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Amy explains how the polls were mostly accurate heading into the 2024 election.

Transcript:

Hi there. Welcome to First Person. I'm Amy Walter. So in the aftermath of this campaign, there's a lot of finger pointing that's going on. And as usual, the polls are in the crossfire. Namely, did they get it right? Did they get it wrong?Here's my take. I think the polls did a pretty good job. In fact, the job of the polls is to give us an understanding, a framework about what this election is about and what voters are really grappling with as well as how the can the candidates the individual candidates are being seen by voters.If you look at the final result, the fact that all of the battleground states went to Donald Trump shouldn't be that surprising.In fact, we wrote about this a lot.The fact that in the last two elections, the closest states, those battleground states in twenty

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