[Senator Clay Davis]

There's a theory I read that I think is interesting about polls and betting odds. Right now a lot of the shift in polls has come from low quality and/or GOP backed pollsters. And the betting markets are being flooded with money backing Trump. The theory suggests that this is being done to create the narrative that Trump is a favorite, closing in on big/overwhelming favorite, so that when he loses the "It was stolen" narrative has its baseline. "Remember the polls? Remember Polymarket? They showed Trump in landslide territory. Harris had to have cheated, there's no other way!"

And it makes sense: the GOP can't run on reality anymore so running on crafted narratives is their only real play. And since Americans are dumb as ####, the fact that the GOP said forever that polls don't matter, are rigged, etc... that they will have totally flipped their opinion on it won't actually matter. With the correctly crafted narrative they can easily convince enough people that overturning the results makes sense.