By Ben Hill For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 00:01 BST, 29 April 2019 | Updated: 00:08 BST, 29 April 2019
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Clive Palmer has unleashed on Today host Deborah Knight during a wild rant about his wealth, fake news and his party's surging popularity.
The billionaire's United Australia Party is polling at five per cent of the primary vote just weeks out from the federal election, according to the latest Newspoll.
But Mr Palmer, 65, said his party was actually far more popular than that during a heated interview on Channel Nine's Today on Monday morning.
'That is just fake news of course. We are polling much higher than that. And there is 28 per cent of Australians that have yet to make their decision,' he said.
Clive Palmer (pictured) has delivered an extraordinary rant during a television interview, admitting he was a 'bad person'
Mr Palmer was asked to respond to criticism from Labor's Anthony Albanese that he fell asleep in parliament and was often absent during his term as the MP for Fairfax from 2013 until 2016.
'Let's face it, I'm a bad person. I'm a bad person. Who cares about me? We care about this country,' Mr Palmer said.
'Why do you think we're standing in 151 seats across this nation. Because we intend
