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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is suing Ann Selzer, her polling firm, The Des Moines Register and the newspaper's parent company, Gannett, accusing them of consumer fraud, according to a copy of the filing reviewed by NBC News. The suit, filed Monday night in Polk County, Iowa, says it seeks “accountability for brazen election interference” over a Nov. 2 poll that showed Kamala Harris up 3 percentage points in Iowa. Selzer announced after the election that she would stop polling political contests and move into other ventures. The suit is the latest front in Trump's campaign against coverage by the media and analysts that he perceives as biased. Rick Hasen, an election law expert at UCLA School of Law, immediately dismissed the lawsuit.

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☆ Trump is threatening the press. We should take him seriously — and literally.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump said he's planning on suing a newspaper over an election poll he didn't like. It's in keeping with a flurry of recent threats — and suits — Trump has filed against the media. Then there's Donald Trump. And Donald Trump may be the most public figure there is. Perhaps just as important: It's one thing to fight Donald Trump in court when he's a private citizen.

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☆ Emboldened by ABC settlement, Trump threatens more lawsuits against the press
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

In an interview Friday on the PBS show “Iowa Press,” Selzer said she did not know what “went wrong.”“We have explored everything. Selzer previously said she wondered if the intense coverage of her poll helped motivated Trump voters to turn out on Election Day. We need a fair media,” Trump said. Trump then laid out several other lawsuits he’s brought against the media, including famed journalist Bob Woodward, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” program and the Pulitzer Prize board. Some news organizations are already warning their reporters to prepare: Axios recently told its staff to expect an increased number of lawsuits from the Trump administration, Semafor reported.

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Biden’s senior aides inside the White House have been deliberating for weeks about the possibility of issuing preemptive pardons, according to the sources familiar with the discussions. One former senior White House official said aides inside the White House and across various federal agencies are intensely worried about the possibility that the incoming Trump administration will prosecute anyone deemed as having antagonized the president-elect. “Why not do it?”A White House spokesperson declined to comment. The former White House official who spoke to CNN, who is intimately familiar with the workings of the White House counsel’s office, said it would be typical for Siskel and his team to first put together a detailed memo to be presented to Biden. “It’s just such a different use of the pardon power,” said Neil Eggleston, former White House counsel to President Barack Obama.

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☆ Top pollster Ann Selzer to retire after bombshell Iowa poll ended in historic miss
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-17 | by ( Liam Reilly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Top pollster J. Ann Selzer will retire from the Des Moines Register’s famed Iowa Poll and the survey will “evolve” after it failed to accurately capture former President Donald Trump’s strong support in the 2024 election, resulting in a 16-point miss. Trump ultimately swept to victory over Harris in the state by a 13-point margin, winning the actual vote 56-43%. Prior to the 2024 survey, the Iowa Poll under her stewardship had been considered by many to be the methodological gold standard. As of June 2024, election forecaster Nate Silver gave Selzer an A+ rating. In an op-ed for the Register, Selzer said that her decision to part ways with the poll predated the erroneous results.

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