The fraudulent numbers prompted the Senate Majority PAC, which is aligned with Chuck Schumer, to initiate its first spend in the race with a $1.2 million television ad campaign supporting Colom from Wednesday through Election Day. The investment targets a state where Donald Trump won by nearly 23 points in 2024 and no Democrat has won a Senate seat since 1982.
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Fabricated Poll Triggers $1.2M Senate Majority PAC Spend in Mississippi
US Politics2 hours ago
Wedgewood Polls admitted it used fake data for a survey of the Mississippi Senate race after an internal review of the firm's methodology and data integrity. The organization retracted the results, which had previously suggested that Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith held a lead of only 4 points over her Democratic challenger, Scott Colom.
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