A polling firm called Wedgewood Polls just admitted it FAKED its polling data

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"Major news outlets are now ADMITTING that all those poll numbers WERE FAKE! "Major outlets, including the New York Times, cited the bogus figures in their polling averages right as the midterms close in, while Wedgewood now claims it only wanted to spark a conversation about data integrity and media literacy.

Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow, who dropped out of the Senate race, says the fake polls may have cost her supporters and posted that trust is already at an all-time low, and the media needs to stop riding the pollercoaster.

President Trump has been warning for years that these polls do not give an accurate snapshot of the American people’s feelings, and tonight he is in South Carolina while the experts scramble.

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• Wedgewood Polls admitted fabricating most of its 2026 midterm data as a self-described "social experiment" to expose weak vetting by media and aggregators like the New York Times, FiftyPlusOne, and Decision Desk HQ, which initially included the polls before removing them.
• The fake Michigan Senate poll showed Mallory McMorrow at 9%, contributing to her July dropout by reportedly drying up donations and volunteer morale; she publicly blamed it for eroding trust and urged against over-reliance on polls.
• Fox News coverage in the post's video ties the scandal to broader polling skepticism, featuring McMorrow's statement and Trump's past criticisms, as midterms approach with some fake data having skewed toward Democrats in red states. Grok

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