That suggests that, overall, the 2016 national pre-election polls were generally accurate and unbiased. That year’s state-level polls similarly underestimated Republican support, but here too ...

As Election Day draws closer, Americans are being inundated with polls about the state of the presidential race. And, understandably, many are wondering whether polls can be trusted after Donald Trump ...

The latest news about the 2020 election, including updates on the candidates, the polls and the major issues.

A voter walks to a booth to fill out their ballot at Public School 160 on Nov. 3, 2020, in Brooklyn, N.Y. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images Trump support underestimated. In 2020, election polls ...

Republican Loretta Oakes watches returns at an election-night party in Las Vegas on Nov 3, 2020. It’s been shown that Trump supporters are less likely to give their opinions to pollsters. AP ...

The 2020 presidential election polls were far from perfect. They had President-elect Joe Biden winning the election, which is worth something. Yet, nationally and in every single one of the 18 ...

Preelection polls in the United States pointed to the likelihood that Joe Biden would win a popular and electoral vote majority over Donald Trump. That indeed came to pass. But the election was much ...

National polls conducted in the final two weeks of the election were off by an average of 4.5 percentage points, overstating the margin between Trump and now-President Biden (in Biden’s favor ...

President-elect Joe Biden clinched the 2020 election, and exit polls help show who propelled him to victory. More young voters, more moderates, and more suburban voters chose Biden than chose 2016 ...

The concern for Harris, obviously, is that her Hispanic support is far lower than Biden’s was, both in the 2020 polls and the final election results.

In 2016, problems with state-level election polls left some voters surprised by the outcome. Since then, many pollsters have made changes in the hope of accurately capturing the mood of the ...