For months on the campaign trail, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has played the part of a convincing optimist, telling every reporter who would listen that his battered GOP still has a chance in November. “I’m telling you, the polling is wrong,” he insisted to Fox News’s Dana Perino last week. Most people dismissed the likeable party leader as just doing his job as chief cheerleader. But after the latest bombshell, the speaker might not be as off base as Americans thought.
The news that Wedgewood Polling has been faking its numbers — inflating the Democrats’ lead in most instances — hit the campaign trail like an atomic bomb. The firm, whose stats had been cited by everyone from The New York Times to Decision Desk HQ, started raising suspicions when its stats landed well outside the mainstream for radical primary candidates like Abdul El-Sayed, Francesca Hong, and others. Puzzled by how the far-left candidates were overperforming, FiftyPlusOne started quietly investigating and running identical polls. The evidence pointed to massive fraud, which Wedgewood admitted Tuesday.
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