Clinton, Epstein and Trump's dire polling
2/11/202633 min
Trump is trying his best to manifest good polling numbers. But the raw numbers as they stand are dire for the President. This week, we talk to top pollster Doug Sosnik, who was at Bill Clinton’s side for six years, about political shamelessness, polling and 'the Epstein class'.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Donald Trump· Soundbite0:05
... I'm getting very good polls on crime prevention, on law and order- Yeah -and on the border. I have to. Yeah. And I'm getting, starting to get great polls on the economy, which I think is- The, the polls on the economy aren't, aren't, they're, they're not great. They should be great. They should be. People don't know- So why aren't they, if, if you believe that? I don't know.
Speaker 2· Host0:22
That is Donald Trump telling the polls that they should be better than they are. On today's show, we're gonna look at polling. We're going to ask what the American people are starting to think about their president and his presidency, and we'll be speaking about the Clintons' choice of testifying before Congress over their appearance, Bill's appearance, in the Epstein files. Welcome to the News agents USA.
Speaker 00:50
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Speaker 2· Host0:56
And to help us do all that, I'm going to introduce Doug Sosnik, who is pollster supremo, senior advisor at Brunswick Group, and a former political director to President Bill Clinton. And Doug, it's lovely to have you in the studio today. And I think we're going to dive straight in because there has always been a discrepancy between how British people, for the most part, have viewed Trump and how Americans have viewed Trump, and clearly in 2024,