CNN commentator says polling was ‘actually pretty good’ after Trump win

Kristin Soltis Anderson, an election pollster, cited the accuracy of professionals in the polling industry during a Saturday appearance on CNN's “The Chris Wallace Show.”

“I come today to defend my industry, the polling industry. After this election, I know there are many Americans who feel surprised that Donald Trump swept all seven battleground states,” Anderson said in the clip posted to Grabien. 

Many pollsters have defended Tuesday's outcome and underscored that polling predictions in the three "blue wall" states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, were close to accurate.

On CNN Saturday, Anderson highlighted a potential 1 to 2 percentage point undercount of Trump voters. She credited the margin of error to people’s reluctance to answer polls honestly.  

“Nobody wants to tell us what they think. I think pollsters actually did pretty good this time around,” Anderson stated. 

In exit polls, researchers noticed that the former president gained Latino male voters while Vice President Harris remained level with single-issue abortion rights voters. President-elect Trump also widened his lead with people who cast their ballot with the economy, inflation and immigration in mind.