{"id":2333667,"date":"2024-08-29T15:57:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T19:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-guest-dismisses-growing-trump-support-says-pollsters-are-talking-to-imaginary-black-folks\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T16:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:02:45","slug":"cnn-guest-dismisses-growing-trump-support-says-pollsters-are-talking-to-imaginary-black-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-guest-dismisses-growing-trump-support-says-pollsters-are-talking-to-imaginary-black-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Guest Dismisses Growing Trump Support, Says Pollsters Are &#8216;Talking to Imaginary Black Folks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-guest-dismisses-growing-trump-support-says-pollsters-are-talking-to-imaginary-black-folks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2333667&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A guest on CNN, \u200bAngela Rye, criticized recent \u2063polls suggesting that former President Donald \u200cTrump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-compile-list-of-parents-who-question-racial-curriculum-plot-war-on-them\/\" title=\"Teachers Compile List Of Parents Who Question Racial Curriculum, Plot War On Them\">gaining support<\/a> from black voters, claiming these polls are unreliable and may be based on \u2062&#8221;imaginary&#8221; \u2063respondents. She noted that while \u200bpolls\u200c show Trump\u2019s support among\u200d black\u200c voters \u200chas increased\u2014from 12% in 2020 to as high as 26% in\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-election-day-heres-what-the-polls-really-say\/\" title=\"On Election Day, Here\u2019s What the Polls Really Say\">recent surveys\u2014<\/a>she doesn&#8217;t trust their accuracy and suggested that some individuals may\u200d be paid to \u2063voice positive opinions about Trump. \u2064Rye expressed skepticism \u2063about the validity of such polls, referring to the respondents as &#8220;invisible&#8221; \u200dand questioning who they are.\u2064 Some black men in Georgia have reportedly \u200bexpressed genuine support for Trump, citing\u200d economic \u2063policies and personality factors. Rye dismissed these polling results, calling them\u200d misleading and unrepresentative\u200d of actual voter sentiments.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A CNN guest on Wednesday night dismissed polls showing former President Donald Trump drawing increased support from black voters, claiming some were &ldquo;paid&rdquo; to back the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who garnered 12 percent support from black voters in 2020 according to a CNN exit poll, exceeds that level of support in recent general election polls by CBS, which shows the former president getting 17 percent, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fox-news-sends-debate-challenge-trump-harris-campaigns-given-race-changed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>, which has 26 percent. Commentator Angela Rye claimed that pollsters were talking to &ldquo;imaginary black folks&rdquo; when asked about polling by CNN guest host Pamela Brown.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t make anything of these polls that are talking to imaginary black folks. I would love to know, for one, who they&rsquo;re talking to, because I&rsquo;ve not seen them anywhere,&rdquo; Rye claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox News poll, released August 14th, was conducted August 9th-12th with a 3 percent margin of error, while the CBS poll, released August 18th, was taken from August 14th to 16th and has a 2.1 percent margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think that they are, you know what, they might be the invisible man that Ralph Ellison talked about in his book,&rdquo; Rye continued. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know who these people are. There was a Trump ad that was released, I believe today, that&rsquo;s targeting black women voters. And there are these people who allegedly exist all throughout the country, and they&rsquo;re reading scripts. You can see their eye-line going over here. And I think some of them might be paid to say some of these things. I&rsquo;m not sure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Black men in Georgia expressed support for Trump, citing economic policy and his personality in a recent Sky News segment. Other voters told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-york-times-torches-biden-troubling-media-strategy-official-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> in July they were sick of &ldquo;pandering&rdquo; from Democrats, calling it &ldquo;insulting.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not giving any credit to these polls. Polls end up being wrong all the time and I&rsquo;ve seen polls that say 15 percent, 19 percent, 18 percent of black folks,&rdquo; Rye said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe it at all. I really don&rsquo;t.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/\" title=\"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low\">legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter&rsquo;s byline and their DCNF affiliation. 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In the 2020 election, Trump received 12 percent of the black vote according to a CNN exit poll, but more recent general election surveys show him with higher levels of support\u201417 percent in a CBS poll and 26 percent in a Fox News poll. Commentator Angela Rye expressed skepticism about the validity of these polls during her discussion with CNN host Pamela Brown, stating, \u201cI don\u2019t take these polls seriously as they seem to be talking to imaginary black folks. I would really like to know who they are polling because I haven\u2019t encountered them.\u201d She further speculated that these individuals might be akin to the &#8220;invisible man&#8221; referenced in Ralph Ellison&#8217;s novel and mentioned a new Trump advertisement aimed at black women voters featuring people who appear scripted and possibly compensated for their endorsements. <\/p>\n<p>In contrast, some black men in Georgia have voiced their support for Trump based on his economic policies and personality. Other voters have expressed frustration with what they perceive as insincere gestures from Democrats. Rye reiterated her disbelief in the accuracy of such polls: \u201cPolls often turn out to be incorrect; I&#8217;ve seen figures like 15 percent or 19 percent regarding black voter support\u2014I simply don\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2333668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Untitled-design-26.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[9373,15698,39684],"class_list":["post-2333667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-cnn","tag-polling","tag-trump-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Untitled-design-26.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2333668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}