President Donald Trump's campaign is demanding CNN retract and apologize for a recent poll that showed him well behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
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Another desperate tactic from a President on the verge of going down in flames. His massive defeat at the hands of Vice President Biden is a foregone conclusion. The big question is how many other Republicans bite the dust with him. His only real hope will be in trying to invalidate the election,, and with the SCOTUS in his pocket, he could damn well do it. You know he will try. He has met the perfect storn, a pandemic well beyond his ability to deal with killing Americans and race issues that, as the racist in chief, confounds him.
If, as he constantly claims, CNN is nothing but "fake news," then why is he concerned about a poll that he sees as fake?
"Soon after the poll was released, Trump tweeted that he had hired Republican pollster McLaughlin & Associates to "analyze" the CNN poll 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."
McLaughlin missed Cantor losing by 45 points 
From the article in the OP. I liked this quote from CNN's legal counsel:
"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," Vigilante wrote in his response.
"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."
Five thirty eight gives ssrs (the polling org) a B/C grade and said it has predicted elections accurately 50% of the time. It does use live callers only and does reach cell phones, so it is the most accurate for collecting data. Same grade five thirty eight gave Rasmussen (Rasmussen has higher prediction results 78% but uses IVR collection methods which are not deemed the most accurate). SSRS polled well over a thousand people, so it's a good size sample. It's not the pollsters fault that they happened to reach 44% Independents! I wonder if that really big number is because people are fed up with BOTH parties at this point? That would not surprise me.
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Anyway, I certainly hope this gets judged a frivolous suit and Trump's lawyers get egg all over their faces for trying to waste the court's time.
