results and the reported 2020 election results is larger than the difference between Kamala Harris and Biden. And then there’s President Trump. Once again, we’re seeing a series of polls released with the clear intent and purpose of undermining President Trump’s approval rating.
According to the Trump campaign, the polls show It is being deliberately manipulated to undermine support for Trump.
The absurdity of this argument is that Trump’s current approval rating is much closer to where it has been for the past seven years than it was before Biden took office. Withdrew from the race.
Trump’s current approval ratings have not declined, and a compelling argument could be made that the hysteria over Biden’s debate performance has irrationally inflated his approval ratings.
Donald Trump is sinking like a stone, and his camp doesn’t want to admit that it’s because Kamala Harris is holding the Democratic coalition together and is popular, so they have to claim that the polls are rigged against them.
It’s a desperate argument from an unanswerable campaign.
