{"id":1646242,"date":"2022-09-18T17:34:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T21:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646242"},"modified":"2022-09-18T17:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T21:35:17","slug":"gop-voters-virtually-impossible-to-poll-after-bidens-maga-republicans-speech-top-pollster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-voters-virtually-impossible-to-poll-after-bidens-maga-republicans-speech-top-pollster\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Voters \u2018Virtually Impossible to Poll\u2019 After Biden\u2019s \u2018MAGA Republicans\u2019 Speech: Top Pollster"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-voters-virtually-impossible-to-poll-after-bidens-maga-republicans-speech-top-pollster%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646242&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Polls may significantly undercount Republican voters and supporters of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> following President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s speech that attacked \u201cMAGA Republicans\u201d earlier this month, according to a\u00a0top independent pollster.<\/p>\n<p>Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Cahaly wrote on Sept. 17 that Biden\u2019s speech will make it more difficult to survey or even estimate Trump-aligned voters than in prior years. He noted that in 2016, a number of presidential polls and predictions regarding Trump and opponent Hillary Clinton proved to be inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2016, Trump supporters were called \u2018Deplorables\u2019 and other unflattering names,\u201d Cahaly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertCahaly\/status\/1571052400022286339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1571052400022286339%7Ctwgr%5E847e57147c96bde1acc9da4638d91849806291bc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fleading-pollster-gop-voters-will-be-virtually-impossible-to-poll-after-bidens-maga-republicans-attacks\">said<\/a> on Twitter. \u201cThis was a major contributor to the \u2018shy Trump voter\u2019 phenomenon that \u2018most\u2019 polling missed, which resulted in a major loss in public confidence for polling flowing the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, \u201cpeople who supported Trump or espoused conservative values out of step with \u2018Woke\u2019 culture found themselves being \u2018canceled\u2019 or \u2018doxed,\u2019\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis led to \u2018hidden voters\u2019 that \u2018most\u2019 polling under counted, therefore Trump support in key battleground states exceeded expectations. Now [the] Biden administration has essentially classified \u2018MAGA Republicans\u2019 as a threat to democracy marshaling federal law enforcement to focus on them,\u201d the pollster wrote. \u201cThis move has created a new type of voter that will be even harder to poll or even estimate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was referring to Biden\u2019s Sept. 1 speech that targeted \u201cMAGA Republicans\u201d as a threat to U.S. institutions, just weeks after the FBI raided Trump\u2019s Florida residence. Speaking in front of a red backdrop and flanked by two Marines, Biden claimed Trump and his supporters \u201crepresent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1420018789-1200x800-1.jpg\"><\/a> U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a primetime speech at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, on Sept. 1, 2022. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Describing this new group as \u201csubmerged voters,\u201d Cahaly wrote that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls may significantly undercount Republican voters and supporters of former President Donald Trump following President Joe Biden\u2019s speech that attacked \u201cMAGA Republicans\u201d earlier this month, according to a\u00a0top independent pollster. Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Cahaly wrote on Sept. 17 that Biden\u2019s speech will make it more difficult to survey or even estimate Trump-aligned voters [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}