Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) claimed during a recent private event that President Donald Trump risks losing key swing states in November’s presidential…
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) claimed during a recent private event that President Donald Trump risks losing key swing states in November’s presidential election that he won in 2016, according to a Sunday report.
The New York Timesstates:
The Times’ report comes after a Fox News poll was one of several recent surveys showing Biden is leading President Trump in the race for the White House. Fox News’s survey of registered voters found the president’s Democrat challenger leading him 49-41 percent. The poll, undertaken between July 12 and 15,2020, comprised of 1,104 registered voters nationwide and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, President Trump told host Christopher Wallace that his news organization’s polls undervalued his support, calling it a “fake” poll. “I’m not losing because those are fake polls. They were fake in 2016 and now they’re even more fake. The polls were much worse in 2016,” he said.
Of course, both the polls and Ryan have been wrong about President Trump’s political prospects as witnessed in the previous presidential election. The former speaker was not only cold on the president’s White House bid, but he also pledged not to defend the then-Republican presidential nominee after the Access Hollywood tape was made public.
