Donald Trump says a poll showing him 10 points up on Joe Biden "doesn't matter" because Democrats do not have a replacement for the president.
Donald Trump is not focusing on the polls
An ABC News/Washington Post survey on Sunday (24.09.23) showed Trump with 52 per cent to Biden's 42 per cent among registered voters - although the Republican frontrunner called the media organisations "corrupt" after analysis suggested that his big lead was an outlier.
Trump said on the campaign trail in South Carolina: "It's hard for Republicans to lead by that much in the fake news media. When they see these numbers they get crazy."
Despite his disdain for the media, the maverick politician is convinced that the polling is accurate and told the crowd that liberal areas of the United States are "changing their tune" because "nobody can want to vote" for Biden.
Trump once again raised the possibility that Biden, 80, "may not make it" to next year's election.
He said of his political rival: "And maybe he makes it to the gate, I don't know if he makes it to the gate.
"I don't think it even matters anymore because they have been so destructive to our country, what they've done as a party, that I don't think it matters."
Trump also poured scorn on the prospect of the Democrats nominating unpopular vice president Kamala Harris as an alternative to Biden.
He mockingly said: "They going to put in Kamala, Kamala?
"Actually our numbers are better against Kamala than they are against Joe, so maybe we'd like Kamala too."
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