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At the start of last week, the liberal media had a nervous breakdown after former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced he was thinking about running for president as an independent. The liberal media was worried that he was doing to damage the changes for Democrats so they did what they could to beat up on him. They ripped into him so much, that during Sunday’s Meet the Press, on NBC, moderator Chuck Todd was seemingly impressed he withstood it all.
In the midst of discussing how the Trump campaign was interested in Schultz, Todd interrupted to share some internal polling data the Schultz team gave to NBC. “They released some of it. They did polling following this week where he got beaten, the living daylight out of him in the media,” Todd remarked.
Here’s one match up. They sent us two matchups of Trump/Harris/Schultz and Trump/Warren/Schultz. As you can see here, this is a poll conducted after the rollouts. So, in the last two days. Essentially, Trump and Harris tied, Schultz sitting at 17. The point they wanted to make here, Mark Leibovich, is that, “hey, even after this horrible rollout where he got battered left and sometimes right, he's still sitting in the mid-teens,” which their argument shows you how much room there is for an independent.
Interestingly, Todd didn’t share the Trump/Warren/Schultz matchup poll results and didn’t note whether or not they resembled the Trump/Harris/Schultz matchup poll.
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