Des Moines Register pollster J. Ann Seltzer has strongly denied any intention to influence polling during the 2024 presidential election.
“I'm perplexed as to what motive anyone thinks I had in polling like this,” Selzer said in an interview. friday interview On PBS's “Iowa Press.”
“So the idea that I intentionally set myself up to have this reaction, even though I've never done that before and I've had plenty of opportunities to do so, is not my ethics,” she said. .
“To suggest without any evidence that I was in collusion with someone or that I was being paid by someone, that's a little bit…not that much of a focus, other than they're accusing me of a crime. “It's hard,” she said in response to accusations of President-elect Trump's negative intentions.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed Selzer's 3-point loss in the poll was a “fabrication.”
Trump: “Completely false poll that caused great distrust and uncertainty at a critical time'' I wrote this after winning The difference in the state's electoral votes is 16 points.
“She knew exactly what she was doing. Despite the possibility of election fraud by Ann Selzer and the now-discredited 'newspaper company' for which she worked, this record… “Thank you to the great people of Iowa for giving me the vote to break,” he added.
“A full investigation is needed!”
Selzer said he plans to move on to “other businesses” after the contentious November election.
