Why Trump is weaker than you think - and what the polls are getting wrong, with Trygve Olson

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Joe Trippi

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🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Our friend Trygve Olson joins us to dig into the 2024 race. Why Joe thinks Trump is weaker than pundits believe -- and what all the polls are getting wrong. Trippi finds some encouraging numbers "under the hood" on the economy that Democrats should be very optimistic about. What two demographic groups does Trygve identify as critical in 2024? And the four states right now we believe are the key battlegrounds. Joe and Trygve also answer a listener question about the primaries and what might come next... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to that Trippy show. We've gotten so
0:12.1	many emails and comments since we did our last
0:14.2	show on polling and I've been thinking a lot about the GOP primaries so I wanted to
0:19.3	spend some time zooming out talking about the race and what I'm saying.
0:23.9	Repeat after me, the polls are wrong and Trump is weaker than most people think,
0:28.4	especially the pundits.
0:30.3	So let's get into why we invited our friend Triggi Olson on who has also been doing a ton of research as part of the work we do together at the Lincoln Project to talk about what we're all seeing. Trigby, welcome.
0:44.0	Hey Joe, thanks for having me on.
0:46.0	Alex, where should we get started?
0:49.0	Joe, I want to start and just give you a chance to lay out your case and put the marker in the ground.
0:55.0	Why is Trump weaker than we think and what are all these polls and pundits missing?
0:59.6	Just give it to us and then Trig I want to get into some of your data.
1:03.0	Well I mean quick take on this is look everybody's so convinced that
1:07.1	Trump's invincible and that you know nothing's moving and he's going to be the
1:11.3	nominee that the press and the focus has all been, you know,
1:17.0	all turns to Biden. In other words, no one's asking why is Trump so weak?
1:21.1	It's all, you know, Biden and what the reasons are. And, you know, frankly, right now, the, any polling is just basically that, a feeling thermometer.
1:33.0	Right now, this is how I feel.
1:34.6	And everybody's angry at everything.
1:36.4	And the guy who's in the Oval Office
1:39.8	gets a lot of the blame for that.
1:41.6	But a couple of things. So today, I mean just to give you
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