WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Hill and Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) today announced that they will partner to provide The Hill’s audience with national, state, and local background, interactive elements and maps, real-time returns and race calls for the 2024 election cycle. The partnership will kick off with returns and race calls for the elections being held on November 7, which could provide important clues about the inclinations of voters and effectiveness of campaign strategies heading into the presidential and congressional races in 2024.
The partnership will include a whole new product experience for The Hill, including new tools powered by DDHQ, such as user-generated polling averages and a new co-branded polling average for later this year.
Joe Ruffolo, Senior Vice President and General Manager of The Hill and NewsNation Digital, said: “We are very excited to be partnering with Decision Desk HQ to deliver unique functionality, information, and tools for our users. We see the data and product experiences of DDHQ as a natural and powerful pairing to the strong brand, leadership, and reporting of The Hill.”
“The Hill’s influential audience depends upon it for definitive, non-partisan political information, and we’re excited to put our returns, race calls and other data in front of that audience for the coming cycle,” said Drew McCoy, President of Decision Desk HQ.
About The Hill
The Hill is the nation’s leading digital-first political news brand and the definitive source for non-partisan political news and information. Inside the Beltway it’s known as an essential, agenda-setting read for lawmakers and influencers. Beyond the Capitol, The Hill’s trusted content is shared more often on social media than any other major political news brand in America.
About Decision Desk HQ
Decision Desk HQ is a leading provider of real-time election results, race calls and related data, and the only provider to cover US elections from the presidency and Congress to the county and city level. Launched in 2012 on a hunch that we could use technology to improve the speed and lower the cost of collecting election returns, we were first to call the presidency for Donald Trump in 2016 and for Vice President Joe Biden in 2020. In 2022, we were first to call control of Congress and also covered 16,000 local races. We continue to innovate with new technologies to drive more efficient results reporting that prioritizes accuracy, supports local coverage, and strengthens trust in the democratic process.
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Alex Rosenwald
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Elizabeth Wilner
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