Pollster Ann Selzer has been accused of attempting to interfere in the 2024 presidential election by publishing a skewed eleventh-hour poll in Iowa.
President Donald Trump has now filed a lawsuit against Selzer and the Des Moines Register newspaper over the polling that showed failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris easily winning the state.
Alex Marlow, Breitbart’s editor-in-chief, weighed in on the controversy during the outlet’s podcast show.
During the final days of the 2024 presidential election, the seasoned pollster released results suggesting Vice President Harris was going to win the state by “three or four points,” Marlow recounted.
Instead, Trump won the state “by over 13%,” which is a wide swing, Breitbart reported.
“[Trump’s] announced he wants a lawsuit against Ann Selzer for rigging her Iowa poll to influence the election; of course, he should do this,” Marlow said.
“It absolutely was election interference.
“This was an insurrection.”
Marlow believes there is more to the story than Selzer simply getting it wrong by being so radically wrong.
“She’s a very good pollster,” Marlow asked.
“How could she miss by that much?
“She couldn’t. It had to have been intentional,” Marlow argued.
“Or, at least, it was close enough, was suspicious enough, where someone’s got to investigate it to learn for sure.
“So Trump needs to be highly aggressive for people try to interfere with our democracy.
“Our democracy is under attack from Anne Seltzer,” he went on.
“She attacked our democracy with that bogus poll, and we need to understand how things got the way it got.
“Maybe the air will get cleared,” Marlow added.
“But our democracy is a precious thing, and we cannot trust it to the Ann Selzers, who are willing to miss polls by 16 or 17% to cause some sort of a frenzy of momentum for Kamala Harris.”
The podcast host repeatedly said that this was “an insurrection,” using the language the Left has used against Trump for nearly four years.
Now, it seems the tables have turned as Trump proceeds with his legal action.
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On Monday night, Trump’s legal team filed a lawsuit against Selzer and the Des Moines Register alleging “brazen election interference,” Fox News reported.
The lawsuit falls under the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act and related provisions.
The poll was published on November 2, 2024, in the final days of the campaign.
“Contrary to reality and defying credulity, defendants’ Harris Poll was published three days before Election Day and purported to show Harris leading President Trump in Iowa by three points; President Trump ultimately won Iowa by over thirteen points,” the filing states.
The poll showed a seven-point swing in Harris’s favor over Selzer’s September poll.
Attorneys for Trump said that the results for Harris in “deep-red Iowa were not reality, it was election-interfering fiction.”
Selzer has tried to say that the poll was leaked and the skewed results were nothing but a mistake.
“The Harris Poll was no ‘miss’ but rather an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2024 Presidential Election,” the lawsuit claimed.
The suit continued by stating that the poll was meant to “create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election.”
There are so many people like Selzer who sullied their good names to try to thwart Trump.
If these allegations against Selzer are true, a lawsuit is the only remedy for Trump to recover damages that would deter future action like this against other Republicans.
