President-elect Donald Trump is filed a lawsuit He sued the Des Moines Register and prominent pollster J. Ann Seltzer for “brazen election interference,” citing polls that showed a wide divergence from the Iowa electorate.
Just days before the Nov. 5 election, Selzer released a poll showing Vice President Kamala Harris holding a 3-point lead over Trump in Iowa. The poll shocked mainstream media because all other polls showed Mr. Trump with a comfortable lead in the state and Mr. Selzer had long been considered a reliable pollster.
“Defendants and their Democratic allies hoped that the Harris poll would create a false narrative about the inevitability of Ms. Harris.”
By election night, the media excitement generated by Selzer's poll among Democrats and their allies turned to disappointment as Trump easily carried Iowa by more than 13 points. . Additionally, Trump won all seven battleground states on his way to a landslide victory in the election and popular vote.
With Inauguration Day just weeks away, and following a recent $15 million defamation settlement with ABC News over clearly defamatory comments made by anchor George Stephanopoulos, President Trump is currently speaking to the Register. She is trying to hold the paper, its parent company Gannett, Selzer, and her polling company accountable. conducted a poll and filed a lawsuit accusing the defendants of violating the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act.
“Defendants and their Democratic allies hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative that a Harris victory was inevitable in the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election,” the complaint said. CNN. “Rather, the November 5th election was a monumental victory for President Trump in both the Electoral College and the popular vote, an overwhelming commitment to his America First mission, and a radical socialist agenda.” has been consigned to the dustbin of history.”
He added, “The Harris poll was not a 'miss', but rather an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.”
President Trump addressed the lawsuit during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Monday. “I'm going to take this election to the people of Iowa, to their newspapers, who have very good pollsters and always get the right results, and right before the election, she… I said I was going to lose by three or four points,” Trump explained.
“I don't do it because I want to. I do it because I feel obligated to do it.”
Rich Barris, aka “”Most Accurate National Polling Organization in 2024“I would testify for free,'' he said in support of the lawsuit. It’s free,” he said. tweeted After receiving news about it.
In recent discussions, Iowa PBSSelzer denied that he “intentionally set up” the distribution of false polls. “I have never done that,” she continued, adding that there is “not one shred of evidence” that she coordinated with or accepted money from anyone to rig the polls in Harris' favor. he added.
Selzer did not respond to CNN's request for comment.
In response to a request for comment, the Des Moines Register referred Blaze News to Gannett. Gannett then provided Blaze News with the following statement, which was attributed to Register spokeswoman Lark Marie Anton.
We are proud to announce that the Selzer/Des Moines Register pre-election poll is the most important in Iowa by publishing the poll's complete demographics, crosstabs, weighted and unweighted data, and technical explanations from the polling organization. He acknowledged that it does not reflect the ultimate margin of President Trump's victory in the state. Ann Selzer. We stand by our reporting on this matter and believe this lawsuit is without merit.
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