Newt Gingrich Explains Methods Media Uses To Churn Out ‘Dishonest’ Polls To Hurt Trump And How GOP Must Respond

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday on “Hannity” that Republicans need to act “tougher and clearer” against Democrats’ opposition to President Donald Trump, calling out polls against the president.

Ahead of Trump’s first 100 days in office, polls from outlets like ABC News, CBS News and CNN showed a drop in confidence for how the president handles the job, significantly dipping from his high approval rating in February.

“I got a little preview about poll numbers that are coming out tomorrow and from both Robert Cahaly and Matt Towery, who I respect a lot, and, as I suspected, all of the polls that the media has been pushing on the American people about Donald Trump are false,” Hannity said.

“That’s what the early indications are and that all the pollsters that got the election in 24′ wrong and got every election about Donald Trump wrong. All of those people, the ones [that] say, ‘Oh he’s plummeting, but meanwhile they’re ignoring Chuck [Schumer] is at 17% and the Democrats are in the 20’s. I’m trying to understand that logic. Can you help me out?” Hannity asked.

In a CBS News poll released on Feb. 9, Trump reached his highest approval rating of both terms, with 53% of voters approving of his leadership at the time. In a poll conducted between April 23-25, however, the president’s overall approval rating sits at 45%.

An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll, released Saturday, showed that 39% of the 2,464 respondents said they approve of Trump’s job performance, dropping six points from their February poll. RELATED: Chuck Schumer Brags That Americans Are Starting To Turn Toward Dems. He Must Have Not Looked At Polls Lately.

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Gingrich accused the legacy media polls of “plain lying,” before saying that the attacks against Trump were “deliberate” and “willful.”

“They’re just plain lying, and I think we got to be tougher and clearer about how dishonest these people are. The fact is I talked to John McLaughlin, and I talked to Matt Towery about this. They [the media] have some polls there that are like 27% Republican when Trump got 50% of the vote, so if you add the 23 points they didn’t test then suddenly he’s in great shape,” Gingrich said.

“This is deliberate. It is willful,” Gingrich added. “Look, there are three great centers of resistance: the propaganda media that will lie all the time, the fake district judges, and the fake Congressional Budget Office. Those are the last three great centers of resistance, and they’re going to do anything they can to defeat Trump and the Republicans, including lying about virtually everything.”

In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, pollster Matt Towery questioned the corporate media’s polls showing a significant drop in Trump’s approval rating, saying he doesn’t believe voters have lost their confidence in the president.

According to CBS’ April poll, 61% of respondents said Trump was fulfilling his campaign promises, with 64% agreeing that the president’s policies on the border have reduced illegal migrant crossings. Additionally, while 42% agree with his handling of the economy, 56% approved of Trump’s plan to deport illegal migrants from the U.S., the data said.

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