[LEDThereBeLight]

> When asked by The Hill if Gallup had received any feedback from the White House or anyone in the current administration before making the decision, the spokesperson said, “this is a strategic shift solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities.”

Why bury the lede? Why not just say “it’s got nothing to do with Trump, we’re doing this because X isn’t a priority for Gallup anymore.”

[lysp]

That is a PR non-answer

[gentleman11]

if trump threatens them for making him look bad, and they cancel the polls and then say it was because of pressure, then they lose both the poll and make trump mad

[matthewdgreen]

Because there's a good chance it does have something to do with Trump? Gallup has Federal contracts, which means that a vindictive administration could potentially hold them hostage for reporting bad approval numbers. Eliminating their famous (yet inconvenient) poll removes that threat. This is more or less why the Washington Post is being destroyed, as well.

The company's own explanation is a pile of Gish gallop.

[analognoise]

Because this is obviously the Trump administration putting political pressure on Gallup because Trump's poll numbers are among the lowest ever recorded?

>Trump’s Gallup approval rating as of last December was among the lowest the organization had found since it began taking the poll in the 1930s.

[beej71]

One of Gallup's priorities is probably to not piss Trump off.