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Trump rejects 'phony' polls, insists 'we are winning'
Associated Press ^ | Oct 24, 2016 5:47 PM EDT | Steve Peoples and Jonathan Lemire

Posted on 10/24/2016 3:26:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A defiant Donald Trump blamed his campaign struggles on “phony polls” from the “disgusting” media on Monday, fighting to energize his most loyal supporters as his path to the presidency shrinks.

With just 14 days until the election, the Republican nominee campaigned in battleground Florida as his team conceded publicly as well as privately that crucial Pennsylvania may be slipping away to Democrat Hillary Clinton. That would leave him only a razor-thin pathway to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House on Nov. 8.

Despite continued difficulties with women and minorities, Trump refuses to soften his message in the campaign’s final days to broaden his coalition. Yet he offered an optimistic front in the midst of a three-day tour through Florida as thousands began voting there in person.

“I believe we’re actually winning,” Trump declared during a round table discussion with farmers gathered next to a local pumpkin patch. …

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To: Olog-hai

I am just incensed with how the AP frames their brief paragraphs are written. Oozes bias with every carefully worded bias (communist) piece of propaganda....I am old enough to have seen the turn from a free press starting with Cronkite and the Viet Nam era....I feel that is/was the turning point to what is now just a simple F you we report what we are told and don’t give a sh_t what you say. I am just so happy that I chose the path that has brought me to self-employed poverty while losing all my firearms in lake Ponchetrain (misspelled) while visiting family. Everyone I know now see’s that I was not wrong in my choice not to enable a federal government to undermine this great republic with cash i do not have or ever earned. s/...get it now?


21 posted on 10/24/2016 3:38:37 PM PDT by mythenjoseph (Separation of powers)
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To: Olog-hai

FWIW, I’m in PA and registered as Libertarian. I’ve gotten three mails from the PA Democratic Party in the past week bashing Trump. I’m not believing that HRC has it “all tied up” if all of a sudden she’s spending money to try to turn “independent” voters.


22 posted on 10/24/2016 3:39:51 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Red Steel
Rule number 1 don't listen to the enemy who lie all the time.

Exactly cuz of your advice I trashed my TV 15 years ago --good God, it was making me sooooo mad.

But the top and bottom of the hour radio news comes on when I listen to Rush, and....it's Sooooo depressing/enraging.

23 posted on 10/24/2016 3:40:02 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
However, you have to remember that Trump is also a brilliant negotiator and strategist. This is his push to the base to GOTV and lull Clinton into a false sense of security so some of her supporters will stay home.


24 posted on 10/24/2016 3:40:10 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: Olog-hai

Ask yourself: Would people who admit and brag about causing fights that injure people to disrupt a rally and bus in illegal voters in violation of election laws think twice about fudging a few numbers in a spreadsheet?


25 posted on 10/24/2016 3:42:06 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: Olog-hai

They don’t want National Security and the Economy in the news...


26 posted on 10/24/2016 3:42:18 PM PDT by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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To: Olog-hai

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the media who have tried to knock this election down will hear all of us soon.

Vote TRUMP!!


27 posted on 10/24/2016 3:42:26 PM PDT by Gator113 (Vote TRUMP!! -- "Because you'd be in Jail!")
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To: gaijin
Listen to ANY MSM - Feel HORRIBLE

The media is Grima Wormtongue


28 posted on 10/24/2016 3:42:31 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: Olog-hai

I hope so. Trump must get Florida and basically ALL the battleground states to win. I am encouraged a bit lately on news from Florida.

Remember that even if the MSM wanted to make a truly accurate poll that mirrors election day ... they would still have to oversample dems by some amount to account for dead and illegal democrat voters.


29 posted on 10/24/2016 3:42:54 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Olog-hai

Just watched the inaugural Trump nightly newscast on his facebook and Kellyanne Conway declared that the voices of the voters have not been heard yet. She asserted that we are going to win!!!


30 posted on 10/24/2016 3:43:09 PM PDT by edie1960 (edie1960)
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To: CatOwner

We really need PA. I don’t care what polls say. He is more likely to take PA than Virginia or Colorado OMO.

Trump is going to stun her in PA. And ambush her in Michigan and Minnesota. Looking for the link, but heard on the radio a new Minnesota poll has her up 1.


31 posted on 10/24/2016 3:43:12 PM PDT by phoneman08
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To: phoneman08

The press is the big loser in this election.


32 posted on 10/24/2016 3:46:25 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: gaijin

Those 5 minute top and botton of the hr news announcements have been spreading manure for decades and it’s worse now. They think they have to counter Rush or Hannity or whoever on talk radio. Harley Carnes of cBS and ABC spews are full of it. Mute them when they come on. Those clowns at cBS radio top and bottom of the hr claim 30 million listeners. No cBS, listeners are not tuning into to listen to you news morons.


33 posted on 10/24/2016 3:48:54 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Olog-hai

If the Wicked Witch “wins”, there needs to be an Article V Convention, secession movements, and whatever else it will take to radically reform/replace the federal government. Otherwise, we are slaves.


34 posted on 10/24/2016 3:51:00 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Olog-hai

Trump exclaims :’we are ahead in the polls.’ The MSM prints:Trump concedes privately the road is difficult and the chance of winning almost impossible.

Lol!


35 posted on 10/24/2016 3:56:15 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

The Podesta e-mails show the alphabet news organs listen to Hillary, their master’s voice, as closely as the Victrola dog listens to the sound of the gramophone with cocked ear.

And the alphabets are running many of the polls. Look, for an example, at CNN’s poll director, Jennifer Agiesta, with her history of marketing.

So why in the world would we suspect the MSM and their colleagues across the board have queered their polls for their `rat masters, as well as their coverage of the candidates?
It’s a puzzlement.


36 posted on 10/24/2016 3:57:24 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Olog-hai

They are gaslighting us with these polls.

I don’t believe any of them anymore...even the ones that show Trump up by one or two.

never forget...

Poll results are employed in accordance with the unspoken motives that triggered the exercise in the first place:

Namely, to confer moral authority for their usage as a legitimate tool of cultural intimidation against those whom the results have shown to be one’s adversaries.


37 posted on 10/24/2016 3:59:16 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Olog-hai

They are absolute fabrication. Particularly the latest ABC poll claiming not only is Hillary up 12 or whatever but that Trumps enthusiasm has cratered. It garbage on every level and of course it’s the headlines for days now

Psyops people.. Nothing but propaganda.

They want us to believe the 10+ point advantage with independents and 10+ point enthusiasm advantage he’s had all cycle just went poof overnight... Lies lies and lieS.

Stay hungry, stay angry! Take this country back.


38 posted on 10/24/2016 3:59:23 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: MNDude

And particularly with Kasich or Rubio, probably even that many more conservatives would have stayed home compared to 2008 or even 2012.


39 posted on 10/24/2016 3:59:49 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: BlueStateRightist

This is a classic example of how he media creates news.


40 posted on 10/24/2016 4:01:49 PM PDT by Ikemeister
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