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Polls Show Trump Losing to Kamala Harris Now, So He’s Calling them ‘Fake’ and ‘Dishonest’

Posted by on August 12, 2024 at 1:55 pm. 6 Comments :

The evidence of Donald Trump’s aversion to anything that remotely resembles the truth is abundant and unarguable. Particularly when that evidence comes from Trump himself. For instance, in the book that he lies about having written – “The Art of the Deal” – Trump said via his ghost writer that “People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole.”

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There is, of course, nothing truthful about hyperbole, which is defined as “an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.” In other words, it is a claim that has been deliberately falsified. And Trump is so proud of his use of it that he not only bragged about it in his book, he employs it in his commentaries almost daily. Whatever he is engaged in is the biggest and best in the history of humankind. And anything his foes do is the worst since time began.

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Among Trump’s most frequent deployments of his hyperbolic lies is his obsession with polling that places him in positive territory. His floundering social media scam, Truth Social, is littered with his posts declaring that he has insurmountable leads over his adversaries, even if only by insignificant amounts within the margin of error.

However, most recent polls show Kamala Harris in the lead. It is a small lead at this point, but a substantial move in her direction from prior polls. As a result, Trump has abandoned his celebration of surveys. With the exception of a couple of Trump-fluffing outfits (e.g. Rasmussen, Trafalgar), he has quit his posting of polls. Instead, he is now bashing the whole profession as “fake” and “dishonest.” On Monday morning he whined…

“A Major, and highly respected, Pollster: ‘Don’t let the embargo of other polling fool anyone – Democrats are in real trouble.’ Fake Polls are changing their methods and standards from 3 weeks ago. Highly inaccurate (dishonest!).”

Notice that Trump didn’t bother to identify this mysterious “Major, and highly respected, Pollster.” That’s a common tactic of his when he’s quoting someone that almost certainly isn’t highly respected. Nevertheless, he is comforted by his fantasy that “Democrats are in real trouble,” despite the reality that he is in a downward spiral as all the trends are against him. [Update: The pollster Trump was covertly quoting is Rasmussen]

None of that has tempered Trump’s political dementia. This weekend he posted an acutely deranged comment wherein he insisted that “I’m doing really well in the Presidential Race, leading in almost all of the REAL polls.” In Trump World, “real” is defined by whatever feeds Trump’s ego.

On Friday Trump held what he pretended was a press conference wherein he replied to a question about why he hasn’t been campaigning by insulting the reporter and lying: “What a stupid question. Because I’m leading by a lot. And I’m letting their convention go through.”

In the real world, Trump is not leading by a lot – or at all. And if he’s refraining from campaigning until the Democratic National Convention is over, he’s gonna have to wait another two weeks. That makes no sense. He’s trending down now, but he thinks it’s a good idea to lounge at his Mar-a-Lago bunker until after Democrats get an expected bounce from their convention? It must be some kind of brilliant, “stable genius,” 3D Checkers.

Trump is behaving like someone who knows that he has no chance of winning. He’s essentially giving up. And since he can’t boast about his polling, he’s attacking the pollsters. It’s all so transparently driven by fear and desperation. And it’s turning his maniacal hyperbole up from eleven to forty-something. The next stop for Trump might be a room at Shady Pines.

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