Former political consultant and lobbyist Rick Gates who pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and making false statements in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, and longtime business associate of Paul Manafort, served as deputy to Manafort when the latter was campaign manager Trump's presidential campaign in 2016, stated on PBS News Hour MO 10/12/20 that Trump will win the election because of the Trump Effect - a phenomena that some Trump voters who intend to vote for for Trump would nonetheless tell pollsters that they are undecided or likely to vote for Joe Biden

This effect is actually named after former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley called the Bradley Effect. Tom Bradley, an African-American who lost the 1982 California governor's race despite being ahead in voter polls going into the elections. As with all things Trump, Trump is known to steal other people's things and make them his own. But I digress.





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