The left is having a dickens of a time trying to take down President Donald Trump. Activist judges have not deterred him. Unfocused protests have not slowed him down. And now the left is recycling its highly unsuccessful psyop, bad polling, as it tries to convince supporters that finally — this time they are almost certain — Trump is losing the confidence of average Americans.
Just look at the polls, they beg.
The media has learned nothing in its many years of Trump coverage. Neither Trump nor his supporters back down from media’s manufactured bad news. It only spurs them on.
Trump has been through at least two successful presidential campaigns in which so-called expert pollsters rarely if ever put Trump in the lead. Why should we believe them now?
In anticipation of Trump’s first 100 days in office, the propaganda press whipped up stories about his approval ratings, using shaky polling as the foundation of their reporting. Each used different parameters. But when a poll is purchased or administered by a bias news outlet, the results are skewed.
Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 39 percent, according to a joint ABC News/Washington Post poll by the left leaning pollster Ipsos.
“The previous low in approval for a president at or near 100 days in office, in polls dating to 1945, was Trump’s 42 [percent] in 2017,” ABC’s Gary Langer reported. It is hard to trust ABC’s Trump coverage after its biased moderation against Trump in the 2024 presidential debates, or after the $15 million defamation settlement ABC agreed to pay Trump.
CNN’s poll by SSRS Research, an online and telephone poll of just 1,678 people, reported Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 41 percent. SSRS is so “accurate” that it consistently found losing presidential candidate Kamala Harris had a slight edge in the 2024 race that Trump resoundingly won.
The New York Times/Siena College poll of just 913 people (including 190 who did not complete the entire survey) was conducted on the phone and reached a mix of English and Spanish speakers. It found Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 42 percent.
NBC wrote its own poll and put it on Survey Monkey for nine days. It got almost 20,000 respondents who gave Trump a 45 percent approval rating. Not bad for a poll of NBC consumers who are unlikely to be Trump supporters.
The coordinated polls trotted out this week came to the same conclusion: Trump’s approval rating is tanking, his base is losing faith in him, and Trump is freaking out about it, so, they seem to be telegraphing, you may as well give up on him.
The polls are garbage, and even if they were not, they don’t matter because they won’t sway Trump off course. But remember them, because the polls will be treated as truth and used as the basis for future propaganda in an attempt to shape policy. It is already happening, with headlines that claim Americans are “losing faith,” or that his favor with Hispanics is “collapsing,” or that Americans are going sour on Trump’s economy.
But talk to your MAGA neighbors, look on social media, and look at the practically sealed southern border as Trump gets illegal immigration under control. Watch as Trump gets his hands dirty in difficult political negotiations like tariffs, global policy, and government waste. These are vital issues that needed attention and other presidents have been too weak to make bold choices in these areas. This is the progress so many have been waiting for.
And ask yourself which is more plausible: that the lying media has suddenly presented highly accurate and not at all slanted polling data? Or that the majority of people who support Trump’s policies are not being polled? And if that is true, why not?
Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
