Rich Baris

Rich Baris is the director of Big Data Poll and host of Inside the Numbers with the People’s Pundit. He is the only national and state pollster to correctly forecast Donald J. Trump would win the 2016 presidential election with 306 electoral votes and was recognized again as the most accurate national pollster of 2024, with his state polling again projecting a victory for the returning president with 312 electoral votes. He has been widely cited as the leading independent pollster in the Trump era to identify key demographic trends and cutting-edge methodologies to improve industry standards and performance.

Baris and his political analysis frequently appear on RealClearPolitics, Fox News, Newsmax, The Hill/Decision Desk HQ, Real America’s Voice, and many other media outlets. His work has been featured and widely praised for its radical transparency and accuracy by others such as Tucker Carlson, the New York Post, and Steve Bannon. The People’s Pundit also directed and conducted the Epoch Times poll in 2020. That same year, he founded the Public Polling Project, the first and only ongoing survey in the United States to be crowdfunded.