Campaigns Keep Getting Scammed
Prediction markets gain scrutiny, confusion about AI answers among voters
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Can AI Actually Vet Your Candidate?
Much of our conversation centers on digital footprint mapping — building a seed list of a candidate's email addresses, usernames, phone numbers, and even old passwords to map their entire online presence.
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Get Your “Paid For By” Disclaimers Right
Disclaimers are an important, yet often overlooked component of digital ads.
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Chatbots Become a Campaign Headache
Candidates are rewriting their sites so ChatGPT gets them right
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Format Is The Strategy
The thing holding most campaigns back online isn’t how often they post, but what they’re posting.
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AI comes for your text messages
Streaming's 47% takeover, X calms the feed
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The Real AI Story for Down-Ballot Campaigns Isn't Deepfakes
AI is excellent at speed, scale, scope, and sophistication. It's terrible at relationships, personality, and judgment. The candidates who win will know which is which — and only automate the things that don't need to be them.
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Make Yourself Too Real To Fake
When voters come to learn the genuine article, they won’t be fooled by a fake.
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Voters Turn To AI First
Deepfake detectors work, small donors under the microscope
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How Often (And When) Should Your Campaign Post On Social Media (2026)
Across the various platforms, a consistent pattern emerges: post in the middle of the week, in the middle of the day.
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Supreme Court Unleashes Party Money
AI outshines real politicians, ChatGPT's poll coding limits
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Can AI "Digital Twins" Replace Real Voters? A Pollster Puts It to the Test
In this episode of the Campaign Trend Podcast, I sit down with Ben Leff, co-founder and CEO of Verasight, to test whether that promise holds up.
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