Pollster on CNN Defends Pollsters Failing to Predict Trump Win: They ‘Actually Did Pretty Good This Time Around’

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Wallace: “It‘s time for the panel‘s special takes on what‘s happening. Our predictions of what we should look out for.”

SOLTIS Anderson: “I come today to defend my industry, the polling industry. After this election I know there are many Americans who feel surprised that Donald Trump swept all seven battleground states but if you looked at most of the public polling averages they did show the race very close. The polls will probably wind up being off by about 1 to 2 points under counting Trump‘s vote and that means we need to figure out — we tried a lot of things to make sure we capture Trump voters. Why do we still not get that final 2%? that‘s pretty good when nobody is picking up the phone, nobody wants to say what they think. I think pollsters actually did pretty good this time around.”

Wallace: “Lulu, you are focused on one particular voting group.”

Garcia-NAVARRO: “Yeah. I have spent a lot of my career having to explain Latino voters every election cycle and I have to say that I am thrilled that this time nobody will be taking the Latino vote for granted ever again. It is finally no longer this freeze that I despise, the sleeping giant and now it is just the giant.”

Wallace: “Briefly, Biden won Latinos by 33 points. Harris won them by 6. what happened?”

Garcia-NAVARRO: “This is based on exit polls. They aren‘t very reliable so we don‘t know the real numbers but clearly there was a huge swing and the swing was about quite a few things but most of all, you know, they identified with Trump. They liked Trump. They liked what he had to say. They even liked him on immigration but more than anything the number one issue for latinos is the economy. They were hit hard with the inflation and the Democrats couldn‘t come back from this.”

Wallace: :”Best shot.”

SALAM: “There was another really big swing in the 2024 presidential election and that was in America‘s big urban centers. Miami, Chicago, New York City, Dallas, Houston, big double digit swings for Trump from 2020 and if you look at New York City, my home, Trump won almost a third of the vote there. Up from a little bit over a 5th in 2020. Law and order, quality of life, those are the issues that Republicans—“