Study finds links between polling errors and states with strong QAnon support

Initial results from a study carried out by University of Southern California researchers indicate a strong statistical correlation between state polls that downplayed US President Donald Trump’s re-election chances and those with higher-than-average amounts of support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, the New York Times reports.

“The higher the support for QAnon in each state, the more the polls underestimated the support for Trump,” USC’s Emilio Ferrara tells the Times.

QAnon advances a baseless theory that US President Donald Trump is seeking to take down a network of pedophiles deep inside the government. Trump has not denounced the theory.