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¦ From CNN’s GC on PAGE 7 “In any event, McLaughlin
between June 2nd and 5th, be- was able to evaluate and criticize
fore the great economic news CNN’s most recent poll because
from last Friday. Further, the “It is yet another bad faith CNN is transparent and publish-
questions and topics selected attempt by the campaign to es its methodology along with its
likely biased the poll further,” the threaten litigation to muzzle polling results,” Vigilante wrote.
letter stated. “Because of this, McLaughlin was
speech it does not want

Of the respondents who were voters to read or hear,” free to publish his own critique

asked if they “approve or disap- wrote CNN general counsel of CNN’s analysis and share his
prove of the way Donald Trump criticisms across the U.S. media
is handling his job as president,” David Vigilante. landscape. That’s how free speech

57% disapproved, while 38% ap- works. It’s the American way.”
proved and 5% had no opinion, Vigilante concluded by dis-
according to CNN’s poll. missing the cease and desist letter as “factually and
The survey also showed that 63% of respon- legally baseless.”
dents disapproved of Trump’s handling of race “It is yet another bad faith attempt by the campaign
relations. to threaten litigation to muzzle speech it does not
In CNN’s response to the Trump campaign, want voters to read or hear. Your allegations and de-
Vigilante brought up McLaughlin’s infamously inac- mands are rejected in their entirety,” he wrote. ¦
curate 2014 poll showing Eric Cantor leading Dave
Brat by 34 points in Virginia’s Republican primary. Phillip Bantz is a reporter for Corporate Counsel.
Brat won by 11 points. Follow him on Twitter @PhillipBantz.

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