Lawyers for President Trump have dropped a lawsuit against Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register, according to a Monday court filing.
An attorney for Selzer told NPR that there has been no settlement. Attorneys for Trump and the Des Moines Register did not immediately return a request for comment.
Trump sued the newspaper and the longtime Iowa pollster following the release of a poll in the last days of the 2024 presidential contest that found former Vice President Harris was winning the Hawkeye State by 3 percentage points, a result that temporarily buoyed Democrats’ hopes. Trump won Iowa by 14 points.
Seltzer announced in November that she would retire from polling, having previously decided not to continue her contract with the paper.
In December, attorneys for Trump filed suit against her and the Des Moines Register in state court, accusing them of violating Iowa’s consumer fraud laws and charging that the polling miss was intentional.
“While Selzer is not the only pollster to engage in this corrupt practice, she had a huge platform and following and, thus, a significant and impactful opportunity to deceive voters,” the lawsuit read.
The suit was moved to federal court in February.
Trump in his personal capacity has grown increasingly litigious with media organizations in the past year. Last year, he brought a defamation case against ABC News after anchor George Stephanopoulos inaccurately described a jury’s determination in a lawsuit against the president by writer E. Jean Carroll. ABC settled the case for $15 million.
Trump has a lawsuit pending against CBS News's “60 Minutes,” which stems from an interview it aired with Harris last fall, a conversation Trump and his attorneys argue was intentionally edited to cast his challenger in a positive light.
Last week, Trump threatened to sue The New York Times and CNN after the organizations reported on a preliminary intelligence report that pushed back on the president’s claims that American airstrikes had “obliterated” three Iranian nuclear facilities.
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