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President Trump's Threefold Opposition

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Victor Davis Hanson

And it's actually, if you think about it, a tripartite, a threefold opposition:

1. pollsters, 

2. the media, 

3. and the Democratic Party and the institutionalized Left.

The pollsters have President Donald Trump down four or five points. But when you actually look at the Rasmussen poll or Mark Penn's poll, a Democratic centrist, Trump is almost even. And then when you look with greater clarity at The New York Times poll that has him way down, you see that only 37% of the people polled voted for Donald Trump. But Donald Trump won by almost a point and a half. Don't you think it should have been, I don't know, 51%-49%? So, they were deliberately, in the case of The New York Times, under-polling Trump supporters.

The same was true with The Washington Post. They polled over 2,000 people, but only 840 were identified as Trump voters. Shouldn't that have been half?

So, what am I getting at? 

We're getting right back to what happened in 2016 when the polls were completely wrong. 

The same thing happened in 2020 when they overestimated former President Joe Biden's strength by four or five points. And then, even in 2024, the NPR poll had—on the last day of the election—they had then-Vice President Kamala Harris winning by four points.

The Des Moines Register had Iowa lost to Trump by three points. He won it by 12.

So, what the pollsters are doing—not that Trump hasn't lost some to the controversy over the trade wars—but the pollsters are trying to create momentum, fundraising, and jazz up opposition.

Then we turn to the media. The media's in a fight with the Democratic Left now because of the scandal of Joe Biden. The Democratic Left is saying, "Well, you were a journalist. If you thought he was demented or cognitively challenged, why didn't you report it?" But the journalists are saying, "We couldn't get close to him. He looked OK for us because you had him in such a guarded environment." In truth, they're both guilty.