Patriot Polling

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Patriot Polling
Company type Private
Industry Opinion polling
FoundedSeptember 2022
FounderLucca Ruggieri
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Area served
United States, Greenland

Patriot Polling is an opinion polling and data analytics company founded by Lucca Ruggieri and headquartered in Philadelphia. [1]

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History

The company first publicly released its polls in 2022. After being recognized by FiveThirtyEight, [2] the company quickly garnered attention due to its founder's youth, as Ruggieri was still a high school student at the time of its establishment. [3] Patriot Polling has been criticized for its methodology and for an apparent bias towards the Republican Party. [4]

For the 2024 United States presidential election, Nate Silver ranked Patriot Polling as the second best pollster, tied with Patriot Polling, while polling firm ActiVote ranked Patriot Polling as the sixth best pollster of the election. [5] [6] Despite this, its earlier track record was inconsistent, as many of its polls during the 2022 United States elections were criticized for inaccuracies, leading to questions about its reliability. [7]

In a September 2024 interview with The New York Times, Professor Joshua Clinton from Vanderbilt University said in regards to Patriot Polling: "Have I heard about this pollster before? You hope that they're not just, like, two kids in high school in Pennsylvania." [7]

Patriot Polling made international headlines in January 2025 with a controversial survey conducted in Greenland. [8] [9] [10] The poll claimed that a majority of Greenlanders supported joining the United States, sparking widespread debate. [11] The findings were amplified by several Donald Trump-affiliated political figures and Russian state media, drawing attention to the geopolitical implications of the poll. [12] [13]

The survey faced backlash from Greenlandic authorities and international experts, including some who questioned its sampling methods and validity, further fueling controversy. [14] Former Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen claimed that it contributed to "the most serious foreign policy crisis." [15] Professor Scott Lucas from University College Dublin, claimed that the company's methods "looks like classical push polling". [16] The Council on Foreign Relations dismissed the poll. [17]

In response to the survey released by Patriot Polling, the Danish newspaper Berlingske and Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq later conducted a poll showing widespread opposition in Greenland to joining the United States. [18]

Patriot Polling gained notoriety again in October 2025, when it released a poll claiming that foreign-born voters were behind Zohran Mamdani's lead over Andrew Cuomo in the 2025 New York City mayoral election. [19] [20] [21]

Patriot Polling has often been cited by right-wing political figures such as Stephen Miller and Ron DeSantis, routinely gaining millions of view on Twitter. [22] [23]

Lucca Ruggieri, the company's CEO, has come under scrutiny for his associations with right-wing donors such as Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr.. [24] [25] [26] [27] As a student at Columbia University, he has been a vocal supporter of Donald Trump and other right-wing causes. [28] [29]

References

  1. ↑ Polling, Patriot. "Patriot Polling". Patriot Polling. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  2. ↑ Silver, Nate (March 9, 2023). "Pollster Ratings". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on October 5, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  3. ↑ Bailey, Wakisha (January 13, 2023). "2 local HS students create nationally recognized polling site - CBS Philadelphia". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  4. ↑ Rutenberg, Jim; Bensinger, Ken; Eder, Steve (December 31, 2022). "The 'Red Wave' Washout: How Skewed Polls Fed a False Election Narrative". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  5. ↑ "2024 Most Valuable Pollster (MVP) Rankings". Activote. March 25, 2025.
  6. ↑ "So, how did the polls do in 2024? It's complicated". natesilver.net. February 17, 2025.
  7. 1 2 Rogers, Kaleigh (September 28, 2024). "Three Things to Look For in Any Election Poll". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  8. ↑ Ruggieri, Lucca (January 12, 2025). "Greenland supports joining the United States". Patriot Polling. Archived from the original on January 21, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
  9. ↑ Lindsay, James M. (January 17, 2025). "Transition 2025: U.S. Foreign Policy on the Eve of Disruption". Council on Foreign Relations . Archived from the original on January 21, 2025. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
  10. ↑ Irwin, Lauren (January 12, 2025). "One poll finds majority of Greenland respondents support joining US". The Hill . Retrieved January 12, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Greenland supports joining US, shock poll reveals - but Denmark closes door to Donald Trump sale". www.gbnews.com. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Patriot Polling: Большинство жителей Гренландии выступило за присоединение к США". www.pnp.ru (in Russian). January 26, 2025. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  13. ↑ Schneider, Julie (January 19, 2025). "To teenageres meningsmåling om Grønland er endt som en del af Ruslands propagandamaskine: »Nu er Danmark kørt lige ind i orkanens øje«". Berlingske.dk (in Danish). Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Teenager bag måling, der har skabt en "global hvisken" om Grønland - TV 2". nyheder.tv2.dk (in Danish). January 21, 2025. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  15. ↑ Schneider, Julie (January 19, 2025). "To teenageres meningsmåling om Grønland er endt som en del af Ruslands propagandamaskine: »Nu er Danmark kørt lige ind i orkanens øje«". Berlingske.dk (in Danish). Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  16. ↑ "Greenland in Donald Trump's crosshairs | Scott Lucas". youtube. TVP World. January 13, 2025. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  17. ↑ Lindsay, James M. "Transition 2025: U.S. Foreign Policy on the Eve of Disruption | Council on Foreign Relations". www.cfr.org. Retrieved October 22, 2025.
  18. ↑ "Huge majority of Greenlanders don't want to be American: Poll". Newsweek. January 29, 2025. Retrieved October 22, 2025.
  19. ↑ "New poll shows Mamdani 'dominating' among foreign-born voters | Fox News Video". Fox News. October 21, 2025. Retrieved October 22, 2025.
  20. ↑ Ruggieri, Lucca (October 20, 2025). "New York City Mayoral Election".
  21. ↑ "Zohran Mamdani most popular with foreign-born New Yorkers but Cuomo favorite with homegrown voters: poll". October 22, 2025. Retrieved October 23, 2025.
  22. ↑ @StephenM (October 21, 2025). "Import communists, become communist". x.com.
  23. ↑ @RonDeSantis (October 21, 2025). ""An indictment of US immigration policy..."".
  24. ↑ "Teenager bag måling, der har skabt en "global hvisken" om Grønland - TV 2". nyheder.tv2.dk (in Danish). January 21, 2025. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  25. ↑ Eckstein, Griffin (September 6, 2024). "Nate Silver faces backlash for pro-Trump model". Salon. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  26. ↑ @BackesEric (September 7, 2024). "Patriot polling? Really? Hahaha. Oh Peter Thiel's puppet" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  27. ↑ @aurle126138 (January 12, 2025). "The poll was made when Donald Jr. was there, which indicates he paid the pollster" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  28. ↑ "Columbia University student says death threats reinforce decision to speak out on Palestinian protester | Fox News Video". Fox News. March 21, 2025. Retrieved October 22, 2025.
  29. ↑ "Exclusive | Columbia student gets death threats over Mahmoud Khalil arrest praise in WSJ". March 20, 2025. Retrieved October 22, 2025.
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