Scott Rasmussen Puts A Finger On The Pulse Of America

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," President of RMG Research Inc. Scott Rasmussen joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss how polling and corporate media analysis of polling has changed since President Donald Trump's first election win in 2016. Rasmussen and Kittle also analyze how the second Trump administration's "return to normalcy" is faring with Americans.

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0:00.0	We are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:25.9	I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:28.8	As always, you can email the show at radio at thefederalist.com.
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0:36.2	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the premium version
0:41.4	of our website as well.
0:43.6	Our guest today is renowned pollster Scott Rasmussen, president of RMG Research,
0:49.4	Incorporated as we check in on the Pulse of America at the dawn of Trump 2.0.
0:55.3	Scott, it is a great pleasure to have you with us here today on the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:59.7	Well, it's an honor to be with you and looking forward to just kind of catching up
1:04.7	on all the things going on in the world around us.
1:07.1	Oh, my goodness.
1:07.9	And no dull day in politics these days. The old saying like drinking from a fire hose is, I think, apropos. Let's begin here, though. You've been doing this for a long time. You're like me. You have issues. You have lots of issues to cover. But the first question I have to ask you is, do you ever get tired of being right?
1:33.3	Well, actually, I remember all the times that I've been wrong more than I remember the other.
1:38.2	But I'm thankful that other people forget some of those along the way.
1:48.7	Yeah, I know. You should consult with Polster in Des Moines, Iowa these days. She understands exactly how you feel about that with the
1:55.0	last election. No, I mean, you have, you've been doing this for a long time. You've called a lot of
2:00.5	these races, right? A lot of people in 16 pointed at you and said, you have, you've been doing this for a long time. You've called a lot of these races,
2:01.1	right. A lot of people in 16 pointed at you and said, you're crazy. You think this,
2:06.2	you think this TV star billionaire businessman has a chance of winning the presidency. You called it then.
2:20.8	You called it, of course, in 2024,
2:26.3	and you've called it a lot along the way. What gave you so much faith that Donald Trump had tapped into, I guess, the zeitgeist of American politics in 16 and again in 24?
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