Biden campaign sends memo to media outlets asserting disparity in polling coverage

[CharlieH]

 

President Biden’s reelection campaign sent a memo to news outlets Tuesday asserting that there’s disparity in the way the media has covered polling, so far, following the coverage of the latest set of polls that show Biden trailing former President Trump in a hypothetical 2024 rematch.

The memo from Biden-Harris 2024 communications director Michael Tyler was sent first exclusively to The Hill. It will be sent to political directors, editors, and producers at major media outlets and television networks, according to the memo.

 

“Despite the ‘hair-on-fire’, ‘sky-is-falling’ tone we’ve seen from media coverage over the last few days, political predictions more than a year out tend to look a little different a year later. Gallup predicted an eight-point loss for President Obama only for him to win handedly a year later. A year out from the 2022 midterms, every major outlet similarly predicted a grim forecast for President Biden,” Tyler said in the memo.

Tyler cited polling that showed Biden leading Trump or is tied with the former president from Oct. 17 through Nov. 6, including polls from NPR/PBS/Marist, Yahoo News/YouGov, USA/Suffolk, and Quinnipiac University, among others.

“In recent days, the New York Times/Siena College poll has gotten non-stop attention to the exclusion of nearly every other poll. But if you zoom out, you’ll see a more complete picture. There have been eight polls in the past three weeks showing President Biden leading or tied with Donald Trump,” Tyler said.

 

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[JonnyF]

He sounds worried, like he's trying to convince himself more than anyone else.

 

Is it possible that their strategy of tying up Trump in ridiculous lawsuits isn't working? So now they're trying to gaslight everyone into thinking that Biden is in fact wildly popular? Desperate stuff even by their standards...

[Chomper Higgot]

And yet Biden is outperforming Trump on political donations.

 

I guess flooding the news with rigged polls is a lot easier than raising funds for which the accounting needs to be published. 

 

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/16/biden-tops-trump-in-2024-campaign-fundraising-for-third-quarter.html

[Tug]

Waaayyyy to early to give this particular poll much credence also in elections today in Kentucky and Ohio all the magga backed stuff failed handily and Kentuckys dem governor handily won re election it’s prudent to pay attention to these polls and use them to improve the messaging nessary to win 

[thaibeachlovers]

Their desperation is becoming ever more strident as just the thought that Trump might win is apparently panicking them.

Perhaps they can come up with a few more silly court cases.

[Tug]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Their desperation is becoming ever more strident as just the thought that Trump might win is apparently panicking them.

Perhaps they can come up with a few more silly court cases.

Desperation hummm?then how pray tell do you explain how the magga agenda just got spanked soundly in the elections held today??now the dems hold both houses in Virginia kept the dem gov in Kentucky disemboweled the anti pro choice religious nutters in Ohio sorry to disappoint you (not really) obviously America doesent want the snake oil trump  is pushing  it is a good day for American democracy!

[candide]

I think they are talking about this.

 

https://www.racetothewh.com/president/polls

[EVENKEEL]

21 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And yet Biden is outperforming Trump on political donations.

 

I guess flooding the news with rigged polls is a lot easier than raising funds for which the accounting needs to be published. 

 

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/16/biden-tops-trump-in-2024-campaign-fundraising-for-third-quarter.html

If you're claiming the polls are rigged, you should back up the claim with proof.

[impulse]

16 hours ago, candide said:

 

Interesting that Trump's numbers seem to be going up as they pile on more charges.

[Chomper Higgot]

59 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

If you're claiming the polls are rigged, you should back up the claim with proof.

Compare them with the election results that came in this week.

[EVENKEEL]

7 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Compare them with the election results that came in this week.

So, no proof the polls are rigged. Got it.

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1 hour ago, EVENKEEL said:

If you're claiming the polls are rigged, you should back up the claim with proof.

Well, were the polls rigged in 2016? "Rigging" implies intent. The polls can be wrong based on mistaken assumptions. Lately, in special elections, Democrats have repeatedly outperformed what the polls show. It may be, and it's only my guess, that millennials and Generation Z voters are turning out in higher numbers than was postulated by pollsters.

[EVENKEEL]

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

Well, were the polls rigged in 2016? "Rigging" implies intent. The polls can be wrong based on mistaken assumptions. Lately, in special elections, Democrats have repeatedly outperformed what the polls show. It may be, and it's only my guess, that millennials and Generation Z voters are turning out in higher numbers than was postulated by pollsters.

Talk to the poster who stated they were rigged.

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4 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Talk to the poster who stated they were rigged.

You got me there.