A new polling operation that appeared this year, largely pushing Democrats, Democrat socialists and their agendas, now has revealed itself to be a complete fraud.
Deliberately a fraud, the organization claims, to raise awareness of the ease in which fake numbers can be integrated into media assessments like those found at MS NOW and the New York Times.
The organization was Wedgewood Polls and in an online statement it confessed that it is “an entirely fabricated polling firm” and gained traction and was taken “seriously.”
It claimed not to be intending to “sway at election or permanently mislead the public,” but commenters suggested that’s exactly the result.
It said it intended to spark “a necessary conversation about data integrity, media literacy, and accountability…”
Responses included a demand for a reform of the polling industry, which in recent weeks has claimed over and over that Democrats are ascending in the 2026 political fights, and Republicans are on the decline.
The polling industry needs major reform. Our statement below: https://t.co/Sj8JLYgply
— Wedgewood Polls (@WedgewoodPolls) October 20, 2026
So far, FOX News has been the only TV news channel to mention the Wedgewood Fake Poll Fiasco, whose “polls” were cited in the polling averages from the likes of the New York Times and were also showcased on MS NOW. https://t.co/3PhTkNL3FH
— Nick (@nspin310) October 21, 2026
So Wedgwood was a grift organization to boost left wing candidates in primaries by making them seem more competitive in the general? Do I have that right?
— I, Robert (@BlueCheese608) October 21, 2026
💯 Wedgwood polling deliberately attempted to influence an election at scale with false information. It’s a fraud, and we need to figure out who is behind it. If DOJ doesn’t do it, Congress must.
— Alicia Strohl Resnicoff (@AliciaResnicoff) October 21, 2026
Wedgewood also was accused of “deliberately” trying to ‘influence an election at scale with false information.”
It was the FiftyPlusOne” blog that observed Wedgewood’s activity and demanded a response.
“FiftyPlusOne reached out to Wedgewood Polls, a self-professed polling firm, with a request for comment on an investigation we had conducted into their alleged survey research. They did not respond to our request, but instead posted a public statement on social media admitting that they had been fabricating data.”
“Their statement alleges that FiftyPlusOne, the New York Times, and other poll aggregators did not conduct appropriate vetting of their firm prior to aggregating their polls; this is false. We reached out to them to ask who they were and confirm the methodology statement on their website.”
The blog post explained, “We were given two names, Jack Sims and Andrew Prater. We were able to independently confirm that Sims had previous experience in the polling industry and reviewed their methodology statement in detail. It is not atypical for a pollster to leave an existing firm, form their own, and self-fund some surveys to build reputation; we had no reason at the time to believe this case was any different. Wedgewood operated as if it were a legitimate polling firm, including collecting money from donors to conduct crowd-funded polls, and sharing raw survey data (which we now have confirmed was fraudulent) with FiftyPlusOne on Oct. 15, 2026.”
RedState commented that the “polling” released by Wedgewood “may have actually caused one Senate primary candidate to drop out of the race by presenting phony numbers.”
The report explained, “Wedgewood operated as if it were a legitimate polling firm. It was not and is not. It was faking it all along, and its fakery was far-reaching enough to cause a Michigan candidate for the United States Senate, Mallory McMorrow, who ran against Abdul El-Sayed in the primary, to drop out of the race.”
McMorrow, in fact, said that the results of Wedgewood’s agenda was, for her campaign: “- Donations dried up – Volunteers were devastated and pleading for guidance on what to do – Reporters hounded me with calls to drop out”
She called it a “a deliberate and pernicious attempt to skew elections, to skew voter perceptions, with information that was just plain faked.”
RedState said, “Granted, it’s been a while since anyone to the political right of Raul Castro has had much reason to take the New York Times too seriously, but this is really another Baby Ruth bar in the swimming pool of the publication that once claimed to be America’s newspaper of record. The real question, though, is this: how much did this tilt the various polling averages?”
