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Pollster McLaughlin to Newsmax: Polls 'Run Down' Trump 'on Purpose
Newsmax ^ | November 4, 2025 | Newsmax Wires

Posted on 11/04/2025 8:24:09 AM PST by Navy Patriot

National media polls are continuing to distort President Donald Trump's support, John McLaughlin, a key pollster for the president's 2024 campaign, told Newsmax on Monday.

"Absolutely not," McLaughlin said when asked on Newsmax's "Finnerty" if he trusts this year's surveys.

"They're doing the same thing; they're trying to run down Donald Trump on purpose," he added.

He said his firm's latest poll showed Trump with a 51% approval rating and 46% disapproval but added a Washington Post-Ipsos survey was "a poll of adults polluted with nonvoters."

"They weighted it down to 30%," he said. "That's 20 points less than we got in the election last November."

He also criticized an NBC poll for using registered voters instead of likely voters.

"They have 41% Trump voters," McLaughlin said. "So that's nine points less. So they're doing the same things."

McLaughlin said the same polling errors that misled voters last year are reappearing now.

Turning to Tuesday's elections, he said turnout will be critical for Republicans, adding that they could benefit from shifting sentiment in the New York suburbs.

"In Rockland County, Nassau County, Bruce Blakeman — they're going up and down," he said. "There's a reaction in the New York suburbs to this guy."

"Those voters know, and they're afraid, and they don't want this guy elected mayor," he added.

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1 posted on 11/04/2025 8:24:09 AM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

It helps cover for the fraud factor.


2 posted on 11/04/2025 8:27:43 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Navy Patriot

But all Freepers already knew this. “Media maggots” are genuine 100 percent haters of Trump and Americans. FTM!


3 posted on 11/04/2025 8:27:46 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Another day of DemonRAT shutdown another great day for Chunky "Raw Cheeseburger" Schumer.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Unless you are a weather forecaster, being wrong most of time is not acceptable. Pollsters have evolved into “Kingmakers” in their own minds.


4 posted on 11/04/2025 8:31:21 AM PST by Judge Bean
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To: Navy Patriot

I sure hope he is right. Currently all the polls I’ve seen show republicans losing in nj, va prop 50 in ca and mandami winning easily in nyc


5 posted on 11/04/2025 8:50:36 AM PST by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer

I can’t wait for state run grocery stores in NYC selling rotten old produce and cans of mackerel. A black market will pop up for food, courtesy of the very same leftists running the city. You know, the Hamas, PLO, Islamo model of authority. That progression hit Minneapolis and it only took 25 years. Now food, shelter, healthcare, banking, and transportation, are political weapons or rewards waiting for your compliance or resistance to identify you accordingly.


6 posted on 11/04/2025 9:03:18 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: Navy Patriot; RitaOK

National polling groups also have the benefit of disgruntled Fed employees, furloughed and ready to answer that phone call.


7 posted on 11/04/2025 9:11:48 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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To: Navy Patriot

If presented with a poll that is weighted, obviously, against Trump, I won’t participate. Their biases are built in and they don’t even see them!


8 posted on 11/04/2025 10:25:46 AM PST by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: grame
If presented with a poll that is weighted, obviously, against Trump, I won’t participate.

I believe that is the correct response to a Push-Poll.

Their biases are built in and they don’t even see them!

I believe they deliberately and knowingly build them in.

The "student" who circulates the poll for free may not know, however, he is a political three-year-old.

9 posted on 11/04/2025 10:39:44 AM PST by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won, Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Navy Patriot

Apparently, there is also an “answering” bias.
Many Republicans just hang up on pollsters.


10 posted on 11/04/2025 10:48:18 AM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: AZJeep
Apparently, there is also an “answering” bias.

Many Republicans just hang up on pollsters.

I believe you are correct.

It seems to me that many Republicans will not waste the time to find out that the poll questions are worded in such a manner, as the answers do not accurately convey the responder's opinions.

11 posted on 11/04/2025 10:58:01 AM PST by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won, Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: blackdog

Wait, even if Mamdani opens up govt grocery stores, that doesn’t mean he has any legal authority to close privately owned stores.

When govt stores are crap people still have an alternative, which is the stores they have now.


12 posted on 11/04/2025 11:37:17 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (They don't kill you because you're a Nazi, they call you a Nazi so they can kill you.--CFW)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Think Hamas. The city regulators will begin the protection racket. If you want your Capicola Ham and wine at your local food market in Manhattan, it'll cost you. Those are questionable in the interest of the bettering of the public. Heck, if you want anything, cuz its free now, it's going to be awfully expensive.

Rice with your hands, no toilet paper, hummus, Fava beans, and pita breads. A well managed diet.

13 posted on 11/04/2025 11:56:26 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: ckilmer

No, NJ is a coin flip.


14 posted on 11/04/2025 12:42:33 PM PST by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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