Formerly reputable Iowa pollster Ann Selzer finally addressed criticisms and potential issues with the results of her infamous poll that inaccurately predicted Kamala Harris would carry the state by three points.
“I'm not here to break any news. If you were hoping that I had landed on exactly why things went wrong, I have not. It does sort of awaken me in the middle of the night and I think, well maybe I should check this, this is something that would be very odd if it were to happen. But we've explored everything. The Des Moines Register in an unprecedented move for transparency has put online our cross tabs, our waiting system and my analysis and that I've not needed to update because it was pretty complete. We don't know. Do I wish I knew? Yes, I wish I knew," Selzer said.
Selzer's poll had been hyped by the media ahead of the election, as her polling predictions in previous elections actually have been historically accurate. Which makes it even more suspicious that she was so off in 2024, when Trump ended up beating Harris in Iowa by over 10 points.
Selzer adamantly denied trying to sway election results by deliberately creating an outlier poll.
"Let's deal with the allegations because I am mystified about what the motivation anybody thinks I had and would act on in such a public poll. I don't understand it. And the allegations I take very seriously. They're saying that this was election interference, which is a crime. So, the idea that I intentionally set up to deliver this response, when I've never done that before, I've had plenty of opportunities to do it, it's not my ethic," Selzer said.
"But to suggest without a single shred of evidence that I was in cahoots with somebody, I was being paid by somebody, it's all just kind of, it's hard to pay too much attention to it except that they are accusing me of a crime," she added.
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