J. Ann Selzer's Nov. 1 poll showed Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump in Iowa, 47% to 44%. Trump eventually carried the state by 13 points.
J. Ann Selzer, who wrongly predicted Iowa would turn blue and vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s election, is ending her polling career to take on new opportunities.
The highly-regarded Iowa Poll returned a shocking result just three days before the election this year, showing Harris ahead of Trump by 3 percentage points.
Wednesday's certification votes cap off the 2024 election process and set the stage for candidates who wish to request recounts to do so by Nov. 18.
View live results of the Iowa presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
In addition to the Statehouse races, Democratic 1st Congressional District candidate Christina Bohannan has requested a recount.
A totally Fake poll that caused great distrust and uncertainty at a very critical time. She knew exactly what she was doing,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account.
FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group that promotes voting reform, found that it's extremely rare for a recount to reverse the outcome of a race.
Donald Trump has demanded a criminal investigation into pollster Ann Selzer following her prediction that Kamala Harris would win Iowa.
Two weeks after her firm incorrectly found Vice President Kamala Harris surging in increasingly red Iowa, pollster J. Ann Selzer said Sunday she is leaving election polling and ending her longstanding relationship with the Des Moines Register, which dates back to 1997.
Hours after top pollster Ann Selzer announced she was retiring from election polling following her shocking miscalculation that Donald Trump would lose Iowa to Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this month, the president-elect vowed that an investigation is “fully called for,” accusing Selzer of “election fraud.”