Why you should be skeptical of the polls this November

If there’s one lesson we should have learned from the 2016 election, it’s to be wary of polls and definitive predictions.

The same goes for the 2020 election. Nearly every poll has Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leading President Trump by a significant margin, but there’s reason to believe the race is much narrower than it seems. A recent study found that Republicans and independents are twice as likely as Democrats to conceal who they plan to vote for. They’re often more hesitant to share their political preferences with family and friends, and they’re even more hesitant to be honest when answering pollsters, according to CloudResearch.