Trump calls to 'fully' investigate Iowa pollster who predicted him losing in heavily red state: 'She knew exactly what she was doing'

President-elect Donald Trump is calling to 'fully investigate' the Iowa pollster who predicted him losing successful heavy reddish authorities conscionable days earlier November's election. 

The Des Moines Register/Mediacom survey conducted by Ann Selzer of Selzer & Company showed Harris astatine 47 percent enactment to Trump's 44 percent. 

Iowa had gone reddish for Trump successful the past 2 predetermination cycles aft doubly voting for Democratic President Barack Obama - and had not been considered to beryllium a battleground state in 2024. 

Despite easy winning the Hawkeye State, Trump posted connected his Truth Social that helium inactive plans to analyse Selzer, 68, implicit imaginable predetermination fraud.

'A wholly Fake canvass that caused large distrust and uncertainty astatine a precise captious time. She knew precisely what she was doing,' Trump wrote. 

'Thank you to the GREAT PEOPLE OF IOWA for giving maine specified a grounds breaking vote, contempt imaginable ELECTION FRAUD by Ann Selzer and the present discredited “newspaper” for which she works. An probe is afloat called for!' 

At the time Trump charged that Selzer over-polled Democrats to marque it look similar Harris, the Democratic nominee, was successful the lead.  

Selzer's canvass for the Register and Mediacom days earlier the election predicted Harris would triumph by +3 percent points. But Trump went connected to trounce the vice president by implicit +13 points successful the Hawkeye State. 

Trump tore into the survey, calling Selzer a 'Trump hater' and insisting that Iowa's farmers 'love' him.

'All polls, but for 1 heavy skewed toward the Democrats by a Trump hater who called it wholly incorrect the past time, person maine up, BY A LOT,' helium scathed connected his societal media website Truth Social.

Ann Selzer had built a reputation as 'Iowa's Polling Queen' and the 'best pollster successful politics' implicit decades of conducting the Des Moines Register governmental surveys but connected Sunday she announced her status aft her results wildly missed the mark.

Selzer had accurately predicted each of the statesmanlike outcomes going backmost to 2008, giving her a Nostradamus-like estimation that drew eyeballs to her incorrect 2024 results. 

On Sunday, Selzer revealed she is retiring from The Register to prosecute polling for different clients.

'Over a twelvemonth agone I advised the Register I would not renew erstwhile my 2024 declaration expired with the latest predetermination canvass arsenic I modulation to different ventures and opportunities,' she said. 

'Would I person liked to marque this announcement aft a last canvass aligned with Election Day results? Of course. It’s ironic that it’s conscionable the opposite.

'Polling is simply a subject of estimation, and subject has a mode of periodically humbling the scientist. So, I’m humbled, yet ever consenting to larn from unexpected findings.' 

Following Trump's landslide victory, Selzer admitted her research was wholly wrong and mightiness person adjacent emboldened MAGA nation.

'I told much than 1 quality outlet that the findings from this past canvass could really energize and activate Republican voters who thought they would apt seashore to victory,' she said. 'Maybe that's what happened.'

She continued an attempt to support her methodology, which came arsenic a implicit daze to voters the play anterior to the election.

'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 said.

Although the results were wrong the borderline of error, it gave Harris supporters anticipation that she could flip the authorities they had antecedently written off.

The Register survey sent shockwaves done the market – triggering a flood of wagers connected Harris to triumph the election. 

During her CNN quality she explained however her canvass got it truthful wrong.

'When erstwhile President Trump said we interviewed much Democrats, good that's what came retired of our data. We did thing to marque that happen,' she said. 

In bid to discern apt voters, pollsters inquire voters however apt they are to ballot and effort to make a exemplary of the electorate. 

In the information being collected by Selzer it recovered much Iowa Democrats were motivated. 

The Selzer canvass besides showed that older women were breaking for Harris successful a mode that different surveys perchance hadn't picked up on. 

'I'm a large believer successful keeping my fingers off, my soiled fingers disconnected the data. So we did it the way, we did it erstwhile helium won successful our last canvass twice, successful two election cycles, precise aforesaid method,' Selzer said. 

She noted that the 'best news' she tin present to immoderate of her lawsuit is bully data. 

'The champion quality that I tin present is my champion changeable of what's true, due to the fact that past you cognize what you're moving with and you tin marque adjustments arsenic you request to,' she said.