Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, life and the Trump presidency.

And before we start this episode, I'd like to draw everyone's attention to our new not the New York Times offer, which we're offering to encourage readers to subscribe to the spectators' US edition,

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NYT, NOT, NYT, you will get 50% off the Spectator's US edition. Please take up the offer. I'm joined today by Marcus Roberts,

who is head of international politics at UGov, the polling company. And we're going to be asking

just how bad are the polls for Donald Trump. Now, Marcus, you and I had quite an amusing time

four years ago when you were very, very adamant that Hillary Clinton was going to win the presidential election, and you agreed to eat your hat, which you then duly did on Twitter because you're a man of honour.

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