Less than five months before voters will decide the future of America, the US president, Donald Trump is confronting a vastly different political reality than he once envisioned. If the election were held today, Trump would likely lose, according to the polls of CNN.
As the US grapples with protests over the death of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic, a flood of new polls spell trouble for the 45th President of the United States and show former vice-president Joe Biden well on course to occupy the White House Office.
President Donald Trump’s lawyers demanded that the giant news outfit, CNN should apologise and pull back the unfavourable poll released on Monday that showed his opposition leading by a 14% points nationally.
The poll, led for CNN by SSRS surveyed 1,259 registered voters by live-caller telephone interviews between Tuesday, June 2 and Friday, June 5 respectively.
The survey revealed Trump has an approval rating of 38% and a disapproval rating of 57%, his lowest in over a year.
Despite the polling results, Trump boasts about being the most popular president among Republicans in history, his approval rating among them is the lowest it has been since September 2018. He took to Twitter on Monday, June 15 saying the CNN poll “were FAKE based on the incredible enthusiasm we are receiving”.
In the letter sent to CNN by Trump campaign representatives, called the survey “a stunt and a phony poll to cause voter suppression, stifle momentum and enthusiasm for the President, and present a false view generally of the actual support across America for the President.”
CNN have a fierce reply saying they will not apologize for it or retract it.
David Vigilante, CNN general counsel wrote in a response to Trump representatives “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”.
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