Inside Fox News' polling 'nerdquarium,' whose numbers don't lie whether Trump likes them or not
President Trump has been quick to use Twitter as a weapon against his critics in the media. He's even attacked some anchors on his favorite outlet, Fox News.
But this past summer one thing in particular seemed to get under the president's skin: Fox News' polls, which recently showed him trailing four potential Democratic opponents in the 2020 race for the White House and having a 56% disapproval rating of his job performance.
"My worst polls have always been from Fox," Trump told reporters in August. "There's something going on at Fox, and I tell you I'm not happy with it."
Trump's comments were surprising to some observers who see Fox News as the president's main media cheerleader. But the conservativenews network's political unit has a long-running reputation of being a nonpartisan source of research on voting and public opinion - even if its findings irritate the Fox News fan watching in the White House.
Fox News Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt, who serves as the network's main on-air analyst of polls and voting trends, does not take Trump's shots at his operation personally.
"When Trump does things like this,
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