Trump accuses newspaper of election interference

 The Federalist Wire:

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President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that he plans to sue the Des Moines Register and top pollster Ann Selzer over a pre-election survey that inaccurately showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading in Iowa ahead of the 2024 election.

The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll, conducted by Selzer & Company on Nov. 2, claimed Harris led Trump 47% to 44%.

Selzer attributed Harris’s apparent lead to strong support among young, college-educated voters and older women.

Trump, who filed the lawsuit late Monday, made it clear during a press conference that he sees it as his duty to hold both Selzer and the newspaper accountable.

He pointed out his decisive 14-point victory in Iowa, where he beat Harris 56% to 42.7%, and reminded the press that his dominance extended nationally—winning all seven battleground states and becoming the first Republican since 2004 to win the popular vote.
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Trump accused Selzer and the Register of breaking Iowa’s consumer fraud laws by engaging in what he called “brazen election interference” and intentional deception, Fox News reported.

Following Trump’s overwhelming victory, Selzer penned a Nov. 7 op-ed for the Register in which she admitted to reassessing the “big miss” of her poll.

She defended her company’s methodology, noting it was the same system that accurately showed Trump leading in 2016 and 2020.

Critics, however, slammed Selzer for allegedly “manipulating” the data to falsely project a Harris lead.

Selzer pushed back on those accusations, suggesting her poll may have inadvertently energized Republican voters, driving them to the polls in larger numbers.
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Well, her poll was only off by a total of about 17 %.   A bookie who was that far off on a point spread would probably go broke.  She was probably not the only one who underestimated Trump's votes but she was probably the one who got it the most wrong.    The case may turn on whether the off-base poll impacted the race.

See also:

Michael Goodwin: The left-wing media created their own crisis and now have to pay the price for repeatedly attacking Donald Trump

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