President Joe Biden recently boasted about beating former President Donald Trump in the most recent polls, and stated that his rally crowd “Momentum is clearly on our side” via Mediaite.
The president was in Tampa, Florida Tuesday and gave a speech on reproductive freedom and ripping Florida’s six-week abortion ban. However, in another speech, at the Hillsborough Community College Dale Mabry Campus, Biden talked about the polls, after opening by ripping Trump as a liar:
I think — you know, whether the press thinks I’m good, bad, or indifferent, I think they acknowledge that there’s less than truth that comes out of the other guy’s mouth. And, you know, you wouldn’t know it from what you read and hear, but, you know, we’re in pretty good shape in the polls. The — and I know you’re all activists, so that’s why I’m bothering to tell you this: The polls don’t win you an election. (Applause.)
But in the last 23 national polls, I’ve been ahead in 10 of them, Trump has been ahead in 8, and we’ve been tied in 5. More importantly, the momentum is clearly in our — our favor.
For example, we moved eight points in the latest Marquette poll and seven points in the Echelon poll. And the Marist Poll now has us up by three nationwide.
The point I’m making is, people are beginning to listen. This is a time people begin to focus and listen. They have generic impressions up to now, but now they’re l- — they’re listening. And they’re beginning to listen.
And so, this campaigns — how many offices have we opened now, total? Where — where is my —
AIDE: A hundred and thirty-three.
THE PRESIDENT: A hundred — we — we’ve opened a hundred — (applause) — a hundred and thirty-three offices.
And here you are. That’s — that’s the note I had. Yeah.
And here in Florida, we’re opening coordinated offices, hiring staff, and recruiting volunteers as well.
But, you know, I know we can do this, but I’ve never been more optimistic. I know — I’ve been saying this for a long time: I’ve never been more optimistic about America than I am today.
Biden has regularly complained that the press doesn’t report positive polling news about his reelection but obsesses over the bad ones.
