Lately, the media’s been pushing a familiar narrative: Trump is tanking in the polls.
But Victor Davis Hanson says that story doesn’t hold up—and once you see what’s behind the numbers, it starts to look a lot more like propaganda than polling.
So where did it all come from?
“We've touched on polls before,” Hanson said, “but I don't think I've seen anything quite as egregious in pollsters' bias as recently when they... purportedly surveyed the first 100 days of Donald Trump and the public reaction.”
Headlines immediately screamed: Worst first 100 days in history.
Trump’s approval supposedly dropped from 52 to 41 percent.
But as Hanson pointed out, none of that lined up with reality.
“The economic news was pretty good,” he explained.
Trump has been racking up the wins:
“Job growth was just spectacular—over 170,000 jobs. Inflation was down. Energy prices were down. Corporate profits were up. There was a movement on the trade question. Ukraine, still—there was no bad news except the controversy a…