JD Vance warned that the mainstream media uses fake polls to try to drive down voter turnout
Don’t believe everything the pollsters tell you was JD Vance’s message to voters in an interview on Sunday.
Vance appeared on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream to talk about the current state of the Trump-Vance campaign. He was showed footage of former presidential hopeful Nikki Haley, who said that the Trump campaigns needs to appeal to a broader base than committed MAGA supporters, and a quotation from Karl Rove, who complained that Trump was focusing too much on insulting his opponent, Kamala Harris.
Trump’s VP pick dismissed claims the campaign wasn’t making a broad enough appeal, and said that he and the former president have been “making a very simple argument.”
“When Donald Trump was President, we had stable prices, we had prosperity, we had higher take home pay for American workers, and we had peace across the world,” Vance said.
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Vance accused the media of giving Kamala Harris a “three-week lovefest,” and said that voters should not believe the polls, which are consistently giving Harris a lead over Trump.
“Consistently what you have seen in 2016 and 2020 is that the media uses fake polls to drive down Republican turnout and to create dissension and conflict with Republican voters,” Vance said.
“The Trump campaign is in a very, very good spot. We are gonna win this race. We just have to run through the finish line.”
A new CBS poll, for example, showed Trump with a commanding, even a massive lead, on key issues like the economy, crime and immigration, yet overall the poll still put Kamala Harris ahead, by three points. Other polls have shown that Harris is ahead in important states like Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina, as well as key battleground states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Vance said he felt confident from his experiences on the campaign trail that voters would make the right decision come November.
“If you see the numbers that we are seeing, and you actually talk to the American people, I feel extremely confident that we are going to be in the right place come November.”
