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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews pollster John McLaughlin.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3696 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

John breaks down the real polls you should look at regarding President Trump's job performance. So far, Republicans are maintaining seats through the midterms, according to McLauglin’s knowledge.

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0:00.0

Let's get back to the Mark Simone show on WOR.

0:05.1

Well, you know, you see these media polls, college polls, they're all terrible, just these junk polls.

0:11.2

You see polling companies you've never heard of.

0:13.2

The biggest and best pollster in the world is John McLaughlin.

0:16.4

This is the one presidents and prime ministers and the biggest campaigns use john mclaughlin his website

0:22.8

is mclaughlin online dot com and he's with us now john mclaughlin how you doing i'm doing well

0:30.4

because uh you say very nice flattering things but uh i'm fortunate that i've polled for donald

0:35.9

trump and as you and i've discussed before, President Trump proved that polls right a long time ago in 2016 and has done so since.

0:44.4

So, uh, so I guess we'll, we'll see about, well, now he's talking, you know, some of his friends are talking to him about 2028.

0:52.3

We'll see.

0:53.2

Well, so, but I think, I think, I think, yeah, I don't think that's, I don't think that's going to happen. So that's, so I get to listen to the nice things people say about our polls. Because last year we said he was going to sweep the battleground states and win the popular vote. And he proves that true. Yeah, just to explain to people, these public polls, they're cheap, flimsy, they're like 500 people, 1,000 people.

1:15.3

It's not always likely voters.

1:17.0

I mean, what you do is much more scientific, elaborate, much bigger scale.

1:21.8

But we haven't had a real poll from a real, what they call the internals, by any of the campaigns, have we?

1:30.0

Not really.

1:31.2

And when you're looking at, I mean, when you look at national polls, like, they've gone back to,

1:36.4

they're biased against the president.

1:38.4

And they're kind of, right, it could be illegal immigrants.

1:41.2

They have cell phones.

1:42.4

I mean, it's, I'm serious.

1:43.7

Some of these polls, like there was a poll out last week, Economist, You go of online.

1:48.4

So there was an online poll, and they had, when you go into their internals, they have more liberal.

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