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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Shola Lawal

US election results: How did opinion polls undercount Trump voters again?

Supporters of former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gesture as a motorcade drives near his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, early on November 6, 2024 [Giorgio Viera/AFP]

Ahead of the United States presidential elections on Tuesday, public opinion polls had predicted a neck-and-neck race between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Yet eventually, Trump cruised to a comfortable victory, defying most polls. He has already won five of the seven swing states – Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin – and appears poised to win the remaining two, Arizona and Nevada. Most of these wins are by margins larger than the polls had forecast.

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