A new national survey by Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio’s outfit finds Democrats leading Republicans 45 to 38 percent on the generic congressional ballot, newsworthy simply because it’s Trump’s pollster who found this. The polling itself is aimed at pitching some national AI safeguard legislation and the question is then framed with “If the Republican candidate for Congress (supported/opposed) all of the policies just discussed to create national standards to regulate Al, would you be more likely to vote for the Republican candidate or the Democratic candidate?”
If yes then it’s GOP 45 to Dems 32 percent, if no it’s Dems 45 to GOP 29 percent. Yes, this is “push-polling” in the purest sense as well as industrial-scale focus grouping of some way to channel populist anger toward Big AI to try to salvage the midterms for Republicans. The only way it’s going to work is if Trump starts hanging out with his lowly servants in Congress more than he does his billionaire “friends” and that doesn’t seem all that likely. Likelier than any actual legislation happening, lol, but still it’s hard to see how this comes together as a campaign issue when (A) Dems are going to say the same thing and more convincingly so and (B) the AI companies can just buy off the Republican candidates one by one and neutralize the threat of any legitimate regulation.