Fox News anchor Sean Hannity echoed the president’s criticism of his network’s own polling after it released unfriendly numbers about President Trump.
Hannity claimed that the network’s polling was skewed because they were “oversampling” Democrats on his radio show Monday.
“Anyway, New York Times/Sienna College poll shows Trump in a dead heat in battleground states, matched up against the three leading Democratic candidates: Biden, Sanders, and Warren,” he stated.
“And I always say, and I believe — Trump doesn’t poll well, and I don’t know what’s up with the Fox poll. I look at their poll, I’m like, ‘Okay, you’re sampling — oversampling Democrats by eight points.’ I’m like — some outside company they hire — I’m like, ‘Okay, they need new methodology because it’s really wrong,'” Hannity continued.
The most recent Fox News poll, which was released on Sunday, shows Trump trailing in a hypothetical general election against former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. He tied with South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and was within the margin of error against his 2016 campaign opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Biden had the biggest head-to-head lead against the president, with 51% saying they’d vote for him and only 39% responding that they would vote in favor of a second term for the president.
Fox polling also found that nearly half of American voters support impeaching and removing Trump from office.
Hannity’s criticism of the Fox News polls comes after Trump has done the same thing on multiple occasions.
“You’re reading the wrong polls,” Trump told reporters last weekend. “I have the real polls. The CNN polls are fake. The Fox polls have always been lousy. I tell them they ought to get themselves a new pollster.”
The president continued, “But the real polls — if you look at the polls that came out this morning — people don’t want anything to do with impeachment. It’s a phony scam. It’s a hoax.”
From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll. Whoever their Pollster is, they suck. But @FoxNews is also much different than it used to be in the good old days. With people like Andrew Napolitano, who wanted to be a Supreme….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2019
Last month the president tweeted, “From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll. Whoever their Pollster is, they suck. But @FoxNews is also much different than it used to be in the good old days.”
