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Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

The Gateway Pundit reaches for "bombshell" where News One stays flat.

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What happened NEW YORK (AP) — Locked in a competitive reelection race, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared on social media last week that a new poll was evidence that her campaign was “gaining momentum.”.
The headline split The left frames it as "Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys". The right frames it as "Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys".
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WHAT EACH SIDE EMPHASIZED

Left / center-leftTrump DOJ To Send 1,000 Election Monitors To Midterm Polling Sites [Op-Ed]

NewsOne · Left · Opinion

CenterFake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

WPLG Local 10 (Berkshire/Graham, Miami) · Center · News report

Right / center-rightTrump Says Census Bureau Analysis Confirms Over 24,000 Noncitizens Voted in 2020 Election as 32 Million Records Remain to be Anal...

The Gateway Pundit · Right · Analysis

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NewsOneOpinion · Aug 18, 10:14 PM

Trump DOJ To Send 1,000 Election Monitors To Midterm Polling Sites [Op-Ed]

The Trump administration has spent much of its second term trying to federalize control of elections ahead of this fall’s midterm elections.

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The Gateway PunditAnalysis · Aug 18, 10:20 PM

BOMBSHELL: Trump Says Census Bureau Analysis Confirms Over 24,000 Noncitizens Voted in 2020 Election as 32 Million Records Remain to be Analyzed: “I WON THE ELECTION!”

bombshell

President Donald Trump dropped a massive Truth Social bombshell Tuesday, revealing that the U.S.

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The Seattle TimesNews report · Aug 18, 10:09 PM

Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

A mysterious political firm admitted to fabricating multiple election polls this month.

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The Washington TimesNews report · Aug 18, 10:07 PM

Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

Locked in a competitive reelection race, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared on social media last week that a new poll was evidence that her campaign was "gaining momentum."

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WPLG Local 10 (Berkshire/Graham, Miami)News report · Aug 18, 10:07 PM

Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

NEW YORK (AP) — Locked in a competitive reelection race, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared on social media last week that a new poll was evidence that her campaign was “gaining momentum...

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InstapunditOpinion · Aug 18, 10:00 PM

GOOD: DOJ to send 1,000 poll monitors to watch elections this fall.

DOJ to send 1,000 poll monitors to watch elections this fall.

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CBS News PoliticsNews report · Aug 18, 9:54 PM

Justice Department to send a record 1,000 monitors to midterm polling places

The Justice Department is planning to deploy a record 1,000 federal monitors to polling places throughout the U.S. for the midterm elections.

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