Poll: Americans don’t trust polls

This post was originally published on Politico.

This just in, according to new poll results: Americans don’t trust polls.

Only 25% of Americans said political surveys correctly estimate votes, according to a new POLITICO Poll, conducted by PF Global. The result reveals that a significant portion of the public lacks faith in the industry as it contends with accusations of consistently failing to reach Republican voters.

It comes amid an intensely scrutinized 2026 midterm cycle, where public polling and campaigns’ internal polls have shown many races within the margin of error in key battlegrounds and in once-safe red territory.

Roughly one in four respondents say that polls showing