The linguistic contortions the New York Times needs to give an acceptable narrative to their audience is funny. The NYT/Sienna did a poll of Trump and Biden supporters to see if the New York guilty verdict against Trump made a difference. It did not.
The Times just resurveyed the same people they previously surveyed, and the result was essentially nothing, given the original margin of error which transfers to both efforts.
Trump was leading by two points before, now Trump is leading Biden by one point – nothing changed. However, the amount of text used by the propaganda pushers in their effort to frame the predetermined narrative is a little funny.
NYT – […] In fact, the voters we spoke to who continue to support Mr. Trump appear to be more enthusiastic than ever. Many of his previously disengaged supporters seemed newly energized by the verdict, with 18 percent of his supporters who previously said they were unlikely to vote now “almost certain” to do so, compared with just 3 percent of Mr. Biden’s supporters who moved into that category. But the slight movement overall toward Mr. Biden is broadly in line with other recent surveys. (read more)
Overall, the results show that President Trump’s support is just not going to leave him, which makes sense when you really think about Trump’s support system.
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