Livid that the conservative network’s poll has him losing, Trump claimed that Fox used a “biased” sample of Democratic voters to “skew the results” in Biden’s favor.
  • Hayduke@lemmy.world
    731·
    5 months ago

    I have a feeling they aired that to startle the base into ignoring all of the fuckery surrounding trump and voting for him out of fear. I somehow doubt the numbers are accurate or even from a conducted poll. I may be wrong but I figure if it’s on Fox, and it’s political, it’s probably intentional bullshit.

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
      42·
      5 months ago

      I’ve got a family member who was a LIFETIME Republican, he now shocked everyone by saying he won’t be voting for Trump no matter what. And if it looks like Trump could win he would vote for Biden.

      I’m sure he isn’t alone in these feelings, and Fox want to rile up their voters.

      It was hilarious hearing another family member being shocked and arguing why Trump is the only reasonable vote. When my newly never trump family member kept rebuking every argument, they finally said, “well you sure have an answer for everything, don’t you?” I’m sitting there just thinking, yea no shit, wonder why that is…

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      I may be wrong but I figure if it’s on Fox

      Oddly enough, polling is the one area where Fox News isn’t a complete shit show. 538 has consistently rated them highly throughout the years. In this case, the poll was run by Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. 538’s pollster ratings have them at #15, with a 2.8 rating out of 3.0. While it’s proper to be skeptical of anything with the Fox name attached, this is one of those areas where you can accept the poll at face value. That said, it’s still June and polls this far out are wildly bad at predicting the final outcome. They are better as a barometer of current sentiment and may help candidates to calibrate their messaging and campaigns as we get closer to the election. Also, a 1-2 point “lead” is almost certainly within the margin of error. So, this poll is really saying “it’s a dead heat” and drawing anything more of a conclusion is more of a rorschach test than anything.

    • Phegan@lemmy.world
      8·
      5 months ago

      Ive read that Fox News polls are actually one of the few things legit from them. It certainly has a right wing slant in who they ask, but they don’t falsify numbers. It’s generally believed to be reliable.

      Unlike everything else on Fox.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
        11·
        5 months ago

        if they’re saying trump is losing; i’ll believe them since he’s their guy.

        the same polls put him ahead of biden before the convictions and i’m surprised that it worked; i guess the old dictator trick of getting your political opponents convicted of crimes to discredit them still works.

    • Gerudo@lemm.ee
      51·
      5 months ago

      I hate that we are so jaded to this shit that the thought of them doing this isn’t weird.

      • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
        6·
        5 months ago

        I am slightly terrified of that.

        They would be unchained. Like, already shitty following the douchenozzle(in my opinion), but that might make them go rabid, and the potential of a (worse) monster becoming the head.

        • Daxtron2@startrek.website
          3·
          5 months ago

          Thats going to happen even if he dies peacefully in his sleep. No matter how he dies, they will go rabid. Thats what cults do.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            5 months ago

            That’s fine. If he loses this round, I doubt he’ll run again, and if he does, the RNC is unlikely to support him again. I want him to lose so it’s clear that his ideas are not wanted.

  • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
    19·
    5 months ago

    It’s astonishing how Trump and many other conservatives are so prone to claiming that anything that goes wrong in any way is some sort of conspiracy against them. Shit never goes sideways due to anything they did, there’s always someone else at fault.

    Not that I necessarily believe that Fox poll is accurate, exactly for the reason @Hayduke@lemmy.world points out in their comment – just as likely to be bullshit meant to scare conservatives into voting for him.