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Leftists freak over ‘distressing, depressing, alarming’ NYT poll showing Trump winning

September 9, 2024 | | Print Article

Ahead of a make-or-break debate night for Vice President Kamala Harris, a “distressing–depressing–alarming” metric foreshadowed the high stakes that set the left shaking.

Sunday, the latest poll from the New York Times/Siena College had the echo chambers of corporate media, elitists, and their sycophants plastered with pitched fits and soothing reassurances. Evidently, it only took one national survey where former President Donald Trump surpassed Harris to send some clamoring for the nearest ledge and others to declare the polling process as “fake.”

Some, like FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver, opted for the coddling route as he shared the results from the survey of 1,695 registered voters from Sept. 3-6 that left Trump ahead 48%-47% after she had previously been ahead 49%-46%. “Highest-rated pollster in the country and a large sample size, too. Fortunately for Harris, she has the debate this week and none of this will matter if she has a good night.”

“But there has been a LOT of mediocre data for Harris lately,” he went on. “Don’t listen to people on here who constantly whine about which polls are included in which polling averages and so forth. It’s just partisan motivated reasoning and they don’t know what they’re talking about.”

Further gentle pats included reminders of what former First Lady Michelle Obama had said during her speech at the Democratic National Convention where she argued, “So if they lie about her–and they will–we’ve got to do something. If we see a bad poll–and we will–we’ve got to put down that phone and do something. If we start feeling tired, if we start feeling that dread creeping back in, we gotta pick ourselves up, throw water on our face, and what?” she prompted the crowd to reply “Do something.”

Similarly, as previous polls taken amid Harris’ coronation as the voteless nomination winner were given preferential treatment for supporting biases, actor Jon Cryer’s flavor of denialism saw him post, “Gonna say it again: Ignore the polls. All gas, no brakes. Organize, register, donate, vote! Win,” earning snark derision from users who reminded him that the Biden-Harris administration’s economic policies had made the “All gas” strategy financially unfeasible.

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Meanwhile, examples of outright doomsaying abounded, including from the TDS-impaired former editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, who opined on the growing favor for the GOP leader, “Distressing–depressing–alarming. After everything–after January 6th, after clear evidence a second term would be far more authoritarian than the first, after the ever-increasing radicalization of MAGA world–Trump now has more support than he had in 2016 or 2020.”

Of course, as others attempted to argue that Trump’s leading was “evidence of a profoundly sick society,” supporters of both the president and common sense further reminded the establishment’s portrayal of the Republican nominee did not supersede voter sentiment and the real world implications of the incumbent’s Marxist inclinations.

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