President-elect Donald Trump hired a retired election pollster after his last poll before Election Day showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading the Republican in Iowa, a state he ultimately won. J. Ann Selzer and called for an investigation.
President Trump criticized Selzer and the now-derided Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll in Iowa hours after Selzer announced he was withdrawing from the polls.
Her previous polls had shown Trump losing Iowa to Harris by up to 3 points, but the future 47th president ended up losing by a whopping 13 points on his way to regaining the presidency. We won the red state by a narrow margin.
“An entirely false poll that caused great mistrust and uncertainty at a very critical time. She knew exactly what she was doing,” he told Truth Social on Sunday night. wrote on
“Thank you to the great people of Iowa for giving me such a record-breaking vote despite the possibility of election fraud by Ann Selzer and the now-discredited newspaper she works for. I will.
“A full investigation is needed!”
It's unclear what type of investigation Trump intended.
President Trump's incoming communications director, Stephen Chan, also said that Selzer “took it upon himself in the final days of the campaign in a seemingly blatant attempt to misinform the public to benefit Kamala Harris.” “It was decorated with “.''
Selzer said he has been considering leaving the company for more than a year and plans to move on to “other businesses and opportunities.” In an editorial earlier Sunday Located at the Des Moines Register.
“Would we have wanted to make this announcement after the final vote on Election Day results? Absolutely,” she said of the incorrect Nov. 1 poll. “It's ironic that it's quite the opposite.”
In a post-mortem of the much-criticized poll, she said “nothing was found that revealed any errors”, but it was possible that respondents had lied or changed their opinions after the poll was conducted. I guessed that there was.
“My integrity means a lot to me,” she wrote. “For those who have doubts, there will be no dissuasion.”
Des Moines Register Editor-in-Chief Carol Hunter I added it in a separate note. To readers: “So far, no single culprit has emerged that can explain this wide disparity.”
Selzer's poll showing Harris winning the state was featured on the paper's front page, sparking enthusiasm among Democrats who believed Veep had an advantage over Trump.
Mr. Selzer heads the polling and public relations firm Selzer & Company, which has conducted the Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll for nearly 40 years.
