What’s New
President-elect Donald Trump is suing an Iowa pollster over a survey released before November’s presidential election that showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading in the state.
The lawsuit, filed on Monday, called the poll from J. Ann Selzer “brazen election interference.”
Selzer, her polling firm, The Des Moines Register and the newspaper’s parent company, Gannett, were all named in the suit, which accused them of consumer fraud.
Why It Matters
Last month, Trump called for an investigation into Selzer following an announcement she was ending her operation, which came weeks after her final poll dramatically missed the mark in predicting the presidential election outcome.
Selzer, known for her decades of polling work in Iowa, released a survey three days before the election showing Democratic nominee Harris leading Trump by three percentage points—47 percent to 44 percent.
“A totally Fake poll that caused great distrust and uncertainty at a very critical time. She knew …