US pollsters underestimate Trump support -- again


Supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump react, after he won the 2024 U.S. presidential election, in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Washington (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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