Lawyers for the Des Moines Register and its parent company called out Donald Trump for suing the Iowa newspaper and its former pollster J. Ann Selzer, saying that his lawsuit is nothing more than an unconstitutional “work of fantasy” which only serves to confirm that the president is a “sore winner.”
Trump in December 2024, filed the lawsuit over a poll published ahead of the 2024 presidential election that predicted Vice President Kamala Harris had a slight lead in the race that Trump went on to win. Selzer’s poll, which was released three days before the election, had predicted that Harris had about a three-point lead in Iowa over then-candidate Trump, who went on to win the state by about 13 points.
Trump soon filed suit under an Iowa law against “consumer fraud” in which he accused Selzer and the Register of being in cahoots with “cohorts in the Democrat Party” who “hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election.” The complaint accuses the defendants of committing “brazen election interference” through use of the allegedly “manipulated” poll to “deceive voters.”
“The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, brings this lawsuit ostensibly to ‘seek accountability’ for alleged ‘election interference’; but instead, his lawsuit only confirms that President Trump is a sore winner,” the filing states. “[N]o court in this country has ever recognized a cause of action based on...
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