Posted on 12/21/2024 6:34:42 AM PST by simpson96
President-elect Donald Trump sued the Des Moines Register and J. Ann Selzer for “brazen election interference” on Monday after the vaunted pollster’s wildly inaccurate prediction three days before the 2024 election that Vice President Kamala Harris would trounce her Republican opponent in Iowa.
Trump’s lawyers filed the suit seeking damages in state district court in Polk County, Iowa, claiming Selzer and the Des Moines-based outlet interfered in the election “in favor of” the Democratic nominee “through use of a leaked and manipulated” poll.
The Nov. 2 survey showed Trump, 78, lagging behind Harris, 60, by three percentage points, 47% to 44%, which spurred pundits and politicos to speculate the vice president would win a clean sweep in the 2024 contest, since Iowa went for Trump by nearly 10 percentage points in 2016 and around eight points in 2020.
“President Trump ultimately won Iowa by over thirteen points,” the lawsuit boasts, a 16-point swing from Selzer’s pre-election finding.
Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other party operatives purportedly leaked the flawed findings hours before the Iowa poll dropped — a move that Trump’s legal team argued was done “for maximum ‘shock and awe’ political impact rather than accuracy or reliability” to do “as much harm to the electoral process as possible.”
Media allies also seized on Harris rocketing into the lead position — with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow praising Selzer as a “living bull’s-eye” for her predictive powers — but the famed pollster announced her retirement less than two weeks later.
“Selzer’s polling ‘miss’ was not an astonishing coincidence — it was intentional,” the suit states. “As President Trump observed: ‘She knew exactly what she was doing.'”
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Betcha the desperate Harris had a hand in the scam.
Trump claims Selzer and the Des Moines-based outlet interfered in the election
“in favor of” the Democratic nominee “thou use of a leaked and manipulated” poll.
The Nov. 2 Seltzer survey showed Trump, 78, lagging behind Harris, 60, 47% to 44%, which spurred pundits and politicos to speculate she would win a clean sweep in the 2024 contest, since Iowa went for Trump by nearly 10 percentage points in 2016 and around eight points in 2020.
“President Trump ultimately won Iowa by over thirteen points,” the lawsuit pointed out, a 16-point swing from Selzer’s pre-election finding.
Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other party operatives purportedly leaked the flawed finding...........
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