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White House And Political News
Trump Campaign Fires Pollsters After Internal Numbers Leaked
PRESIDENT TRUMP
CBS News Battleground Tracker Poll: Biden Leads, With Warren, Harris, Sanders Close Behind
President Trump’s re- election campaign is letting go of some of its own pollsters after leaked internal polling showed the president behind Joe Biden in critical states, NBC News reports. Parts of the president’s expansive March polling was made pub- lic in recent days.
The polls reportedly showed the president trailing across 2020 swing states, as well as in reliably red states that haven’t been competitive for decades in national elec- tions. In states where
Trump edged Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by narrow margins in 2016— such as Wisconsin, Pennsyl- vania, Florida, and Michigan—Trump trails Biden by double-digits.
Trump is also behind the former vice president by 7 percentage points in Iowa, but is holding a small lead in Texas. A person close to the Trump re-election team told NBC News that the campaign would no longer be working with certain pollsters in re- sponse to the leaks.
The belief that he could fare best against President Trump is currently pro- pelling Joe Biden in the early Democratic nomination race by two measures — vote preference, and the delegates that would come with them. But others — including Eliz- abeth Warren and Bernie Sanders — are in the mix, at least in terms of the candi- dates voters are considering.
This study looked at the Democratic contest across the places it will matter first: the entirety of 18 states that will shape the initial 2020 fight through Super Tuesday, including Iowa, New Hamp- shire and South Carolina. And CBS News converted Democrats' vote choices across all those states into delegates, because that's the count that will ultimately matter — that is, the nomina- tion contest selects delegates
JOE BIDEN
to the Democratic conven- tion next year.
Biden gets the most con- sideration, from a majority 55% of Democrats. Warren (49%), Harris (45%) and Bernie Sanders (43%) are
trailing closely in that regard. Pete Buttigieg is being considered by just under a third (32%) across the earli- est states. And in keeping with their view that the field is too large, on average the number of candidates voters are considering is actually relatively small — just under
four.
Biden is the most effec-
tive at translating considera- tion into a first-choice vote. He leads across the early states in vote preference with 31% of Democratic primary voters, compared to War- ren's 17%, Sanders' 16%, and Harris' 10%. Biden converts most of those con- sidering him into picking him as their first choice when pressed, but fewer of those considering Warren or Sanders — roughly a third – pick those candidates as their first choice.
Trump Warns Of Epic
Trump's White House Hires New Director Of African American Outreach
Stock Market Crash If
There’s a new Black person in the White House and she’s actually been invited in. Ear- lier in the week, Nicole Fra- zier, who worked as Sen. Cory Gardner’s regional di- rector, was hired as the new di- rector of African American outreach, serving in Presi- dent Donald Trump’s ad- ministration.
Frazier’s role will be to connect the Black community with the beleaguered and often tumultuous Trump ad- ministration. The timing how- ever is interesting as Trump is looking for support from the Black community right ahead of his 2020 re-election cam- paign run, Axios reports.
If you remember, the last person to hold the position al- most a year ago was Trump’s former Apprentice bestie- turned-foe, Omarosa Mani- gault Newman, who was unceremoniously fired (or re- signed depending on who you ask) in December 2017.
The job has remained un- filled even after Henry Childs II temporarily as- sumed Manigault New- man’s role. Childs II has since been tapped to serve as National Director of the U. S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Develop- ment Agency in September. The search for a new director began in March.
He's Not Re-Elected
President Donald Trump, gearing up for the of- ficial start of his 2020 cam- paign, warned that the U. S. would face an epic stock mar- ket crash if he’s not re-elected. “If anyone but me takes over,” Trump told his 61 million Twitter followers on Saturday, “there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before!”
Trump officially starts his 2020 campaign on Tuesday with a rally in Orlando, Florida, and appears to be road-testing some of the themes he’ll be touching on in the next 18 months, including stoking fear of a market meltdown. “Tues- day will be a Big Crowd and Big Day,” he said in another tweet.
The president has claimed several times this year and as recently as Friday in a “Fox & Friends” interview that the U. S. stock market would be 5,000 to 10,000 points higher if the Federal Reserve hadn’t raised interest rates four times in
NICOLE FRAZIER
Good luck with that!
PRESIDENT TRUMP
2018.
He also tweeted in February
that “had the opposition party” won in 2016, “the Stock Market would be down at least 10,000 points by now” -- an unprov- able assertion. And in January Trump suggested that if “you want to see a Stock Market Crash, Impeach Trump.”
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