Donald Trump sued prominent political analyst and pollster Ann Selzer, the Des Moines Register and its parent company Gannett Monday for “brazen election interference” and fraud after she incorrectly predicted a swing-state win in Iowa for Vice President Kamala Harris just a day before the presidential election last month.
The suit was filed late Monday in Polk County, Iowa under the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act and related provisions — just hours after Trump had publicly threatened legal action against Selzer for her false prediction as accusations of election interference mounted over the weekend.
Addressing the accusations in an interview with PBS on Friday, Selzer said she was “mystified about what motivation anybody thinks I had and would act on in such a public poll.”
“I don’t understand it. And the allegations I take very seriously. They’re saying that this was election interference, which is a crime … 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.”
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