The Serious Case for Not Freaking Out About Trump’s Scary Poll Numbers
THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
The New Republic
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:31.5 | I'm your host, Greg Sargent. |
| 0:36.1 | You've probably encountered the work of democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg. |
| 0:40.3 | He regularly declares that we shouldn't freak out about polling averages showing Donald Trump |
| 0:45.3 | ahead, in part because the state of the Democratic Party is strong and that has been winning a lot of elections lately. |
| 0:51.3 | You've surely heard him say that on Twitter, on TV, or on his |
| 0:55.6 | Hopium Chronicle substack. But we're going to focus on another less appreciated aspect of Rosenberg's |
| 1:01.4 | analysis. It's the idea that people who do politics for a living know, or should know, that Trump's |
| 1:08.3 | pile up of negatives is probably insurmountable. The thought here is that |
| 1:13.1 | people who make political ads and run campaigns know what can be done with negatives this bad, |
| 1:18.7 | and that it's only a matter of time until that happens against Trump. This may explain why the |
| 1:24.4 | Biden team is quietly confident right now in the face of all the adverse polling. |
| 1:29.3 | So we invited Rosenberg on the show to dig into this theory of the case. Welcome, Simon. |
| 1:34.9 | It's great to be here, Greg. Simon, let's start here. You got it right in 2022 by predicting that the |
| 1:40.8 | much-Ballyhooed red wave wouldn't materialize. Now you're making a similar case. |
| 1:45.9 | Can you recap that for us? Yeah, I mean, I think the simple way to look at it is that in 2022, |
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