Pollsters joining us today. House,lachlan and neil neil was the pollster for the previous republican nominee, mitt romney, 2012. You can follow along the and ask usn olitico. S, p we are excited to have this conversation. Thanks. Good to be here. I want to start with the question i get most when people in a speakingr gig or in general conversation, to what extent polling has underestimated President Trump. Both of you believe there is underestimation going on. John, what drives that . I think it is significant. Two things. Reporting, you are ahead of the curve in terms of the changes technology has made. It is harder to get voters period. You focused on the education levels, workingclass levels. Polls structured to keep up with technology and where people are and being able to get a hold of them, that is one challenge. Then there is the challenge of donald trump. He is a unique figure in history. Beat thehe odds he odds. It was a close race. The strategy was built on new voters. 9 mill
Steven thank you, anna and jake i am steve shepard, Senior Campaigns editor of politico, joined by Elena Schneider we have, as they said, two republican pollsters joining us today. John mclaughlin, part of the Trump Campaign polling team, and neil newhouse, republican strategies. Neil was the pollster for the previous republican president ial nominee, mitt romney in 2012. Elena but before we get started, a reminder that you can follow along with this conversation following the hashtag rncwithpolitico. And also ask us questions politico. So thank you john and neil for being with us this morning. Mr. Newhouse thanks, elena. Mr. Mclaughlin pleasure to be here. Steve for both of you, i want to start with the question i get most of all when people ask me, whether it is in a speaking gig or in general conversation, about the polls, and that is to what extent the polls have underestimated President Trump over the past five years. Most of the folks who have looked at the idea of a trump hidden
Coverage this morning including continue its mission leaning on the threat of more thunder and partnerships with rescue groups lightning as well that could and one essential business to last all week, kari . Keep adoptions going off site. We are transferring out were going to see it this longterm dogs here. Morning but the rest of the week is looking pretty hot. They are able to adopt out. We see whats happening now, the reporter at 6 00 well share surge of moisture is bringing in more about the unique program storms across the Central Valley and how you can participate in in the sierra. Our annual clear the shelters effort this year. Ill see you again tonight at 6 00. Thanks, chris. We are seeing some rain and back to our top story, the spotty showers moving through. Wildfires moving across the bay area. Next today in the bay we have our team of reporters with the very latest overnight. A little bit favorable more favorable and the possibility of reporter youve seen the lightning. Vid
And im marcus washington. Mike is keeping an eye on the commute for thus morning. Lets get to meteorologist kari hall. Were talking about the lightning and thunder. How soon could we expect to see that . Weve seen it very isolated across the bay area, but were keeping a close eye on the radar because this can detect the Lightning Strike as it happens and then it plots an icon here. As we look at the bay area weve seen a couple places of rain but look over the sierra, a lot of Lightning Strikes as the thunderstorms really get going this morning and thats something well be watching throughout today, that chance of that lightning. As we get a closer look, the good thing we are seeing spotty rain. This is not enough to make a big impact on those wildfires, but the humidity is going up and we havent seen a lot of Lightning Strikes. Ill be watching that with an hourbyhour look. Mike, how is it looking getting out the door right now . Kari, the traffic is light. That light rain may affect fol
Were seeing a lot of that over week. Residents on high alert hoping the Central Valley and the that does not happen. Well pass it back to you in the sierra. We have the best Case Scenario newsroom. With a little bit of rain and no lightning so far. All right. So hopefully that holds up. Thunder, lightning, wind something firefighters certainly we do still have that chance as were seeing some rain in parts keep check on. Of the north bay, some light kari hall, how are we looking . Showers not enough to put out it looks pretty good. The fires, but it will help get we havent seen any lightning a little bit of keeping it from strikes and our slight chance will be mostly in the north bay. Spreading so quickly. Its still going well be watching that as we are going into today. Inland. Well continue tot looking for mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . No complaints here, kari. Commute . We still have the one crash well take any advantage we can have from the weather. Looking to