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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP137: Hour 2 - The Polling That Shows the Wave

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A democrat poll shows the GOP winning some very safe democrat seats and the pushback to ESG is desperately needed.

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0:00.0

Hello there. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson show across the nation. Glad to have you with me. The phone number is 877973-7-4-25. Should you wish to be on the program, always happy to have you here. Well, we got a problem, but it's not really our problem.

0:27.2

You know, the Democrats are really focused on this Kansas abortion thing.

0:37.0

If you listen to a lot of Democrats, the only thing that matters is the Kansas abortion vote.

0:44.2

I mean, they're really extrapolating from it things that aren't there.

0:49.0

And what they're doing is they're ignoring a meeting street insights poll for the congressional leadership

0:56.0

fund now uh full disclosure going into this uh congressional leadership fund is a republican

1:01.9

super pack but the republican super pack congressional leadership fund puts money into races in which their polling suggests they might have a chance.

1:16.9

So the Congressional Leadership Fund, unlike a lot of outside super PACs, it's got to do really good polling.

1:25.8

So, for example, there's a Center Street pack in Pennsylvania that has Dr. Oz getting blown

1:31.0

out of the water by Federman, the Democrat, by about 10 points, and they won't release everything

1:36.4

with the poll.

1:37.5

And the group is an outside supposedly independent group, and it doesn't seem to be even

1:42.8

driving democratic interest, which you can tell

1:46.3

means that no one really believes credibility of the poll. Everybody's freaked out by the

1:50.4

Congressional Leadership Fund poll that they've released. And the reason is because, and again,

1:55.7

you've got to understand this, every partisan poll that is released is designed to drive a story.

2:01.6

You have to then ask yourself how credible is it?

2:07.6

And one of the big tip-offs is, is the group that released the poll matching what their poll shows with their actions.

2:23.0

So if the congressional leadership fund is beginning to pour money into a race after its poll shows that that race is winnable,

2:28.0

then they probably believe their own polling and it's not just a PR stunt.

2:33.7

So how bad have things gotten for the Democrats?

2:39.5

In a district that Joe Biden won by 15 points,

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