For weeks, and especially since Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs on what he dubbed Liberation Day, the establishment media’s prevailing narrative has been that the president is plummeting in the polls...
- But what of the quality of the pollsters themselves?..
The breakdown according to pollster performance is strikingly similar to the breakdown by respondent type...
Not only did Trump poll better with the most motivated respondents, he also did markedly better with the higher-ranked pollsters.
Not only did Trump poll better with the most motivated respondents, he also did markedly better with the higher-ranked pollsters.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of Trump’s demise in the polls are greatly exaggerated. It isn’t the first time a general overview of polls has gotten him wrong. It likely won’t be the last. There’s a reason why Trump is able to disregard polls with impunity; and there’s all the more reason we should scrutinize them carefully.