Posted on 05/14/2024 1:52:24 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
President Biden doesn't believe his bad poll numbers, and neither do many of his closest advisers, according to people familiar with the matter.
Why it matters: The dismissiveness of the poor polling is sincere, not public spin, according to Democrats who have spoken privately with the president and his team.
That bedrock belief has informed Biden's largely steady-as-she-goes campaign — even as many Democrats outside the White House are agitating for the campaign to change direction, given that Biden is polling well behind where he was four years ago.
The public polling simply doesn't reflect the president's support, they say.
Driving the news: In public and private, Biden has been telling anyone who will listen that he's gaining ground — and is probably up — on Donald Trump in their rematch from 2020. "While the press doesn't write about it, the momentum is clearly in our favor, with the polls moving towards us and away from Trump," Biden told donors in Medina, Wash., on Saturday. A few days earlier, confronted with some of his bad poll numbers in a rare interview with CNN, Biden offered a more sweeping indictment of polling methodology.
"The polling data has been wrong all along. How many — you guys do a poll at CNN. How many folks you have to call to get one response?" Zoom in: The latest polling in the six battleground states likely to decide the presidential race — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — doesn't paint a rosy picture for Biden.
A new New York Times/Sienna survey, which sampled more than 4,000 people across the swing states, had Trump winning five of them among registered voters.
A Bloomberg News poll last month similarly found Biden trailing Trump in six of seven swing states (they also polled North Carolina).
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They are not in denial.
They have an elaborate plan to cheat.
[Thank you for our morning dose of #NeverTrump. It’s a pleasure watching you folks become marginalized.]
When you can manufacture 10+ million votes at 3:00am on a dime, you’re never in pole trouble
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Zhang Yee, I believe you as far as I can throw you.
I'll just let this one sit right here.
What is his margin now in DE? People there should be ashamed of their political selections. Was DE a Tory state in the Revolution?
Sadly, so do Fox and Newsmax.
Are you saying trump didn’t get 74 million votes in 2020? The most of any republican in American history? Interesting!
Don't count Hillary out just yet. She's always believed she is entitled to the presidency and knows that if doesn't happen this year, it will never happen.
[Zhang Yee, I believe you as far as I can throw you.]
I’m a little weary of polls this far out from Election Day. The ground work still needs to be done.
Exactly.
The polls mean nothing because they don’t take into account for democrat Cheating everywhere.
“However I can dream that some well intentioned Patriots will turn those rocks over and STOMP them like bugs.”
Save your back and just stomp on the rocks. That’ll squish them without you having to put your lower lumbar in jeopardy.
He's neither. Please report back to CNN for additional talking points.
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Biden has no idea whether or not he’s behind or ahead in the polls. Most of his remarks come from his puppeteers. Any remarks suggesting he’s not behind in the polls are geared towards the useful idiots as well as laying ground work for the coming election steal so they can say I told you so.
Biden doesn’t believe inflation numbers or illegal immigration is happening. The Doobie Brothers sang the song “What a fool believes.” Maybe Biden believes the fix is in to cheat again.
[But those kick-ass rallies with thousands of attendees prove that he’s ahead. Oh, wait...]
People keep pointing to Trump rally size, but the fact is rally size means very little for get-out-the-vote (GOTV) drives. People who show up for rallies are already voting for the guy. A pol who does big rallies is just wasting his supporters’ time and his own campaign money. Traditional GOTV involves paying canvassers to get voters to the polls. Trump’s rallies were expensive, with one in Tulsa costing $2.2m. That could have paid for 100,000 canvasser hours.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/us/politics/trump-tulsa-rally-cost.html
Most campaigns don’t do big rallies because they don’t have unlimited cash. They can do rallies or they can have paid staff bring people to the polls. I’ve seen an estimate of $10 per ballot harvested. Trump’s $2.2m Tulsa rally, for a state that was already in the bag by 30+ points, was inexplicable, and could have been spent on harvesting 220,000 ballots in swing states. But rallies are the closest thing we have to a Roman triumph, and Trump likes the pageantry, so he spent the cash.
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