Joy Reid Accuses RealClearPolitics of Skewing Results in Trump’s Favor

REID: Bolsonaro, nicknamed the Trump of the tropics has remained largely silent as much of the country waited to see if he would follow Trump’s lead and reject the election results. He spent the past month warning that he just might not accept a loss because the election was rigged. The big story is that fascist movements in the americas, while emboldened are actually losing. First Trump, now Bolsonaro. Here in the United States, we’re a little over a week away from our own midterm elections. If you believe the recent headline headlines, you would think MAGA fascist is ascendant. If you dig deeper, you would uncover an insidious campaign from Republican backed polling firms to flood the zone and tip the balance of polling averages in favor of their candidates. To create a narrative that Republicans are surging and that a red wave is imminent and inevitable. Our friend and democratic pollster Simon Rosenberg has been sounding the alarm for weeks about this wave of polling. Noting that if the roughly 40 of the roughly 30 polls taken in key battleground states, more than half, half, are from Republican firms or groups. Over the weekend, “The New York Times” released four new polls in key battleground states which showed Democrats either in the lead or tied with their opponent. So why are their polls telling a different story? According to Nate Cohn of “The New York Times,” most of the polling over the last few weeks is coming from partisan outfits, usually Republican, or auto dial firms. These polls are cheap enough to flood the zone. And it shouldn’t come as a total surprise given that one of those polling aggregators, real clear politics, has become more openly pro-Trump. Back in 2020, “The New York Times” noted that real clear politics has taken a rightward aggressively pro-Trump turn. It also pointed out that their polling averages seemed skewed in Trump’s favor.