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To review:

First Trump falsely claimed internal data showing him in trouble doesn't exist.

Then his campaign said the data actually shows him surging.

Now we're learning that this internal polling was against *negatively* defined Democrats!

New piece: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
It's notable that the Trump camp is claiming that *William Barr's summary* of the Mueller report is what supposedly led to Trump's surge in internal polling.

That's a useful reminder of what a nakedly political document the Barr summary really was:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
An interesting situation is developing here:

Multiple reports suggest Trump knows he's deeply vulnerable to losing reelection.

But the nonstop lies he tells to mask his very real political weakness are threatening to overwhelm that awareness:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
One final point.

Today, Trump tweeted:

"Only Fake Polls show us behind the Motley Crew."

But we have now learned that the internal polling that the Trump campaign is itself citing as proof of his strength was actually *push polling*:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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