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    It’s Slowly Dawning on Trump That He’s Losing

    The president is raging at his advisers, as they try to explain where he went wrong.
    by David A. Graham Apr 30, 2020 5 minutes
    Source: Drew Angerer / Getty

    It’s far too early to know who will win the 2020 presidential election, but at the moment, President Donald Trump is losing.

    There’s ample polling to back that up. RealClearPolitics’s average has the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, up 6.3 percent on Trump. Polling averages in each of the potentially decisive states show Biden up, too, save North Carolina—and even there, the most recent polls show Biden ahead by 5 percent. A survey of Texans released yesterday even has Biden up by a point in the Lone Star State.

    But you don’t have to take the public polling at face value. Take the president’s and his campaign’s word for it.

    “I don’t believe the polls,” Trump . Claiming the polls are wrong is the last refuge of a struggling

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