.MaddowBlog: Latest polls point to real trouble for Pres. Trump’s re-election prospects.
Earlier in the summer, Donald Trump hosted a news conference with farmers and ranchers, who heard the president talk about how impressed he is with himself. “A strange thing is happening: My numbers are going up,” the Republican claimed about his standing in the polls. “Someday, you’ll explain that to me.”As the summer nears its end, conditions have grown worse for the troubled president. The latest Gallup poll, for example, shows Trump’s slipping from 44% to 39% since July.
The poll found Trump’s approval rating dropping from 44% in June to 38% now. In the same findings, the president trails each of the top Democratic presidential hopefuls in hypothetical general-election match-ups, including double-digit deficits against Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris.
Indeed, nearly as interesting as the results are the excuses the president concocts to rationalize the data. The Republican has long based his understanding of polls on a simple principle – the results he likes are real, the ones he dislikes are fake – but the entertaining part is how he fleshes out the details.
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