Donald Trump supporters are just making up data now to make him look good.
Results from a “shock” poll shared by one of Donald Trump’s surrogates started trending on X Monday, telling 1.4 million people that the Republican presidential nominee was gaining ground on Vice President Kamala Harris in New Mexico.
But none of it appears to be real.
MAGA ally Richard Grennell, who served as the acting director of national intelligence during Trump’s administration, posted the sourceless numbers to his X account, claiming that Harris only had a three-point lead on the former president in the battleground state. But that alleged narrow lead made light of other recent surveys, including one published in the Albuquerque Journal on Monday, which showed Harris with a nine-point lead, three times more than Grennell suggested.
“Trump surrogates are literally fabricating polls at this point to make their supporters think a victory is inevitable,” wrote Democratic strategist and pollster Matt McDermott in response to Grennell’s post. “No poll shows this in New Mexico.”
This makes me feel much better about https://lemmy.world/post/21153248 - undoubtably what must be happening is that even despite his best efforts, Nate Silver’s polling data is being contaminated by this made up stuff, and so the new trend he’s reporting isn’t actually real.
…Right?
Yes. That is what all the open pollsters are seeing and saying. It’s not a secret or anything.
Coolio, thanks for confirming!