Washington: Agencies
Republican vice presidential candidate Senator J.D. Vance rejected recent polls that showed US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris ahead of former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, claiming that "the media uses fake polls" to undermine Republicans. According to what was reported by the Al-Youm Al-Abe website in Cairo from the Middle East News Agency
The American website "Axios" stated that opinion polls are not always accurate, but they are certainly not fake, explaining that every prominent polling institution showed Harris ahead in its latest results, although the race is still very close in key swing states.
The website indicated that Harris is 4% ahead of Trump in a direct confrontation among registered voters, according to a new poll conducted by the "Washington Post" newspaper, "ABC News" network and the "Ipsos" Center for Statistics, and Harris is also ahead by a margin of 51% to 45% among likely voters.
Independents have gone from supporting Trump over President Biden by 4 points in July to supporting Harris over Trump by 11 points this August, with Democratic-leaning independents going from 77% supporting Biden to 92% supporting Harris.

CBS polls on Sunday showed Harris leading Trump by 3 points nationally, and the same poll showed the two rivals tied in all key swing states.

Vance said in televised remarks - reported by Axios - that "the Washington Post and ABC were very inaccurate pollsters in the summer of 2020 (before the presidential election that Trump lost to Biden)," adding that he feels "very confident" that the Trump campaign will be "in the right place by November." “What I’ve seen consistently in 2016 and 2020 is the media using fake polls to lower Republican turnout and create discord and conflict with Republican voters,” he added, describing Harris’ early lead as a “honeymoon phase,” arguing that internal campaign data shows the campaign’s momentum has “stabilized.” Vance asserted that “the Trump campaign is in a very good position… We’re going to win this race; we just have to run across the finish line.” Axios reported that a Trump campaign spokesperson would not address whether Vance believes pollsters are intentionally publishing inaccurate polls, but pointed to a memo from Trump’s own pollster, Tony Fabrizio, showing “corrected” numbers to explain the gap between 2020 polls and final results, with Fabrizio claiming that polls currently show a “false lead” for Harris. Axios noted that polls in 2016 and 2020 often underestimated Trump nationally and in key battleground states, with one poll in 202 showing Biden leading by more than 12 points just three weeks before Election Day, but Biden won by just 4.5 points.