Eric Trump caught sending fundraising email that is basically wrong about everything it claims.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree – or so it seems reviewing a fundraising email sent out by Republican nominee Donald Trump’s son Eric.
News media outlets from The Washington Post to Salon to ABC Australia are calling out Eric Trump for the email.
As ABC Australia reports, the email with the subject “Momentum,” reads as follows:
“As one of the most dedicated grassroots leaders in the country you know, momentum matters. And right now all the momentum is on our side.
“But the mainstream media are doing everything they can to prop up Crooked Hillary and downplay the incredible Donald Trump surge happening across the nation.
“We need your help to continue funding our aggressive ad blitzes and our campaign’s get-out-the-vote operation. We’re making huge gains against Crooked Hillary that you can see for yourself.”
The email also included an animated image of an electoral map, apparently representing this so-called “momentum.” The image itself “did not specify” what it represented “aside from ‘momentum.'”
New fundraising email from Eric Trump tells supporters campaign is making "huge gains" and includes this gif pic.twitter.com/MvUUCU7b3d
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) October 12, 2016
The Washington Post, Salon and ABC Australia were quick to point out that there is one thing wrong with that electoral map – this was an image published by polling expert Nate Silver earlier this week representing what the electoral map would look like if only men voted in the general election.
See for yourself:
And here's if just dudes voted. pic.twitter.com/HjqJzIVwc4
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 11, 2016
On the other hand, the electoral map looks much different if only women voted.
As Nate Silver shows, Clinton would win 458 electoral votes to just 80 for Trump if only women voted:
Here's what the map would look line if only women voted: https://t.co/sjVY67qouE pic.twitter.com/rrc3GuXmGl
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 11, 2016
“We’re not just winning national polls like LA Times/USC and Rasmussen, we’re beating back the increasingly desperate Dems in the battleground states, too,” the email from Eric Trump continued.
ABC Australia notes that: “Despite Mr Trump’s claims, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll recently found he had fallen further behind Mrs Clinton and now trailed her by 8 points among likely voters, with one in five Republicans saying his vulgar comments about groping women disqualified him from the presidency.”
A clearly perturbed of The Washington Post adds that:
This map is insane. It’s insane. It’s not at all clear what this is supposed to represent, but I assure you that current polling does not show Trump winning Maine and Ohio without question, much less flipping states such as New Hampshire, Michigan and Minnesota from light red to dark red. He’s not even turning them from dark blue to light blue. This is like saying that you are the strongest person in the world, which anyone can see for themselves, and then passing along as evidence a Photoshopped image of your head superimposed on a weightlifter’s body.
Salon may have had the best response, naming him “Bullshitter of the Day” as part of their “regular series highlighting the most outrageous quotes from the world’s most virtuosic shovelers.”
Salon concluded their report noting that “sadly, in a men-only world, Eric’s claim would have some merit…. The real question is: did he actually know this and was secretly projecting his father’s future plans for electoral laws? Who knows.”
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