Lara Trump Explains Away Polls: People ‘Afraid’ To Support Trump

Lara Trump, an adviser on President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, explained away head-to-head match-ups with Democrats that show the President losing significantly by saying that people are “more afraid” to express their support of the President now than they were in 2016.


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This is great. Let’s just hope they really believe this and behave accordingly!

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And why might that be, Lara? Pray tell.

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Lara trump, speaking of support for donald, I would prefer him to be in hand cuffs and thrown in jail. So no I don’t support him.

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I think people are even more so afraid now to voice their support for President Trump then they were when he was just a candidate in 2016

Afraid that it would be used in an involuntary commitment hearing.

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Beat me to it by 1 second

Those poll takers on the phone are soooooo scary.

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“The polls have never accurately reflected how people feel about this President, especially now. I think people are even more so afraid now to voice their support for President Trump then they were when he was just a candidate in 2016.”

Oddly, I always thought the polls did reflect the sentiment quite well. But that is really not relevant to how that election was won.

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From skewed polls to scared polls.

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To be a real Trump Cultist, you have to be unafraid to be thought as a racist moron.

That’s about right.

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I didn’t believe it possible, but Lara is even stupider than Eric.

The question now is simple----who waters them weekly?

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What could she possibly advise anybody on, let alone Trump? International bimbo relations?

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Bingo.

The polls were right, but the distribution was wrong.

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Yes, they are so, so afraid because all of us big, bad libtards are threatening them with our AR-15s.

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If anything, his support in the polls is probably inflated.

What’s left of his support is mostly cultists, and they hardly shy away from being vocal about it.

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“This the same thing we saw in 2016,” Lara Trump said. “The polls have never accurately reflected how people feel about this President, especially now. I think people are even more so afraid now to voice their support for President Trump then they were when he was just a candidate in 2016.”
I’m confused, the polls were inaccurate in 2016 because people weren’t afraid to voice their support for Trump? For the record the polls were right in 2016. Real Clear Politics had Clinton winning by 3% on the day of the election, she won the popular vote by 2% well within the margin of error.

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I think ‘bad polls’ are explained by people not wanting to admit that they support Trump. For some in the middle, there’s something about him they like (maybe not everything), but they can’t admit it for fear of being labeled something awful that they don’t actually support. Trump is an all or nothing phenomenon. At the end of the campaign, all that will matter is what’s in the ballot box. No one typically reveals, individually, for whom they voted, but the numbers are what the numbers are.

So Lara isn’t wrong, but her root cause is off.

Because all of a sudden immigrants will break out of their cages and attack?

From 1200 kilometers away?

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“This the same thing we saw in 2016,” Lara Trump said.

Would you repeat that, please, Lara, but this time in Russian?

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Yeah…these people are afraid to admit their support…

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