----- Poll's -----

Dems today 16
Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus

Warren 23,
Biden 23,
Buttigieg 16,
Sanders 13,
--- others;
Harris 2,
Booker 3,
Yang 5,
Steyer 2,
Klobuchar 1,
Bullock 4,
Gabbard 2,
O'Rourke 0,
Bennet 1

Polls mean zip. They all said Clinton was winning last time, and they were all wrong.

Sara wrote:

Polls mean zip. They all said Clinton was winning last time, and they were all wrong.

Not exactly right.
She Did Win by 3 Million Votes..
and ^^ that is the largest outrageous margin ever.

it was the tricky numbers of the 4? states that gave the electoral vote that got trump in.

Well, that's another story altogether....but I still don't trust the polls! First of all, right now there are way too many people still on the debate stage. It's as bad as, or worse than, what the Republican party did last time. Let it narrow down and see who's really in the game. The race doesn't shape up until the horses get into the far turn!

Soon, it will be 4 ..
Warren
Biden
Buttigieg
Sanders
the others need to back out.
it's simply nonsense for the others to hang in when there is zero hope for them.

Fox News Poll March 21-24, 2020 by Fox News on Scribd

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-march-21-24-2020

Who Are the Voters Behind Trump's Higher Approval Rating?
Trip Gabriel and Lisa Lerer, The New York Times • April 1, 2020

Justin Penn, a Pittsburgh voter who calls himself politically independent, favored Joe Biden in a matchup with President Donald Trump until recently. But the president’s performance during the coronavirus outbreak has Penn reconsidering.

“I think he’s handled it pretty well,” he said of the president, whose daily White House appearances Penn catches on Facebook after returning from his job as a bank security guard. “I think he’s tried to keep people calm,” he said. “I know some people don’t think he’s taking it seriously, but I think he’s doing the best with the information he had.”

Although Penn, 40, said he did not vote for Trump, his opinion of the president has improved recently and he very well might back him for a second term.

Across the country, the coronavirus has sickened more than 150,000 people, cost millions their jobs and tanked the stock market. Yet the president’s approval ratings are as high as they have ever been, despite what most agree to be his slow performance dealing with the crisis, as well as his record of falsehoods about the virus, his propensity to push ideas and treatments that contradict expert advice, and his habit of lashing out at governors on the front lines.

While public perceptions are fluid in a crisis, a notable twist in polling at this point is that independents are driving Trump’s bump in approval, and some increased Democratic support is a factor as well. Gallup called that “highly unusual for Trump” in reporting its latest survey, which was released last week and showed Trump’s approval rating at 49%, equal to the best of his presidency.

While Republicans’ views of Trump were flat — a sign they had already topped out — approval by independents rose by 8 percentage points from early March, while Democratic approval was up by 6 percentage points.

Polling experts said that it was normal for the country to rally around a president during a national crisis, and that Trump’s dominance of the airwaves alone was enough to sway a slice of voters who don’t normally tune in to politics.

“There are people who haven’t even heard Trump that much, while the rest of us have been obsessed,” said Matt Grossmann, director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University. “Those people are paying attention and seeing Trump a lot.”

Every modern president has seen their approval surge after significant national crises, although those bumps have diminished in size in recent administrations, as the country’s politics became more polarized. President Barack Obama gained just 7 points after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. The rally-round-the-flag effect is also often fleeting. President Jimmy Carter’s approval nearly doubled in 1979 when Iran seized American hostages, but as the crisis dragged on for more than a year, Carter’s approval plummeted and he lost reelection.

Interviews with about two dozen independent and Democratic voters, most of whom said they “somewhat disapproved” of Trump in a poll last year by The New York Times and Siena College, showed that some now expressed more positive views of him. Their numbers were small, consistent with what pollsters say is by historical standards a modest bump in approval for a commander-in-chief during an emergency.

Kathleen Mathien, an independent in Maricopa County, Arizona, said that she did not vote for Trump, but that her opinion of him had risen during his White House appearances to talk about the virus.

“He’s not one to be bullied,” she said, adding that she also saw flashes of empathy, a trait many critics find lacking in Trump.

Mathien, 64, a designer of cabinetry, explained that she doesn’t closely follow politics and finds it difficult to get a true understanding of candidates beyond the “smoke and mirrors” they project. “It’s so hard sometimes to vote if you don’t know who the real person is,” she said. Undecided as of now, she said Trump has a chance to win her vote.

Last week, a Monmouth University poll showed the president’s overall approval at 46%, an improvement driven in part by higher Democratic support. Patrick Murray, director of the university’s Polling Institute, called the shift by some Democrats “microscopic in polling terms.”

“Any other president and we would expect those job ratings to swing by more than 10 points because of the situation,” Murray said.

Trump’s ratings lag far behind many of the nation’s governors, who have seen a sharp increase in their approval ratings as they rush to contain the virus. Unlike Trump’s, their approval ratings do not show the same level of partisan divide.

More than 7 in 10 voters in states with a significant number of coronavirus cases gave their governor a positive review in the Monmouth survey. Even in states with the fewest reported cases, 61% of Americans said their governor was doing a good job.

Still, small shifts in Trump’s approval could make a difference in a close-fought general election. A Washington Post/ABC poll this past weekend showed Trump improving on a 7-point deficit against Biden a month ago to reach a near tie with the former vice president, 49% to 47%.

“President Trump has broken through the narrow range of 42 to 46% approval where he’s been for the last two years and indeed for much of his presidency,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “It’s an open question whether those people who are changing now would actually vote in a different way in November. Some of the independents may. I doubt that many of the Democrats will.”

Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, said, “I would be a little careful in whether it translates into something permanent,” adding, “The challenge for Trump is that he’s inconsistent.”

Robert Taylor, 31, a computer programmer in York County, Pennsylvania, wants Sen. Bernie Sanders to be the Democratic nominee and is unsure if he will vote for Biden in a contest against the president.

“I’m not one of those people who hate Trump and thinks everything he’s done is wrong,” he said. He could vote for Trump if the president successfully leads the country through the coronavirus crisis, Taylor said. “We’ll see how he handles everything from here on out.”

Two months ago, Neil Ferguson of Earling, Iowa, stood in a corner for Sen. Amy Klobuchar at Iowa’s Democratic caucuses. But he is displeased today by Democrats criticizing Trump’s leadership and wants the country to rally around the president at a time of national emergency.

“At some point we’ve got to get behind this together,” he said. “Every step of the way he’s criticized,” he said of the president. “I know a lot of voters out here that say yeah, had they given the guy a chance, maybe things would have been a lot better.”

Ferguson, 67, who is retired from the military, regularly watches the White House briefings, and though he sometimes winces over the president’s rambling delivery, he is impressed with Vice President Mike Pence and with Trump’s responses to reporters.

“When he gets to the question-and-answer period, he is pretty point-on,” he said. Four years ago Ferguson voted for a third-party candidate, but this year he has decided to vote for the president.

Among voters already supportive of Trump, recent polling shows their enthusiasm to support him in November is running well ahead of the enthusiasm of Biden backers. Janice Friedel, a professor in Des Moines, Iowa, and a Democrat, liked Trump before the virus hit, and now her support has grown stronger.

“I thought President Trump was doing OK, but this really has brought out his strong leadership, his ability to bring people together across the aisle,” she said. “I am a Democrat, but I am going to vote for him. I don’t see leadership on the Democratic side. But I certainly will vote for Trump.”

There are some Democrats and independents who were initially inclined to give the president the benefit of the doubt over the coronavirus, but have since concluded that he is failing.

“In the beginning, when he went on TV he sounded very presidential, sounded like he wanted to get in front of this,” said Francis Newberg of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. “I told my wife, ‘Listen to this guy, he sounds real.’”

But Newberg’s opinion swiftly went downhill as he watched the president attack Democratic governors and say that “everything is fine.”

“It’s not fine,” said Newberg, who lives with his wife outside Philadelphia in a community for residents over 62. Its three restaurants have closed and staff members now deliver three days of groceries at a time to residents.

“We had our first case of coronavirus diagnosed in our community,” said Newberg, who retired from a phone company. “There’s 1,800 of us. If it breaks out in here, there’s going to be a lot of boxes outside.”

In Florida, Jason Berger, an independent voter, told the Times/Siena poll last year that he strongly approved of the president. But Berger, a pharmacy technician, had an about-face as he watched Trump’s handling of the outbreak.

“The biggest pivot point for me was when he mentioned the cruise liner which held Americans, which he didn’t want to dock in California because he didn’t want the numbers to go up,” Berger said, referring to the Grand Princess cruise ship, which was held offshore with 21 infected people aboard in early March. “I found that extremely insulting. Those were Americans and they were sick.”

Four years ago, Berger, 46, did not vote in the presidential election, deciding to leave the outcome to voters who were more tuned in than he was at the time. He now regrets that decision. “I take full responsibility,” he said. He does not intend to sit out another race and will vote for the Democratic nominee in November.

“We need the government to take care of us in a crisis situation,” he said.

With 2020 race all but halted over coronavirus, Biden quietly widens lead over Trump
By Chris Kahn ,Reuters • March 31, 2020

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden has quietly expanded his lead over President Donald Trump among registered voters, even as the rapidly spreading coronavirus has all but sidelined the former vice president's campaign, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday.

The poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday of more than 1,100 American adults found that 46% of registered voters said they would support Biden if he were running against Trump in the Nov. 3 election, while 40% said they would vote for Trump.

That advantage of 6 percentage points was up from a 1-point lead for Biden recorded in a similar poll that ran from March 6 to 9.

The result suggested that Biden had not been hurt politically from his lack of visibility while the Republican president is at the center of a government response to a pandemic that has infected more than 184,000 people in the United States and killed more than 3,700 people.

Biden, who does not currently hold office, has been struggling to stay in the public eye as the coronavirus forced millions of Americans inside their homes. While Trump has held daily televised briefings about the virus, Biden has had to shut down fundraisers and other campaign events, and election officials in many states have postponed their nominating contests.

Still, the poll found that the number of people who approve of Trump in general, and also those who like the way he has handled the U.S. coronavirus response, had changed very little over the past few weeks. About 44% said they approved of Trump's overall performance and 48% said they liked the way he had responded to the coronavirus outbreak.

That compared with a 70% approval rating among respondents for their state governors' handling of the pandemic.

Trump initially underplayed the severity of the coronavirus,

sparred with governors over their requests for medical supplies and floated the idea of reopening the economy against the advice of public health officials. But he shifted course to back extending the shutdown measures to slow the spread of the virus.

The poll showed that the coronavirus had rattled the entire country, with 89% saying they were "very" or "somewhat" concerned by the respiratory disease.

Twenty-six percent of adults in the United States said they had lost their jobs or been furloughed as stores closed and employers were forced to cut back on staffing because of guidance from health officials for people to stay at home. That was up 3 percentage points from a similar poll that ran last week.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online, in English, throughout the United States. It gathered responses from 1,114 adults and had a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of about 3 percentage points.

TRUMP JOB PERFORMANCE
Average approval: 48.4 percent
Average disapproval: 47.8 percent
Net Score: 0.6 percent
Change from one week ago: ↑ 1.4 points

Average includes:
Grinnell/Selzer: 48% approve - 48% disapprove;
ABC News/WaPo: 49% approve - 47% disapprove;
Fox News: 48% approve - 51% disapprove;
Gallup: 49% approve - 45% disapprove;
Monmouth University: 48% approve - 48% disapprove.

Biden and Trump now tied in race for White House
By Dana Blanton | Fox News

Joe Biden’s recent nine-point edge over Donald Trump has evaporated.

According to a new Fox News Poll of registered voters, the incumbent president and presumed Democratic nominee now tie with 42 percent support apiece.

Some 16 percent would vote for a third-party candidate or are undecided.  Trump’s 42 percent support is, by a narrow margin, his highest ever against Biden, while Biden’s mark is his lowest by far.

Two weeks ago, Biden was up by 49-40 percent (March 21-24).  Some of the most significant declines in his support come from women (-9 points) and non-whites (-11).  Yet, the most troublesome shift is among Democrats, as just 80 percent back him, down from 87 percent in March.



“The timing of the coronavirus pandemic meant Biden didn’t get the opportunity to rally crowds and build enthusiasm after his big primary wins in early March,” says Democrat Chris Anderson, whose firm conducts the Fox News Poll with Republican Daron Shaw.

“And now Americans of all political stripes have a shared enemy in coronavirus, and the right thing for him to do from a public health perspective is stay home.  That’s a tough position for the Biden campaign.”

Trump is helped by the highest number of voters identifying as Republican in nearly a year.  While Democrats typically hold an edge over Republicans nationally in party identification, this can shift based on events and changing sentiment.  For some time, voters have been more likely to align as Democrats than as Republicans.  In Fox News polls over the last year, there has been a seven percentage-point Democratic advantage, on average.  In this poll, equal numbers of voters identify as Democrat and Republican.

“Above all else, party identification is an attitude -- one that is influenced by the politics of the day,” says Shaw.

“A global pandemic and Trump’s daily press conferences appear to have revved up Republicans and quieted Democratic voters.”

Forty-eight percent of voters view the former vice president favorably and 47 percent unfavorably.  That gives Biden a net positive rating by one point, while Trump is underwater by three (47 favorable vs. 50 unfavorable).



Conducted April 4-7, 2020 under the joint direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company (R), this Fox News Poll includes interviews with 1,107 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide who spoke with live interviewers on both landlines and cellphones.  The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for all registered voters.

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USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll: Six months out, Biden jumps to lead over Trump amid coronavirus concerns
Susan Page, USA TODAY 4 hrs ago

Six months before Election Day, the coronavirus pandemic has done what impeachment did not: Cost President Donald Trump his advantage over Joe Biden in the 2020 campaign.

A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows the former vice president leading Trump nationwide by six percentage points, 44%-38%, a shift from Trump's three-point lead in the survey as he was being impeached by the House in December. In a contest without a third-party contender, Biden's margin jumps to 10 points, 50%-40%.

In the previous poll, when Trump led 44%-41%, Biden was in the middle of a fierce battle for the Democratic nomination. Now he is the party's presumptive nominee.

The findings underscore the challenge that the deadly pandemic is posing to the president’s political standing, which has proved remarkably durable through investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, a Senate impeachment trial over the president's dealings with Ukraine and other controversies.

Now his standing may be threatened in the face of questions about the response he and his administration have made to a disease that has cost more than 55,000 lives in the United States and imperiled the nation’s economy.

“I had to give up watching the White House briefings,” said Democrat Eric Haenfler, 67, a retired music teacher and band director from Gilbert, Arizona, who was called in the poll. “I couldn’t stand to watch him say ignorant things. They were just campaign rallies and gave no information – and what information he was giving was false and sometimes dangerous.”

But Mercedes Nazarian, 29, a political independent and bartender from Savannah, Georgia, said in a follow-up interview that her support for Trump hadn’t been shaken. “I think he’s doing the best to his ability,” she said in a follow-up interview. “I believe it’s out of his control at this point. I mean, nobody can control a virus.”

Trump’s backing in the GOP remains rock-solid: More than nine of 10 Republicans say they will vote for him. But among independents, his standing has plummeted by 18 percentage points since the poll taken in December, to 27% from 45%. (Biden hasn’t won over all those voters. He gained significant 8 points among independents, but one in three now say they are undecided or would vote for a third-party candidate.)

Trump also has lost support by double-digits among men, a group that has been part of his political base. While men still back Trump over Biden 46%-35%, that’s a narrower advantage than in December, when it was 56%-30%. Women now support Biden 53%-30%.

Neither ranked high as a ‘strong leader’

Asked about a half-dozen traits important for a president to have, views of Trump were more firmly set than they were for Biden. That leaves more room for a campaign to define the Democratic challenger in both positive and negative ways.

At the moment, however, the former vice president scored a higher net score (the positive rating minus the negative rating) than the president did on all six characteristics.

The traits were:

"A strong leader." Neither were seen by a majority of Americans as a strong leader, with 45% saying that described Trump and 52% that it didn't. For Biden, 43% said it described him; 47% said it didn’t.

"Cares about people like me." Biden swamped Trump when it came to empathy; 57% said it described the former vice president; just 39% said it described the president.

"Knows how to get things done." Trump fared a bit better. By 51%-45%, voters said that described him; by 48%-39% that it described Biden.

"Stands up for U.S. interests." Biden scored better on what has been a rallying cry for Trump and his troops. By 58%-34%, those surveyed said that described Biden; by 53%-43% they said it described Trump.

"Honest and trustworthy." This was Trump’s worst rating. By more than 2-1, 64%-31%, those surveyed said that trait didn’t describe him. Views of Biden were better, although not exactly glowing: By 47%-43%, those surveyed said he was honest and trustworthy.

"Can work with foreign leaders." Biden was much more likely to be seen as someone who could do this; 64% said it described the former vice president; 45% said it described the current president.

“The poll is clear about which candidate qualities align best with voters,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. “A central campaign theme for Trump will be about getting things done, while Biden will shape his campaign around caring about everyday people at home while working best with foreign leaders abroad.”

The poll of 1,000 registered voters, taken by landline and cell phone Tuesday through Saturday, has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

The findings also had some red flags for Biden, who since the last poll has emerged as the presumptive Democratic nominee.

His support among black voters has dropped in a hypothetical three-way race with Trump and a third-party candidate. While the sample size is small, making precise comparisons unreliable, about two-thirds of African American voters support Biden now; nearly 8 in 10 had backed him in December. Those voters didn’t move to Trump, supported by just 8%. But one in four black voters now say they are undecided or would vote for a third-party candidate.

African-American voters in the South Carolina primary and on Super Tuesday were crucial in Biden’s primary victories, and analysts agree it’s imperative for him to generate enthusiastic support among them in November. He has promised to select a woman as his running mate, and some activists are urging him to choose a black woman such as California Sen. Kamala Harris, Florida Rep. Val Demings, or Stacey Abrams, who lost a bid for Georgia governor last year.

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In the wake of the primaries, Biden has made progress in consolidating support among Democrats; 87% of Democratic voters now back him, and he has been endorsed by his primary rivals, former president Barack Obama and others. He has gained ground among voters under 35, a group that had been more likely in the primaries to support Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Now Biden is backed over Trump among younger voters by 50%-25%.

That said, one in four of those 18 to 34 years old are still undecided or prefer a third-party candidate.

“I don’t have anything against Biden; I was just hoping for something different,” said Kate Elliott, 33, a Democrat from Cincinnati who would have preferred Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana – both of whom have endorsed Biden.

But there's no question she prefers Biden over Trump, calling the president's leadership during the pandemic irrational and unpredictable. “I’ll vote for Biden,” she said, “but with a heavy sigh.”

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Gallup: Trump approval up 6 points in two weeks
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News

President Trump’s job approval soared 6 points in the last two weeks, according to the latest Gallup poll.

The new survey found 49 percent approve of the president’s job in office and 47 percent disapprove, a personal best with Gallup for Trump. Two weeks ago, 43 percent approved of the president’s job, according to the pollster.

Trump also had a 49 percent approval rating in mid-March, according to Gallup, before his rating took a 6-point plunge in the first half of April.

Trump owes his new approval numbers to Independents, according to Gallup. Forty-seven percent of Independents now approve of Trump’s performance, as opposed to 39 percent in the previous April survey.

The new approval rating comes as the president has pivoted to guide the country on a path to slowly reopening the economy. According to Gallup, 50 percent approve of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and 48 percent disapprove. One month ago, 60 percent approved of his handling of the virus.

Trump still holds steady to his Republican base, 93 percent of whom approve of his job. Meanwhile, only eight percent of Democrats approve.

Trump reached his highest quarter approval during his 13th quarter in office (Jan. 20 through April 19) at 47 percent, as he faced impeachment in the House of Representatives.

The president’s average approval rating with Gallup throughout his three years in office remains at 40 percent.

The Gallup poll surveyed 1,016 U.S. adults by telephone from April 14 to 28. It has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.

Still, the latest Suffolk University poll found presumptive Democrat candidate Joe Biden beating Trump by 6 points.

The former vice president tops the GOP incumbent 44 to 38 percent, respectively, in the new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, with 8 percent backing a third-party candidate and 9 percent undecided. Without a third-party candidate, the national survey shows Biden topping Trump 50 to 40 percent.

New polls show trouble for Trump and Republicans in GOP strongholds
David Knowles, Editor, Yahoo News • May 19, 2020

Just-released polls contain bad news for President Trump and his Senate allies, with Joe Biden expanding the electoral map to states that have long been safe bastions for the Republican Party.

Biden is solidifying his lead over Trump in Arizona, a state not won by a Democrat in a presidential race since Bill Clinton took it in 1996, according to a new survey by OH Predictive Insights. Biden leads Trump by 7 percentage points in Arizona. The poll has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.

The same survey also had bad news for Senate Republican incumbent Martha McSally, who appears to be losing ground in her reelection bid against Democrat Mark Kelly. A former astronaut and the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, Kelly now leads McSally by 13 points. A month earlier, the same poll showed Kelly ahead by 9 points.

In Georgia, Biden leads Trump by a single percentage point, 48 percent to 47 percent, according to a poll conducted by Civiqs/Daily Kos that was released Tuesday and has a margin of error of 3.1 percent.

An internal poll conducted last week by a group backing Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp found Biden ahead of Trump by a margin of 47 percent to 46 percent. The poll had a margin of error of 4 percentage points.

Both polls showed Democrat Jon Ossoff running strong against incumbent GOP Sen. David Perdue. While Ossoff has yet to secure his party’s nomination, he leads Perdue by 2 percentage points in the Civiqs/Daily Kos poll and trails by 2 points in the internal Republican poll.

If Biden does defeat Trump in November, Democrats will need to flip just three Senate seats to retake control of the chamber where Republicans currently hold a 53-47 seat advantage. With Biden’s victory in the Democratic primary coupled with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the chances of what had been considered a long shot have greatly increased.

“It’s an extraordinary turn of events,” Neil Newhouse, a GOP pollster, told Vox. “This is not the political environment we expected at the beginning of the year.”

Not all the polls in recent weeks show Biden and Democrats cruising to victory. While the presumptive Democratic nominee also leads Trump in Florida by 4.6 points among likely voters, according to a poll released Tuesday by Point Blank Political, an Emerson College poll released last week showed the president leading Biden in Texas by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent in a head-to-head matchup.

Still, referencing recent surveys in Arizona, Georgia and Texas that show Biden competitive or leading in those states, Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said Friday that the former vice president would make a play for those traditionally red states.

“We believe that there will be battleground states that have never been battleground states before,” O’Malley Dillon said in a call with reporters. “We feel like the map is really favoring us if you look to recent polling.”

One of Trump's favorite pollsters shows his approval plummeting
David Knowles, Editor, Yahoo News • May 27, 2020

President Trump’s approval rating has plummeted since late February, according to the Rasmussen daily tracking poll, which the president frequently cited during his first three years in office.

As of Wednesday, 42 percent of Americans told Rasmussen that they approved of the job Trump was doing as president, while 57 percent disapproved. On Feb. 25, four days before the first reported U.S. deaths from COVID-19, the poll reported that 52 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s job performance, while 47 percent disapproved. On Wednesday, the nation neared the 100,000th death from the virus.

While 42 percent approval is in line with the overall aggregation of polls tracking Trump’s approval rating, it is notable from Rasmussen, which tends to show more favorable numbers for Republicans and the president. FiveThirtyEight, which averages a large sampling of polls, put Trump’s approval rating at 42.6 percent on Wednesday and his disapproval number at 53.7 percent.

Trump has repeatedly touted the Rasmussen daily tracking poll as representative of American sentiment about his presidency, citing it at least 28 times on Twitter. Last July 17, for instance, he tweeted about the poll before attending a campaign rally in North Carolina at which he attacked Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayana Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.


Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
New Poll: The Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in predicting the 2016 Election, has just announced that “Trump” numbers have recently gone up by four points, to 50%. Thank you to the vicious young Socialist Congresswomen. America will never buy your act! #MAGA2020

8:30 AM - Jul 17, 2019

In fact, Trump has tweeted about hitting 50 percent in the Rasmussen poll on nine different occasions.


Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
Working hard, thank you! #MAGA

9:23 PM - Mar 28, 2019

Last week Trump demanded that Fox News “fire their Fake News Pollster” after the network released a new poll showing him trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by 8 points in a general election matchup.

Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll is conducted via automated phone calls and online surveys. While Trump earned his highest approval rating of 59 percent on Jan. 26, 2017, he fell to just 42 percent approval on Jan. 22, 2018. On Wednesday he tied that number, the single lowest approval rating measured by Rasmussen of his presidency.

Fake polls destroy media credibility
by Brad Parscale | TheWashingtonExaminer | June 08, 2020 09:04 PM

The purveyors of fake news at CNN are convinced, just as they were four years ago, that they have this presidential election in the bag. Donald Trump is done, and Joe Biden is headed for a landslide, just like Hillary Clinton was.

At this point, they have zero credibility left.

As before, CNN’s confidence is severely misplaced — and we’re going to prove it. The best evidence they can present are polls that suffer from exactly the same flaws as the ones that indicated a landslide victory for Clinton in 2016.

To the delight of liberals everywhere, the Atlanta-based hub of fake news recently put out a poll showing Biden with a 14-point lead in the race, with 55% of the vote to Trump’s 41%, a larger share than any presidential candidate has received in an actual election since Ronald Reagan garnered 58.8% in his 1984 shellacking of Walter Mondale.

Before they start celebrating, though, Democrats should recall the old adage about things that seem too good to be true. President Trump hired the renowned and respected polling firm John McLaughlin and Associates to analyze the methodology that produced those dubious results, and its assessment was devastating.

CNN’s latest wonder is a poll of all adult voters, with no effort made to sort out which people are likely, or even registered, to vote. This method of polling consistently undercounts Republican turnout, as more-reputable polling outfits have long understood, and as CNN should have learned from 2016.

As a result of this lazy (and cost-saving) methodology, more than 10% of the respondents in CNN’s poll are not even registered to vote in November.

There’s even a strong indication of pro-Biden skew in the numbers themselves. Only 37% of registered voters who told CNN they were more likely to vote for Biden said they were actually voting for Biden, as opposed to against Trump. That’s a dire figure. For comparison, polls consistently showed that about three-quarters of Barack Obama’s voters were “for” him rather than “against” his opponent.

People are simply not enthusiastic about Biden. Shoot, even Biden doesn’t seem very enthusiastic about Biden most of the time. They are, however, extremely enthusiastic about President Trump — even in the supposedly “devastating” CNN poll, about 70% of those who say they will vote for Trump say they’re voting for him, not against Biden.

At the Trump campaign, we don’t need CNN to tell us about that enthusiasm because we get to experience it every single day. Even amid the coronavirus pandemic that has blocked off most of the traditional fundraising methods and radically reshaped political campaigning, we are continually setting new records for fundraising. Meanwhile, the president continues to maintain equally historic and consistent support within the Republican Party, polling at 96% within the GOP. The enthusiasm is there. We can prove it, and the exact opposite is true for Sleepy Joe.

That discrepancy goes a long way toward explaining why shoddy polls such as this CNN monstrosity are so relentlessly promoted in the media. Big landslide polls of this sort are intended to become self-fulfilling prophecies by dampening enthusiasm on the “losing” side and pumping up the “winning” side’s base.

What CNN doesn’t seem to have realized, though, is that the country has caught on to that trick and is more skeptical than ever before of eye-popping poll results that seem to defy common sense. CNN’s credibility is shot, and blatantly manipulative polls only serve to make the public even more acutely aware of the outlet’s bias.

After all these "POALS" and hate, if Trump wins again...You do know the left has not a shred of decency left. right?
In fact if they start that impeachment shit up again expect to bugaroos to do some buggering.
The People have had it up to here with the crap that the left whang news does with spinning and twisting..
The reporters reporting live from the White House with the dog face and dejected body language that says, "I have a red hot carrot up my ass..."
All that bs does is take a harder stance..
Fuk joa bittem and that gap toothed blimp for vp.