The media’s new false narrative
On the days that Donald Trump’s trial is taking place, I put on MSNBC and CNN in the background on mute in case they happen to break news about the trial before any of the courtroom reporters are able post it online.
While MSNBC was on this past week, I noticed a chyron claiming that Trump’s poll numbers were improving since the trial had started. So I chuckled, looked up the polling averages, and confirmed that it wasn’t true. Cable news isn’t always lying, but they’re somehow always lying about the polls.
The funny part is that back in the real world, two major new polls — one from ABC and one from NPR – show President Biden having opened a four to five point lead since Trump’s trial started.
Most polls still show a much closer contest, and yes, some polls still show Trump ahead. And no, polls don’t win elections, campaign volunteers like you do. But it’s nonetheless hilarious that as Trump’s poll numbers are getting worse as a result of his trial, cable news wants us to believe the opposite is happening, in order to generate suspense. But in reality, anyone can look these numbers up. They just seem to be counting on you being too paralyzed from staring at your screen to bother looking them up.
