Trump Says Iowa Poll Showing Him Losing to Harris "Should Be Illegal"

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : The survey Trump is deriding is widely regarded as trustworthy, and correctly predicted his win margin in Iowa in 2020.
61% : Selzer's poll, however, predicted a 7-point win for Trump in the state.
59% : Trump went on to win Iowa by around 8 points.
55% : Much of her analysis indicated that Trump wasn't losing support in the state so much as Harris was gaining support -- similar to what was observed in the poll from September.
49% : The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll, a well-regarded and typically accurate survey, released its final results ahead of the 2024 presidential election, finding that a plurality of voters in the state prefer Harris over Trump by a margin of three points.
35% : Harris attained 47 percent support from likely voters in the poll, versus 44 percent who said they were going to vote for Trump.
31% : "It's called suppression," Trump falsely asserted, referring to The Des Moines Register poll.
27% : During a rally over the weekend, Trump also suggested that she should face criminal repercussions for publishing the poll.
26% : According to an aggregate of polling data collected by RealClearPolling from 2020, pollsters predicted a 2-point advantage for Trump in Iowa against President Joe Biden.
20% : "Beyond being wrong about the poll's motivations (and his fascist demands for anyone who undermines his authority to be punished), Trump is also wrong about the poll's accuracy.
18% : Trump was angered by the poll's results, blasting them on his Truth Social site after they were published.

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