Trump says poll showing him 10 points up on Biden ‘doesn’t matter’ because Joe ‘may not make it’ and Democrats have NO replacement: Rips into ‘corrupt’ Washington Post and ABC for calling results an ‘outlier’

Former President Donald Trump both praised a poll that showed him with a 10-point lead over President Joe Biden, but also said the poll didn’t matter because Democrats have no replacement for the low-vote president.

Trump campaigned in South Carolina on Monday and devoted several minutes of his speech to Sunday’s ABC News/Washington Post poll there, the ex-president showed up with 52 percent compared to Biden’s 42 percent among registered voters.

2024 Republican hopeful called news organizations ‘corrupt’ after an analysis by the Washington Post suggested that Trump’s large lead was an outlier.

“It’s hard for Republicans to provide so much leadership in the fake news media,” Trump said. “When they see these numbers, they go crazy.”

Trump himself believed the numbers were accurate, telling the crowd that even liberal parts of the country are “changing their tune” because “no one wants to vote for this guy, no one,” he said of Biden.

Former President Donald Trump (left) both praised a poll that showed him with a 10-point lead over President Joe Biden (right), but also said the poll didn’t matter because Democrats have no replacement for the president’s polling low .

Former President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Monday, holding an event in Summerville, South Carolina, where he devoted parts of his speech to the Washington Post and ABC News poll that showed him ahead by 10 points

“And maybe he’ll make it to the gate, I don’t know if he’ll make it to the gate,” Trump said of the 80-year-old resident of the White House. “I don’t think it even matters anymore because they’ve been so destructive to our country and what they’ve done as a party that I don’t think it matters anymore.”

“Who are they going to put in there?” Trump thought. “A California man who destroyed the state?”

That was a reference to California Governor Gavin Newsom.

“Are they going to lock Kamala in, Kamala?” Trump continued, tauntingly repeating the vice president’s name. “Actually, our numbers are better against Kamala than they are against Joe, so we might like Kamala too.”

In the ABC/Washington Post poll, a whopping 62 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters said they wanted to see someone other than Biden as the nominee.

But when asked to be more specific, only 8 percent were interested in seeing Vice President Kamala Harris fill that role.

And of that 62 percent of Democrats, 16 percent said they would switch their vote to Trump.

Former President Donald Trump points and waves at a supporter as he campaigns in Summerville, South Carolina, on Monday

Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene waves to the crowd at the ex-president’s rally in Summerville, South Carolina, on Monday

The poll shows that Trump has much broader support among members of his party, with 54 percent of Republicans and Republican voters backing the ex-president.

By comparison, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is at 15 percent and is a former UN official. Nikki Haley was in third place with 7 percent.

At the South Carolina stop, Trump relished being so far ahead of both DeSantis — once considered his toughest 2024 opponent — and Haley, the state’s former governor who has seen a surge in the polls since her first debate appearance.

“We are beating your former governor, who is not nearly as good as your current governor,” Trump said, also falsely claiming he was ahead of DeSantis by 56 points.

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster introduced Trump at the event.

Trump plans to skip another Republican Party primary debate, set for Wednesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley, California, and instead campaign in Detroit, Michigan amid the strike of United Auto Workers.

“You know, they waste a lot of time with these ridiculous debates that no one watches,” Trump said. ‘Their last debate was the lowest rated debate in history. That’s a nice compliment, isn’t it?’

The Republican Party’s first primary debate last month in Milwaukee drew roughly 12.8 million viewers, a smaller number than the August 2015 primary debate in which Trump first appeared on stage.