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Trump's Pennsylvania rallies are a better indicator than polls: Former GOP pollster
Fox Business News ^ | May 21, 2019 | Courtney Leopold

Posted on 05/22/2019 2:35:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On Monday night, President Trump held a rally in Montoursville, Pennsylvania to ramp up support in the all-important battleground state.

Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016, but according to a newly released Quinnipiac pollOpens a New Window. , Joe Biden leads the President 53 to 42 percent there.

With recent polls showing Biden in the lead over the other 23 declared Democrat candidates, many officials within the Trump campaign are looking at the former VP as their main opponent going into the election. Chris Wilson, former pollster for the Ted Cruz Campaign, and CEO of WPA Intelligence warned that polling is important but rallies and traveling to voters is the key to winning.

“The academic literature in political science tells you that rallies are really the most important indicator of what happens,” said Chris Wilson told FOX Business' Kennedy. “[Rallies] are also an important indicator of how you can persuade voters, and you look at the turnout that Donald Trump had tonight, and it harkens back to 2016.”

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Pennsylvania; Campaign News; Polls; State and Local
KEYWORDS: biden; cruz; pennsylvania; trump; trump2020; trumppa; trumpparally
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1 posted on 05/22/2019 2:35:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I expect that each rally collects names, addresses, email addresses..... so Team Trump can motivate attendees to vote and recruit others to vote.


2 posted on 05/22/2019 2:44:01 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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And even more extraordinarily........Trump flacked Fred Keller for a PA seat in Congress.......and the guy won by about 57 points.


3 posted on 05/22/2019 2:48:51 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Man in wall suit greeted by Trump at rally.


4 posted on 05/22/2019 2:51:32 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Then so far so good for Trump in 2020 — if they can deal with the voting fraud and the Trump/GOP team do the job on voter turnout.


5 posted on 05/22/2019 2:52:53 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Quinnipiac is one of the worst polling organizations ever


6 posted on 05/22/2019 2:57:20 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Answer the poll "wrong" and get a visit from Anitfa, ; No Thank You. The polls are pretty much worthless these days.

I'll vote and encourage my neighbors to vote the Anti-American Dem B*stards out!

7 posted on 05/22/2019 2:58:30 AM PDT by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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Suppression polls do not seem to work on Trump Rallies. Just look at the attendance records. No way that President Trump is going to lose in 2020. He generates crowds in the 10s of thousands while Biden generates a few hundred?

Not even close.


8 posted on 05/22/2019 3:20:33 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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A pollster says polls aren’t correct. How about that.


9 posted on 05/22/2019 3:45:39 AM PDT by Libloather (Global warming is AWESOME!)
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The total population of that little village is 4,500 so over one event, Trump tripled the size of the whole town.

Did I mention that sleepy joe had a couple of thousand at his official announcement in central city of Philly? With 7 million in the surrounding area, joe drew a coupla thousand. WOW!

10 posted on 05/22/2019 3:49:25 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke all mooselimb terrorists, today.)
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They get your email info to send the free tickets but that is the only information. In 2016 for theVirginia rally people came from as far as PA, MD,WVA,DC and OH. It was a late rally on a Sunday night also. It was an anti establishment surge and anti political correctness movement. The press/ media caused the Trump movement and that makes it all the sweeter.


11 posted on 05/22/2019 4:00:05 AM PDT by cnsmom
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The total population of that little village is 4,500 so over one event, Trump tripled the size of the whole town.

Did I mention that sleepy joe had a couple of thousand at his official announcement in central city of Philly? With 7 million in the surrounding area, joe drew a coupla thousand. WOW!
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But you have to understand that the attendees at POTUS’ rallies won’t vote, but the inner city denizens who didn’t show for Joe will vote several times each....without even leaving their sofas.

Of course, we’ll all vote and the progs will cheat.


12 posted on 05/22/2019 4:00:15 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fred Keller won.

I’d say that’s a pretty good indicator.


13 posted on 05/22/2019 4:07:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: USS Alaska

Ghetto Blacks don’t attend political rallies, but they will vote D.


14 posted on 05/22/2019 4:22:25 AM PDT by EEGator
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The Democrats know that Trump is a fighter and will rally the people to his side if they try to impeach him.

The Dems have figured out that fighting Trump increases his popularity... It’s great having a President with balls.


15 posted on 05/22/2019 4:23:28 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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PA is changing it’s entire voting system to verifiable paper ballots with voter receipts for 2020


16 posted on 05/22/2019 4:24:15 AM PDT by Despot of the Delta
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Polls are just like the news.

Unreliable.

Why even believe them for a minute

17 posted on 05/22/2019 4:31:26 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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I saw all of the crowds at the rallies for the 2016 race. I said to myself and others that there is no way this man was going to lose.


18 posted on 05/22/2019 4:37:17 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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19 posted on 05/22/2019 4:43:08 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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I’m from South Central PA and I would’ve been there if I didn’t have a job to be at, (to pay for all Washington DC’s schemes!)
GO Trump!! MAGA


20 posted on 05/22/2019 4:50:22 AM PDT by bantam
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