Three pollsters on Trump win: No, yes, maybe

Published October 26, 2020 12:07pm ET



In November 2016, Republican pollster Ed Goeas was the first to figure out how Donald Trump pulled off the greatest upset since Harry S. Truman.

His polling tracked the 24% “swing vote” who didn’t like Trump or Hillary Clinton, a massive number that by Election Day had shortened to a still sizable 19%. “That swing vote broke 3-to-1 for Trump in the last week of the campaign,” he found.

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