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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The discovery documents produced from this lawsuit should be stunning—that alone makes it worthwhile.
I suspect it will be difficult to win this one but I’m tickled that he’s going hard after the Rag and this arrogant bish. Will cost them $ to fight it and maybe they will just write a check to avoid discovery.
Media manipulation is a major reason the Democrat Party has a firm clench on power.
JB Pritzker also needs to be sued for this and for also calling Trump a “rapist”.
Trump’s legal teams need to go after these communist demons with a vengence.....
nice
battles are won with lots of small skirmishes.
This is needed for accountability.
Never pick a fight with a guy who loves to fight.
Even after WINNING, he keeps on fighting to settle unsettled scores.
The article was a First Amendment cavalry attack on the Trump flank.
Can the first amendment be weaponized?
There are so many liberals and Deep Staters to target.
Yes discovery should be quite enlightening.
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.
This could be whyABC and George S. Settled a case with Trump, rather than risk the discovery of how ABC conducts its operations.
It is hard to create this big of error without leaving a bunch of fingerprints like editing call lists to eliminate Republicans or just outright ignoring call results and making soup numbers. Discovery should be interesting.
“I suspect it will be difficult to win this one”
Discovery could have an enormous impact on that. Texts and emails could be devastating to her and her co-conspirators.
“Will cost them $ to fight it and maybe they will just write a check to avoid discovery.”
This is the key; make them have to bear the cost of defending themselves. In addition to cost they now have the risk that they’ll lose. This will set an example that will certainly deter others.
Especially with recent reports that (allegedly) the legal department told the producers and the producers told Stephanopoulos three times “ don’t say rape”.
........the flawed findings hours before the Iowa poll dropped — was done to do “as much harm to the electoral process as possible”...........
She falsified election data.
How much was she paid for this heinous act?
I believe this 100%, but I also believe it will be hard to prove unless there's possibly real polling data that no real poster would conclude that Trump would be trounced.
Making soup -> making up
No soup for me!
The gloves are off.
They will settle out of court since the manipulation had to be huge.
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