Don’t believe the mainstream media and the shaky science of the polling industry, the president’s ally told supporters. It’s still early — the “real campaign” won’t even begin until August — and the same people convinced by public opinion surveys today were the ones, back in 2016, “touting Hillary Clinton and predicting Trump would be … taking the Republicans down to defeat.”
That ally was former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, writing in 2020 to chide “analyst after analyst” looking at the present data and trying to make supporters of Donald Trump “panic or collapse in despair.” They were wrong before, he argued, and “are simply following the same wrong patterns” today.
