Rather than consider the possibility that he might actually be slipping behind Hillary Clinton in the polls, Donald Trump has concluded there simply must be something wrong with the polls. "I think these polls, I don't know ... there's something phony," Trump said at a Tuesday rally in Ashburn, Virginia.
Trump was particularly incensed about a poll by CNN, a network he's dutifully documented his disdain for on Twitter. He told the crowd the fact that he trails Clinton by 9 points in a CNN poll is due to his refusal to do an interview for a network that is "negative all day long."
Trump did concede that not all polls are bad, however — he mentioned that the latest Los Angeles Times poll, which showed him with a 2-point lead, was one of the "great polls."
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