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Measuring The Trump Vote: A Years-long Headache For US Pollsters

Polls ahead of the 2016 and especially the 2020 election widely underestimated support for Donald Trump -- so how are they doing in 2024? (Credit: AFP)

Can we believe the polls? Six months before the US presidential election, pollsters are scrambling to get an accurate read on the people voting for Donald Trump, a group that has systematically eluded them for eight years and counting.

The Republican's victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 took the United States and the world by surprise. But it was above all the 2020 election, won by Joe Biden, that forced a reckoning for pollsters.

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