President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and its top pollster over their poll earlier this year that showed him trailing in the state, multiple outlets reported Tuesday.
The lawsuit, which was filed Monday night, comes hours after Trump vowed to pursue more defamation claims against the media following a settlement with ABC News over the weekend. Trump ultimately won Iowa in the Nov. 5 election.
The Iowa lawsuit, however, alleges violations of the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act, which prohibits deception when advertising or selling merchandise, according to the reports.
“Defendants and their cohorts in the Democrat Party hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election. Instead, the November 5 Election was a monumental victory for President Trump in both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote, an overwhelming mandate for his America First principles, and the consignment of the radical socialist agenda to the dustbin of history,” Trump’s attorneys wrote.
The lawsuit was filed hours after Trump told reporters that one was coming.
"I'm going to be bringing one against the people in Iowa, their newspaper, which had a very, very good pollster who got me right all the time, and then just before the election, she said I was going to lose by 3 or 4 points, and it became the biggest story all over the world because I was going to win Iowa by 20 points ... the farmers love me, and I love the farmers."
Trump last month said the poll “was fraud, and it was election interference."
Newsmax contributed to this report.
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