President-elect Donald Trump slammed retiring election pollster J. Ann Selzer and referred to as for an investigation after her final pre-Election Day survey confirmed Vice President Kamala Harris topping the Republican in Iowa – a state he finally gained.
Trump slammed Selzer and the now-ridiculed Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa ballot hours after she introduced she was calling it quits from election polling.
Her final ballot indicated Trump would lose to Harris by as a lot as three factors in Iowa, however the future forty seventh president ended up profitable the pink state by a whopping 13 factors on the way in which to recapturing the presidency.
“A totally Fake poll that caused great distrust and uncertainty at a very critical time. She knew exactly what she was doing,” he wrote Sunday night on Reality Social
“Thanks to the GREAT PEOPLE OF IOWA for giving me such a document breaking vote, regardless of doable ELECTION FRAUD by Ann Selzer and the now discredited ‘newspaper’ for which she works.
“An investigation is fully called for!”
It’s unclear what sort of probe Trump meant.
Steven Cheung, the incoming communications director beneath Trump, additionally claimed Selzer “beclowned herself during the last days of the campaign in a seemingly blatant attempt to misinform the public for the benefit of Kamala Harris.”
Selzer mentioned her exit was within the works for greater than a yr and she or he deliberate on shifting on to “other ventures and opportunities” earlier Sunday in an op-ed within the Des Moines Register.
“Would I have liked to make this announcement after a final poll aligned with Election Day results? Of course,” she mentioned of the inaccurate Nov. 1 ballot. “It’s ironic that it’s just the opposite.”
In a autopsy of the under-fire ballot, she mentioned she discovered “nothing to illuminate the miss,” however guessed respondents might need lied or modified their opinion after the ballot was carried out.
“My integrity means a lot to me,” she wrote. “To those who have questioned it, there are likely no words to dissuade.”
Des Moines Register Government Editor Carol Hunter added in a separate observe to readers, “To date, no likely single culprit has emerged to explain the wide disparity.”
Selzer’s polling displaying Harris profitable the state was featured on the newspaper’s entrance web page, boosting enthusiasm amongst Democrats who believed the veep was in a great place to prime Trump.
Selzer leads polling and public affairs agency Selzer & Co. and has been conducting the Des Moines Register’s Iowa ballot for almost 40 years.
