Donald Trump and his supporters have a big reason to be unhappy with Fox News.
The rest of the media is already on Kamala Harris’ side.
And Fox News left Donald Trump seeing red by giving Kamala Harris this huge boost.
New Fox News polls show Kamala Harris leading in the Sun Belt
The Trump campaign sees the four Sun Belt states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina as their firewall in this election.
For months polls showed former President Donald Trump winning all four.
And if Trump can hold all four, that leaves Vice President Kamala Harris a very narrow path to 270 Electoral Votes that consists solely of sweeping the three Rust Belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
But Fox News’ latest polls showed Kamala leading Trump in three of the four Sun Belt states.
Trump only led in North Carolina.
However, all four states were within the margin of error, meaning they were pure toss-ups.
đź“Š Swing States poll by Fox News
ARIZONA
🟦 Harris: 50%
🟥 Trump: 49%
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GEORGIA
🟦 Harris: 50%
🟥 Trump: 48%
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NEVADA
🟦 Harris: 50%
🟥 Trump: 48%
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NORTH CAROLINA
🟥 Trump: 50%
🟦 Harris: 49%
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#15 (2.8/3.0) | 4,053 RV | August 23-26https://t.co/EZhcpsTHEc pic.twitter.com/PypYc7YnPd— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) August 28, 2024
Fox News’ history of inaccurate polling
The Trump campaign released a memo pointing out that Fox News’s polls were wildly off in the past and that Donald Trump is polling better than he ever did in 2016 or 2020.
“We Report You Decide: Fox’s Polling Has An Awful Track Record,” the Trump campaign protested.
“It’s that time of year again. Fox is releasing atrocious polling,” the title of the post read.
The campaign called out Fox News for badly missing the mark on polling in these four Sun Belt states in 2020.
“A look at polling from this same time period in 2020 shows that Fox was off in North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada from either 5.3% to 9.7%. [Fox’s only Georgia poll in 2020 was released in June and that one overstated Joe Biden’s support by 1.7%.],” the memo added.
FOX’s late August 2020 numbers:
AZ: Biden +9
GA: Biden +2 (June, no polls after)
NV: Biden +11
NC: Biden +4So, an underestimation of Trump by 6+ points in every state except Georgia (which underestimated him by 2) https://t.co/nt8N8lcOpk
— Red Eagle Politics (@RedEaglePatriot) August 28, 2024
The memo also said Donald Trump enters the stretch run of the election in a stronger position than he did in 2016 or 2020.
“President Trump continues to outperform polling from past cycles. President Trump is 10 points ahead of where he was in Arizona at this point in 2020, according to Fox. Likewise, he is running 8 points ahead of his 2020 polling in Nevada and 5 points ahead of his 2020 polling in North Carolina…”
“…A look at the RealClearPolitics average in Pennsylvania, for example, shows President Trump 6 points ahead of where he was at this point in 2020 and 9.4 points ahead of where he was in 2016,” the memo concluded.
