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Leaked audio has emerged from the DeSantis donor strategy meeting in Miami on Thursday. In the clip you can hear below, DeSantis strategists tell high dollar donors making calls for the campaign that:DeSantis’s position is keeping abortion decisions at a state level (following Trump’s position);That the Governor will shift to the middle during a general election;The campaign’s position on abortion can be described as “safe, legal, and rare in Florida” – a stunning deployment of President Bill Clinton’s infamous pro-abortion catchphrase.During the session, the hosts – including DeSantis pollster Ryan Tyson amongst others – can be heard lauding this a...

There's been a lot of talk among Republicans about the effect a big primary field might have on the 2024 presidential nomination race. The short version is that a big field is thought to benefit former President Donald Trump, who, as in 2016, would not have to win a majority of votes to win — a plurality, and not even a big one, would be enough. On the other hand, a small field, especially a one-on-one matchup with another candidate, say Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), might allow the challenger to defeat Trump. But now, a new poll suggests some of...

Top Democrat pollsters and strategists are beginning to realize the Biden administration is failing on nearly every challenge before the nation, including Afghanistan, increasing wages, border security, and coronavirus.Pollster Paul Maslin told Politico Joe Biden’s presidency has turned into chaos with few if any redeeming features.“There’s no good news here. This is all on his watch,” said Maslin, who worked Jimmy Carter and Howard Dean. “You can argue what he’s doing or not doing, but it’s almost irrelevant. If things are chaotic and wrong, it ain’t going to help him.”Another Democrat strategist also told the outlet Biden was supposed to...

National surveys of the 2020 presidential contest were the least accurate in 40 years, while the state polls were the worst in at least two decades...But unlike 2016, when pollsters could pinpoint factors like the education divide as reasons they underestimated Donald Trump and offer specific recommendations to fix the problem, the authors of the new American Association for Public Opinion Research report couldn't put their finger on the exact problem they face now.

You’ve probably noticed a barrage of approval rating polls being released in the past month or so, and nearly all of them show Joe Biden as a president for the ages. We’ve seen such high numbers as 60% approval in some surveys. Perhaps Biden is just that much of a unifier, despite pushing the most radical, divisive agenda in modern history? Or perhaps there’s something else going on with these polls.Yeah, it’s the latter.D+31 sample. https://t.co/kAfgbwrFYg— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) April 17, 2021Random thought, but if your sample is coming out to a raw D+31 sample, perhaps there’s something wrong with...

Fox News is simply stating facts: • The election is over. • Trump lost. If you want to stop watching, fine. But don’t mock others for wanting a “safe space” ever again. Too many people want media to affirm their views, not inform them.

Considering these five facts about the election, it's no wonder Biden failed to achieve a landslide victory — and one might say it's curious that he'd achieve victory at all. If I told you an incumbent president had 52 percent approval on Election Day and ended up winning 10 million more votes than during his first election, would you predict victory? What if 56 percent of voters felt they were better off since the president had entered office? What if you knew that the incumbent had a nearly 30 percent enthusiasm edge over his opponent, or that when asked for...

The media do not get to determine who the president is. The people do. When all lawful votes have been counted, recounts finished, and allegations of fraud addressed, we will know who the winner is— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) November 7, 2020 1. The media do not declare who’s president-elect. There’s a constitutional and statutory process. Gore litigated for 37 days. Clearly the media want this ended today.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) November 7, 2020 2. And this is also intended to pressure the Supreme Court justices and other courts where there is pending litigation and will be litigation. We...

U.S.—After grossly miscalculating the election results in almost every possible way, pollsters are insisting that their polls were indeed 100% correct except that everyone just voted wrong. "We stand by our polling 100%," said Ned Boop, who is a very smart pollster who wears fancy-looking glasses. "Our methodology and results were entirely correct and we're also very intelligent. It's just that all the stupid people we polled voted incorrectly like dumb-heads." CNN is also backing the findings of their pollsters who predicted the complete opposite of almost every single thing that actually happened on Election Day. "We believe our pollsters...

Tuesday's election will not only be a contest between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz but also between their American pollsters. John McLaughlin stood beside Netanyahu in a video he posted on Friday explaining why Otzma Yehudit would not cross the 3.25% electoral threshold. In explaining why he was so sure, Netanyahu pointed at McLaughlin and said that he was the pollster for US president Donald Trump. Blue and White's American strategist Joel Benenson also made the news this past week, when Netanyahu accused him of being behind a false report in Politico accusing Israel...

I sympathize with POTUS and campaign manager Brad Parscale in being angry that their own internal polls somehow ended up in the media’s hands. But why do they assume the leak came from the pollsters rather than from someone inside Trump’s campaign who had access to the data? How tightly restricted is access to it? Neither the Times nor ABC said anything in their stories about who their sources were.Are the pollsters being fired because of the leak or are they being fired because the numbers were bad?The obvious solution: Replace them with Rasmussen Reports and let Trump spend...

As he should be. The economy is booming, wages are up, unemployment is down, and America is respected once again, specifically by China, Russia, and Iran. Life is great in America, contrary to what the fake news media says. According to the poll, Trump’s approval rating is at 51%, despite the fact that over 90% of the media coverage of the President is viciously hostile and bias. His numbers among millennial’s, women, and suburban voters are trending up steadily as well. These numbers should make the Democrats and the mainstream media very nervous. However, these numbers are they are likely...

Well, the American voters know that the spoken words of prediction from the American media, pollsters and pundits ain't really worth a plug nickel, these days, at best. Shucks, maybe we should begin judging the outcome of elections by sizing up and rating the political rallies that abound across the entire country. Common sense would reveal that if we measured the attendance & performance at Republican Political Rallies against the Democrat Political Rallies, we could come up with what the future will hold or deliver to we, the American people. Nah...we can't do that, The Trump political rallies are massive...

Listening to the TV Media CNN, MSNBC, FNC & FBN, this morning is really something to behold. None of them, and I mean not a one, has a clue as what will go down, tomorrow, Tuesday, Mid-Term Election Day, November 6, 2018. They are all hedging their bets. Boy....they all were so smug and sure of themselves in 2016. Now they are all playing the CYA game to the hilt!!! Sickening sites, predictions and words from all of them!!! So, Mr & Mrs & Ms, American voter, you are all on your own, because your thoughts, facts and ideas as...

3 in 4 Chance Democrats win control (74.6%)

Fake news does not belong specifically to the mainstream media, it thrives among latter day pollsters too. The truth about Rasmussen and other pollsters should be shouted from the rooftops. While most people use cell phones, pollsters call land lines for their polls. As Canada Free Press reader Paul Bush of Illinois so aptly puts it: “By their own admission they call LAND LINES!”

As they investigate the forces behind the party’s stunning losses in November, Democrats are coming to a troubling conclusion. The party didn’t just lose among rural white voters on Election Day, it may have failed to capture them in its pre-election polling as well. Many pollsters and strategists believe that rural white voters, particularly those without college degrees, eluded the party’s polling altogether — and their absence from poll results may have been both a cause and a symptom of Donald Trump’s upset victory over Hillary Clinton in several states. . . Determining what exactly happened is one of the...

Statistics expert Nate Silver claims defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would "almost certainly" have made it to the Oval Office if the election had been held before FBI Director James Comey announced the reopening of the agency's investigation into her private email practices. "Comey had a large, measurable impact on the race," wrote Silver, who ran FiveThirtyEight's election forecast, in a series of tweets Sunday morning.

The citizens of this country lied to the pollsters The post-mortem on the 2016 election has now begun (and will probably continue for the next dozen election cycles) trying to identify for both Democrats and Republicans how badly the polls performed. The questions will all be variations on a simple premise: How could our pollsters have failed us so badly?

THE MEDIA DIDN’T GET IT WRONG – The pollsters did not work from the wrong data set; the media pollsters, consultants and professional political class did not work from the wrong assumptions, or use the incorrect baselines….. THEY LIED. The professional media polling agents knew exactly what the truth was. They lied and manipulated their data in a concerted effort to intentionally falsify reality. There should be no doubt, EVER, in the mind of any political observer as to what took place within the expressed and broadcasted polling which fueled over two years of broadcast news. The media intentionally lied....