Newsmax just loves to promote the highly biased polls of the McLaughlin brothers. Here are some of the recent McLaughlin polls it has promoted:
- McLaughlin Poll: Americans Want a Big Beautiful Trump Tax Cut
- Jim McLaughlin to Newsmax: Trump’s Support Among Gen Z No Shock
- McLaughlin Brothers to Newsmax: Polls Reflecting Trump Successes
- McLaughlin Poll: 77 Percent Oppose Amnesty; 56 Percent: Deport Every Illegal
- President Trump Sets Stage for Midterm Victory
- Pollster McLaughlin to Newsmax: GOP Agenda ‘Very Popular’
- McLaughlin Poll: Trump Stays Strong but America Anxious
- John McLaughlin to Newsmax: Voters Turning Toward GOP for Congress
- McLaughlin Poll: ACA Subsidies Key to GOP House Rule
- McLaughlin Poll: Trump Remains Strong, GOP Needs Stronger Response
the McLaughlins also promoted Republican New Jersey governor candidate Jack Ciattarelli and New York City mayor candidate Andrew Cuomo — both of whom lost — and pre-emptively blamed Curtis Sliwa for losing the NYC mayor’s race because he “failed to mobilize President Donald Trump’s base in New York City.”
But for guys who regularly peddle bogus and biased polls, they oddly take offense at the supposedly biased polls of others. Eric Mack wrote in an April 28 article:
President Donald Trump has called out liberal media pollsters for pushing anti-Trump narratives aimed at tarnishing his legacy at the 100-day mark.
“Great Pollster John McLaughlin, one of the most highly respected in the industry, has just stated that The Failing New York Times Poll, and the ABC/Washington Post Poll, about a person named Donald J. Trump, me, are fake polls from fake news organizations,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Monday morning.
“The New York Times has only 37% Trump 2024 voters, and the ABC/Washington Post Poll has only 34% Trump Voters, unheard of numbers unless looking for a negative result, which they are.”
The ABC News poll used “adults” in the U.S. for their sample and only weighted “registered voters” from that pool of adults.
One McLaughlin brother served his own attack on polls he doesn’t like in a Nov. 4 article:
National media polls are continuing to distort President Donald Trump’s support, John McLaughlin, a key pollster for the president’s 2024 campaign, told Newsmax on Monday.
“Absolutely not,” McLaughlin said when asked on Newsmax’s “Finnerty” if he trusts this year’s surveys.
“They’re doing the same thing; they’re trying to run down Donald Trump on purpose,” he added.
He said his firm’s latest poll showed Trump with a 51% approval rating and 46% disapproval but added a Washington Post-Ipsos survey was “a poll of adults polluted with nonvoters.”
“They weighted it down to 30%,” he said. “That’s 20 points less than we got in the election last November.”
He also criticized an NBC poll for using registered voters instead of likely voters.
It was not explained how likely voters are a more reliable pool than registered voters. He then went on to build up Sliwa one more time:
In New York City, McLaughlin said, Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa could act as a spoiler.
“If he has less than 50%, Curtis Sliwa has played spoiler because he’ll be the difference … vis-à-vis Ross Perot in 1992 with George H.W. Bush,” McLaughlin said.
In reality, Sliwa won just 7 percent of the vote — so much for that “spoiler” stuff. and the accuracy of McLaughlin’s polls.