President-elect Donald Trump plans to sue the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer on Monday over a poll showing Vice President Kamala Harris leading in Iowa ahead of the 2024 presidential election. announced.
A Nov. 2 Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll conducted by Selzer’s firm found that Found In Iowa, Harris led Trump 47% to 44%. seltzer said The vice president’s lead in the polls appears to be due to his strong support from young college-educated voters and older women.
President Trump said at a news conference Monday that he had a “duty” to sue Selzer and the paper. won Iowa State was outscored by an astounding 14 points, 56% to 42.7%. The president-elect defeated Harris by winning all seven battleground states and becoming the first Republican candidate to win the popular vote since the 2004 election.
“I don’t do it because I want to, I do it because I feel obligated to do it. [a lawsuit] “To the people of Iowa, the Iowa newspapers were telling me that very good pollsters were always correcting me and that right before the election I was going to lose by 3 or 4 points.” Trump he said. “Farmers love me and I love farmers so I was going to beat Iowa State by 20 points and this became the biggest story all over the world. It was interesting [Selzer] Two weeks ago, we lost a game and said we could only win by four points. That was a big story. But she was able to bring it down from 22 points to 4 points or whatever it was, so that was good. Hey, easy win. We didn’t even think of going there. ”
After Trump’s election victory, Selzer wrote in a Nov. 7 paper: Editorial The Des Moines Register reported that the party plans to review the “debacle” in polls showing Harris in the lead. The pollster said in an op-ed that Selzer & Company, of which he is president, used the same methodology to conduct polls in 2016 and 2020 that showed the president-elect with a significant lead. (Related: CNN casts some doubt on poll showing Kamala with surprising lead in red states)
Critics reportedly accused her of “manipulating” the data to show a false lead for the vice president, but Selzer said the poll “energized” Republican voters and that Trump It was reported that he suggested that he could have obtained more votes to ensure his victory. editorial.
“In response to criticism that I had ‘manipulated’ data, or that I had been paid (perhaps from anonymous sources on the Democratic side), or that I had engaged in psychotherapy or some form of voter suppression, I have “The results of this latest poll may actually energize and energize Republican voters who thought they would probably win by inertia,” the report said. That’s probably what happened,” Selzer said.
ABC News and one of its prominent hosts, George Stephanopoulos, announced on Saturday that they would settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit by paying the president-elect $15 million in “charitable contributions” by Dec. 24. Agreed. During the March 10 episode of “This Week,” the host falsely claimed that Trump was responsible for rape in a civil lawsuit brought by former Elle Magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. , the president-elect sued the agency and Mr. Stephanopoulos.
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