Podcaster Alex Marlow said President-elect Donald Trump is right to sue pollster Ann Selzer over skewed eleventh-hour poll in Iowa, Breitbart reported. Marlow, the publication's editor-in-chief, made this recommendation on Monday.
During the final days of the 2024 presidential election, the seasoned pollster released results suggesting Vice President Kamala 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.
"[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. It absolutely was election interference. This was an insurrection," Marlow said.
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. How could she miss by that much?" Marlow asked.
"She couldn't. It had to have been intentional. Or, at least, it was close enough, was suspicious enough, where someone's got to investigate it to learn for sure," Marlow claimed.
"So Trump needs to be highly aggressive for people try to interfere with our democracy. Our democracy is under attack from Anne Seltzer. She attacked our democracy with that bogus poll, and we need to understand how things got the way it got," he went on.
"Maybe the air will get cleared. 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," Marlow added.
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.
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 Nov. 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' 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."
