Donald Trump has won his lawsuit against Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer, and The Des Moines Register in Iowa State Court.
The Des Moines Register and Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer were sued by President Donald Trump on Friday. The case now goes to Iowa State Court, after an appeals panel sided with Trump and ruled that a lower court overstepped.
Trump’s legal team originally requested that the case be transferred to Iowa State Court after the defendants “removed the case” to federal court in May.
The request was initially denied by a federal judge appointed by Obama, but the U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit overruled the judge.
In a strongly worded decision, the 8th Circuit granted Trump’s petition for a mandamus – a rare judicial ordering used to correct legal errors that are obvious – and instructed a district court to treat the case “without prejudice”, allowing Trump the opportunity to refile the lawsuit.
Trump sued The Des Moines Register, and J. Ann Selzer as the pollster for publishing a survey that showed Donald Trump ahead of Kamala in Iowa by 47% to 44% just before the election.
Trump won Iowa with 56% to 40%.
Missouri Independent reported:
Donald Trump, the President-elect of the United States, is suing The Des Moines Register for publishing a survey that showed Vice President Kamalah Harris ahead in Iowa just days before the election in 2024. He claims the poll amounted “to fraud and election interference.”
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The lawsuit claims that the poll showing Harris ahead of Trump among likely Iowan voters by 47% to 44 % was published three weeks before the election in an effort to “create a fake narrative of Harris’ inevitability in the final week 2024 Presidential Election.”
Trump won Iowa by 56% to Harris’s 43%. The lawsuit claims that the Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll wasn’t just an inaccurate poll but was a deliberate “move” with “corrupt intention” to help Democrats.
