'I am leading big': Trump continues meltdown over poll suggesting campaign is collapsing

Donald Trump continued raging Thursday afternoon over a new Fox News poll showing him falling behind president Joe Biden for the first time since last year.

The president moved into the lead for the first time since October in a hypothetical matchup with the presumptive Republican nominee, who spent much of the morning attacking the conservative media organization that conducted the poll, which showed Biden up 50-48 in a head-to-head race.

"The latest Fox News poll is TRASH!" Trump posted on Truth Social. "They used a biased, Democrat-leaning sample of voters, polling more Biden 2020 voters than Trump 2020 voters to skew the results in favor of Crooked Joe."

Fox News conducted the survey June 14-17 under the joint direction of a Democratic polling outfit, Beacon Research, and a Republican one, Shaw & Company Research, and includes interviews by landline and cellphone with 1,095 registered voters randomly selected from a national voter file, and about a quarter of participants completed online surveys after receiving a text.

"I am leading BIG in virtually every other poll, including in all of the key battleground states, like Wisconsin, where I just held a massive rally, and Pennsylvania, where I will be on Saturday," Trump posted. "Also, the #1 issue in this Country is not protecting democracy. It is INFLATION and IMMIGRATION! If it is protecting democracy, Trump is your best choice, because Crooked Joe Biden is the greatest threat to democracy in history with his Open Border and weaponization of our justice system against his political opponent, ME! Fox News polls have never treated me, or MAGA, fairly! Don't worry, we will WIN!!! Fox News should get rid of Paul Ryan, and get a new Pollster, but they won’t…"

Trump attacked Ryan, the former House speaker who now serves on the Fox Corporation board, hours before the network published the results of the poll, demanding that the Wisconsin Republican be removed as a show of loyalty.

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"Nobody can ever trust Fox News, and I am one of them, with the weak and ineffective RINO, Paul Ryan, on its Board of Directors," Trump posted Wednesday afternoon on Truth Social. "He’s a total lightweight, a failed and pathetic Speaker of the House, and a very disloyal person."

"Rupert and Lachlan, get that dog off your Board - You don’t need him," Trump added. "ALL YOU NEED IS TRUMP. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

The presumptive Republican nominee lashed out Thursday morning, as well, claiming the conservative network had always been biased against him.

"Fox News Polls are always the worst for me," Trump posted. "They have been from the beginning, and always will be!"