The latest PPP Poll from North Carolina shows Donald Trump extending his lead in the state. Ben Carson comes in second with 23% and Carly Fiorina has collapsed from last month landing at 6%, with less than half her previous favorability and double the unfavorability. Candidate Jeb Bush also takes a severe step backwards.
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We would be remiss, however, if we did not note something rather bizarre happening today. We knew the poll was going to be available because of an earlier press release on October 24th from PPP Polling announcing they were conducting it. However, all day, if you tried to find the poll itself, the ppp website was unavailable until 4:20pm. (PPP tweeted results at 10:00am, and the PPP website operates on the “Cloud”)
Accepting the reality that very large and powerful interests are pulling out all the stops to try and diminish the insurgent frontrunner, Donald Trump, and given our prior research which shows their manipulative media intent therein, it would appear that all efforts are being exhausted to block the general public from seeing positive Trump polling data.
This is very alarming to say the least. We knew all efforts would be undertaken to manipulate the general public, but what is going on in the past 5 days is jaw dropping. It appears a coordinated strategy to diminish Trump similar to Operation Hummingbird.
First, no polling from Iowa released for 45 days, then 3 university polls released within 48 hours highlighting candidate Trump in second place? Something sketchy when considered against the backdrop of thousands of his supporters at his Iowa rallies, contrast with a few hundred by the next closest candidate.