Mark Interviews Pollster John McLaughlin
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's New York, and it's now. |
| 0:03.2 | The Mark Simone Show. |
| 0:04.5 | On 710 W.O.R. |
| 0:06.8 | Well, you see all these polls, these public polls, these public polls, are just terrible. |
| 0:12.2 | They're just flimsy, cheaply done, unreliable polls. |
| 0:15.7 | Behind the scenes, candidates use the internal polls, the real polls. |
| 0:20.0 | These are deadly accurate, far more elaborate. Now, the best of the real pulse these are deadly accurate far more elaborate now |
| 0:22.9 | the best of the bunch is john mclaughlin the best pollster in the world and he's on with us now you can go to his |
| 0:28.6 | website mclaughlin online dot com john mclaughlin how you doing i'm doing well because uh my my candidate don't trump is doing very well and we're kind of not used to. |
| 0:41.5 | I mean, I'm not used to at this point in time. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm used to coming on your show and saying like eight years ago, remember they had a Hillary lock and Hillary was going to win and they kept on saying, oh, no, it's close. |
| 0:52.1 | Trump could win an electoral victory, et cetera. |
| 1:11.0 | And, you know, God let us win by, you know, 78,000 votes in three states out of 139 million counting. And then four years ago, at this point, at this point today, four years ago, Biden was up by 10 points. Wow. And it was going to be the Biden blue wave. It was going to bury us. |
| 1:12.7 | We were losing in all the battleground states. |
| 1:16.8 | You had polls coming out right before Election Day that we were down 10 points. |
| 1:21.9 | And, you know, and again, it was close. |
| 1:23.7 | It was a record 160 million votes. And you had, you know, Biden won by only 44,000 votes in three states, |
| 1:30.3 | 12,000 Arizona, 12,000 in Georgia and 20,000 in Wisconsin. |
| 1:34.6 | And, uh, I'm just not used to it. |
| 1:36.5 | Fox News had a national poll out yesterday that we're up to and Trump's leading Harris. |
| 1:41.2 | And oh, do you see that interview last night? |
| 1:44.9 | Yeah, that didn't help her with independence, I don't think. |
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