Gingrich: Trump would be up 15 points without media's 'one-sided assault'
By Gabby Morrongiello (@gabriellahope_) • 10/16/16 12:12 PM
Hillary Clinton would be facing a double-digit polling deficit against Donald Trump if media bias against the Republican presidential hopeful didn't exist, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich argued on Sunday.
"I think that without the unending one-sided assault of the news media, Trump would be beating Hillary by 15 points," Gingrich, a top Trump ally, said during an appearance on ABC's "This Week."
Trump trails Clinton by 5.5 percent in the current RealClearPolitics national polling average, and he has fallen behind her in a number of battleground states that are critical to his path to victory.
The GOP nominee has been engulfed in controversy since the release of a 2005 audio tape, in which he made lewd comments about women, led several Republican lawmakers to withdraw their support and more than a dozen women to come forward with allegations of sexual assault against him.
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