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Trump sues Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and Des Moines Register newspaper
Selzer published a poll days before the election that said Kamala Harris was ahead by 3 percentage points.Trump won the state by 13 percentage points.
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 by 3 percentage points in Iowa.
Trump won the state by double digits, a difference that his lawyers argue in the suit constitutes “election-interfering fiction.” Trump is making the claim under the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act, which prohibits deceptive advertising.

Trump sues Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and Des Moines Register newspaper
Selzer published a poll days before the election that said Kamala Harris was ahead by 3 percentage points. Trump won the state by 13 percentage points.

“The odds of success here are slim to none, but winning in court is not likely the real goal of this lawsuit," said Clay Calvert, a media law expert and professor at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law.
"The true motivation is to intimidate the press and journalists.
I unfortunately suspect this lawsuit is just a harbinger of things to come.”
Calvert represents the political bias of the majority of professors.
The report found 3,623 of the 7,243 professors registered as Democrats and only 314 registered as Republicans. The ratio of registered Democrats to Republicans has increased in the past decade and is highest among young professors..
50% professors registered as Democrats...
46% Independent or other
4% of professors registered as Republicans.
Note this possibly biased media expert's words..." intimidate the press and journalists"!
Really?