Posted on 05/05/2025 5:51:29 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Friday, during Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Trafalgar Group pollster Robert Cahaly called out so-called “fake polls” intended to pressure congressional Republicans to back away from the support of President Donald Trump’s agenda.
“You know, it was interesting to watch the focus group, Robert, with Van Jones, that I had in the opening monologue,” host Sean Hannity said. “And you know, people are not regretting voting for Donald Trump and then to watch their polls to say, yeah, if the election were held again today, Trump would still wipe the floor with Kamala Harris or probably any other Democrat for that matter. So, on the one hand, they’re trying to say one thing, to create a false image. Why are they doing that? Are they trying to divide Trump with congressional Republicans and senators to stymie his agenda?”
“That’s exactly why they’re doing it, Cahaly replied. “They realize that, you know, Washington is full of political animals, and if they can convince, you know, the people in Congress that Trump is somehow becoming more toxic, then they can damage his agenda. But the fact is, the people in Congress are smart. They know what a real poll is. They know what a fake poll is. They’ve seen this. I mean, it would be like if you had a prognosticator who continued the last three years called the postseason wrong, you don’t listen to what they say in the — in the regular season, you just discard it, and so, it’s really this is a media consumption thing. I keep hearing about hard data and soft data. Well, the soft data is flawed.”
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Merely prove that if congress critters are ‘pressured’ by the media, they don’t really rep their constituents.
That poll is probably cooked to give them more credit than due. Series, what has Con-gre$$ done to earn a 17% rating?
Sunday Talk shows the George Stephanopolus and many others seemed to have had an agreement:
Throw everything at the wall, truth, wishful thinking, lies and see what sticks.
The Dems don’t have a plan. They have agreed to try everything and see what might be a vulnerability. They don’t seem to believe in any program they suggest. They just need to find something, anything that they can cling to before they drown.
Please don’t tell me I can’t trust Congre$$ anymore.
First, polls on Trump are meaningless at this point. Despite his trolling, he isn’t going to run again. In fact, not caring about polls has liberated him to do exactly what he thinks is right for the country. Second, it really is clear to anyone with a brain that pollsters either lie or, more charitably, have no idea what they are doing.
None of the “polls” coming out lately have any credibility. None are fact checked. They’re crap.
Both Richard Baris on “Inside the Numbers” and Mark Mitchell of Rasmssen on X have said this too.
What I don’t understand is that all the legacy news media are permitted to claim the status of being NEWS journalism. I cannot see why they cannot be removed from the airwaves due to obvious and provable leftist propaganda products that are unabashedly broadcast daily (24/7 on the cable networks). They are misrepresenting their identity and purpose. Why isn’t this (claim to being NEWS journalism) false advertising?
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