The strategy is to make it look like she is winning or at least close so that when the voter machines hand the election to the dems, the pubs can plausibly go belly up without a whimper.. Too big a lead in the polls leading to the election make it a bit hard to swallow the big lie, though it seemed to work well enough in 2012.
You saw that also?
I’m afraid you are correct.
Yep
The Brit media tried this method of fixing the polls to fool the people with Brexit and lost big time.