Pollster says Biden election victory is not ‘statistically impossible’ but ‘statistically implausible’

Published December 6, 2020 5:16pm ET



President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory wasn’t a statistical impossibility but defied key measures according to pollster Patrick Basham.

During a Fox News interview set to air Sunday night, Basham says non-polling metrics have a “100% accuracy rate in terms of predicting the winner of the presidential election,” which includes party registration trends, number of individual donations, and Google searches. Basham, the founding director of the Democracy Institute, said all non-polling metrics predicted President Trump would win in 2016 and may have wrongly predicted the outcome of the 2020 election.

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