Fox’s Martha MacCallum and Kellyanne Conway exchange over polls gets testy
June 27, 2020 | Frieda Powers
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway dismissed concerns about President Trump’s poll numbers following weeks of civil unrest and a global pandemic.
Conway was confronted by Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on Friday about national polls showing Trump behind presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and a piece by the Wall Street Journal editorial board criticizing the president because he “refuses to acknowledge what every poll now says is true.â€
“You hear those editorials, a lot of that sentiment out there today that says that the president sort of needs to shift, needs to understand that the moment has changed, and to meet people where they are in the country right now. What do you say to that?†MacCallum asked, referring to the Wall Street Journal column.
The piece claimed that Trump has “reverted to his worst form,†and that he is heading for a “historic repudiation that would take the Republican Senate down with him.â€
“Lately he has all but given up even talking about the pandemic when he might offer realism and hope about the road ahead even as the country reopens,†The Journal editorial board wrote, adding that instead of “empathetic leadership after the death of George Floyd,†which the country needs, the president only “offers combative tweets that inflame.â€
Conway responded to MacCallum’s question and the editorial, expressing that the poll numbers are not surprising given the turmoil facing the country in the last few weeks and months.
“Three things are happening right now. We had a global pandemic that still is with us, coronavirus cases. We have an economic crisis that the president is handling, and also we have some social unrest, people calling for racial justice and the like,†Conway said, adding that the president “is on top of all three.â€
She noted that Biden “is completely absent from the conversation, which is why his polls are high,†and added that people are “putting onto Joe Biden exactly what they want him to be, what they expect him to be.â€
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