RNC model had Trump losing
It’ wasn’t just the left playing wishful thinking. The Republican National Committee was expecting a Trump loss.
Click here for reuse options!The Republican National Committee, despite its sometimes testy relationship with Donald Trump, publicly predicted in the campaign’s final days that its presidential nominee was going to win.
Privately, though, the committee was much less optimistic.
The RNC’s sophisticated predictive modeling had Trump losing in the campaign’s last stretch, all the way until the Friday afternoon before the election, according to an embargoed briefing the RNC delivered to reporters at the party’s Capitol Hill headquarters on Friday afternoon.
At the time of the briefing, the RNC’s model showed Trump finishing 30 electoral votes short of the tally needed to clinch the White House, while losing by various margins to Hillary Clinton in the battleground states of Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Trump won all those states, and the Associated Press declared him the winner at 2:31 a.m. on Wednesday — a shocking upset victory that most pollsters struggled to explain.
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crc3 November 9th, 2016 at 09:53
Who gives a sh*t?! I’m eternally finished with polls. They don’t mean a thing. I was dooped into thinking pollsters at least had some clue but those predicting a Rump defeat were just dead wrong. None of them should be around any longer…