Global Strategy Group

§1About

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Global Strategy Group (GSG) is a research, public affairs and communications firm that lists nine U.S. offices, including New York and Washington, D.C., and names founding partners Jon Silvan as CEO and Jefrey Pollock as president.^2,3 Its About page says GSG was founded in 1995 as a Democratic polling firm and now also works for corporations and advocacy organizations.²

Kind

Works for one party²

Founded

1995²

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Published with

Names its polls have been published under, alongside other pollsters or news outlets.

• Garin-Hart-Yang/Global Strategy Group: Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group
• Global Strategy Group/GBAO (Navigator Research): GBAO, Navigator Research
• Global Strategy Group/Lester & Associates: Lester & Associates
• Global Strategy Group/National Research (Philadelphia Inquirer): National Research, The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Polling Company/Global Strategy Group: The Polling Company

Who paid for its polls

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Works for Democratic candidates or groups. Its About page says GSG began as a Democratic polling firm and that, as Democratic pollsters, it has worked for dozens of winning campaigns and political organizations.²

Of its 65 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 4 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor⁷.

Federal campaigns and committees that paid it

From 2023 through 2026, 120 federal committees reported paying Global Strategy Group $20,482,749 for polling, surveys or research^8,9,10,11. By the party each committee reports to the FEC: 79 Democratic, 0 Republican, and 41 none (most PACs and super PACs report none).

§4How its numbers compare with other polls

Why this matters: A firm whose polls run steadily to one side of everyone else's is worth reading alongside others.

Each of its polls since the 2024 election is compared with other pollsters' polls of the same question whose field period ended within 14 days, each other pollster counted once⁷. The figure is the average gap, with a 95% margin. This compares it with other polls, not with the truth: the others can be the ones that are off.

Net approval: Donald Trump

−2.2 points (±0.8) across 24 polls, against other polls of the same question.

Net favorability: Donald Trump

−2.4 points (±1.0) across 19 polls, against other polls of the same question.

Net favorability: JD Vance

−1.1 points (±1.1) across 17 polls, against other polls of the same question.

D+ means its polls showed Democrats doing better than other polls did; R+, Republicans. A figure from fewer than 5 polls isn't shown.

§5Record against results

Why this matters: The one test that doesn't depend on other polls: how close a firm's final polls came to what voters did.

From FiveThirtyEight's final public data^12,13: general-election polls between a Democrat and a Republican in the last three weeks before each election, compared with the certified result. FiveThirtyEight rated each name polls were published under separately. Across all 8,957 such polls, the average miss was D+0.7, so the relative figure takes out the misses every pollster shared that year.

ABC News closed FiveThirtyEight in March 2025; its data stops at the 2022 elections. 2026 results will be added once states certify them.

§6Its polls

§7What we looked for and didn't find

• No named campaign or party clients found on its site.
• SEC Newgate gives no ownership percentage for its GSG stake.
• Navigator Research does not say, on the pages read, who funds it or how often GSG conducts its surveys; its home page refused a direct request (bot check).
• No standing news-outlet partner or co-pollster arrangement found.
• No fieldwork vendor found; Navigator describes an opt-in online panel without naming the vendor.
• Findings search: web searches combining the firm name with AAPOR, FiveThirtyEight, Silver Bulletin, exclusion and retraction terms found nothing that fits the finding rules; the Silver Bulletin January 2026 ratings page names no banned pollsters; FiveThirtyEight pages now redirect to ABC News and could not be read; RealClearPolitics, The New York Times, Cook Political Report, Decision Desk HQ and VoteHub policy pages were not reviewed one by one.
• Court records: a web search limited to CourtListener and Justia found no case naming the firm; PACER and state court dockets were not searched.