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This is from an article titled
On Google news
New Poll shows RNC didnt help Trumps approval ratings
At the link
Poll: Bidens approval rating got a convention bounce. Trumps didnt.
If a spree of Sunday-morning retweets are anything to go by, however, Trump is a believer in the bounce and in the ABC/Ipsos results being an outlier. The president boosted tweets and analysis from right-wing Twitter account @PollWatch2020 more than twenty times, including polls from the Democracy Institute and the Trafalgar Group showing him winning nationally and in key swing states.
Theres plenty of reason to be doubtful of those numbers, though: The Trafalgar Group gets a C- in FiveThirtyEights pollster ratings, and the Democracy Institute isnt even listed.
Also of concern is the fact both groups numbers fly in the face of just about everything else out there in Michigan, for example, Bidens average lead stands at 7.1 percentage points, and that includes the Trafalgar poll that shows Trump winning. In fact, Trafalgar has the only FiveThirtyEight-recognized poll this month to show Trump winning by any margin in the state.
This isnt the first time Trump has rejected reality as presented by reputable pollsters:
But trying to quash polls that dont look good for your campaign isnt a great reelection strategy, especially when most of the polls are in consistent agreement. In the key swing states of Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Biden still retains a lead, one mirrored in national polls.
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/30/21407646/trump-approval-poll-rnc-abc-news-ipsos
malaise
(267,823 posts)Lock him up!
sellitman
(11,596 posts)after reading your post and go to bed happier.
RDANGELO
(3,430 posts)Trafalgar - has consistently showed Biden well below what anyone else has.
Onevoice - Same as Trafalgar. Is a fundie organization. The poll is conducted by The Heritage Foundation.
Rasmussen is Rasmussen.
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)RDANGELO
(3,430 posts)Trump is a severe case of narcissistic personality disorder; he is very susceptible to delusions. It is quite likely that he is under the delusion that he got a bounce from his convention.
justgamma
(3,660 posts)is going to tell him the truth. I swear sometimes I wonder if they are just punking him.
underpants
(182,279 posts)This is the DU thread on it.
Good article. First hand accountable sources.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213989039