President-elect Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and pollster J Ann Selzer over a pre-election poll showing Harris ahead of him in Iowa. Trump alleges the poll was 'election interference' and contained 'manipulated' data.
President-elect Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday night against the Des Moines Register newspaper and veteran Iowa pollster J Ann Selzer over a pre-election poll that showed Vice President Kamala Harris beating Trump in a state he easily carried just days later. Trump is alleging the November 2 poll that had Harris 3 percentage points ahead of him amounted to “brazen election interference” and contained “leaked” and “manipulated” data.
Filed in Polk County, Iowa, under the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act, the lawsuit seeks an order preventing Selzer from releasing “any further deceptive polls” as well as unspecified damages. Trump accused the “defendants and their cohorts in the Democrat Party” of hoping “the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election.” Trump’s lawsuit names as defendants the Register; its parent company, Gannett, which owns USA Today; and Selzer and her polling firm, Selzer & Company. Selzer did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday, but the Register defended its decision to publish the outlier poll.“We have acknowledged that the Selzer/Des Moines Register pre-election poll did not reflect the ultimate margin of President Trump’s Election Day victory in Iowa by releasing the poll’s full demographics, crosstabs, weighted and unweighted data, as well as a technical explanation from pollster Ann Selzer. We stand by our reporting on the matter and believe this lawsuit is without merit,” Des Moines Register spokesperson Lark-Marie Anton said in a statement. This week’s legal action is the latest escalation of the president-elect’s battle against the news media as he gears up to return to the White House. Last month, Trump sued CBS over its 60 Minutes interview with Harris, alleging the sit-down was edited to portray her more positively
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