There are a couple of different polls and I really don’t care about them, just remembered that there was a moment when AFD surpassed CDU[0] and if I recall correctly it was when Merz announced the big debt package.
When someone has a different opinion, it doesn’t mean they are lying. Please stop this thinking.
Also would make sense to read carefully. AfD has more votes in the polls than CDU (not the union CDU/CSU! - which are essentially two parties).
For this kind of comparison you have to treat CDU/CSU as a single party. They're always counted as one in national polls. It is very confusing and misleading to treat them separately in this kind of national comparison.
No, they haven't. Not a single poll has them surpassing the CDU.
I genuinely don't understand why you'd lie about something like that. It's trivial to look it up.