ABC gave proprietary poll data to Trump campaign on election night - WTF
5:01 pm, raw unadulterated exit poll data. The kind of data owned by AP. The kind of data unseen by mere mortal eyes. The normal exit poll data that you and I see is 'adjusted' to match the results.
So what the f*ck happened between 5:01 pm and the declaration later that nigh? Hmmm? Where else did the data go? Because when Trumpco saw the raw exit polls - the kind of data that the UN looks at to see if the vote is legitimate in other countries - "Jared says we are going to lose."
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/abc-data-trump-campaign-reprimand-284327
ABC News said it has reprimanded its top producer for investigative reporting for giving Donald Trump’s presidential campaign proprietary exit polling data on election night 2016.
In their new book “Let Trump Be Trump,” campaign insiders Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie wrote that Chris Vlasto -- then-executive producer of “Good Morning America” and now senior executive producer for investigative reporting -- called Bossie, Trump’s deputy campaign manager, at 5:01 p.m. on election night with information being shared within a consortium of the Associated Press and the major TV networks.
“Vlasto had the early exit numbers that the consortium of news networks — the Associated Press, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News — had collected,” Lewandowski and Bossie wrote. “The consortium followed eleven battleground states, including Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trump was down in eight of the eleven states by five to eight points. The news was devastating. A kill shot.”
Two sources familiar with the consortium process told POLITICO that Vlasto should not have been providing such detailed information to people outside the group, which spends millions of dollars on exit polling and shares the information on Election Day. Representatives from the AP and TV networks crunch the numbers under strict quarantine until 5 p.m. on election night, at which time they can share the data with other members of their own organizations involved in coverage. News organizations involved in the consortium typically warn staffers not to provide specific, exit poll numbers to outsiders, especially given that the polls are still open.
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What The Fuck!
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