Trump Appears To Be Making Up Polls To Show Post-Debate Momentum Now

[DonViejo]

Donald Trump opened up a rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa on Wednesday afternoon touting what he suggested was a new poll showing him leading Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.

“So I understand that we have a Reuters poll where we’re 10 points up!” he bellowed.

But it's unclear where Trump got that number. An Ipsos/Reuters national tracking poll released Wednesday morning actually found Hillary Clinton ahead by six points in a head-to-head race against Trump, and by four points if third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are included.

Trump went on to cite a series of flash online polls whose responses showed him “winning” the first presidential debate against Hillary Clinton. Earlier Wednesday, Business Insider reported on a leaked memo from a Fox News executive to the network’s politics team, reminding them that such online polls “can't be representative of the electorate because they only reflect the views of those Internet users who have chosen to participate.”

“I’ll tell you what, we had the debate the other night, and every single online poll had me winning, by sometimes a landslide. And then you go on television, and these are Time Magazine, Drudge,” Trump said, referring to two websites which hosted online polls inviting readers to react to the debate. “And I’m winning by massive margins in many cases. One was 80 percent to 20 percent!”

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-touting-post-debate-online-polls

[louis-t]

1. Yeah, Charlie Sheen was 'winning' too.

Jeez, this guy is a psycho.

[Laffy Kat]

2. Completely delusional. He is a sick man. nt

[yallerdawg]

3. Maybe he's just a little buzzed.

He hears things, you know.

We shouldn't just rely on Dr. Howard Dean's concerns.

We should ask Trump's personal physician:

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. How far we've fallen from the dignity of a Mitt Romney, a John McCain, a George W Bush

"The Drudge Report had an online poll!!!!!"

It would be beneath the dignity of even Dubya to utter such nonsense in public. He's well into drunk uncle territory.

[LeftRant]

5. It's ok. The MSM told the truth and we can't reach into the RW bubble anyway.

All is well (as well as it can be).

[MANative]

6. I recall way back in the 6th or 7th grade, some 40 years ago, we had a saying...

"He's not conceited, he'd convinced!" It was meant for the delusional young boys among us who thought they were "God's gift" to the females of the planet and shouldn't ever be denied anything their poor little hearts desired. These were the guys that my friends and I generally rejected. Seems rather fitting for tRump!

[gademocrat7]

7. He is deranged.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. RW Authoritarian Followers are such ignorant suckers. Claim to be "informed" but get taken often.

It turns out that the RW Authoritarian Trump is a sucker too.


Maybe the poll he is talking about is an Iowa poll of some kind (apparently not Reuters who don't seem to do state polls). Trump doesn't need facts.

[MoonRiver]

9. I hope the deluded old fool really believes his lies.

Then he'll just relax and slide into the next debate completely unprepared, again. Then, in a fit of rage after being confronted about his misogyny by a, probably female, voter, he will, once again, go off the rails, having no clue how to respond, except through a tantrum.