Trump declaring election interference emergency stays below 35%
- 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.
- 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
- 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]
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_v1github · auditable- match_method
entity_slug_match (mechanical)
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.
- venue_a
- polymarket · 0x50378a9069427b82e68dd334fcf40bae1e077c0658214926c3635ff64c539bbc
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.
| HTML | browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD @type: Dataset) | https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/trump-declares-election-interference-emergency-polymarket-32-2026-08-12/ |
| JSON | REST API for developers | https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/trump-declares-election-interference-emergency-polymarket-32-2026-08-12.json |
| MCP | agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue) | clearmarket.get_signal("trump-declares-election-interference-emergency-polymarket-32-2026-08-12") |
| AGENT | AI 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