Fox News includes Donald Trump in its poll — but not Rand Paul

last updated 29 May 2015

Yesterday, a Quinnipiac University released new presidential poll results, which found that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) currently holds sixth place in the Republican field — but, along with Marco Rubio, performs best against Hillary Clinton in a general election match.

But when that same poll popped up on Fox News, something was missing:

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For supporters of both Rand and his father, Ron Paul, this is nothing new. During the 2008 election cycle, Fox excluded then-Rep. Ron Paul from a presidential debate, even though he polled higher and raised more money than candidates who were invited. And in 2011, Jon Stewart dedicated a segment to discussing how Fox and other channels deliberately ignored Ron Paul's near-tie for the Iowa Straw Poll victory.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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