Clinton, Epstein and Trump's dire polling
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Trump is trying his best to manifest good polling numbers. But the raw numbers as they stand are dire for the President. This week, we talk to top pollster Doug Sosnik, who was at Bill Clinton’s side for six years, about political shamelessness, polling and 'the Epstein class'.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm getting very good polls on crime prevention, on law and order, and on the border. |
| 0:18.3 | I have to. |
| 0:18.7 | And I'm starting to get great polls on the economy, which I think is... |
| 0:23.1 | The polls on the economy aren't, they're not great. They should be great. |
| 0:26.3 | They should be. So why aren't they? If you believe that? I don't know. |
| 0:29.1 | That is Donald Trump telling the polls that they should be better than they are. |
| 0:34.7 | On today's show, we're going to look at polling. We're going to ask what the |
| 0:39.2 | American people are starting to think about their president and his presidency. And we'll be speaking |
| 0:46.0 | about the Clinton's choice of testifying before Congress over their appearance, Bill's |
| 0:52.7 | appearance in the Epstein files. Welcome to the Newsagents |
| 0:56.8 | USA. The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopal. And to help us do all that, I'm going |
| 1:05.1 | to introduce Doug Sosnik, who is Polster Supremo, senior advisor at Brunswick Group |
| 1:11.9 | and a former political director to President Bill Clinton. |
| 1:15.4 | And Doug, it's lovely to have you in the studio today. |
| 1:19.0 | And I think we're going to dive straight in |
| 1:21.4 | because there has always been a discrepancy |
| 1:25.5 | between how British people, for the most part, have viewed Trump |
| 1:32.0 | and how Americans have viewed Trump. And clearly, in 2024, he swept the elections across the board. |
| 1:40.4 | So tell us your sense, your numbers, of how he's doing now. |
| 1:46.0 | Well, let's be clear, and despite what the president says, he did not win one of the largest |
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