Day 876: Polling data that Trump denied existed only two days ago leaks

Well that didn’t take long.

Donald Trump has vociferously denied that his own internal polling data has him widely trailing Democratic front-runner Joe Biden in key swing states in a hypothetical 2020 debate, including telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that “those poll don’t exist.” He reiterated that on Twitter.

According to a New York Times report, Trump told aides to deny that the data existed too.

Friday, the data that “didn’t exist” leaked to ABC News.

The polling data, revealed for the first time by ABC News, showed a double-digit lead for Biden in Pennsylvania 55–39 and Wisconsin 51–41 and had Biden leading by seven points in Florida. In Texas, a Republican stronghold, the numbers showed the president only leading by two points.

Trump’s team immediately pivoted from ‘the data doesn’t exist’ to ‘the data is old and has shifted in recent months.’

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