A top independent pollster said that polls may significantly undercount Republican voters and supporters of former President Donald Trump following President Joe Biden’s attack on “MAGA Republicans” earlier this month.
On Saturday, Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Cahaly wrote that Biden’s speech will make it more difficult to survey Trump voters than in prior years. Cahaly noted that in 2016, a number of presidential polls and predictions regarding Trump and opponent Hillary Clinton proved to be inaccurate.
“In 2016 Trump supporters were called ‘Deplorables’ and other unflattering names,” Cahaly said on Twitter. “This was a major contributor to the ‘shy Trump voter’ phenomenon that ‘most’ polling missed which resulted in a major loss in public confidence for polling flowing the election.”…