Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, believes voters now are more reluctant to tell pollsters they back Donald Trump.
Her comments came Friday during an interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
"This is the same thing we saw in 2016," she said. "The polls have never accurately reflected how people feel about this president, especially now. I think people are more afraid now to voice their support for President Trump than they were when he was just a candidate in 2016."
Lara Trump, who is married to Eric Trump, serves as a senior adviser to the president's re-election campaign.
Her comments came after a Washington Post-ABC News survey showed the president trailing four Democratic hopefuls in hypothetical general election matchups. Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Sen. Kamala Harris of California all topped Trump in the poll.
"We don't put a lot of weight in those kind of polls," she said.
She noted that most polls showed Democrat Hillary Clinton with a lead nationally before the 2016 election.
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