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President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer regarding a poll released just three days before the election. This poll incorrectly indicated that Vice President Kamala Harris was ahead of Trump by three points in Iowa.
Trump won the state by over 13 points, leading him to claim the poll was a form of election interference.
Trump’s lawsuit states it is seeking “accountability for brazen election interference committed by” the Des Moines Register (DMR) and Selzer “in favor of now-defeated former Democrat candidate Kamala Harris through use of a leaked and manipulated Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll conducted by Selzer and S&C and published by DMR and Gannett in the Des Moines Register on Nov. 2, 2024.”
The lawsuit adds, “Contrary to reality and defying credulity, defendants’ Harris Poll was published three days before Election Day and purported to show Harris leading President Trump in Iowa by three points; President Trump ultimately won Iowa by over thirteen points.” It continues that the three-point Harris lead in “deep-red Iowa was not reality, it was election-interfering fiction.”
The lawsuit claims that Selzer had “prided herself on a mainstream reputation for accuracy despite several far less publicized egregious polling misses in favor of Democrats,” and that she “would have the public believe it was merely a coincidence that one of the worst polling misses of her career came just days before the most consequential election in memory, was leaked and happened to go against the Republican candidate.”
Selzer, who had a reputation for accuracy, abruptly retired after the election, raising suspicions about the poll’s integrity.
The lawsuit states, “The Harris Poll was no ‘miss’ but rather an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2024 Presidential Election … defendants and their cohorts in the Democrat Party hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election.”
The lawsuit adds, “Instead, the November 5 election was a monumental victory for President Trump in both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote, an overwhelming mandate for his America First principles, and the consignment of the radical socialist agenda to the dustbin of history.”
