President-elect Donald Trump brought a lawsuit against longtime pollster Ann Selzer, her firm, and the Des Moines Register on Monday over claims they attempted to interfere with the 2024 election.
Trump accused Selzer, a highly regarded Iowa-based pollster of more than 20 years, of intentionally skewing a poll in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris days before the election and failing to capture Trump’s decisive 13-point victory in the state.
The poll was “election-interfering fiction” and violated an Iowa consumer protection law, the complaint, reported by Fox News, alleged.
“Contrary to reality and defying credulity, defendants’ Harris Poll was published three days before Election Day and purported to show Harris leading President Trump in Iowa by three points,” the complaint stated.
Selzer’s surprising poll showing Harris leading in the reliably red…
