A fake U.S. presidential candidate named Deez Nuts, reported to be the creation of an Iowa teenager, has stirred a social media frenzy by polling nearly 10 percent of registered North Carolina voters in a hypothetical matchup against former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump.
A statement of candidacy on behalf of the fictional 2016 White House hopeful, listing him as an independent, was filed on July 26 with the U.S. Federal Election Commission by 15-year-old Brady Olson, a high school student from Wallingford, Iowa, according to the Daily Beast.
Within days, pollsters at Raleigh-based Public Policy Polling decided to start including Deez Nuts, then just beginning to generate online chatter, in its statewide surveys after the Nuts "campaign" asked to be part of the mix.