The Daily Blast
Alarmed By Trump’s Scary New Polling Lead? Listen To Biden’s Data Guy
A top pollster for President Biden argues against freaking out about The New York Times's latest poll showing Donald Trump surging, and lays out a potential path to victory.
This week, The New York Times released new polls that sent shock waves through the Democratic establishment, finding Donald Trump leading in all six key swing states, in some cases by startling margins. While President Biden has fared better in other recent polls, the bottom line is that he is trailing in all the swing-state polling averages. So we talked to Jefrey Pollack, a top pollster for the Biden campaign, who laid out why he thinks it’s premature to read too much into these polls, and why the current data set, in his view, actually shows a hidden path to reelection for the president.