“The lawsuit over a poll probably has little chance of success. The defendants would say ,,well , based on their polling methodology,these are the results they had. But the discovery process, of how this poll was produced, and why it was produced at the time, could reveal some things they don’t want to reveal.”
Here’s the thing - what if the Discovery process shows instructions to rig the results and by how much - lots of electronic communication these days? Trump already knows something or he wouldn’t waste his time worrying about a single poll in Iowa.
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...........