Liz Sheld:
“…Another day, another leak from a “friendly.” Do you ever see these kinds of shenanigans coming from the Democrats: people supposedly “on their side” sabotaging their candidate or their president with leaks? No, we see people “on their side” lying under oath to protect their candidate, we see them smashing phones to hide evidence, deleting emails after they were subpoenaed, or even using the government surveillance apparatus in the service of “their” side. Maybe the internal saboteurs aren’t really on our side? It’s worth a thought.
The leak, which showed that Trump trailed Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential contest in several states, prompted a swell of negative headlines, causing a headache for Trump’s advisers and annoying the president himself. It comes as Trump is preparing to announce his re-election bid during a rally in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday.
As a result of the leak, the Trump campaign is ending its relationship with Brett Lloyd, Mike Baselice and Adam Geller, according to the person. It will continue working with its other pollsters, Tony Fabrizio and John McLaughlin.
Lloyd is the head of the Polling Company, a firm started by Kellyanne Conway in 1995. Conway is now a senior White House adviser to Trump and is no longer formally connected to the company. Baselice is the founder of Baselice & Associates, a national research firm. Geller is the founder and CEO of National Research Inc., and has done polling for former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
The polls in question starting appearing in the media a few months ago. Last week The New York Times reported that Trump wanted the results of the poll downplayed. Scandalous!
It’s much too early to put any stock in the presidential horse race, the media has been weaponizing polls for years and more so now that they have abandoned any pretense to reporting information and are all in with the #resistance. Wasn’t Jeb! on the fast track to the nomination at this time during the 2016 campaign? The polls are an early snapshot of an electorate that has not yet been exposed to campaigning for 2020. The numbers are being used as propaganda…”