Team Trump dismisses recent poll on views towards indictment as ‘flawed’.

Trump Campaign Accuses Poll of Bias and Spin

In a memo released by former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign on Friday, Trump-aligned polling firm McLaughlin & Associates accused a recent poll of “bias and spin” leading to “skewed outcomes that generate faulty reporting.”

The results of the Politico Magazine-Ipsos poll are “directly contradicted in both sample and results by DJTFP24 internal polling as well as numerous other public polls,” the memo said.

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On Thursday, the poll was published by both Ipsos and Politico, reporting that 62% of voters would like to see the former president’s trial in his federal classified documents case take place prior to the 2024 presidential election. The poll also covered attitudes from Democrats, Republicans, and independents on whether Trump is guilty, what a hypothetical punishment should be, the effect of a guilty verdict on support, understanding of the case, and whether it should be tried ahead of the 2024 Republican primaries.

One of the complaints from McLaughlin & Associates is the methodology in choosing respondents.

“It’s not from a voter list, it didn’t screen for likely voters, and it’s not even registered voters,” the memo said. The firm claimed this is unusual and differs from typical election polls.

Further, the memo’s authors accused the poll of oversampling Democrats, “leading to skewed results that are anti-Trump and in favor of Democrats.”

In a statement to the Washington Examiner, a Politico spokesperson said, “Perhaps the Trump campaign thinks it’s ‘different from most election polls’ because it wasn’t really an election poll, rather a survey that mainly focused on what Americans (including those who may not vote) think about the former President’s indictment and potential criminal trial. The methodology of the poll is transparent and published so that readers — including the Trump campaign — can make their own assessments and conclusions.’”

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The memo added that “the questionnaire finds President Trump guilty and then wants to rush the trials, which Politico is overeager to write up.”

“We’re putting the bad pollsters on notice. Fake polling generates fake news, but we’re not going to let flawed polling methodology stand as fact without our punching back,” Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller told the Daily Caller.