On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intentions to sue the Des Moines Register over a poll that was released in early November claiming that Kamala Harris would win the state of Iowa.
As reported by Just The News, the president-elect denounced the poll in question as “election interference” during his most recent press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
The poll, released on November 2nd by longtime pollster Ann Selzer and her company Selzer & Co., showed Harris with 47% to Trump’s 44%. Considering Trump’s record of strong performances in Iowa, having won it by 10% in 2016 and 9% in 2020, the poll was widely criticized as a suppression poll meant to depress turnout among Trump supporters, rather than an accurate prediction of the state’s results.
President-elect Trump went on to win Iowa by 13%, the biggest landslide in the state for any presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972.
Prior to the president-elect’s statement, Selzer dismissed criticisms of her poll as election interference, saying that she was “mystified about what the motivation anybody thinks I had and would act on in such a public poll.”
“They’re saying that this was election interference, which is a crime,” she added. “So, the idea that I intentionally set up to deliver this response, when I’ve never done that before, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to do it, it’s not my ethic.”
Despite her defense of the poll’s integrity, Selzer announced her retirement from polling shortly after the 2024 election.
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