The Art of the Rout: What a Trump Loss Does to the G.O.P. – The New Yorker

The Art of the Rout: What a Trump Loss Does to the G.O.P. – The New Yorker

Donald Trump knows polls. He knows how to locate polls the moment they are posted, how to condense polls to tweetable brevity, and how to unveil polls to a crowd for maximum effect. So there has been a special insult in those moments, in the final weeks of this election, when even the polls seem intent on humiliating him.