Comment by berdario

Exit polls favored Maduro at 54% of the votes:

https://x.com/Hinterlaces/status/1817599369471799639

The exit poll that you referred to, is by EdisonResearch

EdisonResearch is based in New Jersey, and doesn't have any prior experience with exit polls in Venezuela:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180528045149/https://www.ediso...

I've also seen claims that they get funding from USAID, though I haven't been able to confirm them

The fact that 8 million Venezuelans fled the country is of course sad, but the context is that the country has also been crippled by billion of dollars in sanctions. The UK alone "froze" 1 billion $ in Venezuelan's gold reserves.

The "Beyond Sanctions" section of this article goes into details:

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/30/venezuelans-re-e...