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 ...
Redundant.
Can we agree, at least, that this statement is not controversial?
Yep. 4 polls came out this week with Trump at 33, 32, 29 and 24 percent. Guess which one got 99% of the media coverage?
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Winston Smith
The Real Clear Politics poll average peak for Trump was about 31% a few weeks back. Trump is currently at 24% in that same poll average.
Am I lying if I report that Trump is slipping in the polls?
Real Clear Politics do not show all polls.
makes no sense that he would be averaging 24 percent if 24 percent was the lowest result he has had in any recent poll.
this same articke has been posted four maybe five times
I am not sure if you realize that Business Insider is a left wing site?
I do see a Bloomberg poll that has him at 21— I do think he is slipping a bit.
Looks like Karl Rove’s “Operation Hummingbird” has hit the headlines. Pretty soon, Firiona will be even with Hillary and the fight will begin.
Rove, GOPe, National Chamber of Commerce and other moneyed groups do not want to see Donald Trump to be the candidate, representing the GOP and the citizens of these United States. Most of our elected and the moneyed group in the dc cartel think, not of these United States and her citizens, but of One World Government that they will control.
Well 24 is indeed a lower number than 31. :-) 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. He should stop wasting time on these little cat fights and stick to the issues. 24% is still a great polling number.
I do.
An outlier poll was just included in the average at Real Clear Politics that has distorted the pull back for Trump. Every poll but Bloomberg had Trump still in the mid to high 20’s. The Bloomberg one has him at 21% and that exagerated the small drop Trump had after the 2nd debate.
The last poll taken before the 2nd debate was CBS/NYT
it had Trump at 27%
in the 4 polls taken since then Trump has had:
24%, 25%, 21%, and 26%.
The 21% is the outlier Bloomberg poll. The others are all withing the margin of error.
So yes, Trumps numbers did dip a little from the high 20’s to the mid 20’s, but he is still about 3 times higher than the media dubbed presumtive nominee “Bush”
Meanwhile Carley who did get a small bounce from the debate is already seeing it fade and is back into single digits.
No, not under this title. This is the first one.
“Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said the media is motivated to diminish Trump’s standing.”
Isn’t that the understatement of the year!
In all due respect Mr. Lewandowski, the media’s looking to do more damage to Trump than that.
There are still 15 candidates and four months before the first primary. It doesn’t matter whether he’s at 20% or 30% in the polls; what matters is that (1) Jeb Bush is in single digits and (2) he converts his 20-30% polling into a ground campaign in the early states. Watching the last few cycles, things change very quickly based on the results in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Nothing makes things real like actual people showing up and pulling actual levers for their preferred choice.
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