Legendary First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams does not think much of President-elect Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Des Moines Register.
Trump sued the newspaper this week over a wayward pre-election poll conducted by pollster Ann Selzer. That survey showed Trump behind Vice President Kamala Harris by three points in Iowa, which he ultimately won by 13. The president-elect is also suing Selzer, her polling firm, and the paper’s parent company Gannett.
“[L]eft-wing pollsters have attempted to influence electoral outcomes through manipulated polls that have unacceptable error rates and are not grounded in widely accepted polling methodologies,” the lawsuit stated.
On Tuesday’s edition of The Lead on CNN, Jake Tapper asked Floyd Abrams, who is the father of Mediaite owner Dan Abrams, to weigh in.
“Floyd, what’s your response to Trump bringing this lawsuit against the Des Moines Register for a bad poll, an inaccurate poll, but one that he is alleging was fraudulent and constituted election interference?” he asked.
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