Trump and Vance have entered the 'fake polls' phase of their campaign
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- The Trump campaign is in the "fake polls" phase of its campaign.
- It comes as polls show the Harris-Walz ticket with a multi-point lead over Trump-Vance.
- The Trump campaign celebrated the same polls when they showed it in the lead earlier this year.
Former President Donald Trump boasted about his standing in the polls when they showed him leading President Joe Biden earlier this year. Now, he's calling those same polls "fake."
Recent polls have found that Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have a national multi-point lead over the GOP ticket.
Fox News noticed and asked Sen. JD Vance about them in an interview on Sunday.
"The media uses fake polls to drive down Republican turnout and to create dissension and conflict with Republican voters. I'm telling you, every single person who's watching this, the Trump campaign is in a very, very good spot. We're gonna win this race," Vance said.
He added that polls have been wrong before, most notably in 2016 when they widely predicted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would easily defeat Trump.
But the Trump campaign reserves its critiques of the polls for when they show a negative trend. When they are in Trump's favor, the former president is quick to share the good news.
"ABC News recently compared how Biden and Harris would do against President Trump, and spoiler alert, they both lost in a landslide," Trump's campaign said in an email blast on July 12. ABC News was analyzing data from 538, the Disney-owned polling website previously run by Nate Silver.
And in September, the Trump campaign celebrated a poll from ABC News and the Washington Post that showed "Trump beating Crooked Joe Biden by a whopping 10 POINTS in a general election matchup."
On Fox on Sunday, Vance was reacting to a newly-released ABC News/Washington Post poll that gave Harris-Walz a 5-percentage-point lead over Trump-Vance among all adults and a 6-percentage-point lead among likely voters.
Similarly, a poll from The New York Times and Siena College found Harris leading in battleground states like Arizona and North Carolina, and gaining in Nevada and Georgia.
Vance encouraged Republicans to vote and said his team "can't worry about the polls."
"I think there are a lot of polls that show her stagnating and leveling off," Vance said of Harris. "If you see the numbers that we're seeing and you actually talk to the American people, I feel extremely confident that we're going to be in the right place come November."