Brexit architect Nigel Farage: Mainstream media using polls to suppress Trump turnout!
“I think that polling is often used by the establishment as a way of disincentivizing the other side to go out and vote,” said Farage.
Updated: October 30, 2020 - 10:40am
Mainstream media polls showing Joe Biden with a wide lead are failing to accurately gauge support for President Trump and are being used to suppress Trump voter turnout, according to Brexit architect Nigel Farage.
Farage, the British politician who led an underdog movement to remove the United Kingdom from the European Union, said he believes Trump will win despite current polls — just like in 2016 — suggesting otherwise.
“I think that polling is often used by the establishment as a way of disincentivizing the other side to go out and vote,” Farage said on “Just the News AM” television show. “The morning of Brexit, there was a poll released that said Remain [in the E.U.] were 10 points ahead. And it was done, very simply, to say to potential ‘Leave’ voters, ‘Do you know what, if it’s raining, don’t bother to get down to the local school and vote, because you’re gonna lose anyway?’
Farage said he was “struck” with American polls because of what he called “tiny” sample sizes generating margins of error often between 3% to 4%.
“Come on, you know, oh, in Florida, Biden’s half a percent ahead,” Farage said. “It’s ridiculous, because the margin of error is several times bigger than that.”
Within the mainstream media in recent decades, voter suppression is typically cited by Democrats who say Republicans aim to keep progressive voters from turning out. He said he “absolutely” believes that polls this year are meant to suppress Republican turnout.
The idea that you can convince folks not to vote based on polls showing their candidate way behind has not had a great track record (2016, obviously).
It is equally likely to convince Democrats (who actually _believe_ the mass media lies) that their candidate has it made so there is no point in wasting their time voting.
This video argues that the polls just have awful methodology that gets them in deep trouble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf6yr_McIFs&feature=youtu.be
In the “Age of Trump” sloppy polling means that Trump voters are missed.
Polls are horrible at measuring turnout, of course—and that is where the Trump campaign really shows the right stuff.