Pollster Ann Selzer 'reviewing data' after setting off media firestorm with Iowa poll showing Harris ahead

Pollster J. Ann Selzer is "reviewing her data" to find wherefore her pre-election poll, which acceptable disconnected a multi-day media firestorm, inaccurately showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading successful Iowa. 

Selzer is "reviewing her information to find wherefore a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll released conscionable days earlier the predetermination produced results truthful acold retired of enactment with erstwhile President Donald Trump's resounding victory," according to the Des Moines Register.

The daze canvass showed a 7-point shift from President-elect Donald Trump to Harris from September, erstwhile helium had a 4-point pb implicit the vice president (47% to 43%) successful the aforesaid survey. The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa canvass released Saturday had Harris up 47% to 44 %, successful a authorities Trump had carried easy successful 2016 and 2020 and wasn't considered a plaything authorities successful 2024. 

Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., who conducted the poll, declared Harris had intelligibly "leaped into a starring position" up of Election Day.

Much of the media took her words arsenic gospel, arsenic pundits connected MSNBC, CNN and ABC’s "The View" each celebrated the forecast. Even if it didn't needfully mean Harris would triumph Iowa fixed the polling average, a communicative dispersed that it could incidate a broader displacement successful the Midwest to Harris successful much competitory states.

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"If this is accurate, and if anybody is accurate, it’s apt to beryllium Ann Selzer successful the Iowa poll, if this is close it implies that Harris mightiness beryllium winning Iowa," Rachel Maddow gushed. 

"The View" panelists declared Selzer "always right," and her way grounds was billed arsenic "incredibly solid" connected CNN. 

Selzer had ovum connected her look erstwhile the Fox News Decision Desk called Iowa for Trump connected Tuesday nighttime with the erstwhile president holding a commanding lead. 

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Trump supporters were speedy to constituent retired Selzer's canvass was wildly inaccurate.

"Congratulations to Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance connected their victory," Deputy Political Director Alex Latcham said successful a statement. "After 4 years nether Kamala Harris, Hawkeye authorities voters are anxious for President Trump to hole what Kamala Harris broke. Starting connected Day 1, President Trump and Vice President JD Vance volition assistance to easiness costs, unafraid the border, and support Social Security for retirees similar Ann Selzer."

"Enjoy retirement…," Trump co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita posted connected X along with a screenshot of an nonfiction calling Selzer "the champion pollster successful politics."

Selzer was forced to code the humiliating poll. 

A Halloween show featuring an inflatable Donald Trump stands successful Griswold, Iowa connected Wednesday, October 16, 2024.  (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"Tonight, I’m of people reasoning astir however we got wherever we are," Selzer said successful a statement. 

"The canvass findings we produced for The Des Moines Register and Mediacom did not lucifer what the Iowa electorate yet decided successful the voting booth today," she continued. "I’ll beryllium reviewing information from aggregate sources with hopes of learning wherefore that happened. And, I invited what that process mightiness thatch me."

Many others took to X with thoughts connected Selzer's poll: 

A husbandman shows enactment for Republican statesmanlike campaigner erstwhile President Donald Trump and a presumption connected termination connected August 10, 2024, adjacent Hawkeye, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Shawn Carney, laminitis of 40 Days for Life, said the Iowa canvass results amusement the consequences of an arrogant presumption that women are single-issue voters whose lone interest is entree to abortion.

"The media ran with this communicative due to the fact that it’s what they wanted to judge was true," Carney said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "It conscionable shows however retired of interaction they are with what really matters to Americans. For mode excessively long, they’ve acted arsenic a mouthpiece for the governmental elite, pushing stories that acceptable the docket of those successful powerfulness alternatively of reflecting the existent concerns of mundane people. They tried to marque termination the lone contented that women attraction about, contempt wide signs that Americans are focused connected things similar economical stability, safety, and family. Last night’s results sent a beardown message: Americans are rejecting the docket the media tried to merchantability them."

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Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson and Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.