Lara Trump Explains Away Bad Polls: People Are ‘Afraid’ To Voice Support For Prez

GREENVILLE, NC - JULY 17: Lara Trump speaks during a Keep America Great rally on July 17, 2019 in Greenville, North Carolina. Trump is speaking in North Carolina only hours after The House of Representatives voted do... GREENVILLE, NC - JULY 17: Lara Trump speaks during a Keep America Great rally on July 17, 2019 in Greenville, North Carolina. Trump is speaking in North Carolina only hours after The House of Representatives voted down an effort from a Texas Democrat to impeach the President. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Lara Trump, an adviser on President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, explained away head-to-head match-ups with Democrats that show the President losing significantly by saying that people are “more afraid” to express their support of the President now than they were in 2016.

“This the same thing we saw in 2016,” Lara Trump said. “The polls have never accurately reflected how people feel about this President, especially now. I think people are even more so afraid now to voice their support for President Trump then they were when he was just a candidate in 2016.”

The latest ABC/Washington Post poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) all besting Trump in head-to-head match-ups. Of that group, Biden, Warren and Sanders all beat Trump by double digits.

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  1. Avatar for chipg chipg says:

    This is great. Let’s just hope they really believe this and behave accordingly!

  2. And why might that be, Lara? Pray tell.

  3. Lara trump, speaking of support for donald, I would prefer him to be in hand cuffs and thrown in jail. So no I don’t support him.

  4. I think people are even more so afraid now to voice their support for President Trump then they were when he was just a candidate in 2016

    Afraid that it would be used in an involuntary commitment hearing.

  5. Beat me to it by 1 second

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