Posted on 09/21/2015 11:33:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump put NBC’s “Today” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie on the defensive Monday during a live telephone interview when he called the network out for promoting a CNN poll over an NBC poll because the billionaire had a smaller margin in the CNN survey. The exchange occurs at minute 4:36 of the 5:35-minute interview.
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“The only poll you didn't put up was the NBC poll where I'm way at the top, I’m much more than double,” said Trump. “I don't understand why NBC is using a CNN poll, which was also a good poll, I'm leading by a lot.
“Why aren't you talking about your own poll? Why are you showing a CNN poll, which is very good, but not as good as the one you put up yesterday?” Guthrie acknowledged that “I should have mentioned the NBC poll by name.”
Trump didn’t let it go. “You put up the CNN poll, you didn't put up NBC poll and you’re the ones that are paying for the NBC poll so I don't get it other than in the NBC poll is a very good poll for Trump.”
The CNN poll, conducted in the days after the second Republican debate, found that Trump continues to lead the pack of GOP presidential candidates, but that he dropped eight points, going from 32 percent support to 24 percent. In that same poll, Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina jumped from 3 percent to 15 percent.
In the NBC poll, Trump’s margin over Fiorina was much larger (29 percent to Fiorina’s 11 percent) and the billionaire gained 7 points from a month earlier when that poll showed him with 22 percent support of Republicans and independents.
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Trump smells blood in the water.
He knows we want to see a candidate that’s AGGRESSIVE as h*11, especially against the perfumed, expensively quaffed, botox saturated metrosexual pretty boys of the media.
they do this because they’re constantly looking for a negative angle
Common Donald, NBC hosts can not use their own NBC poll, because then how can Savanna Guthrie attack you as dropping in polls based on the CNN poll? /S
It is absolutely amazing what not having to ask people for money does for one’s freedom of speech!
Ideology before country!
And now, even before the company that signs your paycheck!
sit down, shut up and relax, Savannah.
would have been a good time to say that NBC’s decision not to show their own poll results reminds him of the kind of decisions Firorina made while running HP ;-)
Trump is pointing out how the media wants to control the information so as to control the election, and by extension, the country. The media must be called out on every manipulation if that control is ever to be wrested from their control.
lol i was thinking the exact same thing i wonder what poor soul trump is going to hire as a press secretary
i think Savannah was wet after this was over
I am loving that.
I want to see dishonest media tremble in fear of being exposed instead of honest people trembling in fearof media lies.
good morning america used two clips from the emmy’s last night... both conscious efforts, of all that was said, both slammed trump.
they cannot let this guy go...
Any publicity is good publicity if you play it right.
He owns them
“Guthrie acknowledged that “I should have mentioned the NBC poll by name.”
In other words “I’m sorry.......................I got caught”.
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