Investigative outfit American Muckrakers – which has something of a spotty record, though getting sandbagged is different than intentionally misrepresenting facts – have obtained a lengthy tranche of seemingly genuine emails between infamously shitty far right pollster Rasmussen Reports – the one convicted felon former President Trump keeps citing as finding him with wide national leads over Vice President Kamala Harris – the Trump campaign leadership, and the Heartland Institute – a bullshit right wing “think tank” who have partnered with Rasmussen in at least one push poll.

According to the New Republic, the coordination between Rasmussen, Heartland, and Team Orange constitutes a violation of election regulations because Heartland is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and is not allowed to engage in activity benefiting a candidate. We’re sure the FEC’s going to get right on that.

The contents of the emails themselves are also not terribly explosive otherwise. Like it doesn’t seem to go any further than Rasmussen previewing their findings to Trump’s campaign – one email from Rasmussen dipshit Ted Carroll says “These are just out and so I figured you might want to see them early, especially the final question which was inspired by a recent Tweet from Catturd. A majority of all voters now believe the DC GOP set out to sink President Trump in 2020,” lol – but if you were hoping for something far more embarrassing, like they’re outright cooking the numbers in collusion with each other, you’re going to have to wait on Muckrakers for that. They just might have more where that came from, judging by their takedowns of now-former Congressbro Madison Cawthorn and attempting the same on Lauren Boebert (which they got ratfucked on with bad info).