In 2014 McLaughlin came under scrutiny after he fielded a poll showing former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) leading his primary challenger at the time, Dave Brat, by 34 points. Weeks later, Brat won that race by 11 points.McLaughlin & Associates polling routinely receives grades of C and D from the Nate Silver 538 Project.McLaughlin & Associates are paid by the Trump Campaign to call into question polling that does not favor Trump. Recently McLaughlin claimed without evidence that CNN polled non-registered voters when in fact everyone in the CNN poll was a registered voter.Because McLaughlin & Associates are paid by the Trump campaign there exists a clear conflict of interest that renders all of their analysis relating to the 2020 presidential campaign suspect.

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