Whatever the final outcome of the election, it is clear that the pollsters got it wrong—once again wrong-footed by the “shy Trump” vote that many journalists and pundits had also dismissed.
But that shy vote came as no surprise to Daniel Allott, a journalist who left his Washington D.C. political magazine following the 2016 election and headed into America’s heartland, where he spent three years listening to the stories of Trump voters.
