We Are Iowa Local 5: Lawsuit accuses Des Moines Register of consumer fraud for final Iowa poll
DES MOINES, Iowa — Just weeks after President-elect Donald Trump’s, a second lawsuit was filed on Tuesday against the Des Moines Register, its parent company Gannett, pollster J. Ann Selzer and her polling firm Selzer & Company.
The new lawsuit again deals with the Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll that predicted Kamala Harris would win Iowa with 3 percentage points. Trump ended up winning the state with 13 points.
The lawsuit, filed in Polk County District Court, differs from Trump's as it is a class-action lawsuit, largely centered on consumer fraud.
The Center for American Rights, a Chicago-based nonprofit law firm, is representing Dennis Donnelly, who lives in West Des Moines and subscribes to the Register.
The lawsuit alleges that when the poll was published Selzer and the Register gave subscribers “a fundamentally flawed product.”
“The Des Moines Register here failed in its promise to our client and all of its other subscribers to deliver fair and accurate news,” Center for American Rights attorney Daniel Suhr told Local 5.