Is Trump supporters’ reluctance to speak to pollsters skewing poll numbers for the second time?

This appeared in The Millennial Source

According to a new report from CloudResearch, a research company run by a team of academics, a significant number of voters who support Trump could be keeping their opinions to themselves when approached by pollsters.

Per their data, 11.7% of Republicans say they would not report their true feelings for their preferred candidate if asked. By contrast, just 5.4% of Democrats say the same thing, suggesting Trump supporters could be underrepresented in polling data.

The latest national polling averages from FiveThirtyEight show that Joe Biden is retaining his substantial lead over Trump, leading by an average of 8.8 percentage points on August 29.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly called polls that show him to be trailing fake. He’s also suggested that polls could be underrepresenting his support, even as reports indicate that in private Trump admits that things aren’t looking good.

As for Democrats, while some strategists are concerned that the polling numbers could lead to a false sense of security within the party and among voters, others say that there are significant differences between this year’s election and 2016 — a year in which…