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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Ulysse BELLIER

US Pollsters Underestimate Trump Support -- Again

Cartogram showing electoral college votes won by Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the 2024 US presidential election, by state, according to US media, as of November 6, 1813 GMT (Credit: AFP)

Opinion polls underestimated the level of Donald Trump's support for the third US presidential election in a row, predicting a neck-and-neck race with Kamala Harris when in the end the Republican edged the vice president across battleground states.

Trump's win involved surging support in a number of demographics and regions, but experts said pollsters failed to accurately predict races in states where the results differed significantly from the last election in 2020.

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