Makes it easier to appeal to people who are less on the extremes

Not shocking that when your elections become like a reality tv show, the guy who wins it is a reality tv star

I mean AOC (for example) is going with the Trumpian view that any publicity is good publicity (even if it makes her seem like a pretentious teenager)

Well, it fires up his base

But it fires up the progressive base too

And when your margin in mi is .3%, you can’t afford to fire up people in Ann Arbor and flint

https://71republic.com/2019/09/11/andrew-yang-make-history-debate/

@Platinum Spark I know the article is about approval ratings, what I said was that he was simply gaining more minority support in a general sense. Also I do not see how the article synonymized approval ratings with vote total, I'm pretty sure it does make a distinction between the two. These two things also tend to correlate, however, so it isn't wrong to say that if these numbers hold the very well can land him a second term, especially given the other things in his favor this time.

Unless there is something that I missed in the article

I will say though that it shouldn't have claimed that Trump has a certain victory, because it's still too early to tell for sure.

It really doesn't suggest that he's gaining minority support

it's also not a legitimate news source

It makes no claim on how many points it went up by

it straight up says those polls are considered outliers

and the numbers it cites are STILL very low approval ratings

It does though, it explains that both black and Hispanic approval ratings now have increased relative to the votes respective to these groups, and although these two things are obviously not synonyms they are still indicators of increased support.

I don't think it's a wild claim to suggest that if a person is receiving support then given things go smoothly this will be more or less reflected in the polls. But again, I do disagree with the declarative language in the article.

Also what exactly constitutes a "legitimate" news source?

it actually doesn't say they increased

it implies it

unbiased and, when you're talking about polls, statistically sound

you can tell from the beginning something's off with this article:

"despite shrill denunciations of the president by the Democrats for his alleged racism"

that's not something that a real news organization would write

that's what a conservative blog would write

and they totally have their place, don't get me wrong

but what they're doing here is trying to cherry-pick polls

look at this part:

"this, of course, which is why they have worked so diligently to discredit polls that confirm the president’s gains among minority voters."

GG @Platinum Spark, you just advanced to level 13!

Then not many things can be considered legitimate news, including CNN, Fox, and MSNBC

sure

I disagree with you, but sure let's throw out all three of those

when it comes to polling, 538 is probably the gold standard

but AP, WaPo, WSJ, NYT

these are real news organizations

CBS, ABC

here:

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/

you can take a look at how media bias affects different news organizations

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/