Vance on polls showing Harris lead: ‘We can’t worry about polls, we have to run through the finish line’

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) dismissed polls Sunday that show Vice President Harris with a lead over former President Trump.

“We can’t worry about polls, we have to run through the finish line and encourage everybody to get out there and vote. But our message is going to be very simple. If you want to get back to the peace and prosperity, the rising take-home pay, Donald Trump delivered it once and he can do it again,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Since Harris launched her bid for the White House last month, she has been closing the gap with Trump across numerous national and swing-state polls. According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s national polling average, she has a 1.8 percentage point lead over Trump based on an aggregate of 120 polls.

A new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll showed Harris with a 4-point lead over Trump in a national survey. Vance said Sunday that ABC News/Washington Post polling was a “wildly inaccurate pollster in the summer of 2020” before dismissing the polls.

Vance also said that the media used “fake polls” ahead of the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections before expressing confidence that Trump will clinch a victory for the White House in November.

“The thing we have to remember — one final point — let me just say one final point on this, Shannon, because I think it’s important. Consistently, what you’ve seen in 2016 and 2020 is that the media uses fake polls to drive down Republican turnout and to create dissension and conflict with Republican voters,” he said.

“I’m telling you, every single person who’s watching this, the Trump campaign is in a very, very good spot. We’re going to win this race. We just have to run through the finish line,” he continued.