Election 2020

Eric Trump Absolutely Humiliates Himself Trying to Defend His Father on Hannity, ‘The Polls are Looking Really Great!’

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has plummeted to unprecedented, historic lows, with many polls showing former Vice President Joe Biden maintaining a healthy lead. But that hasn’t stopped his son Eric from telling a Fox News host that election polls are “looking great,” and adding that his father will do better in November than he did in 2016, Newsweek reports.

Thursday, he popped up on Hannity, where he touted his dad’s vociferous support base and their “tremendous” enthusiasm.

“The polls are looking great,” he told Sean Hannity and added he “sees more enthusiasm going into 2020 than I did in 2016, and we’re going to win.”

Eric Trump is the president’s third child and he is the executive vice president of the Trump Organization but his comments are off-the-mark because polling numbers for his dad are still quite low. Several national polls show Trump well behind Biden, and while some polls show varying margins, all of them show Biden winning. Some do suggest, however, that Biden’s lead has narrowed over the past few months.

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll that was taken between August 3 and 4asked 964 likely voters who they would vote for and found that 48 percent of registered voters said they would vote for Biden, as opposed to 38 percent for Trump.

And according to FiveThirtyEight’s national polling average, Biden maintains a 7.8 lead over Trump, while a RealClearPolitics (RCP) polling average, conducted between July 21 and August 5 shows Biden with a 6.4 lead. Just one month earlier, RCP’s average showed Biden had a 9-point lead, and this suggests there’s been a slight drop in voter support.

During his now-infamous interview with Fox News’s Chris Wallace, Trump asserted that national polls that show him trailing Biden were “fake in 2016, and now they’re even more fake.” And his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who’s overseeing his campaign told Newsweek last month that public polling is “all b.s.”

But the Trump campaign has, unusually, been looking inward lately and temporarily suspended all of its television advertising as part of an effort to reevaluate strategy now that’ there are less than 100 days until the election, The New York Times has reported.

The Trump administration has seriously mishandled the coronavirus pandemic as well as the country’s civil rights unrest, and even Republicans continue to lose confidence in the state of the U.S. The numbers show that only 60 percent of Republicans are satisfied with the situation, according to a Gallup poll. The same poll shows that only one in five GOP voters are okay with how things are going, as the statistic plummeted from 80 percent satisfaction in February to a mere 20 percent currently.

So things are still looking pretty good for Joe Biden, despite what Eric Trump says in the clip below.

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