The President has brushed off his low polling numbers as having been “made up by the Fake News Media.”
“My REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been,” Trump claimed in a Truth Social post on Monday. “Don’t believe the Radical Left’s Fake Poll Numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!”
Recent surveys have indicated that Democrats are leading over Republicans on generic ballots, with just a few months before the pivotal November midterm elections. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released this week found that 42% of registered voters said they would cast their ballot for a Democratic congressional candidate if the midterms were held that day, while 37% would back a Republican congressional candidate.
A recent CNN/SSRS poll also suggested that support is higher for Democrats than it is for Republicans: when asked which party’s congressional candidate they would vote for if an election were taking place that day, 47% of registered voters said they would back the Democrat, compared to just 39% who said they would cast their ballot for the Republican. That 8-point difference is up from a 5-point gap between the two parties that was marked by CNN in January.
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