Kellyanne Conway: Trump staying on top of economy, pandemic, and unrest
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, react to polls putting Biden ahead of Trump.
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway told "The Story" Friday that polls showing President Trump trailing Joe Biden nationally and in key battleground states aren't a surprise to her.
"Three things are happening right now. We had a global pandemic [which] still is with us ... We have an economic crisis that the president is handling," Conway told host Martha MacCallum. "And also, we have some social unrest and people calling for racial justice and the like, and so this president is on top of all three ... and Joe Biden is completely absent from the conversation, which is why his poll numbers are high.
"People are putting onto Joe Biden exactly what they want him to be," added Conway, who predicted that voters will be "sorely disappointed once they see him and they hear him, time and again."
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A Fox News poll released Thursday showed Trump trailing Biden by nine points among registered voters in the president's adopted home state of Florida. Polls of registered voters in Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas show those states to be toss-ups between the incumbent and the former vice president.
"You can't say, 'Raise my hand, I'm not Donald Trump.' Joe Biden had 40 years to make some significant changes that would have put us in a better position to deal with all this," Conway said. "And Donald Trump's done a better job in less than four years."
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MacCallum then pressed Conway on the polling numbers saying the president was failing to connect with voters and citing his approval numbers, something Conway dismissed.
"The polls are about horse race numbers. And let's be fair, these polls are precisely where I think they would be right now in that when you look at The New York Times state-by-state race polls, [Trump and Biden are] within a few points of each other and they're both under 50 percent by and large," Conway said. "I would expect a president's approval rating to be lower than normal when we are in so many crises in this country. That doesn't surprise me at all."
Fox News' Joshua Nelson contributed to this report.
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