Senior White House officials told Israel Hayom on Monday that they believe polling by US media outlets has failed to reflect the actual view of voters, noting that the polls were showing a distorted electoral landscape like they did in 2016.
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"I don't know what the real numbers are, but I know for a fact that what is currently being presented is wrong; this is 2016 all over again," one senior US officials said. The official added that it was unclear whether US President Donald Trump would get more than 50% of support, but added that in both national and state polls inaccurately gauge the support he has among voters.
"I have experienced this situation firsthand," the official said, adding, "I don't know if the polling institutes and the media are deliberately putting forth wrong numbers, but it is clear that they do not reflect the situation on the ground. The US is a big country; accurate polling is hard to do."
Trump campaign officials, both senior and low-level staffers, believe many respondents do not publicly share their actual intent to vote or simply refuse to answer pollsters.
They noted that the anti-Trump sentiment in the media has created an atmosphere that has had many of his supporters choose not to share their views. The operatives predicted that on election day, it was very likely that his will outperform his own showing from 2016, where he defied virtually every battleground-state poll and won the electoral college thanks to three states that broke his way.
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