Echoes Of 2016: Pollsters In Trouble If Trump Wins…

'Dotun Akintomide
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Like the 2016 election results, echoes of a shocking election may be here again.

Pollsters massively favoured Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, giving her single-digit chances of victory even on Election Day.

Trump famously soared to victory hours later.2016

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Despite claiming they’d learned their lessons from 2016, pollsters again predicted a massive Donald Trump loss this year.

But as the night rumbles on, the mood seems to be changing just as it did in 2016.

Trump is leading in many of the key battleground states that Biden needed to secure, including Texas and Florida.

Had Biden won either of them, there would have been no path to victory for Trump.

But as things stand, Biden increasingly seems to be reliant on the former ‘blue wall’ states of Ohio, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that flipped to Trump in 2016.

Read also: #USElection2020: Trump, Biden Open Up As Results Jangle Nerves

One thing is for certain… this is not the “easy” win for Biden that many pollsters predicted.

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