Former President Donald Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential election is accusing pollsters of making "fake polls" favoring Trump's opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. 

U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) made the claim during a recent interview with Fox News.

The interview comes after the release, in recent weeks, of multiple polls showing Harris outstripping Trump.

Suffice it to say that Vance is not the only one or the first one to question the polls. Vance, however, believes that, in reality, Harris is already losing significant ground in the polls.

A truly shocking turn of events

The reader will likely remember what happened in the 2020 presidential election.

Harris was one of the candidates who was vying to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, along with Joe Biden and several others. But, Harris ended up having to drop out of the running early on because she struggled to garner even one percentage point worth of support.

Despite her lack of popularity, the Democratic Party installed her as Biden's running mate. The hope was that she would become more popular as vice president. But, this is not what happened.

Instead, polling has consistently shown Harris to be the least popular vice president in modern history. Her approval rating, at times, has even dipped below 30%.

Yet, Harris - ever since being installed as the Democratic Party's 2024 presidential nominee, despite having never received a single vote - is now supposedly favored to win the election over Trump. Real Clear Politics, for example, has Harris, on average, leading Trump by 1.4 percentage points, and some polls have her several points up.

Something doesn't add up here

What Vance did, during his Fox News appearance, was simply point out the fact that none of this makes any sense - unless, that is, there is something wrong with the polls.

"The polls tend to radically overstate Democrats. We certainly saw that during the summer of 2020 and summer of 2016, and, of course, a lot of those polls were wrong when it came to Election Day," Vance said.

The senator went on to say that, based on the Trump campaign's internal polling, Harris's so-called honeymoon period is already coming to an end.

He said:

What we have certainly seen is that Kamala Harris got a bit of a sugar high a couple of weeks ago, but what we’ve actually seen from our own internal data is that Kamala Harris has already leveled off. If you talk to insiders in the Kamala Harris campaign, they’re very worried about where they are because the American people just don’t buy the idea that Kamala Harris, who has been vice president for three and a half years, is somehow going to tackle the inflation crisis in a way tomorrow that she hasn’t for the past 1,300 days.

Vance, later on in the interview, said that he feels "extremely confident" that the Trump campaign is "going to be in the right place come November."