Team Trump Admits Poll Showed Biden Crushing Him — But Insists Everything’s Changed

US President Donald Trump looks on as he steps off Air Force One at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska on June 11, 2019. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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After heated denials from President Donald Trump, his campaign this week finally admitted that yes, their internal March polling did show former Vice President Joe Biden handily beating the President in key battleground states. But, they insist, Trump has made huge gains since then.

Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told ABC News that the polls reported on last month were “ancient.”

“Since then, we have seen huge swings in the President’s favor across the 17 states we have polled, based on the policies now espoused by the Democrats,” he said. “For example, the plan to provide free health care to illegal immigrants results in an 18-point swing toward President Trump.”

Trump had been angrily punching back at anyone who mentions the poll to him, including George Stephanopoulos during a recent interview when the President insisted that “those polls don’t exist.” As recently as Friday morning, Trump told the “Fox and Friends” hosts that polls showing him trailing Biden were “incorrect.” 

Parscale insisted that Trump was correct to say that the polls aren’t real.

“The President is correct that we have no current polls against defined Democrats – at all – that show him losing in any of the states we have tested. For example, the President leads in Florida by 8 points. He holds leads in all other states we have polled,” Parscale said in his statement to ABC News.

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  1. Avatar for outis outis says:

    So, “Everything has changed” even though there are no polls showing such a change. I suppose this is the Trump Gut Poll, with a sample of one.

  2. shorter brad pascale:

    We did some push polling to make the client feel better. It worked.
    Now go away, before you get the client upset again.

    ETA Pascale said:

    “For example, the plan to provide free health care to illegal immigrants results in an 18-point swing toward President Trump.”

    and when we told them about all the babies that died because they were denied health care by immigation authorities under Trump’s policies, it resulted in a 36 point swing back toward the Democrats

  3. Avatar for outis outis says:

    More likely, we just made up some numbers to make Trump happy.

  4. “The President leads in all the states we have polled. Like Florida where he is ahead by 8 points. There’s also Florida, and don’t forget about Florida!”

  5. Avatar for tena tena says:

    You’re right, Trumpy, everything is fine now. Just go back to being you and don’t worry about it.

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