CNN’s top polling analyst said on Tuesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was still “very much” in the presidential race in terms of how close he is to Vice President Kamala Harris in current polling.
Harry Enten said during the segment that looking back at the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, the polls were significantly off in representing Trump’s support across the country.
“So, August 13th, how far were the polls off in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin? And this is in 2016 and 2020,” he said. “Take a look here, in 2016, the average poll in those states that I mentioned, those Great Lake battleground states, Trump was underestimated by nine points on average at this point in 2016. How about 2020? It wasn’t a one-off. Look at this, he was underestimated by five points on average.”
Enten noted that Harris’ alleged lead over Trump in those states was lower, only four points, than how much Trump was underestimated by polls.
“The bottom…