President-elect Donald Trump has called out pollster J. Ann Selzer, citing an absurd 3-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in Iowa polls just days before the election. filed a lawsuit.
President Trump's attorneys Edward Palczyk and Alan Ostergren filed a 29-page lawsuit in Iowa's Polk County District Court on Monday, seeking a jury trial. They say the defendants, including Selzer, des moines register, The poll's sponsor, Gannett Co., and its parent companies, Gannett Co. and Tribune, engaged in “brazen election interference” to benefit Harris. First, FOX News reported Trump has reportedly filed a lawsuit.
public opinion poll, carried out The numbers published between October 28 and 31 and on November 2, just days before the election, were extreme outliers. The results showed that in the former battleground state, which Harris won comfortably in 2016 and 2020, she holds a 47% to 44% lead over Trump.
All Trump vs. Harris polls in Iowa. recognized According to FiveThirtyEight, this cycle showed Trump winning the Hawkeye State, and ultimately Trump carried On November 5th, he had a whopping 13.3 points difference, surpassing his previous results.
Trump's lawsuit alleges that Selzer and other defendants “hoped that the Harris poll would create a false narrative that Harris was inevitable in the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election.” are.
Moreover, Selzer's followers and her platform gave her “a significant and influential opportunity to mislead voters,” the lawyers argue.
For too long, left-wing polling organizations have sought to influence election outcomes through manipulated polls that have unacceptable error rates and are not based on widely accepted voting methodologies. Although Selzer was not the only pollster involved in this corrupt practice, she had a huge platform and following and therefore had a significant and influential opportunity to mislead voters. As Selzer knows, this kind of manipulation creates a narrative of inevitability for Democratic candidates, increases enthusiasm among Democrats, and encourages Republicans to direct campaign time and money to areas where they have an advantage. Coercion and deceiving the public into believing that Democratic candidates will do better. than in reality.
The lawsuit is filed under the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act. President Trump is seeking statutory damages three times the actual damages suffered, and the amount will be determined in court. The lawsuit also seeks to force “defendants to disclose all information they relied on in engaging in deceptive and misleading conduct related to the Harris Poll.”
On Monday, President Trump spoke to reporters at Mar-a-Lago and announced that he would soon file a lawsuit.
“That was the Des Moines Register, their parent company, and in my opinion, it was fraud, it was election interference. You know, [Selzer’s] He always taught me correctly. She's a very good pollster. She knew what she was doing,” Trump said.
“We will probably file a major lawsuit against them today or tomorrow,” he added.
The case is Trump vs. SelzerPolk County District Court, Iowa.
