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Donald Trump goes off on 'dishonest' reporters who say he's slipping
Business Insider ^ | Sept 25, 2015 | Hunter Walker

Posted on 09/25/2015 3:42:22 PM PDT by Red Steel

Donald Trump has two words to describe a recent spate of articles that suggested he may be losing steam in the Republican presidential primary: "dishonest reporting."

"Very dishonest and the people understand that," Trump said in a conversation with Business Insider

...by CNN, Politico, and The Washington Post used recent polls from Quinnipiac and CNN/ORC to argue that the surge that propelled Trump to the head of the GOP pack may be ending....

CNN's Eric Bradner came in with a story of his own a few hours later. Bradner said the Quinnipiac poll "reinforce[d] a recent CNN/ORC poll that showed an ascendant Fiorina..."

That story was headlined, in part, "Donald Trump lead shrinks."

The Washington Post's Philip Bump was up next...the claim that "Donald Trump's slide in the polls is beginning to look real."

Business Insider reached out... Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said the media is motivated to diminish Trump's standing.

"Look, I think the media in general wants to have a narrative that this race is either tighter than it really is," Lewandowski said. "Or they want to propel other candidates into the forefront because they know that Mr...

"If you were any other candidate in this race, you would welcome the opportunity to have Mr. Trump's poll numbers," he said.

Trump and his team pointed to a slew of polls to dispute the notion that he's losing steam...

"It's dishonest reporting and — let me change it — it's knowingly dishonest," Trump said. "Because the polls speak for themselves. I'm up. Check out Zogby. Check out Reuters — the Reuters — what do they call that? The Reuters average..."

All of the polls show Trump well ahead...

In addition to these national numbers, ... Specifically, they identified an Iowa poll by PPP and a Sunshine State poll...

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; demagogicparty; election2016; memebuilding; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; trump
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To: Cheerio
Medved - a talker head Trump hater...

I quit listening to Methhead years ago. He's even more irrelevant now. Maybe the treatments are affecting his judgment.
21 posted on 09/25/2015 4:12:33 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: plain talk
Trump brings it on himself because he has made a big deal of how great his poll numbers are while ridiculing other candidates with lower numbers. So he is an easy target on this one.

That's ok. As Trump is the best fighter in this election.

Here's a poll that never gets mentioned in the liberal and RINO press. It's a 5 day rolling poll with 550 to 600 respondents on a daily basis.

I don't even think Rooooters ever mentions it in their own articles. Notice it includes 2 days after the last debate.


22 posted on 09/25/2015 4:13:16 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: MichaelCorleone

The MSM and GOPe will not rest until they destroy Trump.


23 posted on 09/25/2015 4:13:24 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Cheerio

Medved once worked directly for a Communist.


24 posted on 09/25/2015 4:14:30 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: plain talk

Yeah. I have been saying the same thing for a while. The truth is that his poll are slipping a bit. He needs to minimize the cat fights. Trump also needs to focus more on the issues and introduce his policies at the debates.


25 posted on 09/25/2015 4:15:54 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I can’t disagree with any of your comments. And, as you point out and the MSM doesn’t seem to notice, the Carly Debate Bounce appears to be fading fast. I hope it continues.


26 posted on 09/25/2015 4:19:22 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Red Steel
The same story line has been re-posted over and over for a few days .
27 posted on 09/25/2015 4:19:56 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
The 21% is the outlier Bloomberg poll. The others are all withing the margin of error.

Telling Michael Bloomberg what he wants to hear and likely shaded for that result.

28 posted on 09/25/2015 4:22:01 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: InterceptPoint
I don't recall that. There's no way the average was 31, unless you included polls that no one would include, like the one that had him at 39%.

However, state-wise, he's pretty much where he's always been. A lot of shuffling at #2. I don't see him "slipping" at all.

29 posted on 09/25/2015 4:24:45 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Even if true, the only relevant measure is his LEAD over #2. It was 6 points just before the debate. Where is it today?


30 posted on 09/25/2015 4:26:06 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ncalburt
That's fine. Trump is still talking about it as of 5 hrs ago.

"Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 5h5 hours ago Dishonest @politico just called to say that none of the polls including Fox, NBC, CNN, Zogby, & Morning Consult matter. Serious haters."

31 posted on 09/25/2015 4:26:35 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: Red Steel

So Trump’s lead in this is 23!!


32 posted on 09/25/2015 4:27:10 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Red Steel

Where do you find this?


33 posted on 09/25/2015 4:27:34 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Pretty hard to introduce anything at the debate when all the questions are not “what would you do about?” but “attack Trump.” It’s not just Trump, no candidate can seem to get his policies out-—which, of course, is the design.


34 posted on 09/25/2015 4:28:49 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Red Steel
Trump is right now playing ‘kitty slap the ball around’...

Wait until he gets his ducks in a row, closer to nomination time when Bush, Crispy Cream, Rand Paul, Snarly Carly, Rubio, Kasich, Pataki and the others are gone and there is only Cruz, Carson and Trump left....

Then and only then will you see the time of your life...I think there is a big huge surprise awaiting us then, and your not going to believe it until you see it..

It is going to shut the libs, msm, talking heads, ‘money bags’ Soros, super pacs down so far they won't know what hit them, and there won't be nothing left for them to do but to cry..

35 posted on 09/25/2015 4:30:07 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do to!)
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To: LS

Yes it is 23% over his nearest rival that was on the 18th Sept for the five day rolling poll. I believe Reuters doesn’t publish their day-to-day results, but will after a couple of weeks or month or so of the aggregated, day-to-day results.

This is about 2800 to ~3000 respondents for 5 days that shows 36.8% for Trump.

In comparison, what did CNN have in their last poll? I believe I saw only 300 polled for the whole nation. A minuscule sample size.


36 posted on 09/25/2015 4:35:36 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: LS
Where do you find this?

Reuters - found here:

http://polling.reuters.com/#!response/TR130/type/smallest/filters/PARTY_ID_:2/dates/20150808-20150918/collapsed/false

And read #36 too. :-)

37 posted on 09/25/2015 4:38:51 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: Hugin
Meanwhile, I wish he'd stick to the message of shaking things up in DC and waking up US citizens. Trump could stop talking so much about polls and say "when you hear what I want to do to make America Great Again we'll be unbeatable!" or something like that.

I'd like more vision, less who's winning and who's a jerk.

38 posted on 09/25/2015 4:44:52 PM PDT by grania
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To: grania

Did you watch the speech? Most of it was the content you want: Common Core, Iran, trade, religious freedom.


39 posted on 09/25/2015 4:47:10 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS
I don't recall that. There's no way the average was 31, unless you included polls that no one would include, like the one that had him at 39%.

Trump wasn't there very long be he did hit about 31 on the RCP average. And, AFIK, RCP is the gold standard for poll averages. If there is a better one someone should point it out.

And, for the record, I'm not picking on Trump. Just pointing out the facts.

Here is the RCP data:


40 posted on 09/25/2015 4:48:06 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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