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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.”

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[–] just_another_person 159 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Yes. They're making up all the bullshit pretext for another attempt at overthrowing a fair election. They've been doing it for weeks.

[–] III 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So strange to define a span of years as weeks.

[–] AbidanYre 14 points 1 month ago

A lot of weeks then.

[–] grue 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Exactly. So the real question is, why is New Republic trying to help Trump by downplaying it as "mere" propaganda?

I am sick and tired of the entire news media -- even the nominally (according to the bot) "left" ones -- carrying water for the fascists!

[–] Feathercrown 4 points 1 month ago

The bot called the internet archive left-center

[–] CharlesDarwin 1 points 4 weeks ago

LOL, that bot's sources are ridiculous. Maybe someone that reads David Brooks and thinks he's some "centrist" and that being a "centrist" (on matters of things like freedom vs. fascism) is some kind of gold standard we all should aspire to might have such a spectrum in their head - in other words, it reads like a totally inside the beltway kind of rating. Very American-centric, and not only just that, but very, very beltway-centric.

I've seen more than a few rush to their defense, here on Lemmy and on other platforms, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

What pisses me off most about this is that Hillary had a massive lead and polls had her at 95% chance to win, yet even the claim of Russian propaganda was balked at let alone an actual stolen election.

But now they'll use fucked up polls as proof of election interference/fraud....

I hate this timeline so fucking much...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] just_another_person 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes. That is what all the open pollsters are seeing and saying. It's not a secret or anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Coolio, thanks for confirming!