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(vanity) Can Trump do an end-run around pollsters/media who try to sway 2020 election?
self | 5/29/19 | NewJerseyJoe

Posted on 05/29/2019 7:05:11 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe

Do you think this would be a worthwhile idea?

Trump should start anticipating the types of poll questions that the leftist media will be asking people in the runup to the 2020 election -- and at his rallies, he should get out in front of them. For example, he could say something like this at a rally:

"You know, you just know, that the fake-news media is going to be coming out with crazy poll questions, like 'How will the outcome of the Mueller report affect your vote?' You know what you should do? Tell these pollsters exactly what they want to hear. Skew the polls so crazily that no one will be able to take them seriously. And then, on Election Day, go to your voting place and answer the only poll question that counts."

Trump could cripple a lot of these pollsters before they ever get off the ground. Leftist media would be furious if he did something like this. And furious people make a lot of mistakes.

I'm sure there are drawbacks to this idea. But in general, I think it would be a great idea for Trump to get out in front of the fake-news people who try to sway elections.


TOPICS: Government; Society
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020election; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election; election2020; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; trump
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If you don't like the idea, that's fine. I'm just spitballing here. I can certainly see Trump doing something like this!
1 posted on 05/29/2019 7:05:11 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe
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To: NewJerseyJoe

I’d get a kick out of 20 percent approval ratings and then 360 electoral votes :)


2 posted on 05/29/2019 7:08:33 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

What is it you think he did in 2016?

Hillary had a 98% chance of winning. According to them.


3 posted on 05/29/2019 7:14:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He didn’t have the platform in 2016 that he has now. And he has a lot more people supporting him now than 3 years ago.


4 posted on 05/29/2019 7:17:55 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Skew the polls so crazily that no one will be able to take them seriously.

Thing is, no one takes them seriously NOW.
I mean - look at 2016. How much more of an abject failure could the polls have BEEN? And yet, on that very night, many of the pollsters were making excuses, and right after we went right back to where the media wanted us to be - following the polls.


5 posted on 05/29/2019 7:27:55 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: NewJerseyJoe

It’s not an original idea but it would really work. Liberal Dems are sheep following their leaders in the media. If they believe that they are leading by large margins in the polls their voter turnout numbers will plummet.


6 posted on 05/29/2019 7:34:36 PM PDT by cquiggy
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To: NewJerseyJoe

When he goes to Arlington TX to AT&T Stadium and fills every seat it won’t matter what the polls say.


7 posted on 05/29/2019 7:43:40 PM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Polls didn’t matter in 2016, why worry about them now?


8 posted on 05/29/2019 7:55:13 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: NewJerseyJoe
I say:

DTTTFM

(don't talk to the f---ing media)

9 posted on 05/29/2019 7:57:26 PM PDT by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Let’s commission our own polls then release them to the press:

Do YOU feel Obama committed crimes sticking ‘intelligence services’ on the Trump campaign?

Do you feel democrats have accepted the results of Trump’s election.

Do you feel democrats will accept the results of the next election when Trump wins again?


10 posted on 05/29/2019 8:07:07 PM PDT by GOPJ (STOP Corrupt "intelligece' jerks from trading information to the press for 'favors' for themselves.)
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To: Pravious

Up until about 11:00 on election night, they were still certain Hillary had it in the bag.
The smugness was sweet to see washed off their faces in the early hours of the new day.


11 posted on 05/29/2019 8:09:39 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: NewJerseyJoe
None of us believe in polls much anymore.

Remember how everyone believed Hillary would win? The press, the polls, the 'elites', local news, every newspaper etc etc etc... then Trump won. We don't believe in the 'integrity' of the press either - besides Trump can smell out liberal lies - and he knows how to deal with them.

This isn't much of an issue..

12 posted on 05/29/2019 8:13:24 PM PDT by GOPJ (STOP Corrupt "intelligece' jerks from trading information to the press for 'favors' for themselves.)
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To: GOPJ

I would lie to pollsters anyway.


13 posted on 05/29/2019 8:21:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
A Weekly Dose of President Trump - Trump Family Train 3/16/19 to 3/31/19) | FRiends and Deplorable | 3/16/19 | DollyCali | Posted on 03/16/2019 11:15:37 AM PDT by DollyCali

A Weekly Dose of President Trump - Trump Family Train 3/16/19 to 3/31/19) | FRiends and Deplorable | 3/16/19 | DollyCali | Posted on 03/16/2019 11:15:37 AM PDT by DollyCali

14 posted on 05/29/2019 8:25:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Stole this one too:
CAPTION

15 posted on 05/29/2019 8:26:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

My take, if you tell pollsters that Trump is going to lose and crooks ensure that Trump will lose, then you don’t really have a narrative to say that there were crooks involved because you gave crooked answers.

You are forgetting that Polls are a tool to create a narrative, yeah they pretend to reflect peoples opinions, but they are really about narratives. If the narrative is “Trump is going to lose” then that’s what media and elites will insist on when 2020 election comes and goes.

I predict a massive amount of voter fraud this 2020. Its going to be obvious that there is fraud. Does another plank to that rotting ship also need to say “running up to the elections Trump supporters were abandoning him.”


16 posted on 05/29/2019 8:27:55 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: SunkenCiv

Anything more recent than last December?

China allows US rice imports for first time ahead of trade talks
By Chris Mills Rodrigo - 12/28/18 07:38 AM EST

https://thehill.com/policy/international/china/423081-china-allows-us-rice-imports-for-first-time-ahead-of-trade-talks


17 posted on 05/29/2019 8:31:17 PM PDT by GOPJ (STOP Corrupt "intelligece' jerks from trading information to the press for 'favors' for themselves.)
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thanks Red Badger

18 posted on 05/29/2019 8:42:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: GOPJ

Everywhere! :^)


19 posted on 05/29/2019 8:43:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Actually, it was a little earlier - right about 9:30 EST.

I took a screen cap, because it’s a thing of beauty. Up until about 9:00, the NYT had Trump about 20% and Hillary > 80% chance of winning. Then, as results come in, Trump’s percentages skyrocket and Hillary’s bottom out, until by 11:00 it’s 95% Trump, 5% Clinton. At that point, it must have been clear to the media that this was, indeed, their worst nightmare come to life.

Wonderful moment - and one they’re sure to do ANYTHING to avoid next time around by cheating and lying any way they possibly can.


20 posted on 05/30/2019 1:37:42 AM PDT by Pravious
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