During a segment on Friday morning, Joe Scarborough blasted the NY Times polling arm and how the paper covers the results.
Since she entered the race, Kamala Harris has been able to reverse Joe Biden's poor polling and open up opportunities in several states. The NY Times Sienna poll, through, has regularly shown her with worse results than almost any other poll. The Times will then cover those results incessantly. Joe Scarborough has a problem with that.
The Morning Joe host began, "The trend lines have been in her direction. I don't mean to keep bringing this up, and maybe they're the only polling outfit that's right, but the trend lines have been in her direction. The New York Times/Siena poll will come out, and an entire shift of reporting will happen — it will."
Scarborough continued:
"Overnight, people will say, 'Well, her post-convention bounce stopped' because the New York Times/Siena poll will do something that is always outside the margin. Again, it doesn't look like the momentum stopped, but a New York Times/Siena poll will come out and, for some reason — you know, the reporting has to be truthful."
The host closed, "And the truthful reporting is that the New York Times/Siena poll is always outside the margin of error. The New York Times will run 16 articles on their New York Times/Siena poll. Then we will really be shocked when numbers like these come out because it'll show that, actually, the trend lines do continue in Kamala Harris' favor."