A second polling firm is under fire after admitting to fabricating data in a key 2026 primary election, this time in Florida.
The polling monitor FiftyPlusOne wrote in a blog post on Thursday that it had received a tip suggesting that pollster The Public Sentiment Institute (TPSI) had violated one of its rules by not disclosing publicly that a survey it had released of the Republican gubernatorial primary field was commissioned by one of the candidates — a disclosure pollsters are required to make by most polling aggregators to be considered legitimate firms, as campaign-sponsored polls often tilt in the favor of the relevant candidates.
