I think I was the only Republican pollster to publicly say that President Obama would be reelected. It's as if these African-American men were going to say, "Let's just go get the white guy and the belted khakis who runs the capital" So there are many misaccused, but I think mostly it was a lack of connection with the American people. And that is something that Trump tapped into in 2016.
It’s March 2013. The G.O.P., in tatters, issues a scathing report blaming its electoral failures on an out-of-touch leadership that ignores minorities at its own peril. Just three years later, Donald Trump proves his party dead wrong. Today, how certain assumptions took hold of both parties — and what they’re still getting wrong — heading into the midterm elections.