Pollster John McLaughlin is a laughingstock within the profession. President Trump just hired him
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images When CNN released a new poll this morning showing President Trump behind by 14 points to Joe Biden, the question became not whether Trump would take it badly, but just how badly.
It is true that CNN’s result of a 14-point Biden lead is far higher than the leads produced by other polls. A slew of polling finds Biden’s lead ranging from a low of 7 to CNN’s high of 14. Trump’s staffers backhandedly acknowledge this fact by the rote denials they have been giving reporters whenever asked about Trump’s polling: “Our internal data consistently shows the president running strong against a defined Joe Biden in all of our key states.
McLaughlin is notorious for producing rosy polling data on behalf of his clients. A lengthy stream of overly optimistic polls culminated in McLaughlin convincing his client, Eric Cantor, that he was leading primary challenger David Brat by 34 points in 2014. Cantor lost by 11, at which point leading Republicans began begging their party not to hire him.
A record that was for most Republicans a disqualification was precisely the thing that endeared McLaughlin to Trump, who, a Republican source told Cameron Joseph last year, “likes to surround himself with people who like to tell him he wants to hear.”
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