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Let me make an example: Italy. All electoral and political polls that are published in Italy must be published contemporarily on the state Agcom site with the complete methodology, all statistical analyses, response rates, method of interviewing, verbatim sequence of questions asked, etc., etc. Further it is forbidden to publish polls within two weeks of an election. Try to regulate polls stateside with those criteria.
In the end you have to rely on the reputation and track record of polling companies. For example, today the Des Moines Register/ Mediacom poll has Harris winning Iowa by 3 points while other polls have her losing by up to 10 points. The only problem is that Mediacom has an excellent reputation for being exact within 1 percentage point for the past 15 years. Why? because they stick to themselves and don't feed in arbitrary factors such as alignment with other polls that are heavily biased by slipshod polling companies that are in the act of flooding the polling market with pro-Trump polls.
Nor is Mediacom in the business of cutting corners to save money. They actually interviewed over 800 people. But in the end we are talking about reputation against fluff and clickbait, given that regulation only amounts to the professional honesty of single polling companies in the States.
The best approach is to ignore American polls.
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