Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman Engage in Scrutiny Over D多
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman traded sharp attacks Wednesday night over homelessness, policing, housing, and the city’s struggling economy in the first major debate of the general election campaign.
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RealClearPoliticsLA Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman faced off in the first mayoral debate of the general election, and both managed to earn terrible grades. For 90 minutes at the Sherman Oaks Homeow…
Fox NewsDemocratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing scrutiny after an online ad revealed that that campaign contributions from supporters of her reelection bid would be matched by taxpayer dollars.
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Another polling firm comes under fire for ‘falsified data’ on Florida primary A major polling tracker announced Thursday it would suspend its use of data from a pollster after it discovered evidence that the firm allegedly “falsified data” in a survey of candidates in Florida’s gubernatorial Republican primary race. The decision follows a shocking announcement last week from fake polling center Median Strategies, which admitted to spreading…
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Washington ExaminerThe scrutiny of the two polling firms comes just days after a separate fake polling firm, Median Strategies, made headlines for falsified polling it released in the Los Angeles mayoral race and a misleading report it published in the Wisconsin governor’s race. The instances of alleged unethical polling in the Florida governor’s primary are the latest to increase skepticism toward polls in the 2026 midterm season.
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The website, Median Strategies, abruptly shut down and withdrew its polling earlier this week following questions from a reporter from the Los Angeles Times. In an unsigned statement, it described a “short-term social experiment” to examine how fake polling “could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification”.
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Washington ExaminerThursday’s news brings more scrutiny to the polling industry after reports about Median Strategies, which said it was conducting a “social experiment” in its fake polling, and the results in several states that proved polling estimates wrong.
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01 Fox News "Your donation to our campaign right now is more critical than ever before," said Bass, speaking into a lapel microphone with upbeat music playing in the background of the ad, which was posted to her campaign's X account.
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02 Washington Examiner The major political polling aggregate said the two pollsters, The Public Sentiment Institute and Patriot Polling, did not adequately disclose that they had received funding from GOP gubernatorial candidate James Fishback’s campaign before conducting their polls in the governor’s race. FiftyPlusOne also alleged that the TPSI polling firm fabricated data from a poll in favor of Fishback, a characterization the firm denies.
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03 PBS NewsHour What to know about the fake election poll numbers shared and retracted by a mysterious company 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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04 The Guardian US A 21-year-old recent college graduate was behind an anonymous website that put out widely shared fake election polling in Wisconsin, Nevada and California, the Guardian can reveal.
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