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Trump declaring election interference emergency stays below 35%

Polymarket 32%
record: CMSIG2026081208 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-SGDQ0483R0 | published: 2026-08-12
4-bullet brief | narrative
  • Polymarket prices 32% on Trump declaring election interference a national emergency, with trading volume up 2,975% day-over-day.
  • The CNN report on Mullin using Homeland Security for voter-fraud efforts is driving fresh attention, reflected in the sharp volume surge.
  • A companion Kalshi contract (CM-EVT-HT9T7KMRT5) prices 87% on midterm elections happening on schedule, implying markets do not expect a full disruption.
  • Resolves via UMA oracle; an official presidential emergency declaration specifically citing election interference would be required to settle yes.
atomic briefs
[01] news_event
significance
surfaced in the daily Exa news-cycle scan; mechanically matched to an active polymarket market
story
CNN reports Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is deploying department resources to further President Donald Trump's voter-fraud investigations ahead of the 2026 midterms.exa_search → Gabe Cohen, Priscilla Alvarez, Tierney Sneed · as_of 2026-08-14T09:03:59+00:00
[mediated]
publisher
Gabe Cohen, Priscilla Alvarez, Tierney Sneed
published_at
2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z
[02] pm_response
interp
Polymarket at 32% with a 30x volume spike signals the Homeland Security story is pulling fresh money into the contract, though it remains below even odds.llm_judge_cm_signal_v1
[editorial]
evaluation

News-cycle wires publish on coverage, not editorial selection — the day’s top stories matched to the prediction markets pricing them, so nothing is cherry-picked.

judge_engine
none — deterministic news-cycle scan
judge_verdict
auto_published
judge_confidence
n/a — no judge gate (deterministic publishing)
prompt_template
news_cycle_v1 github · auditable
match_method
entity_slug_match (mechanical)
citation graph

Every wire traces back to the ClearMarket event it is built on, and out to each venue’s own market page — so any figure here can be verified at its source.

external
venue_a
polymarket · 0x50378a9069427b82e68dd334fcf40bae1e077c0658214926c3635ff64c539bbc
programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload

AI grounded search reads embedded JSON-LD in HTML. Developers query REST. Agentic AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor) call MCP tools. AI crawlers index via /llms.txt. Same canonical record at every surface.

HTMLbrowsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD @type: Dataset)https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/trump-declares-election-interference-emergency-polymarket-32-2026-08-12/
JSONREST API for developershttps://clearmarket.fyi/signals/trump-declares-election-interference-emergency-polymarket-32-2026-08-12.json
MCPagentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)clearmarket.get_signal("trump-declares-election-interference-emergency-polymarket-32-2026-08-12")
AGENTAI crawler discovery index/llms.txt

PM data: platform APIs (hourly refresh). News context: retrieved with source citations. Editorial judgment: LLM judge with prompt template versioned per wire type. Per-claim provenance inline above; full per-field provenance map at the JSON endpoint under field_provenance.

raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint
{
  "$schema": "https://clearmarket.fyi/schema/signal/v1.json",
  "provenance_version": "0.2.0",
  "record_id": "CMSIG2026081208",
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "detection": "news_cycle",
  "category_tag": "MOMENTUM_REPRICING",
  "secondary_tags": [],
  "pre_news_classification": "concurrent",
  "target_event_id": "CM-EVT-SGDQ0483R0",
  "target_event_slug": "trump-declares-election-interference-national-emergency",
  "event_question": "Will Trump declare election interference a national emergency?",
  "bullets": [
    "Polymarket prices 32% on Trump declaring election interference a national emergency, with trading volume up 2,975% day-over-day.",
    "The CNN report on Mullin using Homeland Security for voter-fraud efforts is driving fresh attention, reflected in the sharp volume surge.",
    "A companion Kalshi contract (CM-EVT-HT9T7KMRT5) prices 87% on midterm elections happening on schedule, implying markets do not expect a full disruption.",
    "Resolves via UMA oracle; an official presidential emergency declaration specifically citing election interference would be required to settle yes."
  ],
  "atomic_claims": [
    {
      "type": "news_event",
      "field_provenance": {
        "story": {
          "tier": "mediated",
          "method": "exa_search",
          "source": "Gabe Cohen, Priscilla Alvarez, Tierney Sneed",
          "source_url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/politics/trump-homeland-security-voter-fraud-crusade",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-08-14T09:03:59+00:00"
        }
      },
      "significance": {
        "threshold": 5,
        "threshold_unit": "rank",
        "passed": true,
        "reason": "surfaced in the daily Exa news-cycle scan; mechanically matched to an active polymarket market"
      },
      "story": "CNN reports Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is deploying department resources to further President Donald Trump's voter-fraud investigations ahead of the 2026 midterms.",
      "publisher": "Gabe Cohen, Priscilla Alvarez, Tierney Sneed",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source_url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/politics/trump-homeland-security-voter-fraud-crusade"
    },
    {
      "type": "pm_response",
      "field_provenance": {
        "notes": {
          "tier": "editorial",
          "method": "llm_judge_cm_signal_v1"
        }
      },
      "notes": "Polymarket at 32% with a 30x volume spike signals the Homeland Security story is pulling fresh money into the contract, though it remains below even odds."
    }
  ],
  "evaluation": {
    "judge_engine": "none — deterministic news-cycle scan",
    "judge_verdict": "auto_published",
    "judge_confidence": null,
    "prompt_template": "news_cycle_v1"
  },
  "citations": {
    "internal": {
      "cm_event": "/events/trump-declares-election-interference-national-emergency/",
      "related": []
    },
    "external": {
      "venue_a": null,
      "venue_b": null,
      "benchmark": null
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Gabe Cohen, Priscilla Alvarez, Tierney Sneed: How Trump turned Homeland Security into an engine of his voter fraud c",
      "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/politics/trump-homeland-security-voter-fraud-crusade",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-08-14T09:03:59+00:00"
    }
  ],
  "field_provenance": {
    "pm_data": "polymarket_api",
    "news_context": "exa_search",
    "editorial_judgment": "cm_signal_llm_judge"
  }
}
PROVENANCE PROTOCOL v0.2 · [direct] venue api · [mediated] grounded web fetch + source url · [derived] computed from listed inputs · [editorial] versioned llm judgment · full spec /schema/provenance/v1
record CMSIG2026081208 published 2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z signature sha256-0625f8b3ed3… ← underlying event all signals →