This week, as President Trump signaled his intention of fighting election fraud in the courts while allowing the presidential transition to begin, Joe Biden began announcing his cabinet appointments for key positions within his administration. Though he promised to “Build Back Better” and bring fresh ideas to The White House after his 47 years in public office, Biden’s cabinet features a growing number of familiar establishment figures from the Democrat Party. 
If President Trump sought to drain the swamp with his cabinet appointees, Biden appears intent on filling it right back up. According to the legacy media, Biden’s choices so far have been <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/election-2020/ct-joe-biden-cabinet-20201123-6p6m62t5dnfixp3ovj2pumkyu4-list.html">groundbreaking</a> and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/biden-announces-key-cabinet-picks-including-historic-firsts/">“historic</a>,” which is often code for “liberal.”
Here’s who he’s appointed so far:
Antony Blinken — Secretary of State
Blinken, a fluent French speaker who grew up in Paris, was a member of President Clinton’s National Security Council and served most recently as President Obama’s Deputy Secretary of State. He also spent time as Biden’s Foreign Policy adviser when he served in the Senate.
During his time in the Obama administration, Blinken was a staunch defender of the Iran Deal, and spoke out in support of an increased military presence in Syria, saying we made the “error of doing too little” in the country.
Earlier this year, Blinken found himself caught up in the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, when emails from 2015 showed the two had held a meeting while Blinken was Deputy Secretary of State and Biden was at Burisma. In response, Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) requested records from the state department as part of their inquiry into Biden’s dealings with Burisma. 
John Kerry — Climate Envoy
Perhaps best known for his failed Presidential bid in 2004, John Kerry now takes over as “Climate Envoy.” 
Kerry served as Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017 under President Obama, and played an integral part in the United States’ participation in the Paris climate agreement, an agreement Biden plans on rejoining “on day one.”
Kerry will be the first member of the Presidential Cabinet to focus solely on Climate Change, though details on his expected role have so far been scant. 
In response to the announcement of his nomination, Kerry tweeted “America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is. I’m proud to partner with the President-elect, our allies, and the young leaders of the climate movement to take on this crisis as the President’s Climate Envoy.”
Janet Yellen — Treasury Secretary
Among the most well-known of Biden’s appointees is Janet Yellen, who served as Federal Reserve Chair from 2014 to 2018. A familiar face in Washington politics, Yellen broke traditional Fed protocol by joining the Biden campaign as an adviser after her tenure as Chair. Prior to her time at the Fed, Yellen served as Chair of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, as well as a Professor of economics at UC Berkeley. 
The move was praised by liberal leaders across the board, including Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) who called her “an outstanding choice for Treasury Secretary.”
Yellen’s job as Treasury Secretary will require her to foster support in Congress for Biden’s economic proposals- a tall task given the strong possibility of a Republican controlled Senate. 
Alejandro Mayorkas — Homeland Security
Another veteran of the Obama administration, Mayorkas — a Cuban immigrant who fled the country in 1960 — served previously as Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services. 
Mayorkas played an integral role in the implementation of DACA under the Obama administration, and has signaled his intention of softening the Department of Homeland Security’s stance towards refugees and “Dreamers”. 
The pick drew praise from a litany of pro-immigration, pro-Dreamer, and pro-refugee groups. “The news that Mayorkas will be nominated as DHS secretary is another hopeful sign for Dreamers and a signal that the Biden administration is ready to deliver on its commitments for Dreamers,” <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/immigration-advocates-celebrate-alejandro-mayorkas-as-bidens-pick-to-run-homeland-security-014752566.html">said</a> Candy Marshall, President of TheDream.Us.
Jake Sullivan — National Security Adviser
Sullivan is best known for his ties to Hillary Clinton, serving as her Deputy Chief of Staff at the State Department, and her Senior Policy Adviser during the 2016 Presidential Campaign. 
A graduate of Yale University, Sullivan served also as President Obama’s Director of Policy Planning. 
Sullivan’s appointment, hailed by those on the Left as signaling a return to “normalcy” with regards to national security, drew criticism from the Right, mainly on the issue of Libya. In 2011, Sullivan <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-touted-hillary-clintons-libya-debacle">reportedly</a> played a key role in the United States’ ousting of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, a move which sparked tensions that resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stephens and 3 other Americans 11 months later. 
Avril Haines — Director of National Security
Haines served most recently as President Obama’s Deputy National Security adviser.
In the past, Haines has faced criticism for her role in President Obama’s secretive use of drones in the Middle East and Africa. Haines, a former Deputy Director of the CIA, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/2013/06/26/avril-haines-least-likely-spy-237616.html">was</a> “sometimes summoned in the middle of the night to weigh in on whether a suspected terrorist could be lawfully incinerated by a drone strike.” According to Human Rights leaders, those drone strikes <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-pick-spy-chief-played-key-role-obama-drone-war-2020-11">resulted</a> in the deaths of hundreds of civilians, including women and children. 
Since leaving her position in the Obama administration, Haines held numerous positions at Columbia University, focusing on research and human rights.  
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On Monday, Burgess Owens, a former NFL player and vocal critic of Colin Kaepernick, was declared the winner of Utah’s 4th Congressional District. 
Despite running against an incumbent and trailing by 11% in final polling, Owens prevailed in a race deemed a “toss-up” by Cook Political Report, a “nonpartisan” election and campaign analysis group popular among legacy media outlets. 
Ahead of the 2020 election, Cook <a href="https://cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">listed</a> 27 races as “toss-ups,” meaning they were too close to predict one way or the other. Republicans won all 27.
That’s not a typo. Despite being assured by that conservatism was about to drown beneath an impending “blue wave,” Republicans won every single close race.
Republicans also won all 26 races deemed “leaning or likely Republican,” and even picked up 7 of the 36 seats listed as “leaning or likely Democrat.” 
Despite nearly unanimous predictions that Democrats would further cement control of the House, they now hold just a 218-204 advantage, with Republicans poised to pick up more seats, as they lead in 8 of the remaining 13 races.
Republican dominance in supposedly 50-50 districts is yet another reminder of just how wrong polls were in 2020, and how wrong they have been for some time. What should embarrass pollsters most, though, is not the fact that they were wrong, but how one-sided they were in the process.
Across the board, pollsters routinely underrepresented support for Republicans while falsely painting a picture of impending Democrat dominance. Are the American people supposed to think that it’s a coincidence that nearly every time a poll missed the mark in 2020 — which was often — it was in favor of Democrats? 
How many state and federal races were impacted by incorrect polling that showed stronger support for Democrats than actually existed? Think of the donors who refrained from giving to a candidate because the polls indicated that the race was already over. How many candidates missed out on key endorsements or support from outside entities because they were viewed as a lost cause? 
We’ll never know the answer to these questions, but what we do know is that pollsters will continue to mislead and misinform so long as they have a media willing to prop them up. It’s a cycle we’ve seen far too often: the leftist legacy media creates a narrative, then promotes polls which reinforce that narrative. When the polls turn out to be an inaccurate representation of reality — like in 2016, 2018 and 2020 — the media quickly moves on to the next news cycle, never taking responsibility or facing retribution for the error in their ways. 
Will the American people ever wake up and demand more? Will they stop funding the legacy media which propagates the failed predictions of pollsters en masse? Right now, it’s hard to say. I guess you could call it a toss-up.
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This week, conservative podcast host Steven Crowder surpassed &#8220;The Young Turks&#8221; in YouTube subscribers, becoming the largest independent news channel on the platform, crossing the 5.03 million subscriber mark on Tuesday afternoon. 
Amid a time of increased demand for news and commentary outside of the traditional legacy media outlets, Crowder has risen with his massively popular “Change My Mind” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtftZPL-k7Y&amp;list=PL3e1orPYt_4ZHGjuivZFsyJ81RL7j7_E1">series</a>, and his comedic digital shorts and daily commentary. 
He celebrated the development on Twitter, announcing: “Today, [Louder With Crowder] passes [The Young Turks] as the biggest independent online news/commentary channel on youtube&#8230; and we did it all without millions in foreign funding. I will retire my Cenk impression and costume, in the middle of the studio. Forever. 10AM ET.”
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Today, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LwC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LwC</a> passes <a href="https://twitter.com/TYT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TYT</a> as the biggest independant online news/commentary channel on youtube&#8230; and we did it all without millions in foreign funding. I will retire my Cenk impression and costume, in the middle of the studio. Forever. 10AM ET.
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Crowder’s followers took to social media to celebrate, with thousands of users tweeting the #CrowderPassesTYT hashtag. 
The Young Turks, long an outspoken rival of Crowder, gained popularity throughout the 2016 and 2020 elections, avidly supporting Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in both of his presidential bids. 
Cenk Uygur, the Young Turks’ creator and most popular host, has consistently butted heads with Crowder over the years, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBnYBXJvFAY">often</a> devoting entire segments to attacking him. 
&#8220;TYT were definitely pioneers and they reigned for an era. No one can take that away from them. That era has now come to an end,&#8221; Crowder told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;The victory felt somewhat hollow considering how far they&#8217;ve fallen,&#8221; he said, before adding &#8220;It&#8217;s not the same &#8216;win&#8217; I pictured when I was a 21 year old kid and they were the big, bad bullies of YouTube.&#8221;
As part of Tuesday’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAtzlBhK4U">show,</a> Crowder aired a compilation of his past run-ins with Uygur and The Young Turks and vowed to retire his impression of Uygur, a popular recurring segment. “It is time to officially retire the Young Turks Cenk Uygur costume and character,” he said, as taps played in the background and a black costume was soberly laid on the ground. 
Crowder’s impressive influence was on display on election night, when his live coverage was seen by millions, garnering more viewers than cable outlets like CBS, NBC, and MSNBC. Only Fox News and CNN bested Crowder’s audience, despite the fact that YouTube had flagged his stream as “borderline content.”
“Borderline content” is a term YouTube uses for news they deem overly biased, preferring instead to promote what they call “authoritative voices,” like traditional legacy media outlets. 
Crowder is no stranger to run-ins with YouTube; his content was demonetized by the platform for a year after he was banned from their “Partner Program,” an ad revenue program for creators. As The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-re-monetizes-steven-crowder-over-a-year-after-it-banned-ads-on-his-content">Daily Wire</a> reported at the time:
<blockquote>YouTube reinstated Crowder into its Partner Program on [Aug. 12] after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-steven-crowder-youtube-demonetizing-him-james-barrett">suspending</a> him on June 5, 2019, over comments and jokes he made about then-Vox journalist <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/youtube-wont-ban-steven-crowder-vox-reporter-amanda-prestigiacomo">Carlos Maza</a>, as well as for selling merchandise with the label “Socialism is for f*gs,” according to <a href="https://www.tubefilter.com/2020/08/12/youtube-reinstates-monetization-steven-crowder-harassment-carlos-maza/">Tubefilter</a>.
At the time it demonetized Crowder, YouTube conceded that none of Crowder’s content violated its hate policies. The video platform ultimately decided to pull advertising off of Crowder’s content after <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/12/21365601/youtube-steven-crowder-monetization-reinstated-harassment-carlos-maza">stating</a> that the commentator had engaged in a “pattern of egregious actions” that “harmed the broader community and is against our YouTube Partner Program policies.”</blockquote>
As a result of the threat posed by censorship and demonetization, Crowder has relied heavily on <a href="https://get.blazetv.com">membership options and subscription programs</a> through BlazeTV. 
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With the Presidential Election coming to an end, the eyes of the political world have turned to Georgia, where a January 5th runoff will determine the final two Senate races and, more importantly, determine which party controls the Senate. 
If Sen. Kelly Loeffler or Sen. David Perdue wins reelection, the Republican party will retain its majority. If not, the Senate will be split 50-50, resulting in a Democrat majority in all but name, with Kamala Harris holding the tie-breaking vote as Vice President (assuming Joe Biden is inaugurated). 
If both Sen. Loeffler and Sen. Perdue fail, the Republicans will lose their one remaining ability to scupper Democrats in their desire to implement radical policies in line with their self-prescribed “progressive mandate.” 
Based on the swathe of promises made during the election, here’s what we could expect from Democrats if they enter 2021 with both the White House and the U.S. Senate.
Assault Weapons Ban
Throughout his campaign, former Vice President Biden has been open about his intention to pass restrictive gun laws if elected president. According to his official campaign<a href="https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/"> platform</a>, Biden would urge Congress to renew the 1984 federal ban on assault weapons. 
In addition, Biden says he would propose a “buy back” program for assault weapons and high capacity magazines. Under this law, firearm owners would have the ability to sell their guns to the federal government or register them under the National Firearms Act. 
Furthermore, a Biden administration and Democrat-controlled Senate would almost certainly pass further legislation banning the sale of firearms and ammunition online. 
Free College Tuition
Joe Biden has openly endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (D-VT) plan for free college tuition. According to his campaign, Biden will present legislation to Congress which “makes public colleges and universities tuition-free for all students whose family incomes are below $125,000.” 
According to expert <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertberger/2020/09/04/the-surprising-cost-of-bidens-free-college-tuition-plan/?sh=71bb0ec66f7f">estimates</a>, the cost of this plan would total $1.2 trillion over the next ten years — double the Biden campaign’s initial estimate which they’ve since removed from their website. 
Biden also pledges to enact legislation which would allow young Americans to offset their personal student loans in bankruptcy, a move that would also cost billions. 
Citizenship For Illegal Immigrants
The Biden campaign has made it clear that they intend to offer citizenship to those currently living in the United States illegally. According to his <a href="https://joebiden.com/immigration/">website</a>, Biden would work with Congress to “provide a roadmap to citizenship for nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants.” He also promises to send legislation to Congress which would reimplement DACA and ensure students living here illegally are entitled to federal aid.
Biden has also pledged to ensure Congress passes legislation which would dramatically increase the number of employment-based visas granted each year. 
Climate Change
On the subject of climate change, the possibility of Vice President Kamala Harris presiding over the Senate would be key for Biden. Harris famously <a href="https://medium.com/@KamalaHarris/green-new-deal-2699b33ba666">co-sponsored</a> the original Green New Deal proposal in the Senate, and would almost certainly support similar legislation, especially if she holds the tie-breaking vote.
While Biden now claims to have never supported a ban on fracking (a statement even <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/23/politics/biden-fracking-fact-check/index.html">CNN </a>deemed false), he stated during the Democratic Primary debates that he would “make sure it’s eliminated.”
In addition to reentering the Paris Climate Treaty, the Biden campaign has <a href="https://joebiden.com/climate-plan/">pledged</a> to pass legislation which would “put the United States on an irreversible path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by no later than 2050.”
Rescind Trump Tax Cuts
One of the most noticeable ways a Democrat-controlled Senate and Biden Presidency would impact average Americans would be the reversal of the “Trump tax cuts.” Throughout his campaign, Biden has boasted of his desire to repeal the GOP-backed tax reform bill, a plan which <a href="https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/separating-economic-facts-fiction-the-trump-tax-cuts">resulted</a> in the average American family paying around $1,400 a year less in taxes. 
Biden would also call on Congress to raise the corporate tax rate to 28% — even though corporate tax revenue <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/deficit-hits-867b-with-two-months-left-to-go-in-the-fiscal-year">increased</a> by $5 billion the year the rate was lowered to 21%.
Supreme Court Nominees
Perhaps the most important and impactful duty of the U.S. Senate is the confirmation of judges to the Supreme Court. While nominees traditionally needed 60 votes to be confirmed, Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans amended the rules in 2017 to allow for confirmation with a simple majority of 51 votes. If the vote is tied 50-50, once again, Kamala Harris would be the deciding voice. 
Democrat control of the Senate would almost certainly allow Democrats the opportunity to nominate and confirm whomever they see fit. In line with previous nominations, it is likely that any Biden Supreme Court picks would adhere to the Left’s view of the judicial branch as a tool for progressive legislation. 
Committee Chairs
The replacement of Committee Chairs is an often overlooked byproduct of a Democrat-controlled Senate. Traditionally, the member of the majority party with the longest tenure on the committee is chosen as the Chair. That means Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would likely be considered to serve as Chair on the Budget Committee. 
Democrat control of the Senate would also likely put Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in charge of the powerful Judiciary Committee and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) in charge of the Foreign Relations Committee. 
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This week, the Norwegian parliament announced an amendment to their penal codes, threatening jail time for those who make comments deemed &#8220;hateful&#8221; towards trans or bisexual individuals. According to Reuters, “people found guilty of hate speech face a fine or up to a year in jail for private remarks, and a maximum of three years in jail for public comments.” 
Norway isn’t alone in threatening jail time for offensive speech. Far from it. Across the globe, free speech is wilting under the oppressive rule of governments intent on prioritizing political correctness and woke culture over freedom. 
In England, a comedian was arrested and convicted after making a <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/arrested-telling-bad-joke-count-dankula-story/">“tasteless”</a> joke in videos featuring his dog. 
In Germany, dozens of police raids have been conducted against those accused of making <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/germany-dozens-of-raids-over-online-hate-speech/a-49080109">“hateful”</a> comments on social media. 
In <a href="https://www.canyon-news.com/australian-woman-arrested-for-covid-19-facebook-post/132129">Australia</a>, a pregnant mother was forcibly taken from her home by police after making a Facebook post criticizing COVID-19 lockdowns. 
Make no mistake about it, America is next. 
It’s tempting to assume that our nation — founded on the idea that humans should be free from the oppressive overreach of government — will forever stand firm as a bastion of free speech and beacon of individual liberty for the world. Take a look at the state of free speech here, and the degree to which the Left despises it, and you’ll see how naive that assumption would be. 
We already know what the playbook looks like, and we’ve already seen the groundwork being laid. It starts with convincing Americans free speech is not a freedom to cherish, but a burden to endure. 
This part of the plan is already well underway, with leftist-dominated media and academia convincing the country, especially younger generations who often drive social change, that mean words are not just words, but violence. An overwhelming majority (81%) of college students now say words are tantamount to violence. And a perpetrator of violence, even “verbal violence,” must be held accountable, right?
Many young Americans agree. A recent survey found 47% of 18-34 year olds support jail time for those uttering “hate speech” and another 59% say the First Amendment should be altered to include hate speech restrictions and better reflect “the cultural norms of today.” 
Next comes the assault (both physical and metaphorical) on anyone who dares to oppose restrictions on speech. The goal of this part of the plan is to scare potential defenders of speech into submission by making an example of those who do speak out. 
You don’t support punishing those who question whether a trans woman is a woman? You must be pro-hate speech! You won’t abide by mandatory pronoun laws? You must be a bigot!
When this tactic is implemented correctly, average citizens become afraid of speaking out for fear of punishment at work or in their personal lives. If this part of their plan sounds familiar, it’s because you’re living it right now. It’s Cancel Culture. 
Rather than risk societal retribution and the “intolerant bigot” label, the very people meant to defend free speech often end up silent in their fear, or even worse, actively anti-speech. Take the ACLU, once a fearless defender of free speech, now publicly <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/the-short-life-and-curious-death-of-free-speech-in-america/">questioning</a> “whether a dogged commitment to free speech” was “still the best strategy for an organization pursuing social justice.”
The ACLU was praised for this statement, hailed by the Left as compassionate and forward thinking. That’s part of their plan: praising as virtuous and tolerant, anyone who supports measures that purport to keep “protected classes” from facing hurtful words. The goal is to create a clear contrast between the treatment of those in support and those in opposition, so when the time comes to choose a side, the choice is easy. 
Side with the Left and be hailed by the media, Hollywood and academia as a hero, receiving endless pats on the back for your courageous stand against “bigotry.” Or side with free speech, and be scolded, and ostracized, forever labeled a bigot. 
The final step in the left’s plan is the leap from societal to legal enforcement of speech — though that leap is more of a skip when society is already receptive to the stifling of speech — and it’s coming.
Last year in Massachusetts for example, State Rep. Daniel Hunt (D) <a href="https://reason.com/2019/10/22/massachusetts-legislator-proposes-200-fines-6-months-in-jail-for-using-the-word-bitch/">proposed</a> a bill which would impose a $200 fine and up to six months in prison for those who used the word “bitch” in a derogatory manner. 
Silly proposals like this will soon give way to more serious legislation aimed at curtailing “hate speech.” Once the groundwork has been laid, and enough Americans agree that certain words are violence and have no place in a civilized society, the anti-speech laws will come. The question is, will anyone stand up to fight it?
It won’t be easy. Those who step in the breach in defense of free speech will be pilloried and face the worst that cancel culture can conjure. They will be labeled intolerant bigots, defenders of hate speech, and worse. They will face social ostracization and the constant fear of professional consequences. But it must be done. If America doesn’t stand up, free speech will no longer have a place to call home. 
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While the results of Tuesday’s presidential election are still uncertain, one thing is certain: the media and pollsters got it wrong. Again. 
The American people were told for months that a “blue wave” was coming to wipe out the Republican majority in the Senate, strengthen Democrat control of the House, and defeat President Trump in dominant fashion. In reality, the blue wave turned out to be a trickle, with Republicans almost certainly maintaining control of the Senate, and gaining as many as 12 seats in the House. The Presidential race, which experts predicted would be a blowout victory for Biden, is still undecided, with razor thin margins in battleground states across the country. 
Once again, the &#8220;experts&#8221; were wrong, with polls consistently off, almost always in favor of Democrats. 
For <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/election-polls-fool-me-once-shame-on-the-pollsters-fool-me-twice">example</a>, polls in Ohio, Iowa, and Florida — all states Trump won — were off by 7.1%, 6.2%, and 4.3% respectively. In Wisconsin, where polls showed Biden leading by 6.7% on average, the actual margin is just 0.6% with 95% reporting. 
While most polls proved just as inaccurate as they were in 2016, one polling agency stood out among the pack: The Trafalgar Group. 
Despite being lambasted by the media as “<a href="https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/politics/nate-silver-blasts-trafalgar-and-rasmussen-polls-as-crazy">crazy</a>” pro-Trump propaganda when their polls showed a much closer race than the “experts” anticipated, it’s now clear that they were more accurate than any other major polling agency when it came to predicting outcomes in key battleground states. 
In Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio, The Trafalgar Group was closer than any other polling agency, including establishment favorites like Quinnipiac, Reuters, Monmouth, and Rasmussen. 
In Florida, Trafalgar was the only polling agency to consistently predict a Trump victory, with their average poll having him up 2.5%, less than 1% away from the correct margin of victory, 3.4%. For context, Quinnipiac, Monmouth, and CNBC predicted Biden victories, with their average polls showing Biden up 5.5%, 5.4%, and 3.6% respectively. 
In Ohio, a state Trump won by 8.2%, Trafalgar was once again the only polling agency to routinely show the President with a lead, with their average poll giving Trump a 4.5% advantage. On the contrary, none of Quinnipiac’s six polls predicted the correct outcome, with the average poll giving Biden a 3.3% lead. Similarly, just one of Rasmussen’s four polls showed a Trump lead, with the average falling to a 1.25% Biden advantage. 
In Wisconsin, Trafalgar’s polls were once again the closest, as their average poll showed a 0.8% lead for Joe Biden. The final margin? 0.7%. 3 of the 4 polls conducted by The New York Times showed a Biden lead in the double digits, while Reuters didn’t have a single poll showing the race within 5%. 
In Michigan, Trafalgar was once more the most accurate polling agency in a state most experts predicted would be a blowout. While incorrectly showing the President with a lead, Trafalgar’s polling averages were still just 3.5% off the final mark — a 2.7% Biden victory. Reuters polls showed Biden with a 7.8% lead, while the average CNBC poll pointed to a comfortable 6.5% Biden advantage. 
So why was Trafalgar Polling once again more accurate than their more esteemed, establishment counterparts? Their head pollster, Robert Cahaly, said that it’s because they take into account people’s hesitancy to express their support of Donald Trump.
In a recent interview on Fox News, he told Sean Hannity, other pollsters “haven’t made accommodations for the fact that people just don’t want to give their information out &#8211; they are hesitant to say how they feel. And in this day and age, where people are shamed for their political opinions and canceled and all that nonsense, people just want to play their cards close to their chest.”
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While the results of Tuesday’s presidential election are still uncertain, one thing is certain: the media and pollsters got it wrong. Again.  The American

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As Election Day 2020 approaches, the media and pollsters alike are once again assuring anyone who will listen – a number growing smaller by the day – that President Donald Trump is about to suffer a blowout defeat. He trails Joe Biden by 7.8% in national polling and is down 3.4% in key battleground states. 
According to the polls, Trump’s unfavorable ratings are too high, his rhetoric too polarizing, and his opponent too experienced and well-funded to beat. If that message sounds familiar, it’s because you heard the same one in 2016. Pollsters convinced the American people, and the media, that President Trump had no hope of victory.
In reality, the president exceeded polling expectations in 10 of the 12 battleground states. In Wisconsin, a state all but ignored by the Clinton campaign in part because of her polling numbers there, President Trump was supposedly down 6.5%. He won it. In Michigan, he was down 3.4% and in Pennsylvania 1.9%. He won both of them as well by 0.3% and 0.7%, respectively. In nine of the 12 battleground states, polls were off by at least three percentage points.
After the polling debacle of 2016, pollsters and the media who presented their findings as fact, were contrite, apologizing for their failures, and promising to fix their mistakes and implement new strategies so the same thing would never happen again. 
Actually, that’s not what happened. After taking a victory lap on the few states they correctly predicted, pollsters and the media washed their hands of any blame, claiming no one could have predicted a Trump victory—a surprising admission from the self-proclaimed arbiters of truth.
The polling industry has spent the last four years offering token promises of reforming their practices, rather than making substantive changes that will help them rebuild the trust of the American people. And that trust is waning, with the <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/423023-a-majority-of-americans-are-skeptical-that-public-opinion-polls">majority</a> of Americans say they no longer believe political polling.  
This lack of trust is displayed further when you take into account what the American people think will happen on election day. In 2016, seven in 10 Americans <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/25/politics/hillary-clinton-2016-election-poll/index.html">said</a> they expected Hillary Clinton to win, a number surely impacted by the polls they were seeing. In 2020, despite facing polls that show him with a larger lead than Clinton, just four in 10 Americans say they expect a Biden victory. 
Despite what the media and pollsters might think of them, the American people aren’t stupid. Election after election has shown them that pollsters, despite the media’s claims to the contrary, are not infallible. 
Is it possible that Joe Biden really is leading by wide margins in battleground states, the way the polls predict? Of course. Pollsters claim to have learned from their mistakes, vowing to increase the frequency of their surveys and adjust their samples on “educational attainment,” often a key metric in determining political affiliation.
In addition, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/29/how-2020-polling-works/">pointed out</a> recently that “some types of people may be more likely to answer a survey than others,” leading polling companies to adjust how they draw samples and match population demographics. 
But if those adjustments fail to provide more accuracy and this race goes the way of 2016, we won’t be witnessing the demise of Donald Trump, but rather the very people guaranteeing it. They better hope they’re right. 
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