Trump's approval is still strong

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42. You don't remember correctly.

That's okay, though. Polls consistently showed Trump and Harris in a statistical tie. They rarely ever budged. That indicated a very close race. We were told by many people here that this just was not the case: Harris was going to win, probably by a lot.

Plenty of people could predict a swing state sweep solely based on the fact most swing states don't act independently of one another. It's why in 2020, Biden essentially swept all the swing states and in 2016, Trump did (and 2012 Obama did as well).

But there was enough polling evidence to show Democrats were in trouble that people like you flatly refused to believe - whether it was her trailing in Georgia and Arizona or struggling in Michigan, a state Biden won by like 3 points in 2020, a bigger margin than most the other swing states.

Of course, when people pointed that out, you were quick to dismiss their concerns and push a narrative that the polling was flat-out wrong.

But the polling wasn't wrong. It was never wrong. For months, it showed the race as being a very tough dynamic for Democrats but you all refused to believe it.

It's why Harris spent most the campaign reminding everyone who was paying attention that they were the underdogs.

Everything that happened on election day should not have been a surprise to anyone who even half took polling seriously. If you did, you always knew this was going be a tough election for Harris and that Trump stood a really good chance of winning.

And, surprise, he won.

But if you listened to the poll deniers, in no way was there any realistic chance that he'd win.

Well here we are again, denying polls because it's incomprehensible to believe that Trump would not be the most unpopular president ever.