Bizarre arguments and bad poll numbers
By
Aaron Blake
June 15, 2020 at 9:20 a.m. EDT
... Trumps campaign and its allies have been trying to combat the notion that his poll numbers are in the tank ...
... the head of Trumps favorite cable network, One America News Network, previewed a coming poll that he said looks as though it will be in favor of Trump. Except it wasnt not really. That poll from another highly suspect pollster showed a 50-50 dead heat in Florida, which Trump won in 2016. Despite OANNs best efforts to spin the results in a pro-Trump direction, it soon pulled the poll entirely. (The poll somehow now appears on its website with different numbers than originally reported a six-point Trump lead) ...
Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis ... tweeted a new poll from Arkansas that she suggested was a counterpoint to all the other polls. Except the poll showed a near dead heat in the deep-red state a state Trump carried by a cool 27 points in 2016 ...
Ellis ... soon came back with a different defense: That she had tweeted the wrong poll ... This time she tweeted the same message on a poll written up by the Washington Examiner ... Except the poll she tweeted wasnt even a presidential preference poll. Instead, it was a poll of who people thought would win the presidential race ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/15/trumps-lawyer-offers-bizarre-arguments-cast-doubt-his-bad-polls/