Election polls are often wrong and they'll be proven wrong again with the 2016 presidential race, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday, while repeating a claim that GOP nominee Donald Trump will have a late October surprise coming in a few days.
"I'm sorry, I don't believe in polls," Giuliani, a Trump supporter and adviser, told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program. "Every election I ever won, I outperformed the polls. Even ones I lost I was down by 12. I lost by three. I was down by four, I won by four. I was ahead by 12, I won by 18. So I have always overperformed the polls. They have never been accurate in my case."
Trump's numbers have flipped in Florida now that he's spent three or four days there, Giuliani continued, as "he got his message out there," and there is time left for Trump and his surrogates to spread out to other states.
Giuliani said he'll be heading to Texas, and ridiculed talk that the western state could be tilting toward Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
"I just talked to one of my good friend in Texas that is the biggest joke in the world," said Giuliani. "They can't find a Hillary supporter in Texas or somebody who is willing to be a Hillary supporter in Texas. I will be in Texas tomorrow. Then I will go to Nevada, Colorado and come back through New Hampshire. And I will do my own campaigning. So, it won't be the 10,000 that he [Trump] gets but maybe I get 2 or 3,000."
And Trump himself has a "surprise or two you will hear about in the next few days," said Giuliani, repeating a claim he made on Fox News on Tuesday. "I mean, I'm talking about some pretty big surprise."
Giuliani also spoke out about the looming price hikes Obamacare is facing this fall, telling the program he knew Obamacare was a failure "from day one," and then President Barack Obama "lied to us" about keeping doctors and insurance plans.
"How could we possibly have believed, how can you cover people with preexisting conditions and have it cost less money?" said Giuliani, who said he agrees in covering such recipients, but not in lying to people.
"The whole financial basis for this program was done by a bunch liberal idiots who have never run a business, [have] never run an economic program in their entire lives. The rollout was incompetent. And now, it is a disaster."
Also, said Giuliani, the matter of deductibles is not considered by many.
"It's one thing to say your premium will go up 50 percent, another thing to say your deductible will be $5,000," said Giuliani. "Who will use it? The only time I ever used that amount of money for healthcare, I had prostate cancer. Other than that, I'm not a young man. I don't use $5,000 a year in healthcare."
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