Karen Bass cited a Median Strategies poll showing her with an eleven point lead over Nithya Raman.
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Louder with CrowderAug 19, 2026
Multiple sources confirm Bass publicly promoted the Median Strategies poll on social media as evidence of momentum, and that the poll purported to show her leading Raman by about 11 to 12 points. The poll was later admitted to be fabricated, but the claim is about her citing it, not its validity.
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What was said
… So Karen Bass specifically touted i guess this was deleted, so now we know by admission some of these polling firms, they are designed to be propaganda wings. Median Strategies, this was the poll, and Karen Bass cited them, showing her with an eleven point lead over Nithya Raman, and, uh, she tweeted out, Doing the work, showing up, and gaining momentum. Let's do this, L.A. Well, now it's been revealed that Median Strategies is a fake pollster that fabricated polls as a social experiment. Check the references. …
Louder with Crowder · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The AP reports Bass declared on social media that a new poll showed her 'gaining momentum,' and that the Median Strategies poll purported to show her leading Raman by about 12 percentage points.[1]
Supports. Capitol Weekly describes the Median Strategies poll as showing Bass with an 11-point lead over Raman, touted by the Bass campaign before it was exposed as fake.[2]
Supports. Parriva reports the Bass campaign shared the Median Strategies results on social media, which showed Bass leading by nearly 12 points, and that the firm later admitted the poll was fabricated.[3]
Context. The poll was admitted to be fabricated, so the 11-point lead it showed was not real. The claim describes the citation, not the poll's accuracy, so this does not make the claim false.[1][2][3]
Sources
3 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 not rated
- 1What to know about Median Strategies' fake election polls ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 2Paul Mitchell on the impact of prediction markets and bad pollscapitolweekly.net · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 3Karen Bass’s Campaign Has a Polling Problemparriva.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
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