by WILLIAM UPTON
Corporate media outlet Newsweek has been caught failing to disclose that an opinion editorial attacking former President Donald Trump was written by two employees of a polling firm whose founder and CEO is the chief pollster for the pro-DeSantis SuperPAC Never Back Down. The authors, Byron Allen and Amanda Iovino, are both employees of WPA Intelligence, and used their op-ed column to claim Trump is losing white voters, passing off Never Back Down talking points as thin analysis. Newsweek makes no mention of WPA Intelligence’s affiliation with Never Back Down.
Chris Wilson, the founder and CEO of WPA Intelligence, serves as the data director and chief pollster for the Never Back Down SuperPAC. Outside of his polling duties, Wilson appears to be a close confidant of the PAC’s chief strategist Jeff Roe – the two recently launching an AI chatbot that they hope will sway voters to DeSantis through text messages.
WPA Intelligence’s Byron Allen has also produced polling for the anti-Trump group Club for Growth. In November of last year, the Club released polling done by Allen suggesting Ron DeSantis held an 11 point lead over Donald Trump in Iowa and a 15 point lead in New Hampshire. At the time, there was a strong effort among Trump’s detractors to push a narrative that the former President faced crumbling support within the Republican Party. Recent polling shows Trump with a 23 to 37 point lead over DeSantis in Iowa and a lead of 14 to 40 points in New Hampshire.
Newsreek has been like Time just giving us the usual Fake News we get from the Liberal news rags the Birdcage Liners and the Talking Heads