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There is no upsides, ... I can't see that there's any advantage to me or my career in messing with the numbers to make it look a particular way.
Selzer told CNN's Anderson Cooper, explaining
So we did it the way, we did it when he won in our final poll twice, in two election cycles, very same method,
Selzer saidWhen you read it they interviewed far more Democrats than Republicans,
the GOP nominee complianedI got a poll, I'm 10 points up in Iowa,
Trump saidCelebrate the Selzer poll for 90 seconds and get back to work. We have an election to win.”
Christopher Hale, a former Democrat congressional candidate in Tennessee said
Ann Selzer's a very fine pollster, considered the gold standard, so maybe she's onto something we don't know—I don't live there. But the way we've polled it, and we've been very successful in the past, I just don't see that happening."
Towery said
I will donate my entire bank account if Selzer is off by less than nine points. It's not worth tweeting about anymore, we have an election to win on Tuesday!"
It later postedAll polls, except for one heavily skewed toward the Democrats by a Trump hater who called it totally wrong the last time, have me up, BY A LOT
he wroteIt's called suppression. They suppress, and it actually should be illegal."
At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, Trump referenced the poll in his speech, saying
For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement,
Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida told the right-wing network Newsmax this year
As we settle back into what feels like a status quo,
the Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini told NPR last yearIt was over the summer that Iowa’s six-week ban on abortion went into effect after all the court challenges were taken care of,
she saidMy ballot is on its way to California, and I'm going to trust the system that it will arrive there,
she said
On Saturday, top Democrats appear to have received early access to an absurd outlier poll of Iowa conducted by the Des Moines Register. Not to be outdone, the New York Times arrived right on cue with another set of polling data being used to drive a voter suppression narrative against President Trump's supporters. Some in the media are choosing to amplify a mad dash to dampen and diminish voter enthusiasm. It has not worked. Our voters are like President Trump: they fight,
the statement read
That number you cite is probably the single reason for the shift in the Democratic mood from pervasive gloom, say a week ago, to what they're calling nauseas optimism on the brink of election—that women are comprising such a high percentage of the early vote."
When presented with the Catalist figures, Ron Brownstein, a CNN senior political analyst and senior editor for The Atlantic, told CNN host Amara Walker on Saturday
To their credit, the Emerson College poll has an R+4 party split (below 2020 exit polls at R+10), and a Trump +8 recalled 2020 vote margin that aligns with reported returns,
chief Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio said
You're voting for the wrong person and will end up in a depression ... you will not be safe,
Trump arguedWe’re watching an energy that I think has not been there for a while, where we continue to see where women understand firsthand, what is at stake, that they understand the dynamics and the distinctions between these two candidates literally could not be more stark about when you’re talking about a future vision for the country.”
Moore continued
I think that’s the feeling that I get on the ground. It’s a very tight race. It’s going to be decided on Tuesday,
Burgum addedI love the farmers, and they love me. And they trust me.”
Trump continued, in all caps