Trump Claims Best-Ever Polling, Urges Voters to Back Republicans

Trump touts record approval numbers, dismisses mainstream surveys as fake, and calls on Americans to vote Republican in a Truth Social post.

First Published: August 3, 2026, 5:45 AM ET

WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump declared his polling numbers the best of his political career and dismissed mainstream surveys as fabricated, in a Truth Social post that doubled as a campaign appeal for Republican candidates.

Trump tied the claim to a list of self-described achievements, including tax cuts, employment figures, foreign investment, border security and foreign-policy wins, without citing any specific poll or figure. The post offered no data to support the assertion that his standing has reached a personal high.

“My REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been,” Trump wrote, adding a call to “VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!”

Here is the full post on truthsocial: “My REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been, and why wouldn’t they be with the biggest tax cuts and employment numbers EVER, the biggest outside Investment in America in World history, a totally secure Border, a giant Victory in Venezuela, the Denuclearization of Iran, unparalleled respect and success throughout the World, and much more? Don’t believe the Radical Left’s Fake Poll numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA! Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT” on August 3, 2026 at 9:31 AM ET.

This is the first message released by Trump today. On average, Trump produces 18 posts per day since his inauguration on January 20, 2025.

The move fits a broader pattern in Trump’s recent messaging, with 73 of his 462 posts over the last 30 days focused on elections.

The post drew attention from commentators who tracked and reposted the language within hours according to substack.com. The remarks circulated across social platforms as Trump repeated a long-running argument that private measures of his support outrun published surveys.

The stakes reach beyond a single message. A president who frames favorable numbers as proof of policy success benefits by rallying supporters ahead of an election cycle, while opponents lose ground if voters accept the claim over independent data. Polling analysts and rival campaigns face pressure when a sitting president casts their figures as corrupt.

Attacks on published polling are a recurring feature of Trump’s public communication, tracked by outlets that monitor his approval trends according to forbes.com. His approval readings have moved within a defined band across his terms, and coverage of those swings followed each release according to yahoo.com. Independent trackers continue to compile survey averages that Trump disputes according to fiftyplusone.news.

For the average reader, the dispute shapes what information reaches voters before they cast ballots. Claims that surveys are rigged can erode trust in the numbers that guide campaigns, media coverage and household expectations about the direction of the country.

This has happened before. Trump has repeatedly rejected unfavorable polling as fake while promoting internal or unnamed figures as more accurate, a pattern that spans his first and second terms. The current post extends that stance without releasing the underlying data.

Voters will render the next verdict at the ballot box, and no specific poll release or election date tied to this post has been announced. Trump did not name a survey, a pollster or a timeline for producing the numbers he described.

Presidents quarreling with pollsters is not new to American politics. Harry Truman defied the pollsters and press in 1948, when major surveys and the Chicago Daily Tribune declared Thomas Dewey the winner before Truman won the presidency outright. Franklin Roosevelt earlier benefited when the Literary Digest poll wrongly predicted his 1936 defeat, a failure so complete it helped end the magazine within two years. Truman held up the erroneous headline as a trophy, and the episode became a lasting warning about trusting polls over the vote itself.