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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The lack of media trust is serious as either side of the spectrum now doubts everything from the media.
The Stupid Party. Yes, banana republic, or Mexico North.
He’s totally behind. As in the world’s biggest ass.
Kind of interesting that they have a "data reporter" as distinct from all the other reporters who just spew made up stuff and left-wing opinions. I vaguely remember when pretty much all reporters were data reporters and you could draw your own conclusions.
Where do you think ballot harvesting takes place? In rural areas or in urban areas where they can knock on a hundred doors in a single morning, getting ballots filled out that they can deposit on behalf of those people in Philly and Pitt?
You assume the names on the ballots are valid. Lacking any degree of independent certification, I don’t.
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