President Trump’s re-election campaign has sued several news outlets for coverage it deemed unflattering. On Wednesday, the president’s team added a new wrinkle to its media intimidation tactics: demanding that a TV network retract a poll it did not like.
In an unusual cease-and-desist letter, the Trump campaign called on CNN to retract and apologize for a national poll this week that showed the president trailing his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., by 14 percentage points among registered voters. …
On Wednesday, the chief executive of One America News, Robert Herring, offered an overture to the White House. Shortly after the Trump campaign contacted CNN, Mr. Herring wrote on Twitter that his network would be publishing a voter survey that Mr. Trump might find more palatable. CONT.
Michael M. Grynbaum & Maggie Haberman, New York Times
Later today, @OANN will be releasing a poll concerning the 2020 presidential race. It looks as though it will be in favor of @realDonaldTrump. #OANN
— Robert Herring (@RobHerring) June 10, 2020
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