Donald Trump Sues Iowa Pollster And Des Moines Register Over Pre-Election Poll

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Donald Trump has filed his lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer, the Des Moines Register and Gannett, claiming they engaged in “election interference” with a poll published just before the election showing that Kamala Harris was ahead in the state by three points.

Trump’s lawsuit, filed in Polk County, claims fraud and violation of the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act, according to FoxNews.com, which first reported that the lawsuit was filed late on Monday.

Trump won the state by more than 13 percentage points, but he has attacked Selzer since then. Polls are snapshots of a particular moment during a campaign, and Selzer and the Des Moines Register have done extensive post-mortems on their methodology and whether the poll failed to capture late deciders.

But Selzer has denied that the poll was an intentional effort to impact the election results. Lark-Marie Anton, spokesperson for the Register, said in a statement, “We have acknowledged that the Selzer/Des Moines Register pre-election poll did not reflect the ultimate margin of President Trump’s Election Day victory in Iowa by releasing the poll’s full demographics, crosstabs, weighted and unweighted data, as well as a technical explanation from pollster Ann Selzer.