Attorney Guillermo San Antonio Acha called "exaggerated" the strength a Jugando Pelota Dura poll attributes to Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz within the New Progressive Party (PNP), during an analysis with Ángel Rosa on the Profesor Ángel Rosa program on NotiUno 630. The poll, released Wednesday night, November 11, measured three scenarios for the governorship.
"It seems to me they put him on steroids,"
Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández, of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), drew 42.5% against 30.5% for Governor Jenniffer González; 39.5% against 35.2% for Rivera Schatz; and 39.3% against 33.8% for San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero. Juan Dalmau, of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, registered 14.4%, 12.5% and 11.5%, respectively. "The strength that poll shows, the strength in which Tomás Rivera Schatz appears to stand within the PNP, seems exaggerated to my appreciation," San Antonio Acha said.
"It seems to me they put him on steroids," he added, saying he did not know whether it was a matter of sample or calibration. Rosa clarified he took the results as correct only for purposes of the analysis and was not validating the poll or its methodology. San Antonio Acha said he presumed those responsible did "their homework," and called the poll "a good poll for the Popular Party," saying Hernández beats the PNP in all three scenarios without emptying Dalmau’s support.
He called Romero "the big loser" of the poll. Hernández wrote on social media that the backing is "borrowed." Rosa said the Citizens’ Victory Movement, at 1% in all three scenarios, appears to have lost its electoral strength, and that Dalmau measures near his 2020 result of about 14%.