Polls are 'phony,' Trump insists; 'we are winning'

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Associated Press

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — A defiant Donald Trump blamed his worsening campaign struggles on "phony polls" from the "disgusting" media on Monday, fighting to energize his most loyal supporters as his path to the presidency shrinks.

Just 14 days until the election, the Republican nominee campaigned in battleground Florida as his team conceded publicly as well as privately that crucial Pennsylvania may be slipping away. That would leave a razor-thin pathway to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House on Nov. 8.

Despite continued difficulties with women and minorities, Trump refuses to soften his message in the campaign's final days to broaden his coalition. The strategy leaves no margin for error. Yet Trump offered an optimistic front in the midst of a three-day tour through Florida as thousands began voting in person. "I believe we're actually winning," Trump declared during a round table discussion with farmers gathered next to a local pumpkin patch.

A day after suggesting the First Amendment to the Constitution may give the press too much freedom, he insisted that the media are promoting biased polls to discourage his supporters from voting.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/polls-are-phony-trump-insists-we-are-winning/ar-AAjkdWR

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Go Home You Big Baby And Play With Your Iron Pyrite

[Chicago1980]

3. Let our side think that he is...

and get out there to vote.

We can have no complacency.

[Beartracks]

7. Yes, GOTV as if Trump were ahead!

For that matter, in my state, he *is*.

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[cstanleytech]

4. He really needs to see a good doctor as I think he has some severe mental problems. nt

[C Moon]

5. Trump's not winning, just whining.

[DemInND]

6. The only thing phony is him

The guy is a real psycho. What more can you say? He knows it, with all the reports of early voting and the turnout, people know how important it is to send this turd down the toilet.

[saltpoint]

8. It must be difficult for Trump's

family and campaign staff to be around him, both over the long haul and especially the last few weeks.

What would we learn about his kids and his campaign staff if we could determine if their loyalty to Trump is about his money? The kids are surely bright enough to know that the election is all but lost. Yet they are presumably the chief beneficiaries of his largesse. Are they motivated only by greed for their handful of the cash or does their self-awareness include the idea that this campaign was ill-conceived, miserably conducted, and likely to end badly?

If all they want is their share of a Trump media network, we're back to greed as the primary motivator.

And there's also the question of Trump's mental health. Most grown-ups do not behave or speak in ways he's behaved and spoken. I'll defer to qualified clinicians on Trump's well-being, but from a lay perspective, he would appear to have some serious issues. Shouldn't his kids and staff care more about his personhood than his portfolio, or are they as money-driven as he is?

[BumRushDaShow]

9. "crucial Pennsylvania may be slipping away."

Excuse my language but I don't even know why the fucking media ever put PA "in play" in the first place.

[saltpoint]

14. The media like a contentious narrative,

I guess, so Pennsylvania got to be the setting for one of 'em.

Trump said early on that the only way he loses Pennsylvania is if Clinton cheats.

Looks like she's not cheating at all and is still kicking his sorry butt.

Then last week we heard of the Democratic Party busing people in from god knows where to vote "six times" for dead people. This from Rudy Giuliani, that beacon of uplifting vision and civic stability.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. The irony being a state like LA having not voted for a Democratic Prez since 1996

being "deep red" and not "in play" but a state like PA that hasn't voted for a GOP Prez since 1988 somehow being perpetually "in play".

[saltpoint]

19. Very good point. Possibly early on Trump's

internal polling showed some significant support in Pennsylvania and Trump interpreted this as "a likely win."

Just guessing, but there probably as no statistical grounds to make that interpretation. But it may have been made the way most other things are done in the Trump campaign -- by bluster.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Trump's and the media's problem is looking at the PA electoral map

and rubbing their hands in glee not realizing all that "red" that they see is coming out of counties with less than 100,000 population.

[saltpoint]

21. That's plausible. The reports from the Philadelphia area

look like a steady blue trend.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. The map didn't show up in my previous post but here is another

from 2012 -



The population of this 1 county in SE (my city Philly - in red) -



is about the same as the total of 9 of these 10 in SW PA (which excludes Allegheny County that includes Pittsburgh) -



If you add 1 more county to Philly (Montgomery - the long one that located NW), those 2 would equal the 10 in the SW (including Allegheny)!

They keep getting fooled but when the east and urban areas in the west and NW turn out, we turn the state blue!

[saltpoint]

24. Wonderful. Thank you for putting

up those visuals. It drives the point home. A lot of us in many other states are rooting for Democrats in Pennsylvania to have a really big night.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Ok, this is funny...

"I believe we're actually winning," Trump declared during a round table discussion with farmers gathered next to a local PUMPKIN PATCH!"

How could they even find him amongst all those pumpkins? He would have blended right in.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. The Great Pumpkin arose and pointed him out, and then told him he was winning

He has the Greatest supporters.

[Nitram]

12. Dump used to boast about how they were "winning all the polls!"

[Odin2005]

13. Is Trump channeling Baghdad Bob?

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Fakey polls?

sounds like phony baloney to me

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Baghdad Don

[dalton99]

17. He loved the same polls in the primaries

[hexola]

23. Winning Like Charlie Sheen...

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

25. "Don't believe anything you see or hear

unless I tell it to you." This is pretty much what Trump has been saying this whole time. Don't believe anyone, except him. Where does he get all his credibility from? He thinks we should just take his word for it. When all the media outlets report on the same story, but it is a story that makes Trump look bad in some way, we're supposed to think there is some complicated conspiracy going on. Well, I guess they are all conspiring to find the truth about Donald Trump.