Trump Announces Plans To Sue News Outlet For Poll Showing Harris Ahead In 2024 Election

President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that he plans to sue the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer over her survey finding Vice President Kamala Harris leading in Iowa ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll from Nov. 2, which had been conducted by Selzer’s company, found that Harris led Trump in Iowa 47% to 44%. Selzer said the vice president’s lead in the poll was likely due to her large support among young, college educated voters, along with older women.

Trump said during a Monday press conference that he has an “obligation” to sue Selzer and the newspaper after he won the state of Iowa by a staggering 14-point margin, 56% to 42.7%. The president-elect defeated Harris by winning all seven battleground states and by becoming the first Republican nominee to win the popular vote since the 2004 election.

“I’m doing this not because I want to, I’m doing this because I feel I have an obligation to. I’m gonna be bringing against the people in Iowa, their newspaper, who had a very, very good pollster who got me right all the time, and just before the election said I was going to lose by 3 or 4 points,” Trump said. “It became the biggest story all over the world because I was gonna win Iowa by 20 points because the farmers love me and I love the farmers. And it was interesting the way she did it, brought it down two weeks before, said I was only gonna win by 4. That was a big story. But that was good because she brought it down from like 22 points to 4, or whatever the number was. Way up, an easy win. We never even thought to go there.”