{"id":5309,"date":"2023-09-04T17:59:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T22:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2023-09-04T17:59:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T22:59:41","slug":"george-stephanopoulos-torn-up-over-shocking-poll-showing-trump-and-biden-tied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5309","title":{"rendered":"George Stephanopoulos torn up over \u2018shocking\u2019 poll showing Trump and Biden tied"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trump Derangement Syndrome surged during a Sunday show panel as \u201cshocking\u201d presidential polling threatened some speakers\u2019 well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis could keep me up at night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawfare against former President Donald Trump has endured with no apparent detriment to his status as the frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary. More threatening to the psyche of corporate media fixtures like ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos was how \u201cdespite all of the baggage,\u201d the GOP leader remained on par with his incumbent rival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is kind of shocking in a way that despite all of the baggage that Donald Trump carries, he\u2019s tied with [President] Joe Biden right now,\u201d the host of \u201cThis Week\u201d began a roundtable segment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That sentiment was readily shared by former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile who expressed, \u201cWhen I looked at that recent poll, the Wall Street Journal, I said, \u2018This could keep me up at night.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to respondents polled from Aug. 24 \u2013 30, in a head-to-head matchup between Trump and Biden, they are matched at 46 \u2013 46. For the former, that was an improvement over April figures which also showed the incumbent drop down by two points. When third-party candidates like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/third-party-threat-scorches-beyond-redemption-dem-party-says-bernie-aoc-are-window-dressing\/\">Cornel West<\/a>&nbsp;and Lars Mapstead were added to the mix, Trump eked out Biden 40 -39.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SG-WSJ-Poll-1024x914.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-163861\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SG-WSJ-Poll-1024x914.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163861\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith every passing month,\u201d continued Stephanopoulos, \u201cwith every new indictment, Donald Trump seems to be consolidating his control over the Republican Party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the host\u2019s point, the poll showed the disparity between the frontrunner and his leading conservative rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and how there had been an 11-point shift since April leaving the governor trailing in this instance by 46 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To that, the roundtable moderator took pause at the fact that during the first primary debate, \u201cRepublicans, almost unanimously now, on that stage several days ago would vote for a convicted felon. Did you ever think you\u2019d see the day?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, Stephanopoulos had oversimplified his analysis, glancing over the fact that part of the requirements to appear on the debate stage included signing a pledge to support the ultimate nominee. No caveats were made as to whether that individual would be slapped with a conviction from a weaponized Justice Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the majority of Republican primary voters polled have discounted the left\u2019s narrative supporting the Trump indictments, particularly as it relates to the case in Fulton County, Georgia where the president had been accused of attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wall Street Journal poll found 78 percent believed Trump was justified in his actions pursuing election integrity and more than 60 percent thought the charges being brought against the president were politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Atlantic\u2019s Reihan Salam spoke to that when he said, \u201cThe truth is that we are in a very polarized moment. And when you\u2019re looking at the Republican Party, it is strikingly unified. If you look at the most conservative voters and the party, they back the former president disproportionately. If you look at more moderate voters, female Republican primary voters, he just really has a lock on both wings of the party, so to speak. And that\u2019s something that any rival has to appreciate it and respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/george-stephanopoulos-torn-up-over-shocking-poll-showing-trump-and-biden-tied\/\">https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/george-stephanopoulos-torn-up-over-shocking-poll-showing-trump-and-biden-tied\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Derangement Syndrome surged during a Sunday show panel as \u201cshocking\u201d presidential polling threatened some speakers\u2019 well-being. \u201cThis could keep me up at night.\u201d The lawfare against former President Donald Trump has endured with no apparent detriment to his status as the frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary. More threatening to the psyche of corporate media fixtures like ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos was how \u201cdespite all of the baggage,\u201d the GOP leader remained on par with his incumbent rival. \u201cIt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-trump"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5310,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}