Biden is taking on a new political adversary: The polls

President Joe Biden tends to deliver his most unvarnished attacks on his political adversaries at campaign fundraisers, away from the glare of television cameras.

President Joe Biden tends to deliver his most unvarnished attacks on his political adversaries at campaign fundraisers, away from the glare of television cameras. And lately one of his most frequent targets — second only to former President Donald Trump — is another persistent fixture of the 2024 race: public polling data.

“I don’t think any of the polls matter this early around because it’s hard to get a good poll these days,” Biden told campaign donors in Chicago last month.

At another one in Atlanta, the president cautioned, “It’s harder to make any poll rational these days.”

His critiques of public polling data are as frequent — coming up in at least ten of his fundraisers since May 1 — as they are technical, delving into the mechanics that he says might be presenting flawed results.

“You have to make — I don’t know what it is — 36, 40 calls to get one person to respond. Hardly anybody has hard lines anymore,” Biden said before an audience of 3,000 at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles last weekend.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-taking-new-political-adversary-polls-rcna158163

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