The mystery of the ‘secret non-Trump voter’

© The Financial Times Limited 2024. All Rights Reserved. Not to be redistributed, copied or modified in any way. If there’s anything we’ve learned about American politics in the age of Trump it is this: the pollsters almost always get it wrong. When the billionaire real estate developer first burst on to the political scene […]

The mystery of the ‘secret non-Trump voter’

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© The Financial Times Limited 2024. All Rights Reserved.

Not to be redistributed, copied or modified in any way.

If there’s anything we’ve learned about American politics in the age of Trump it is this: the pollsters almost always get it wrong.

When the billionaire real estate developer first burst on to the political scene nine years ago, public opinion surveys tended to undercount his supporters, suggesting there were “secret Trump voters” who were too abashed to publicly admit their preference for a candidate so divisive.

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