NTD Data Hub Analysis: Do Media Polls Underestimate Trump?

Kevin Hogan
By Kevin Hogan
October 18, 2024NTD Newsroom
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Media polls under-polled former President Donald Trump in both of the presidential elections in which he ran, 2016 and 2020. Are they doing it again? NTD explores this question with a focus on the “shy Trump voter” effect and how the one poll that got it right—which put Trump in the lead in Michigan and Pennsylvania in 2016—dealt with that issue.