Fox News host Melissa Francis said she doesn’t trust polling, including Fox News’ own polls.
Her reasoning which she revealed on “Outnumbered” was that she has been polled twice recently and that she “has a blast” when she gets called.
Francis says she sometimes “toys” with the pollsters and “sometimes I’m somebody who voted for de Blasio but now is thinking about Trump, sometimes it just depends how I toyed with these folks.”
Journalist Justin Baragona highlighted the issue (below with clip):
Wait, are Fox News hosts now claiming they openly lie to pollsters to help push the narrative that all the polls are wrong?
"Sometimes I’m somebody who voted for de Blasio, now I'm thinking about Trump, sometimes it just depends how I toyed with these folks." pic.twitter.com/i6mbjnLLO0
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 16, 2020
Francis responded to Baragona by saying “[a]ny pollster who calls me – I do not tell the truth. It’s not their business. But I misled them left and right in equal measure. Polling is in fact garbage. I also do *always* disclose where I work and ask from whom they purchased my information.”
https://twitter.com/MelissaAFrancis/status/1283805861681541120
She also went on to say “I don’t trust any polling at all based on my personal experience” when Baragona asked her if she also thought Fox News polls are also “garbage”
https://twitter.com/MelissaAFrancis/status/1283810884364783617
