Donald Trump has been so angry over his plummeting poll numbers against Democratic nominee Joe Biden that he recently threatened CNN with legal action. CNN’s legal department was even forced to respond to the thin-skinned president’s threats. Trump is not handling his possible loss to Biden very well and went as far as to demand CNN apologize to him over the poll that showed him fourteen points behind the former Vice-President.
The Daily Beast reports that White House staffers and campaign officials are trying to downplay the poll numbers to keep the president from “flying into a rage.” Trump aides are telling the president that the electoral and polling deficits that he’s facing aren’t as dire as he’s been hearing, according to the outlet.
“This helps keep the president from flying into a rage as much as he otherwise would,” one White House official said.
A senior aide on Trump’s 2020 team described to the Daily Beast the president’s reaction to CNN’s poll as the “dumbest thing I’ve read in a long time.”
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“In a cease-and-desist letter dated June 9, 2020, the president’s re-election staff demanded that CNN retract and apologize for a recently released poll that had presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leading Trump by 14 points,” the Beast reports. “The letter, which the cable news network immediately laughed off, heavily cited the work of Trump pollster John McLaughlin, whose company alleged that CNN had somehow engaged in a “defamatory” act of “misinformation” and deliberately “skewed” data in an attempt to depress the president’s supporters.”
“At one point, members of the president’s team began briefing him on the campaign’s own private polling, much of which did not look favorable,” the report states. “They sought to reassure the president by telling him that their numbers showed a large ‘enthusiasm gap’ between Trump and Biden voters and that much of the public polling wasn’t to be trusted, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. In particular, they argued that public polls skew in favor of the Democratic Party at this time because polling firms were polling registered voters and not ‘likely voters.'”
“In the characterization of one source close to the president, a chunk of the re-election team focuses on proving to the president that his ‘dumpster-fire numbers’ aren’t as bad as they seem, or reinforcing Trump’s conviction that pollsters get it wrong ‘all the time,'” the outlet adds.
Imagine wanting to be lied to so you can have your ego massaged. That is so Donald J. Trump, a narcissistic president who is allergic to facts. And somehow, his supporters are OK with that.
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