Prominent pollster blasts colleagues for skewing Trump's 100 Days approval
According to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll, 55% of Americans say they disapprove of Trump's first 100 days in office.
Big Data Poll director Richard Baris is blasting fellow pollsters for declaring that President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office were being perceived poorly by voters, suggesting some in the industry were skewing data to reflect their biases.
"We saw a slew of polling before the election, including pollsters that came out over the weekend with the 100-day narrative, and they were all wrong," Baris told the Monday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show.
According to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll, 55% of Americans say they disapprove of Trump's first 100 days in office.
In a CNN poll, Trump only has a 41% approval rating for his first 100 days.
"People are hearing the media narrative, and they're seeing the Friday night headlines, and it's meant to cause panic. And so they are reacting to that with some of the other polls," Baris said. "But when you get a little bit more granular, and you ask people whether or not they think this strategy could pay off, and if it does, was it worth it? Then we're getting very different answers."
Baris said some pollsters were wrong during the 2024 election and are wrong now with how they are doing their polling. He specifically said he was concerned polling samples were under measuring Trump supporters.
"I'm looking at their numbers, and they're interestingly, about five to seven points off of the rest of us who actually have polled elections correctly," he said. "And that's about how far they were wrong in 2024. So it's like nothing has changed. "