{"id":17200,"date":"2024-08-27T16:34:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=17200"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:34:54","slug":"trumps-poll-obsession-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2024\/08\/27\/trumps-poll-obsession-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Poll Obsession (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/23\/us\/politics\/trump-reaction-harris-dnc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GE4.64mZ.x9UUFy4a5Hth&amp;smid=url-share\">call-in to Fox News, <\/a>Trump argued with Martha MacCallum about the polls:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>When Ms. MacCallum observed, accurately, that Ms. Harris was \u201chaving some success\u201d with women, Hispanic and Black voters, Mr. Trump objected. \u201cShe\u2019s not having success; I\u2019m having success,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m doing great with the Hispanic voters, doing great with Black men, I\u2019m doing great with women.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s only in your eyes that they have that, Martha,\u201d he added. \u201cWe are doing very well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, this limerick:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Trump obsessively follows each poll, <br \/>And bad numbers are taking their toll.<br \/>When he&#8217;s bested, he&#8217;s pissed.<br \/>I&#8217;m ahead, he&#8217;ll insist.<br \/>Don-OLD&#8217;s poll-envy&#8217;s out of control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a call-in to Fox News, Trump argued with Martha MacCallum about the polls: When Ms. MacCallum observed, accurately, that Ms. Harris was \u201chaving some success\u201d with women, Hispanic and Black voters, Mr. Trump objected. \u201cShe\u2019s not having success; I\u2019m having success,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m doing great with the Hispanic voters, doing great with Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4052,72,1550,4051,21,585,4147,6,90,3543],"tags":[2786,192,2897,194,2764,278,4148,275,1716,2552,1717,3522,1835,702,2681],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17203,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200\/revisions\/17203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}