An offended, rambling, and defensive Donald Trump lastly emerged from hiding on Thursday to provide his stump speech to a bunch of reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The GOP’s presidential nominee insisted he had the largest rally crowds ever and tried to make information by lastly agreeing to debate Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. However all reporters wished to speak about was his floundering marketing campaign.
One reporter talked about that Trump has only one public occasion scheduled this week.
“Some of your allies have expressed concern that you’re not taking this race seriously,” the reporter mentioned, which set Trump off on one in every of a number of tirades about latest polls.
“I’m leading by a lot,” Trump claimed, after calling it a “stupid question.”
He returned to that matter on this riff about his “good polls” the place he’s “substantially leading.”
“Fortunately, we’ve had some very good polls over the last fairly short period of time,” Trump mentioned. “Rasmussen came out today with substantially leading,” he continued.
That’s true: Rasmussen does have a brand new ballot giving Trump a 5-point lead. However that’s Rasmussen, the notoriously conservative and inaccurate pollster that 538 dropped from its polling averages and forecasts earlier this yr. Additionally, Rasmussen had Harris main by 5 factors as not too long ago as six days in the past.
However Trump was on a roll.
“Others came out today that we’re leading and in some cases substantially,” he boasted. “CNBC came out also with a poll that has us leading, and leading fairly big in swing states.”
Trump’s lead within the head-to-head with Harris within the CNBC ballot is 2 factors. It’s a nationwide ballot and doesn’t present knowledge from swing states. By no means thoughts—in his head, it’s true.
“Some polls I’m leading very big in swing states,” Trump insisted.
In actuality, no, he’s not. On Thursday, the Prepare dinner Political Report shifted its rankings for 3 swing states, altering them from “Lean Republican” to “Toss Up”:
In response to 538’s ballot aggregates, Harris has an edge over Trump within the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and he or she’s operating neck and neck with Trump in North Carolina.
On the finish of final week, Harris had the lead in a dozen separate nationwide polls.
The surge Harris skilled after President Joe Biden stepped apart and endorsed her because the Democratic candidate wasn’t a blip or a bounce, both. It’s sustained, and it has modified this race.
And Trump can’t take it.
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