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From the Daily Caller: NBC removed polling documents that erroneously reported that President Joe Biden led former President Donald Trump in the race for the presidency.
NBC data guru Steve Kornacki discussed the results in a Sunday morning post on X, noting that its planned release on “Meet the Press” would not take place due to the attempted assassination of Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally. Kornacki reported that Trump led Biden by 2% in a head- to-head matchup between Trump and Biden, linking to the original documents in a follow-up post, but the documents mistakenly showed Biden leading by 3% in a six-way race.
The network issued a correction Sunday evening, according to Politico, deleting the documents from Document Cloud, citing “an error with the original polling documents.” The corrected network’s online article accurately reported Trump led Biden by 3% in a six-way race that included Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver and independent candidates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr and Cornel West.
The polling firm, Public Opinion Strategies, released the following apology Sunday evening:
The polling team extends its apology to @NBCNews and to all those who reviewed the filled in questionnaire of our most recent survey. We made an important mistake on the filled in released today. On the multi-candidate ballot (Q8, corrected here) we flipped the numbers. President Biden is not ahead with 40% to 37% for former President Trump.
In fact, Trump is ahead 40% to 37%. The correct data is reflected in the crosstabs and slides, but unfortunately these numbers were flipped in the topline document that the polling firms prepared for public release for NBC. We take full responsibility for a very significant error on our part. Deep apologies. Bill McInturff + Jeff Horwitt.
https://pos.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/240240-NBC-July-2024-Poll_7.14-RELEASE_CORRECTED.pdf
The polling team extends its apology to @NBCNews and to all those who reviewed the filled in questionnaire of our most recent survey. We made an important mistake on the filled in released today. On the multi-candidate ballot (Q8, corrected here) we flipped the numbers.…
— POS (@POStrategies) July 15, 2024
NBC’s Kornacki announced:
Given the horrific events, our NBC News poll release won’t be taking place on Meet the Press this morning.
Just to get it on the record, though, our poll (conducted 7/7-9) finds:
Trump 45%
Biden 43%and
Trump 47%
Harris 45%In our last poll, back in April, Trump led 46-44%
Poll and methodology:https://t.co/q2rXjkDSfM
— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) July 14, 2024
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