Fox News Polls released a presidential general election poll on May 18. Scroll down to question 4. The results: Donald Trump 42%, Hillary Clinton 39%, Gary Johnson 10%, other 2%, won’t vote 5%, don’t know 3%.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Yep, Gary is going to be the nominee.
Is this an indication that Fox News would like Johnson/the Libertarians in the debates? After all, it’s a bit easier to average 15% in the polls if they actually mention your name.
They talk about Gary Johnson on Fox News all the time and on other networks alot as well. I’m sure the increased media coverage is whats driving some that 10%.
Granted that Johnson is getting more attention than the average alternative-party candidate in this year of alternatives. But my thought was, “What if Fox was acting partly because of its sometime distaste for Trump — thinking that including Johnson in their poll might help him get into the debate and might take votes away from Trump?”