Seemingly parroting the complaints from President Donald Trump about his dismal approval scores, conservative columnist Liz Peek wrote a column for Fox News Digital urging readers to “ignore” the “biased polls” as a result of MAGA loves the president’s first 100 days in workplace.
For some purpose, the Fox News contributor failed to say the right-wing community’s newest ballot that finds voters are extraordinarily sad with Trump’s dealing with of the financial system and nearly each different important situation, prompting the president to demand that the Fox pollster be “investigated for election fraud.”
Peek’s omission of Fox News’ survey in her column additionally comes as Trump adviser Stephen Miller railed in opposition to the community’s ballot in a Tuesday interview with Fox News anchor John Roberts and even demanded that the community “fire its pollster.”
“The liberal media, which has underestimated and misrepresented this president for the past decade, would have us believe that his second term so far has been a disaster,” Peek wrote in her Tuesday piece. “Many of us who voted for Trump disagree.”
She went on to quote famous Trump pollster John McLaughlin, who reacted to the newest surveys launched by the New York Times and Washington Post by claiming they have been improperly skewed in opposition to the president as a result of they didn’t embody sufficient Trump voters.
“Pollsters tell us that Trump’s approval ratings are in free fall. Critics (and the president) suggest some polls don’t pass the smell test,” she wrote. “GOP pollster John McLaughlin reports that in the new NY Times/Siena poll, which showed Trump with a meager 42 percent approving of how the president is handling his job, only 37 percent of the survey group voted for Trump in 2024.”
Peek added: “The recent ABC/Washington Post poll showed Trump at 39 percent approval – ‘The Lowest in 80 Years’ blared a headline – but included, according to McLaughlin, only 34 percent Trump voters. As McLaughlin asked pointedly on Truth Social, ‘Didn’t we win popular vote with 50 percent?’”
The right-wing pundit then cited a ballot by Quantus Insights, which she famous “claims to have achieved better accuracy than most polling outfits in 2024,” to indicate that the president’s approval score is at the moment at 48 %. Additionally, she highlighted a spotlight group of 15 Trump voters convened by GOP advisor Frank Luntz to dismiss the “relentlessly and universally negative” protection of Trump’s tariffs by the “liberal media.”
“Overall, the group appeared willing to give Trump time to work through his agenda, noting that it was only a few months into his term, and that he had three and a half years to go,” she added. “That is certainly not the view of the liberal press, which has fought Trump every step of his political journey.”
Peek didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
With a bevy of dangerous polls greeting his one hundredth day in workplace, which have all largely revealed that Americans are extremely involved concerning the financial influence of Trump’s commerce wars, the president took out his anger on the pollsters – and Fox News – earlier this week.
“These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add in the FoxNews Pollster while you’re at it,” Trump ranted on Truth Social on Monday. “They are Negative Criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I WIN ELECTIONS BIG, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose (sic) a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.”
He continued: “They suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and there is nothing that anyone, or anything, can do about it. THEY ARE SICK, almost only write negative stories about me no matter how well I am doing (99.9 percent at the Border, BEST NUMBER EVER!), AND ARE TRULY THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! I wish them well, but will continue to fight to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
He additionally cited McLaughlin, claiming that his trusted pollster discovered that the surveys from the New York Times and Washington Post have been “FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS.”Meanwhile, throughout his interview with Roberts, Miller took exception to the anchor referencing the newest Fox News ballot to say that voters felt that the president is losing an excessive amount of time on tariffs and never sufficient power on decreasing costs.
“I don’t want to make things weird for you, John, but it is our opinion that Fox News needs to fire its pollster,” Miller grumbled, including that the “Fox News pollster has always been wrong about President Trump” and the White House “does not acknowledge any of that polling.”
Standing there silent whereas Miller ravaged his community’s polling, which has usually been thought-about extremely revered within the business, Roberts would solely handle the state of affairs after the interview wrapped up. “He made a remark that was critical of our polling,” Roberts mentioned later within the broadcast. “Here at Fox News, we stand by our polling, as we always have.”
Although Peek seems to be turning a blind eye to Fox News’ survey, others on the community are sounding the alarm about what this might probably imply for the president in the long term.
“He’s in very bad shape,” Fox News contributor and longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove mentioned this previous weekend, citing the Fox ballot. “I think the tariffs are a big problem because people understand that it is a tax and that it’s going to be a tax on them that they have to pay.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fox-poll-trump-approval-ratings-b2742430.html