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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 10:54 AM Apr 2020

Trump Refuses To Believe Polls Showing Him Losing To Biden: 'Made Up Nonsense'

By Cristina Cabrera
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April 30, 2020 7:49 a.m.

President Donald Trump won’t accept the fact that Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden is beating him in the polls.

“I don’t believe the polls,” Trump said during an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. “I believe the people of this country are smart. And I don’t think that they will put a man in who’s incompetent.”

Additionally, Trump claimed that the upcoming election would not be a referendum on his response to the COVID-19 outbreak, which has come under heavy criticism as his administration struggles to help states combat medical supply shortages and other crises.

“I think it’s a referendum on a lot of things,” he told Reuters. “I think it’s going to be a referendum on all the things we’ve done and certainly this will be a part of it, but we’ve done a great job.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-refuse-believe-polls-losing-to-biden

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"And I don’t think that they will put a man in who’s incompetent.”............ tag your it for being incompetent.........we won't.............



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Trump Refuses To Believe Polls Showing Him Losing To Biden: 'Made Up Nonsense' (Original Post) turbinetree Apr 2020 OP
He believes them enough to threaten in a rage to sue his campaign manager Brad Parscale. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #1
What's different from all of the other nonsense and fantasies he already believes in now? SWBTATTReg Apr 2020 #2
Americans won't elect someone who is incompetent? Laelth Apr 2020 #3
Polls were wrong in 2016. By one percent. Cicada Apr 2020 #4

SWBTATTReg

(22,118 posts)
2. What's different from all of the other nonsense and fantasies he already believes in now?
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 11:00 AM
Apr 2020

He's an idiot, plain and simple, and needs to have his ass kicked out of office (pardon the language, pls.).

Go ahead and let him believe his fantasies. I can't wait until after the Nov. 3, 2020 elections and see his face, when he loses in a landslide. What I would give to be a fly on the walls of the WH that day, but I wouldn't be able to handle it very long, being that he's so repulsive and just plain creepy.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
4. Polls were wrong in 2016. By one percent.
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 11:15 AM
Apr 2020

The average of final polls projected Hillary would win by 3. She won by 2.

Critical State polls were off by 6 however. The median error on state polls is 6. In 2018 Siena College coordinating with the NYT new Nate, Nate Cohn replacing their old Nate, Nate Silver, was onlyoff by 3 on average. They seem to have a superior method using proprietary voter registration data from a company called Catalyst.

It’s early. Opinions on Trump seem locked in but the virus may unlock some votes. If Trump kills a kid or a spouse maybe one in a hundred Trump voters might unlock.

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