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Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll showing Biden lead

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Daily US Times: US President Donald Trump’s campaign demanded CNN apologize and retract for a recent poll that showed him well behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

The letter from the President’s campaign to CNN President Jeff Zucker contained numerous incorrect and misleading claims and the network immediately rejected the demand. The letter also argued that the CNN poll is “designed to mislead American voters through a biased questionnaire and skewed sampling.”

Matt Dornic, a CNN spokesman, said the network stand by its poll.

The poll was conducted by SSRS and released on Monday shows Trump trailing the former vice president by 14 points, 55%-41%, among registered voters.

The CNN poll also finds the President’s approval rating at 38% — his worst mark since January 2019, and roughly on par with approval ratings for one-term Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush at this point in their reelection years — and his disapproval rating at 57%.

The letter reads: “It’s a stunt and a phony poll to cause voter suppression, stifle momentum and enthusiasm for the President, and present a false view generally of the actual support across America for the President.” It was signed by the Trump campaign’s senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis and chief operating officer Michael Glassner.

It finally requested that CNN retract the poll and publish a “full, fair, and conspicuous retraction, apology, and clarification to correct its misleading conclusions.”

CNN’s executive vice president and general counsel David Vigilante told the campaign that its “allegations and demands are rejected in their entirety.”

In response to the letter, Vigilante wrote: “To my knowledge, this is the first time in its 40-year history that CNN had been threatened with legal action because an American politician or campaign did not like CNN’s polling results.”

“To the extent we have received legal threats from political leaders in the past, they have typically come from countries like Venezuela or other regimes where there is little or no respect for a free and independent media,” he added.

CNN released the poll earlier this week and after that President Trump tweeted that he had hired Republican pollster McLaughlin & Associates to “analyze” the survey and others “which I felt were FAKE based on the incredible enthusiasm we are receiving.”

McLaughlin ranks as one of the least accurate pollsters in the industry, as measured by FiveThirtyEight.

But several other polls released over the past few weeks — including polls by ABC News/Washington Post, Quinnipiac University NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist College, Monmouth UniversityNBC News/Wall Street Journal, and Fox News — also show Biden well ahead of Trump. These polls, averaged with the CNN poll, find Biden up by double digits, a result well outside any margin of error.

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