Former US president Donald Trump’s campaign team attacked broadcaster Fox News after it released polling this week that showed the Republican trailing Vice President Kamala Harris in several key battleground states, The Hill said in a report.
“It’s that time of year again. Fox is releasing atrocious polling. President Trump continues to outperform polling from past cycles,” the Trump campaign said in a statement Thursday.
“President Trump is 10 points ahead of where he was in Arizona at this point in 2020, according to Fox. Likewise, he is running 8 points ahead of his 2020 polling in Nevada and 5 points ahead of his 2020 polling in North Carolina,” it added.
The statement was made after a poll released Wednesday showed Harris ahead in three of the four key Sun Belt states. Harris was polling ahead in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada with an overall lead of a single point.
Previous polls by the broadcaster showed President Biden trailing Trump in all of the four states,
Trump has been critical of the broadcaster and has attacked it on several occasions over its coverage of his campaign. Trump, however, has regularly appeared for interviews with big hosts and pundits of the channel.
The former president was furious with the network on election night in 2020 after it made an early call for Biden in Arizona, leading Trump’s close allies to lodge complaints directly with Fox’s senior leadership.
The GOP nominee proposed a debate with Harris on Fox News, but her campaign has not agreed. Instead, the two candidates are set to face off on September 10 in a debate moderated by ABC News.
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