The president treats polling that shows him trailing as if it’s made up. Yet his campaign has spent millions for some of the most sophisticated data available. A look at the data the campaign is using nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/…
The campaign shook up its polling team last year after some data leaked. Fabrizio and McLaughlin were the pollsters. After taking over the campaign in July, Stepien quietly hired Bill Skelly for data analytics and Brock McCleary for polling. nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/…
There’s also Matt Ozchowski, the former Cambridge Analytica official who is known as “Oz” and who has maintained to other officials that the polling is overly grim nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/…
Two Republicans said the campaign stopped accessing the RNC voter file data after Parscale left until the time of a joint meeting between RNC and campaign a few weeks ago. Campaign spox denied that was true nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/…
Polling is among the most closely-held data on the Trump campaign and has been for the last two years. nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/…
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"I called John. John McLaughlin. He's like the dean," Trump says of one of his pollsters.
The crowd has been mostly silent as the president has gone on an extended riff about how unfair the media polling is to him. Then he starts listing Fox News hosts and the crowd gets animated.
"I hope I haven't bored you...I thought it was interesting," Trump says of the polls rant. "To me it was interesting." Now talking about the whether in the upper MW.
Kayleigh McEnany has suddenly been appearing from the Trump campaign HQ on TV as both a White House press secretary and a campaign senior adviser, encapsulating the ignoring of the Hatch Act and total blurring of lines in the administration nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…
A campaign official said that shows that air interviews with her have been instructed not to use her White House title. However, Fox News introduced her as both the other day. nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…
When Obama was president and running in 2012 Carney would brief reporters in a WH capacity while Psaki would do it in a campaign capacity. They made a point of keeping the separation nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…
Our first story on the outbreak in the VP's office, which has impacted at least 3 people > nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/…
Two people briefed on the matter said that the White House chief-of-staff, Mark Meadows, sought to keep the information about the VP office outbreak from becoming public nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…
Obst’s positive test was several days ago, per ppl briefed. Short’s was Saturday. nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…
I haven’t had a call from the NYT in two years says the president, who spoke for 40 minutes with @peterbakernyt just before his speech for the RNC less than two months ago, on a call with staff just now.
Potus unhappy about @alexburnsNYT and my story today, says his supporters “don’t give a shit” about the Times.
Stepien began the call by mentioning a series of metrics and sounding committed to the plan they’re trying to execute in final two weeks.
In public, the Trump campaign boasts of 2016. In private, recriminations are beginning about a potential loss for a candidate who sees himself as his own strategist and believes the solution for almost all problems is more of himself @alexburnsNYT and me nytimes.com/2020/10/18/us/…
Advisers see rallies as a way to keep Trump happy and tweeting less. But the travel schedule is shifting frequently and Trump wants to make personal and less-than-ideal diversions, like a trip he may make to SC for Graham this week nytimes.com/2020/10/18/us/…
They see the next few days through Friday, when the debate has happened, as the last likely chance to change the trajectory of a remarkably stable race. But Trump isn't planning debate prep like he did before, aides say nytimes.com/2020/10/18/us/…