Trump sues the Des Moines Register, the largest pollster, for “brazen election interference” and Harris poll fraud.

First on Fox: President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and its top pollster J. Ann Selzer Vice President Kamala Harris is leading him in Iowa, accused of “brazen election interference” and fraud in the latest 2024 presidential poll that showed him ahead in Iowa, despite his eventual victory in the state by more than 13 percentage points, Fox News Digital has learned.

The lawsuit was filed Monday night in Polk County, Iowa under the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act and related provisions. It says it seeks “accountability for the blatant election interference committed by the Des Moines Register (DMR) and Selzer” to benefit now-defeated former Democratic candidate Kamala Harris through the use and manipulation of the leaked Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa The survey has been conducted By Selzer and S&C and published by DMR and Gannett in the Des Moines Register on November 2, 2024.”

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“Contrary to reality and contrary to credulity, the accused Harris Paul It was posted three days before Election Day and purports to show Harris leading President Trump in Iowa by three points; The lawsuit states that President Trump ultimately won Iowa by more than thirteen points.

Selzer released her latest Des Moines Register-sponsored poll of Iowa just three days before the election, on November 2, and showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump by three points. This shocking poll showed a seven-point shift from Trump to Harris compared to September, when he had a four-point lead over the vice president in the same poll.

But Trump ultimately beat Harris in Iowa by more than 13 percentage points.

However, Selzer’s poll generated a lot of media buzz before the election, as its polling predictions in previous elections had been historically accurate.

Trump’s lawyers said that Selzer’s prediction that Harris would lead by three points in “the deep red state of Iowa was not reality. It was a fantasy that interfered with the election.”

Trump’s lawyers said Selzer “pride[s]her prevailing reputation for accuracy despite numerous blunders in much less well-known polls for Democrats,” and said she “leads the public to believe it is a mere coincidence that one of the worst mistakes she made was in her polls.” “His career came just days before the most consequential election in memory was leaked, and it happened to be against the Republican nominee.”

Shocking poll Harris leads Trump in Iowa with a three-point shift toward the vice president in the red state

“The Harris poll was not a ‘mistake’ but rather an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2024 presidential election,” the lawsuit said, adding that “the defendants and their groups in the Democratic Party hoped the Harris poll would create a false narrative about” Harris’ inevitability in the final week. From the 2024 presidential elections.

“Instead, the November 5 election was a massive victory for President Trump in both the Electoral College and the popular vote, a landslide mandate for America First principles, and consignment of the radical socialist agenda to the dustbin of history.”

The lawsuit notes that Selzer, after more than 35 years in the industry, “dishonorably retired from the ballot less than two weeks after this embarrassing defeat.”

Trump’s lawyers said: “Left-wing pollsters attempted to influence the electoral results through manipulated polls that have unacceptable error rates and are not based on widely accepted polling methodologies.”

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“Although Selzer was not the only pollster to engage in this corrupt practice, it had a massive platform and following and thus a significant and influential opportunity to deceive voters,” the lawsuit said. “As Selzer knows, this kind of manipulation creates a narrative of inevitability for Democratic candidates, increases enthusiasm among Democrats, forces Republicans to shift campaign time and money to districts where they are leading, and tricks the public into believing that Democratic candidates are performing well.” Better than they really are.”

“Democrats’ need for fake polls was more acute than usual in the 2024 election, given Harris’s many fatal weaknesses as a candidate and her unattractiveness with critical segments of the traditional Democratic base,” the lawsuit states.

Trump’s lawyers are suing under Iowa’s consumer fraud statute, alleging that the defendants “engaged in an ‘unfair act or practice’ because the publication and release of the Harris Poll “caused significant and unavoidable harm to consumers that was not outweighed by any consumer or competitor.” The benefits produced by this practice.”

They also said consumers “were deceived and severely misled as to the actual position of the candidates in the presidential race in Iowa.”

“Furthermore, President Trump, the Trump 2024 campaign, and other Republicans were forced to divert massive campaign and financial resources to Iowa based on deceptive Harris polling,” the lawsuit says, adding that consumers of the Des Moines Register and Iowans who contributed to the Trump 2024 campaign were exposed. “To deceive likewise.”

Trump is demanding actual damages when the case is tried; Statutory damages are three times the actual damages incurred; The order enjoins the defendants’ “continued deceptive and misleading acts and practices related to the Harris Poll and compels the defendants to disclose all information they relied upon to engage in the deceptive and misleading acts related to the Harris Poll; attorneys’ fees and costs associated with the case; and any other relief the court deems just and appropriate.”

Monday night’s lawsuit comes just hours after the president-elect announced during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago that he intends to sue the Des Moines Register and Selzer.

The lawsuit comes days after ABC News and its anchor, George Stephanopoulos, reached a settlement with Trump in his defamation lawsuit, resulting in the network paying the president-elect $15 million.

The settlement was filed publicly on Saturday, revealing the agreement was made to avoid a costly trial. According to the settlement, ABC News will pay $15 million in charitable contributions to “a Presidential Foundation and Museum to be established by or for Plaintiff, as established by Presidents of the United States of America in the past.”

In addition, the network will pay $1 million in Trump’s attorney fees.

Stephanopoulos and ABC News were also to issue statements of “remorse” as a note to the editor at the bottom of the March 10, 2024, Online articleabout comments made earlier this year that prompted Trump to file the defamation suit. “ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret the statements regarding President Donald J. Trump during an interview George Stephanopoulos conducted with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024,” the memo says.

ABC News said the network is “glad” the case has been brought to a close.

An ABC News spokesperson told Fox News Digital: “We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit according to the terms contained in the court filing.”

The Des Moines Register lawsuit and ABC News settlement comes after a A series of legal victories For Trump and his legal team, coordinated by chief legal advisor Boris Epshtein.

Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan recently granted special counsel Jack Smith’s latest request to dismiss his case against Trump related to the 2020 election. Smith also filed his appeal in the secret records case on Monday after a federal judge dismissed the charges entirely in July, ruling that he was illegally appointed. As a special advisor.

In New York v. Trump, Judge Juan Merchan granted Trump’s motion to dismiss charges arising from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case, removing the president-elect’s sentencing date from the schedule.

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On Monday night, Merchan rejected Trump’s July request to overturn the conviction on the grounds of presidential immunity. Merchan has not yet ruled on Trump’s formal request to drop the charges completely.

Trump is also suing CBS News for $10 billion in damages, alleging that the network engaged in “deceptive conduct” for the purpose of election interference in its October interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.