Donald Trump isn’t reacting well to a Wednesday Fox News poll of the presidential race, showing President Joe Biden up by 2 points for the first time since October of last year.
On Truth Social, the former president — who also fell behind in FiveThirtyEight’s national polling aggregation for the first time since they began tracking the race this week — blasted Fox in a rambling post.
“The latest Fox News poll is TRASH! They used a biased, Democrat-leaning sample of voters, polling more Biden 2020 voters than Trump 2020 voters to skew the results in favor of Crooked Joe,” he wrote on Thursday of the poll of national registered voters. “I am leading BIG in virtually every other poll.”
Biden, who’s been underperforming in polls against his predecessor for much of the race, is seeing a slight improvement in polling numbers as his administration takes victory laps on key economic issues, like slowing inflation and junk fee bans on various industries.
At the same time, Trump’s criminal conviction and other pending legal troubles, as well as doubts over his mental and physical fitness, seem to be hurting his numbers.
Biden’s support figures have been plagued since his withdrawal from Afghanistan after two decades of U.S. occupation there, as well as his support of Israeli attacks on Gaza in response to the October 7 attacks.
The Biden campaign has made democracy a central issue in the race after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as part of a coordinated effort to subvert the results of the 2020 race, much to the chagrin of Trump, who was named a co-conspirator in several state-level plots to overturn race results.
“The #1 issue in this country is not protecting democracy,” Trump said in the post. “It is INFLATION and IMMIGRATION!”
Trump is running on a plan to initiate mass deportation of undocumented people, which experts note would have catastrophic inflationary and humanitarian consequences. Another proposed policy to replace income taxes with tariffs would have similar price-surging consequences.
