Respected pollster John McLaughlin, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, spoke with Just the News CEO and Editor-in-Chief John Soloman on Friday, warning that the 2026 midterms appear very close less than two weeks from Election Day, but that some polls appear to him to be intentionally favoring Democrats by manipulating the size of Republican sampling.
As we explained in an appearance on the Andrea Shaffer Show and in our article “These Polls Aren’t Supposed to Make Sense, They’re Supposed to Demoralize You,” America’s conservative voters are the focus of a vast information warfare campaign and the polls are full of contradictory and in some cases improbable results.
During his appearance on the Just the News, No Noise television show, McLaughlin rattled off polls and tactics that troubled him, including one in New York where the GOP sample was put at 22% when the GOP turnout in the last gubernatorial race was 30%.
McLaughlin said one possible impact of understating GOP support was to suppress fundraising. "It affects donors," he said.
McLaughlin said the upcoming election has a lot of toss-up seats in both chambers despite predictions of a blue wave, recalling how the media and polls indicated Trump would lose the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton.
"Remember when there was a Hillary lock in 2016," McLaughlin said. "Remember when there was going to be a [Joe] Biden blue wave in 2020, and remember [former] Vice President Kamala Harris at this point in time in 2024.
"So, there's been, you know, a lot of bad calls, bad polling, and it seems like they're doubling down on the bad polls in this election cycle because when you get into the internals of the polls, they just don't make sense," he continued. "They don't match up with the electorate, what they're going to look like in a midterm election."
You know you are entering the peak Democrat desperation phase of any political campaign year when the New York Times and other Leftwing media outlets start publishing polls showing Republicans getting trounced in the upcoming election, while the polls also show voters overwhelmingly reject Democrat policies.
What the Leftwing establishment media is doing with this demoralization campaign is simple and predictable: Telling voters not to believe their own eyes and ears and to ignore the deeply unpopular positions of the Democrats’ Far Left Socialist, Islamist and Communist candidates.
The only way they can win is to demoralize Republican and conservative voters into staying home and not voting.
In his interview with John Soloman, Mr. McLaughlin noted that a 2024 survey in Texas had then vice president Kamala Harris polling ahead of Trump in the state, with 49% for Harris to 41% for Trump, and yet the president won the state with 56% of the vote. He stated the case may be the same for the Texas Senate race, where some polls show Democrat James Talarico beating GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton.
So, how do we beat this multi-billion-dollar Leftist demoralization campaign?
We bypass them and neutralize them by becoming election influencers ourselves.
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Remember, the only way the Democrat Communists, Socialists and Islamists can win is to demoralize Republican and conservative voters into staying home and not voting – don’t let them win that way.
