Trump 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien went unchallenged on Thursday when he slammed Fox News’ polling during an interview with network.
Stepien appeared on Fox & Friends, where they started things off by asking him to react to their latest poll showing Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump in 3 battleground states ahead of the 2020 election. Stepien immediately protested the results when asked how his internal numbers were different, saying “I love Fox News, I love you guys. I don’t love your polls.”
“What don’t you like about it?” Fox host Steve Doocy asked. Stepien went on to claim that “the methodology is little askew” in Fox’s polling, that it oversampled Democratic voters, and “if Joe Biden is actually winning by 9 in Arizona, he wouldn’t be visiting Arizona later next week.” There was no further pushback from the hosts of Fox & Friends.
Trump has wailed repeatedly whenever Fox News’ polling showed him down to Biden, or underwater in his approval rating. Trump’s allies has joined him in bashing Fox’s polling, and in the past Fox News hosts have repeatedly pushed back on the attacks. It’s worth noting that Fox’s polling is often in line with other pollsters.
Fox has defended their polling unit as a “nonpartisan source of research,” and in a previous rebuke to one of Trump’
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