… America First Policies does a lot of polling, which CNBC stumbled across by following a link on the group’s website. …
“America First Policies, which actively advocates for policies favored by Trump, denied that any of the documents, many of which are labeled ‘confidential,’ were intended to benefit the White House or the president,” CNBC’s Christina Wilkie writes. America First Policies’ communication director told Wilkie that she didn’t “know if this information is ever shared with the White House. Anyone can see it.” …
“If you do a poll, pay money for it and give it to a candidate, that’s an in-kind contribution,” Lawrence Noble, senior director of the Campaign Legal Center, told The Post. “So what [groups] started doing was they figured out that if they made the polling public, then anyone can use it, and it’s not a contribution to a candidate. So the game is to make the polling public, but to do it in such an obscure way that the public doesn’t know it.” CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post