I wonder if the GoP can read polls in this election cycle. Romney really thought he was going to win because his pollsters were hopeless (think Karl Rove on Fox News). But the plurality of polls argued he was going to lose.
Apparently Trump thinks he won the debates because he saw the results of polls on the Drudge Report, and it sounds like he's seeing favourable outlier election polls and thinking they tell the real story. Wrong!
It's easier than that. Just look at the trendlines.