Greetings, conversationalists. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the fruited plane.

The phone number this open line Friday, 8779773-7-4-25, should you wish to be on the program.

And I must begin the show with a correction and update to how I closed the show yesterday, because we

have incoming updated poll numbers. Ask yourself why the national press is not covering this

story. If the election were held today, Donald Trump would beat Joe Biden.

That's right.

He's now ahead.

You know, let me step back and explain my philosophy on polling to everyone.

The polling is not as bad as we say.

The polling in 2022, actually, the Republican polling was terrible. The polling is not as bad as we say. The polling in 2022, actually,

the Republican polling was terrible. The Republican public pollsters in 2022, and I believe

them, including Trafalgar, was that the Republicans were doing way better than the mainstream

media polling suggested. And many of us, myself included,

presumed, well, the mainstream media pollsters are biased against us. It turns out they got it

right. They could see the shift to the Democrats that happened in August, whether it was about

abortion or the democracy issue. In fact, the Biden team after the election came out and said their internal polling.

An internal polling that is not public tends to be pretty good polling.

It's way more expensive to do.

It's why the media doesn't do it.

A media poll can cost $10,000.

A campaign poll can cost $100,000 for the same size poll because you're doing much more in-depth polling

with live operators, you're vetting people better. It's way more expensive to do an internal

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