Rupert Murdoch Tweets to Trump: 'Calm Down'

Rupert Murdoch says it's time for Donald Trump to "calm down" over allegations that the News Corporation head is rigging presidential polls to make Trump look bad. 

Murdoch tweeted on Thursday that if he really was running an anti-Trump conspiracy he's doing a "lousy job," considering Trump's continued success on his quest for the GOP nomination.

Trump blames me for WSJ poll, fights FoxNews. Time to calm down. If I running anti-Trump conspiracy then doing lousy job!

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) February 18, 2016

Murdoch's comments come after a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll on Wednesday showed Trump now trailing two points nationally to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. All other recent polls still show Trump with a double-digit lead over Cruz, his closest competitor.

Murdoch's News Corporation owns The Wall Street Journal, as well as Fox News Channel, with which Trump also has been sparring since a tiff with Megyn Kelly during the first presidential debate in August.

Dan Scavino, Trump's social media director, noted the differences in the WSJ poll and others in a tweet of his own on Thursday.

10 RECENT NATIONAL POLLS
Which one is affiliated with a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch? #TrumpTrain #Trump2016🚀 pic.twitter.com/AhQ5NMFiXH

— Dan Scavino (@DanScavino) February 18, 2016

Trump called the poll a "total joke" on Thursday, and said during a town hall program on MSNBC on Wednesday, "I think somebody at the Wall Street Journal doesn't like me … [I've] never done well with the Wall Street Journal poll."

New CBS National Poll just out - massive lead for Trump. The Wall Street Journal/NBC Poll is a total joke. No wonder WSJ is doing so badly!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2016

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