“There was progress, but it wasn’t perfect,” she said, explaining that some pollsters were considering making weighted adjustments to account for the lack of Republican turnout. “It’s not a silver bullet, it doesn’t make the survey perfect, but it helps reduce the magnitude of this pattern of non-response that we’re fighting against.”

She also pointed out that Trump’s outperformance in the polls may be large on a cumulative national scale, but that the final numbers may show that individual races were more accurate. She pointed to California, where votes are still being counted, and expects those numbers to come closer to what polls suggest for the state.

Polls are not only used to show voters’ support for candidates, but also to see what they care about most in this election. Polls have overall shown that the economy was the biggest problem for them and they favored Trump to help solve it. Kennedy said the polls also clearly showed dissatisfaction with the Biden administration and the direction the country was heading.