President-elect Donald Trump is following up on his call for an investigation of famed pollster Ann Selzer.
The incoming president announced a lawsuit against the newspaper where the retiring pollster published a questionable Iowa poll just before the November election.
Trump referred to Selzer as a “very, very good pollster who got me right all the time,” noting, however, that “just before the election, she said I was going to lose by three or four points.”
JUST IN: Donald Trump announces he is launching a lawsuit against pollster Ann Selzer for allegedly rigging her Iowa poll to influence the 2024 election.
Trump also announced that he would be suing 60 Minutes for editing Kamala Harris’ answers.
“In my opinion, it was fraud, and… pic.twitter.com/xq6rqdb3Ro
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 16, 2024
“In my opinion, it was fraud, and it was election interference. You know, she’s got me right always,” Trump said during a press conference with reporters at Mar-a-Lago. “She’s a very good pollster. She knows what she was doing.”
MORE: Trump specifically notes their “parent” – which is the USA Today Network – in announcing the lawsuit.
To give everybody some context – the odds of a legit poll being wrong by 16 points is basically 0. Selzer was supposedly the “gold standard.”
Democrats like Illinois…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 16, 2024
The pollster for The Des Moines Register denied she had intentionally rigged the poll, telling PBS’s “Iowa Press” last week, “I am mystified about what the motivation anybody thinks I had and would act on in such a public poll.”
(Video Credit: J. Ann Selzer)
“So, the idea that I intentionally set up to deliver this response, when I’ve never done that before, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to do it, it’s not my ethic,” she said.
“To suggest without a single shred of evidence that I was in cahoots with somebody, I was being paid by somebody, it’s all just kind of … it’s hard to pay too much attention to it except that they are accusing me of a crime,” she said in response to Trump’s previous remarks.
After winning the state, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “A totally Fake poll that caused great distrust and uncertainty at a very critical time.”
“She knew exactly what she was doing. Thank you to the GREAT PEOPLE OF IOWA for giving me such a record breaking vote, despite possible ELECTION FRAUD by Ann Selzer and the now discredited ‘newspaper’ for which she works,” he added. “An investigation is fully called for!”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.
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