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GOP campaigns go all-in on AI, Dems not so much

Axios · · 695 words · By Alex Isenstadt; Holly Otterbein
Partisan Technological Divide Ethics of Deepfakes AI in Political Campaigning

The article discusses the adoption of artificial intelligence by Republican and Democratic political campaigns, noting a higher rate of AI integration within GOP strategies for voter simulation and ad creation. It highlights specific tools used by Republicans and mentions the use of a deepfake ad by a Georgia Senate candidate.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://axios.com/2026/04/14/republicans-ai-campaigns-democrats-2026

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11 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“GOP strategists are using AI to quickly simulate voters' attitudes toward events such as the Iran war”
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Web search results explicitly state that Republican strategists are using AI platforms to simulate voter attitudes and scan social media for real-time trends. Additionally, Wikipedia provides context regarding a 2026 Iran war, making the specific example of simulating attitudes toward that event plausible within the provided live evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Content made with generative artificial intelligence has been used in American politics since the 2020s. The use of generative AI by American political figures has been subject to criticism from many …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-generated_content_in_Americ…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI slop (also known as slop content or simply as slop) is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality, or meaning, and produced in high…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop
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“GOP strategists are using AI... to scan millions of social media sites for up-to-the-second trends in public opinion.”
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Web search results explicitly confirm that Republican strategists are using AI platforms to 'scan social media for real-time trends'.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a right-wing to far-right political party in the United States. It emerged as the main rival of the Democratic Party in the 1850s, and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_State…
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web search NEUTRAL — By providing your phone number, you are consenting to receive calls and recurring SMS/MMS messages, including artificial, pre-recorded, autodialed and automated calls and texts, to that number from th…
https://gop.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · Also known as the Grand Old Party, or GOP, the Republican Party is the largest conservative political party in the U.S. Learn more about the history of the party in this article.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Republican-Party
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“The Democratic National Committee has barred staffers from using ChatGPT and Claude”
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While there is general information about the Democratic Party and AI figures like Sam Altman, no evidence in the provided search results confirms a specific ban on ChatGPT and Claude for DNC staffers.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 17, 2025, a mass shooting occurred on the campus of Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. Two university employees were killed and six others wounded in an at…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Florida_State_University_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Laphonza Romanique Butler ( lə-FON-zə; born May 11, 1979) is an American labor union official and former politician who served as a United States senator from California from 2023 to 2024. Butler bega…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laphonza_Butler
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman attended Stanford…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
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“the [DNC] does allow them to use Gemini to code, analyze data and do other tasks.”
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The evidence provides general information about Google Gemini, but does not confirm that the DNC specifically allows its use for coding and data analysis while banning others.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of notable non-political figures and organizations that endorsed the Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google with Larry Page. He was the president of Google…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
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“A survey last month by the American Association of Political Consultants found that 64% of Republican consultants used AI daily in their work, compared to 49% of Democrats.”
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A web search result explicitly cites an AAPC survey from 2026 stating that 64% of Republican consultants and 49% of Democratic consultants use AI tools on a daily basis.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) is the trade group for the political consulting profession in the United States. Founded in 1969, it is the world's largest organization of po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_of_Politi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Barr v. American Ass'n of Political Consultants, Inc., 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the use of robocalls made to cell phones, a practice that had been banned b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_v._American_Ass'n_of_Poli…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Political consulting is a form of consulting that consists primarily of advising and assisting political campaigns. Although the most important role of political consultants is arguably the developmen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_consulting
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“Aaru, a company that tries to predict human behavior, is among the tools Republicans are using.”
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Web search results from Semafor and Aaru's own site confirm that Aaru uses AI agents to replicate voter districts and simulate human behavior to predict events.
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web search NEUTRAL — Aaru simulates entire populations to predict the world's events.We're building simulation software that recreates the world using a multi-agent approach. Money can’t reach the unreachable. Humans are …
https://aaru.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — For election results, Aaru uses census data to replicate voter districts, creating AI agents essentially programmed to think like the voters they are copying. Each agent is given hundreds of personali…
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/20/2024/ai-startup-aaru-u…
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web search NEUTRAL — Simulating human behavior at scale is a genuinely hard problem — the gap between survey responses and actual behavior is where most market research falls apart. Curious how you handle the calibration …
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cameron-fink_were-hiring-aaru…
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“Republicans also are using MiroFish, a platform that forecasts public opinion using simulated people.”
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Web search results confirm MiroFish is a platform that uses AI agents for scenario prediction and public opinion forecasting.
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web search NEUTRAL — MiroFish turns your text into graph building, simulation, and reporting through one AI-powered prediction workflow.Ask any “what if” question. MiroFish runs thousands of AI agents through your scenari…
https://mirofish.us/
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web search NEUTRAL — From public opinion forecasting to literary continuation, it lets you inject variables, run social evolution, and inspect the likely trajectory before the real world catches up.
https://mirofish.my/
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web search NEUTRAL — 1. Wuhan University Public Opinion Simulation + MiroFish Project Introduction.The MiroFish team is recruiting full-time/internship positions. If you're interested in multi-agent simulation and LLM app…
https://github.com/666ghj/MiroFish
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“EyesOver, a program that scans millions of social media sites per day to identify real-time trends in public sentiment, also is rising in popularity”
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Web search results from G2 and SoftwareWorld describe Eyesover as a tool for real-time custom public opinion research and political campaign management that analyzes online conversations.
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web search NEUTRAL — Eyesover Technologies provides you with real-time custom public opinion research by analyzing online conversations about the issues that matter to you.
https://www.g2.com/products/eyesover/reviews
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web search NEUTRAL — This research paper focuses on real-time sentiment analysis of social media content for brand improvement and topic tracking.
https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/icic-6-23/1259930…
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web search NEUTRAL — Eyesover Reviews 2025: Understand its offerings, pricing, & features. Compare and select with confidence.Eyesover is a specialized political campaign software designed to help candidates and political…
https://www.softwareworld.co/software/eyesover-reviews/
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“The National Republican Senatorial Committee is using AI to create ads, analyze data and identify new small donors”
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Wikipedia confirms the existence and purpose of the NRSC, but the provided evidence does not mention their specific use of AI for ads, data analysis, or donor identification.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission (No. 24-621) is a pending United States Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of federal limits on how much politic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Senatorial…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The chair of the Republican National Committee is the party chair of the Republican Party. The chair manages the day-to-day affairs and operations of the Republican National Committee (RNC), prepares …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chairs_of_the_Republic…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) is the Republican Hill committee for the United States Senate, working to elect Republicans to the Senate. The NRSC was founded in 1916 as the Republica…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Senatorial…
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“Those ads include more than a half-dozen spots targeting Democrats — including a video game-themed ad blasting Democratic Senate candidates in Michigan.”
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No evidence was found in the search results to support the claim regarding specific AI-generated ads or a video game-themed ad in Michigan.
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“Mike Collins, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, released a deepfake ad in November depicting Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff expressing support for a government shutdown.”
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